Month: February 2014

What if we just give the bikes away?

Recyclistas is a bike shop that takes donated bikes and salvages them into cheap commuters. It’s located at the junction of three major cycling routes and has an open-plan workshop where people come for classes and shop time. It was originally instituted as a...

What exactly is a polo bike, anyway?

… as young men often ask me, as they struggle to maintain interest while I spin off on a bike related tangent. Well, I’ll tell you. A polo bike is a rough looking, scratched up, bomb proof, 90’s style rigid mountain bike with a few modifications that...

You can use recursion in real life!

They make you learn recursion during first-year intro to programming courses. Some people get fed up at that point and drop out to become car salesmen or Liberal Arts majors instead. Some people never quite get it, but bodge their way through another four years of...