Japanese automotive giant Honda has inaugurated its Silicon Valley R&D facility, along with its 2016 Accord flaunting first use of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. With a view to changing the automotive experience of its consumers, the ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, Honda, auto parts
Editor's note:?This blog post was written by Fred Clements, Executive Director of the National Bicycle Dealers Association. Clements' previous blogs can be read on bikedealerblog.wordpress.com. Retail sales at bike shops were down about 5 ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Electronic safety systems like forward collision and lane departure warnings are a welcome advancement in automotive safety, and are becoming increasingly more common on new cars. That's a trend we'd like to see continue, because we think ...
The bicycle is extraordinarily efficient in both biological and mechanical terms. The bicycle is the most efficient human-powered means of transportation in terms of energy a person must expend to travel a given distance. From a mechanical ...
Tags: Performance, Bicycle
A bicycle, often called a bike (and sometimes referred to as a "pushbike", "pedal bike", "pedal cycle", or "cycle"), is a human-powered, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A ...
The Gluskin Townley Group, publisher of the American Bicyclist Study, has hired industry veteran Al Budris to act as a sales rep for the study. "Al has been in the bicycle industry for 33 years and has literally spent his entire life ...
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The publisher of the American Bicyclist Study, a market study of adult bicycle consumers, is offering suppliers and retailers a chance to review an electronic copy of the study at no charge for 30 days. The price of the three-volume, ...
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A group of 20 leaders from the bike industry toured the nation's capital's new protected bike lanes on a trip hosted by Bikes Belong Foundation’s Green Lane Project on Monday. The tour highlighted protected bike lanes, also known as ...
Tags: Industry Leaders, DC, Protected Bike Lanes
Following the dissolution of a proposed merger of cycling's most powerful advocacy groups, the League of American Bicyclists used the opening of its annual National Bike Summit to rebrand the organization and set a new course for the ...
Tags: bike, Transportation
The "No Bicycles" signs will be coming down in Black Hawk, Colorado, after the state's highest court overturned a lower court ruling and said the mountain town must allow bikes on its main drag. The town, best known for its casinos, had ...
Tags: No Bicycles, bikes, drag
A wireless network now links 1400 LED-based outdoor lights on the University of California at Davis campus after an SSL collaboration between the California Lighting Technology Center and Lumewave. Lumewave announced that it supplied the ...
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OLYMPIA, WA (BRAIN) — The bike retail business lost two members recently. Each was killed in a vehicle accident while bicycling. Trent Graham, 30, an employee at Gregg's Cycle in Washington, was killed after being struck by a truck ...
Tags: bike accidents, bike retail business, vehicle accident, employee die
Driving under traditional amber-colored lights can really play tricks on the eyes. You go from light to dark over and over again because the bulbs are focused straight down, creating gaps. The light never covers the entire street. But ...
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