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Bicycles at Berkeley Spark 2014

7/20/2014

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Companion Bike Seat at Berkeley Spark 2014
We were out at Berkeley Spark this weekend to enjoy the festivities and to help promote Bike Seats on the Playa. With so many cool DIY bike seats, bike trailers, and art bicycles, I had to write a blog post to share some of the pictures. Berkeley Spark is a sort of Burning Man pre-party or send-off party held annually at Civic Center Park in Downtown Berkeley. It was a beautiful Bay Area summer afternoon, full of arts and crafts, dancing, food and grog, and most importantly ... lots of bicycles. 
There were all sorts of custom rigs at the park, from functional to artistic and everything in between. I included some photos here of the best ones from the afternoon.

With this DIY bike seat, it's unclear whether it's the primary driver seat for a really tall owner, or if it's a passenger seat and the owner took his bike seat with him to make sure it wasn't stolen. Either way, it looks like a great ride!
custom bike seat at Berkeley Spark
custom bicycle trailer at Berkeley Spark
This bicycle trailer had pretty much everything you need in life ... guitar, radio, clothes and sleeping bag, and a wash-board as a backboard for the rig to make sure nothing fell off the back. You could travel an entire continent with this type of setup.

This was by far the coolest art-bicycle of the afternoon ... the fish tongues were an especially nice touch. Fish Bike was a completely functional art piece, though pretty difficult to ride being that it was so heavily laden with metal armor. 
fish art bicycle at Berkeley Spark
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Bicycling in Bogota

7/2/2014

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I took a trip to Bogota, Colombia last week for a friend's wedding, and knowing how forward-thinking Bogota is with bike-commuting, couldn't help but taking some photos to share my experience. It turns out that Ciclovia, with its roots in Bogota, was the movement that inspired Sunday Streets globally. With Ciclovia, every Sunday and holiday, major streets are shut down to let bicycles and pedestrians to take over the streets. Ciclovia was started in the early '80s, and is most often credited to then Bogota Mayor Hernando Duran Dussan. Due to the popularity of Ciclovia, the local government invested in miles of bicycling infrastructure, ciclorutas, and now Bogota is heralded as one of the best cities in the world for bicyclists and bike commuters.
cicloruta bike path in Bogota
cicloruta bike path sign in Bogota
It was great to see a place that embraced bicycling as a regular part of life. I was pleasantly surprised to see bicycling called out as one of the four ways people can help save the planet! This was on a take-out bag from an amazing barbecue restaurant just outside of Bogota.
save the planet, ride a bike
doggy bag with advice on saving the planet
bike share hub in Bogota

Much like most major cities nowadays, Bogota has a thriving bike-share system, Bogota Humana, that just recently launched.
Bogota Humana bike share bicycles

And of course, even on a rainy day, of which there are many in Bogota, the ciclorutas are still smiling. In Bogota, even the bicyclists get their own traffic signals!
cicloruta sign in Bogota
smiling cicloruta bike path in Bogota
companion bike seat logo on a chalkboard
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