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RydeSafe Reflective Bike Decals is a project launched by Anthony Clune via the funding website Kickstarter recently. Similar to other common bike stickers, the RydeSafe Decals will give out attractive light in the night to alert passengers, car drivers or other bike riders of the existence of your bike. Besides, the decals also come as a DIY kit and hence it would let you personalize your bike and accessories based on your own interest and desire.

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With no wind, no road, or speed, to ride on the Biker Chair may seem bit of boring to someone, but who cares? At least, it’s the safest and the greatest laborsaving way to ride on a bike… That’s enough to me!

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Love music, love sport, the stylish Feats Per Minute bike from Merel Sloother, Liat Azulay and Pieter Frank de Jong is rightly something brings us the fun of both rhythm and cycling. It’s equipped with turntable inspired wheels that play vinyl records, thus beautiful tones will come out of the megaphone like speaker on the back of your bike as you ride it in the streets.

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Quite frequently shopping is a real sweat, as you’ll need to push a trolley to walk all through the market or mall. So why not let the Trolley Bike designed by Fang-Chun Tsai to save us from that horrible shopping time? It takes only three steps to convert from a traditional trolley into a bike, thus you could ride on it to some shopping. Well, just imagine how easy it would become when you’re hurry for your favorite things on the upcoming Black Friday!

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Possibly no one will appreciate the design of PowerWheel, except for road cyclists who want to make their training harder. Once it is fitted, the wheel would then slow your bike down and therefore make it much harder to move the vehicle forward. It comes with seven difficulty levels, and the users can adjust the mystery-meat resistance mechanism inside the hub to set their needed level. However, the PowerWheel won’t work until your speed hits 10mph while below 45mph.

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Everybody knows what common vending machines can offer, but they seldom recognize that these machines can also provide some surprising things except for drinks and snacks. Actually, with weird vending machines collected from the world, people would easily get Marijuana, panty, gold, or even alive lobsters too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Especially designed for people who ride a bicycle all the year, this new Heated Ergo Tri grip features micro process technology and internal sensors to offer warmth to riders in cold days. The gadget comes with six temperature settings, which can be easily adjusted with a push of a button. Except for keeping your hands warm, the grips can reduce fatigue and maintain finger dexterity as well. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Do you often ride a bicycle? If so, you would feel glad to know this Pump Tire, a new kind of tire that self-inflates. It is the first self-pressurizing bicycle tire, and it can let in some air or stop inflating if the tire is with too little air or too much air. To change your tire pressure, you simply need to adjust the bike’s handlebars. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With elaborate design, a bike’s wheel frames now present really beautiful shapes of flowers. These unique wheels make the bike quite different, as it seems more like an artwork instead of a functional vehicle. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Many popular bikes have come with an attractive appearance, with refined leather seat/grips, delicate frame inserts, or other elements. Yaps, we frequently met with those features, but what about double-wheel? I never saw that, until I met this Epitaph Bike. Available in limited edition of 12 bikes, each one is built with custom-crafted double wheels to make it much safer to ride in rainy or snowy days. Of course the price is quite impressive too, coz you’ll need to pay 2950 dollars for such a bike. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ian Gilley’s Bike Seat seems just like an insect’s head but it indeed performs quite well to effectively reduce cyclists’ discomfort and tiredness. Still, its spilt-type design also allows air to go through easily so that it can ensure the riders a more comfortable using in summer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Nordisk Cryobank is one of Europe’s leading sperm banks, and recently they’ve caught more attention than before for their CO2-friendly way to deliver their sperm samples using a bike- a custom designed bike that looks like a huge sperm! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Bike inner tubes usually have excellent flexibility and toughness, however we seldom get a chance to reuse them… Until we have these IT Clips. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Humans seldom want to be too different from others, however they do love to own something quite unique. Such as these creative bikes. Each of these bikes features a new appearance and shows us how pleasant it would be to cycle on so interesting bikes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Flying white snow has created us a fantastic world that seemingly almost the same as the one in a fairy story, and everybody feels excited to see that scenery especially on the Christmas Eve. But when the snow covers the road, the situation will be completely different and we may have to fight against any risks of slipping on the snow and ice. So today we’d like to share a simple but practical tip to keep your bikes from slipping and falling. That is, to fasten some plastic bands onto them. Easy as that! [Read the rest of this entry...]