How To: Recover From An Opening Car Door

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At 10:30pm tonight, a guy in a taxi full of his girlfriends swung his passenger side taxi door open and I ate it.

This is a full (and sorry, lengthy) guide about what you can do to protect yourself in this number one danger of riding bikes in the city, and how to recover once you take the spill.

Protecting yourself:

1. The only thing that stands between your head and the sharp edge of the car door is chance; or your helmet.

2. Always keep your hands on your brakes, you never know when you’ll need to come to a screeching halt. (A heavier clunkier bike is going to have a harder time stopping than an efficient road bike with good brakes).

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Samsung 'Fixie' With Top-Tube Tablet Mount

Written by | Monday, 03 October 2011

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I currently tuck mine into a handlebar bag, but that means reaching in every time you need to use it. Better would be a proper handlebar mount. The big screen and long, long battery life make the iPad a great handlebar HUD, GPS tracker and general mapping device. I’m in the middle of building a touring bike (Surly Long Haul Trucker framer and Shimano Alfine 11 hub, as you’re asking) and I have a feeling that the iPad might neatly be stowed in the map-case attachment for the Ortlieb handlebar bag. Samsung, maker of me-too touch-screen devices, commissioned Brick Lane-based bike builder 14 Bike Co to make a bike and mount for its Galaxy Tab tablet. In keeping with current fashions, the bicycle is a fixed gear model with obligatory Brooks saddle, and although it does actually have a pair of brakes, there are no cables or levers — kind of like a tablet that runs Flash, but doesn’t enable it by... Samsung says that this lets you flip up and use the Tab when on the bike, but it also means that the thing will flap from side to side whenever you turn a corner.

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Vietnam Veteran Fixes Up Used Bicycles For Needy Kids

Tulsa World | 01 Jan 1970

He examined them, sprayed on a little WD-40, blindly grabbed one of the color-coded Allen wrenches - a perfect fit - and put the handlebars on the bike, getting it one step closer to the hands of a kid who needs it. After the gear, seat, tires, tubes,

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Black 55cm KHS Flite 100 2011

BikePortland.org | 01 Jan 1970

Description: Fixed gear, rear brake, bul-horn handlebars, Black, copy of receipt in seat post. Posted on January 12th, 2012 at 11:40 am. Filed under Stolen Bike Listings and tagged with . You can skip to the end and leave a response.

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Nitto Craft Stem Review

BikeRadar.com | 01 Jan 1970

Fast forward to the present day and a slow fightback is taking place, brought about by a combination of trends: fixed gear fashion, an interest in cycling heritage and an exploding urban cycling culture. The Craft stem is an uncompromising stand for

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Black Mercier Kilo TT 2007

BikePortland.org | 01 Jan 1970

Description: Black Mercier track-style frame, fixed gear, covered in stickers with a dent in the down-tube about midway. On the bottom bracket it says "Day Vid Buck Taw" in gold paint. Serial number stamped into frame is registered has been reported as

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Fixies To The People! Building A Business On No-frills Bikes

Grist Magazine | 01 Jan 1970

development for Solé Bicycles, Standley is one part of a five-man team bent on bringing fixed-gear bicycles to the masses. Fixies, as they're affectionately known, are bicycles at their most basic: frame, wheels, pedals, seat, and handlebars.

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(1 diggs) What kind of Handlebars do I need? | Fixed Gear Bicycles For Sale dirtsquad With fixed gear bikes, and any bike for that matter, there are a lot of different options you can go with for your handlebars...there are a couple of different styles, so hopefully this will clear up some of advantages and disadvantages of certain styles of handlebars.

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Official gazette of the United States Patent Office

Official gazette of the United States Patent Office

The combination of the front tore having the arm 28 and the handle-bar post ... of the horizontally- mounted crank-axle provided with a gear 65. fixed ...

Creator: United States. Patent Office | Patents1890

Cycling Fast

Cycling Fast

fixed gear—A single-gear bike that does not freewheel. ... is usually attached to the wrist like a watch or attached to the bicycle handlebar. hole—An empty ...

Creator: Robert Panzera | Sports & Recreation2010-05-18

Bicycling

Bicycling

The classic-look swept-back cruiser handlebar of the old Raleigh has been .... both bikes have flip-flop hubs (to be run as a singlespeed or a fixed gear). ...

2008-10

Popular Science

Popular Science

A computer integrated into the handlebars on the FSX provides more information than ... The most radical design of the trio is the Tandemonium, a fixed-gear ...

1992-08

Patents for inventions, abridgments of specifications : Class ...

Patents for inventions, abridgments of specifications : Class ...

The collar m is kept in gear with the head A1 by means of spiral springs n, ... The steering - head G operated by the handle-bar H is fixed to the forepart ...

Creator: Great Britain. Patent Office | Law1894

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The Bike Biz- Track Handlebars - Thebikebiz.com : The Bicycle Business

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Flickr: Fixed Gear Short Handlebar Fetish

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