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Monday, August 22, 2016

Watch how they make aluminum wheels for bicycles

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

This New Bike Helmet Has a List of Crazy Features including Brake Lights and a Wiper System - by Joshua Barrie

This article originally appeared in Business Insider.

Cycling can be dangerous. Last November, six people were killed while riding on the streets in London. Big cities like New York and Sydney can also be hazardous for pedallars, and sometimes just a regular helmet won't do.

Enter the rather perplexing Smart Hat, a product so elaborate Gizmodoeven questioned its authenticity. But it appears to be a real concept—with the backing of a local councillor in Australia, in fact.

A Sydney-based website, the Daily Telegraph, reports that creator Toby King presented the helmet to Mosan Council on Nov. 11.

Here are all the crazy things the design includes: http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/11/19/a_new_australian_helmet_comes_with_brake_lights_and_a_wiper_system.html

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Saturday, August 02, 2014

Cycling's connection to Carroll County includes clubs and races in 1800s [Eagle Archives]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-eagle-archives-0727-20140723,0,1871392.story

By Kevin E. Dayhoff, July 23, 2014 Bicycles, Sports Bicycling, Sports Bicycling Tour de France - See more at: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2014/08/cyclings-connection-to-carroll-county.html#sthash.kThDktmc.dpuf

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2014/08/cyclings-connection-to-carroll-county.html

According to the website for the Le Tour de France (Letour.com), the final, 21st stage of this year's 101st edition of the famed European bicycle race will take place on July 27. For the riders, it will mark the end of a journey of 3,664 kilometers, from England to Paris by way of much of France that began on July 5.

Did you know that a number of celebrated bicycle races took place in Carroll County, years before the Tour de France began in 1903?

In Carroll County in the late 1890s, bicycle races, tours and clubs were quite the rage.

Cathy Baty, curator for the Historical Society of Carroll County, reported in a July 28, 2013 program, "Old Roots, New Roots," on WTTR, that "The first machine that we would recognize as a bicycle was developed in 1865.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-eagle-archives-0727-20140723,0,1871392.story

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