Category: bike

Can’t Find a Taxi? YongChe is the app for that!

Can’t Find a Taxi? YongChe is the app for that!

Tweet If you have ever been to one of the major, and massively busy, cities in China like Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, you will no doubt understand how difficult it can be to find a taxi. Thankfully Zhou Hang, CEO of Yongche, has an app for that! Tweet

China’s National ‘No Car Day’ Has No Takers

China’s National ‘No Car Day’ Has No Takers

Tweet   I didn’t know this when I jumped in to my Chinese made jalopy to head to the office in downtown Qingdao, but today is China’s official National ‘Car Free Day’. It looks like no one else new, or didn’t care either! Tweet

Cyclops Sports Cam: Budget Helmet Camera for Extreme Sports Fans

Cyclops Sports Cam: Budget Helmet Camera for Extreme Sports Fans

Tweet One of the amazing things about Chinese manufacturers is that they may well make OEM products for overseas companies, then modify the OEM to their own specification and sell it throughout Asia, but leave off any identifying branding. Apparently this ‘Cyclops’ action camera is the perfect example of made and modified in China. The [...]

China’s Homegrown GPS Will Generate 400 Billion By 2020

China’s Homegrown GPS Will Generate 400 Billion By 2020

Tweet GPS is big business all over the globe, and here in China, home to the worlds fastest automobile market navigation is even a bigger business than in most economies. Currently 95% of all navigation in China is handled U.S GPS satellites, but this is American dominance of global positioning and guidance sound like it [...]

Indoor Bike Races Warm Beijing Bars This Winter

Indoor Bike Races Warm Beijing Bars This Winter

Tweet The cold winter Beijing streets aren’t the most appealing place in the world when it comes to riding your bike. Fortunately the ‘Smarter Than Car’ Beijing based cycling promotion organisation have combined my three favourite pass times, drinking, biking and computer games all under one roof, by staging a number of indoor bike races [...]

China Introduces E-bike Subsidy

China Introduces E-bike Subsidy

Tweet Shandong province is the latest of 10 provinces to introduce an e-bike subsidy for people living in rural areas. The new subsidy, which was introduced this week allows people living in rural areas to get a 13% discount on new electric bikes. The new subsidy means that workers once relying on push bikes to [...]

480 Yuan Refundable Bike Boat Conversion

480 Yuan Refundable Bike Boat Conversion

An ingenious bike boat conversion on the cheap!

Glow in the Dark Strida Folding Bike!

Glow in the Dark Strida Folding Bike!

The Strida folding bike has been cloned to the back teeth! But this is the first time it has been done in glorious Glow In The Dark!!

‘Strida’ Electric Bike

‘Strida’ Electric Bike

Tweet Folding bikes are big business these days. Thanks to eco warriors and traffic tolls we’re seeing more and more of the tiny wheeled menaces on the roads. Just this afternoon I saw a Lycra clad grown man (possibly around 6 foot) riding a particularly tiny folder with what appeared to be 10 inch gold [...]

Hubless BMX. The future of flatland?

Hubless BMX. The future of flatland?

Tweet While you may not see this hubless, spokeless and chainless BMX at the skatepark anytime soon it’s still definetly an awesome project and could possibly open new possiblilies to flatland riders of the future. Tweet

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