#Ivisible bike how to#
Challenges as Opportunities? How to be bold, build bridges and move forward in transitional times.Quito: mountains, history & a giant conference about cities.Copenhagen: Rooftops as an extension of the public space.Stockholm: reflections & opportunities of living in an emerging cycle city.Stockholm’s Monday morning cycle commute: the joys of being car-free & carefree.Climate change communication needs to move beyond the science.Mexico City: bicycle brigades to the rescue.Cities must move to fossil-free and car-free for a healthy future.
#Ivisible bike free#
Bicycling and free beer in Bologna – a winning combo?.Dutch Cycling Culture: Oh How I Miss Thee….And well, I don’t entirely agree that this will “save the world” (see video.) Still, it is good to have bold and confident innovators… Moreover, as someone who rarely wears a helmet on the bike (it is very uncommon in the Netherlands) it could be something to get more people in on the idea because really you only need it once if you are in a bad accident… And I love scarfs! Interested? Check out the company website ( Hövding: The Invisible Bicycle Helmet.) They are headquartered in one of my all-time favourite cities for sustainability and innovation: Malmö, Sweden. Downsides? It’s expensive (circa 400 EUR) and you can only wear it once (although on their website they claim that some insurance companies will cover part of the cost of a new helmet if you were involved in an accident). A great idea for the casual urban hipster cyclist: it can serve as a fashion accessory & is easy to store in a backpack or a purse. Vain or not, most people don’t use a helmet in the city… This helmet design looks like a scarf that you wear around your neck.
The idea behind it is that, unless required by law, most urban cyclists (save for speed cyclists) do not enjoy wearing a bike helmet – it’s bulky, uncomfortable & hard to store when you are not on your bike.
#Ivisible bike update#
UPDATE 2: Here are more photos of the mural by Daniel Quinlan and Eris Stassi.Swedish design students Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin decided to take on the challenge to develop an invisible bike helmet (think deployable air bags in a car) as part of a school project at Lund University (my alma mater!) What started as an exam project soon turned into a venture capital quest with 10 million in funding and 7 years of research (see the video below). UPDATE 1: Here are more great photos of the mural by Trisha Weir, including one of Ben Huh riding his invisible bike along with the Lolcat mural.
Troy McClure SF shot a great photo of the finished mural as well as a bunch of photos of the mural being created. In Austin stops at local galleries included in the Texas Biennial in addition to local art institions, with a final stop at Gallery Lombardi, where his much talked about FUCK Bike sculpture awaited patrons of the Texas Biennial. Here’s the original “Invisible Bike” Lolcat image from I Can Has Cheezburger?. Invisible Bike outside of Bolm Studios in Austin Texas during Texas Biennial. See Josh’s blog for more info on the project, including photos of the mural being created.īen Huh, who runs the infamous Lolcat blog I Can Has Cheezburger?, was on hand for this historic occasion. Earlier this afternoon San Francisco artist Josh Zubkoff, with the help from some friends, created what is possibly the world’s largest Lolcat image, an “Invisible Bike” mural painted on the side of a building at the end of the alley on Quincy Street in San Francisco.
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