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+== How to Bike Across the Country ==
+Ben Brooks - (Viewed 14 April 2025)
+I spent 51 straight days on my bicycle last year, traveling 3,900 miles through high desert, mountain passes, endless prairies, and rolling hills from San Francisco, California to the eastern coast of Virginia. I did the majority of the route (Sacramento to Virginia) solo. Yet I didn’t even own a bike until two weeks before the trip. How'd that happen?
+After shutting down my startup in summer 2024, I was burned out and unsure what to do next. Accordingly, I sat down to brainstorm a few crazy ideas in hopes of tackling a meaningful challenge and taking time to clear my head. I considered, but ultimately ruled out due to skill/weather issues, ideas to sail across an ocean or hike the Appalachian or Pacific Crest trails. Bicycling across the continent seemed like the perfect blend of crazy and possible.
+https://www.brooks.team/posts/how-to-bike-across-the-country/
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 https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a46651907/paris-closed-100-streets-to-cars-for-good/
+===== Folding Bike =====
+==The Joy of Folding Bikes
+Korny Sietsma - April 19, 2026
+I was chatting to a friend about my folding bike and I had the urge to write about it - because this falls in the category of “Things I wish I’d had decades ago”. And maybe I can encourage some others to try these wonderful devices.
+Note: I’m 3 months into a new job so blogging has taken a back seat to drinking from a firehose of new domain knowledge, new people, new tech. I’m still playing with AI-assisted coding, but at a slower pace - I do hope to blog more about this when things calm down.
+years ago I started cycling in London, commuting by train, and I used the bicycle hire scheme mis-named at the time “Boris Bikes”. It was OK but a bit of a hassle - bikes were heavy, payment was fiddly, and often the hire racks would be empty in the morning and full in the evening.
+So I followed the advice of other commuters and got this beautiful device - it cost £1000 at the time, a fair bit of money, but on a Ride to Work scheme I could pay this weekly over a year, so it was £4 a week, pre-tax, which made it quite affordable.
+https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes
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 https://tegowerk.eu/posts/bicycle-repair/
+== Bike Manufacturers Are Making Bikes Less Repairable ==
+Charlie Sorrel - October 14, 2024
+The bicycle is probably the canonical example of something that anyone can fix. Spares from all brands are mostly interchangeable, and you can do most repairs with wrenches, screwdrivers, and Allen keys, or some fairly standard tools for bottom brackets and chainrings. But that’s all changing.
+Just like cars, tractors, computers, and seemingly every other product category, bikes—and especially e-bikes—are going all black box on us. Instead of using standard parts that can easily be swapped or upgraded, bike makers are using more and more proprietary parts. At the same time, cheap bikes are getting worse and are designed to fail, or rather, they are not designed to last, which is pretty much the same thing.
+https://www.ifixit.com/News/101675/bike-manufacturers-are-making-bikes-less-repairable
+===== Manufacturer =====
+==== Lopifit ====
+== Bizarre bikes: This 15-mph electric scooter somehow doubles as a treadmill ==
+For when you need to get your steps in but also have someplace to be, there's the Lopifit treadmill bike
+Abhimanyu Ghoshal - July 20, 2025
+We're usually in the business of bringing you the latest and greatest innovations in science and tech, but this odd personal mobility contraption from several years ago deserves your attention. And that's not only because it still kicking around a decade since launch, but because it's an especially bold attempt at killing two birds with one stone.
+At first glance, the Lopifit looks like an oversized kickscooter with bicycle tires and a large deck. Get in closer, and you'll notice a battery pack in the luggage carrier, and a treadmill built into the footboard. The idea is that you can walk while you ride this electric scooter, so you actually get your steps in as you speedily commute to your destination and make good time.
+I came across the Lopifit in this roundup of neat biking inventions showcased at the Eurobike 2025 expo, which concluded in Frankfurt last month. It included other neat stuff like this tiny motor drive that instantly turns any bicycle into an ebike, but this one stole the show for me.
+https://newatlas.com/urban-transport/lopifit-electric-scooter-treadmill-bike-walking/
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 https://news.mit.edu/2023/where-do-stolen-bikes-go-0215
+==  Find my… bicycle? ==
+Knog's Scout gives bikes a motion-sensitive alarm and Bluetooth tracking.
+John Timmer – May 6, 2025 7:54 AM
+We've reviewed some pretty expensive bikes here at Ars, and one of the consistent concerns we see in the comments is the fear of theft. That's a widely shared fear, based on a whole bunch of videos that describe how to hide an AirTag tracker where a potential bike thief won't notice it. There are also a number of products available that will hold a hidden AirTag in a reflector, a bike bell, or the head tube.
+But Apple has also made it possible for third parties to plug their devices into its "Find My" system, and a company called Knog has made a Bluetooth bike tracker called the Scout that does just that. The Scout goes well beyond tracking, though, providing a motion-sensitive alarm system that will alert you if anybody tries to move your bike.
+https://arstechnica.com/reviews/2025/05/find-my-bicycle/