Shinya Kimura is a custom motorcycle builder, and the subject of a beautiful short profile on YouTube.
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So I was catching up with the haps in my new city today on Berkeleyside, and I noticed a reference to yet another cool thing that originated in Oakland. No, it’s not turf dancing, or whistle tips, or ghost riding, or even hyphy. It’s scraperbikes, old beaters totally tricked out with colorful, cheap, homespun decorations. [...]
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Cycling seems more dangerous, more hassle-filled, and generally more aggro than when I moved here. Why? Maybe it’s me. I moved to Berkeley recently, and I’m pretty close to having a lawn that I can tell kids to get off of. Maybe it’s that the city has changed a lot. There are more cyclists, more [...]
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A tiny company called Stephenson’s Warmlite makes some of the world’s best gear for camping. I’ve long admired their bomb-proof tents and burly sleeping bags, not to mention the unabashed, straight-from-the-70s nudism in their vintage paper catalogs [a PDF is available here, for now]. Which is why I couldn’t help but be deeply charmed by [...]
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ByCycle and Bikely both bring bike route mapping to the web, and not a minute too soon. Finding bike routes through cities (especially unfamiliar cities) can be a lonely, scary process of elimination. After much experimentation, the best route often ends up being a patchwork of quiet side streets, alleys, and paths that would be [...]
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Today is Bike-to-Work Day, which means that Market Street was slightly more alive this morning. As everyday is bike-to-work day for me, I would really rather see the “energizer stations” (PDF map of the Bike Coalition’s coverage) out there during the winter, when the wind is howling, the streets slick, and the cyclists few in [...]
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My name is Doug LeMoine. I work both on, and for, the Internet. You can find more about me in the 
