Le vélo en Amérique du Nord / Cycling in North America

Bonjour / Hi

I'm beginning a thread in french about cycling and cycling policy in
North America
Je commence un fil en français sur la bicyclette en Amérique du Nord,
avec une petite présentation en anglais pour les internautes US
connaissant notre langue.
On 5 mar, 19:40, "Ron Richings" wrote:
Just ran across this British design - appears that it will be in production
soon.

Looks to be stronger than the Toronto-style circular add-ons. Could be an
inexpensive way to add bike parking/locking places.

Anyone know of a similar product produced in North America?

If you can't see the photos, try http://quickrelease.tv/?p=343

Ron Richings

Vancouver, BC

Canada

Anthony Lau, a design student at the University of Westminster, created his
Cyclehoop http://www.cyclehoop.com street furniture fitting in 2006. It
appeared in the Reinventing http://www.reinventingthebikeshed.com the
Bike Shed exhibition in 2006, will soon go on trial in London and could bag
Lau the top prize in the new, Government-backed HSBC Unipreneurs Awards
http://www.unipreneurs.hsbc.co.uk/final_20.php .

http://www.cyclehoop.com HisCyclehoops have the potential to sell
like
hotcakes. They bolt on to existing street posts, require no concreting-in
and they force the cyclist to lock his or her bike down by the bottom
bracket rather than the top-tube. This is right place to lock a bike, as
evidenced in this bike security article http://quickrelease.tv/?p=327 .

Lau told Quickrelease.tv: "I'm drawing up a list of tips on locking
techniques. These will be displayed graphically on the Cyclehoop as a
sticker."

The HSBC Unipreneurs Awards are presented in association with the National
Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship.

The overall winner will be decided at a gala evening at BAFTA on 23rd April,
when five finalists will be quizzed live on-stage by a panel of experts
about their business and why they deserve to be crowned HSBC Unipreneur
2008. Afterwards, a specially invited audience of 200 guests, drawn from the
worlds of business, government and the media, will vote for the candidate
who has impressed the most and decide who will walk away with the top title.

Whether Lau wins the award or not, his Cyclehoop design is simple and cheap
to install. Local authorities with budgets for installing secure cycle
racking will be impressed by Cyclehoops. Designer Wayne Hemingway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHokbFBFgL0 certainly was.

Hemingway was one of the judges at Reinventing the Bike Shed. I was at his
home yesterday, interviewing him for Cycling Plus magazine. When I asked him
about cycle security, he launched into a paean of praise for the Cyclehoop..

Il s'agit du recyclage d'anciens parcmètres en poteaux antivols
d'accrochages de vélos. A suivre dans
http://groups.google.com/group/trans...b4565b4661724#
dans le googlegroupe http://groups.google.com/group/trans-action

Salutations
Gérard Massip

Gérard Massip wrote:
Je commence un fil en français sur la bicyclette en Amérique du Nord,
avec une petite présentation en anglais pour les internautes US
connaissant notre langue.

Internautes? Is that an "internet astronaut"? Tres jolie.

--
Steven O'Neill
Brooklyn, NY http://www.panix.com/~steveo

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:55:11 -0700 (PDT), Gérard Massip
wrote:

Bonjour / Hi

I'm beginning a thread in french about cycling and cycling policy in
North America
Je commence un fil en français sur la bicyclette en Amérique du Nord,

Ça commence très mal.

La girAFFFFF wrote:
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:55:11 -0700 (PDT), Gérard Massip

Je commence un fil en français sur la bicyclette en Amérique du Nord,

Ça commence très mal.

Pas simal, je trouve.

Mais question suivi, ça craint.

Steven M. O'Neill a écrit :
Gérard Massip wrote:
Je commence un fil en français sur la bicyclette en Amérique du Nord,
avec une petite présentation en anglais pour les internautes US
connaissant notre langue.

Internautes? Is that an "internet astronaut"? Tres jolie.

Commençons avec le Québec:

http://www.routeverte.com/rv/

Bonjour

On Mar 15, 12:27 am, Jerry Schneider wrote

Friday Bonus

I've heard of smart cars, smart highways and smart cards, but this is
the first smart bike I've seen demonstrated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOGbuCaBBoM

Je connaissais les livraisons à cheval avec l'animal connaissant la
tournée et donnant un coup de pied dans le véhicule pour sortir son
cocher de sa somnolence.

Salutations
Gérard Massip