Evolving Bikes into Future Trikes While there is almost no image more elegant or romantic than a person simply riding a bike, we are constantly being enticed into embracing something grand, a car, a nice big house, which is intended to inflate our sense of well-being. Seldom on display is the ragged couple, exhaustedly dragging themselves into that home,…
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Hybrid Muscle/Electric-Powered Vehicles are the future
Hybrid Muscle/Electric-Powered Vehicles are the future PUCK magazine, in downtown New York City, gave political satire its most powerful boost. Its momentum has propelled it 150 years into the present day in the form of Comedy Central and millions of youtube videos. The impatience of these cartoonists with corrupt politicians, greedy accumulators and the webs they jointly constructed to rid…
The Snell Report
The Snell Report https://books.google.hr/books?id=TE3wTD1ckF4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false In 1974, Bradford Snell, a legislative assistant to Senator Hart of Michigan, and Judiciary Committee staff attorney, delivered an historic report on the partnership between two great American industrial powers, the General Motors Company and the Standard Oil Company (Firestone was the junior partner), which resulted in the dismemberment of our entire rail system, all in…
Steven Stollman
Longtime NYC Advocate for human-scale vehicles, including electric-assist bicycles and pedicabs, as well as a stronger local, creative and public role in determining public-space issues. I imagine streets in the future filled with clean, quiet, weather-protected, multi-person conveyances that are beautifully and uniquely crafted, shaped, and decorated by human hands, gifting our roadways with color and rhythm, as well as…
In Pursuit of the Perfect All-Weather LEV
In Pursuit of the Perfect All-Weather LEV Oct 19, 2014. Times Article Viewed: 49086 Bicycles are great, but they have their shortcomings, especially as the weather turns wet and cold. What’s a need to make them viable year-round are creative solutions that meld form and function into the perfect Light Electric Vehicle. Late 19th-century ‘Socialable’ bicycles put riders side-by-side, unlike…