A blog of aggregated miscellanea and things I like uncovered from my daily travails. I'm @jacobjay, a peripatetic designer/developer of British persuasion, having interests in gastronomy, fashion, technology, interiors and sustainability. I'm currently living between New Delhi and France, working on a Lua web platform and e-commerce. I dig Macs, mountain biking and smelly cheese.
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Posts tagged “transport”
The Unity Express
« an annual, participant-driven train journey across Europe […] over the course of four weeks. More than 1000 passengers will hop on and off the train, as we explore the connections that we have with each other and with our environment »
Sponsor or volunteer for a chance to get a ticket, or purchase at €550/week.
Casey Neistat demonstrates (in a comical fashion) the problem with being ticketed for riding not in bike lanes in NYC. This has happened to me too* and I reckon those donut-fattened caffeine-fuelled officers all need their cars taken away, and to be put on bikes themselves. Although even the ones on alternatives modes of transport are still thuggees.
*Luckily my UK licence didn’t make sense to the officer so the ticket was unintelligible, not least—as usual—they got my name the wrong way around, so I ignored it.
‘Solowheel’; $1,500, available in July.
(Source: youtube.com)
Electric ‘motorbike’ [cycle] by Grace, Germany; from €4,200.
Hanebrink ‘electric all-terrain vehicle’. A rad motor-assisted mountain bike. Up to 30km/h for 1h on one battery (takes 5). Low-gearing suitable for hauling 135Kgs. Starting at $5500.
The Accidental Hermit: A short history of the kick sled
«Kick sleds look like Zimmer frames on runners […] can be quite fast in flat areas, and ridiculously fast downhill. […] The ones who use kick sleds now are mostly those champions of common sense, the same elderly women who drink tap water, eat fish and vegetables, read books, knit and live to one hundred.»
If it weren’t for the fact my feet look like they’ve already got frostbite, this post would make me want to move to somewhere icy all year round.
