UC Davis TAPS BEEP Video from UCDavisTAPS on Vimeo. VUC Davis has a great new bike safety video. Traffic laws and campus customs are clearly explained alongside some nice visuals of campus bike traffic. When the roundabouts get crowded, they really can be intimidating, but the video explains how they keep traffic moving and less confusing than four-way stops.
Standing Start: a brief review
Standing Start from adrian mcdowall on Vimeo. Standing Start, a 12-minute documentary short-film on track bicycle racing, uses narration adapted from Homer’s The Odyssey to frame the significance of training, pursuit, and competition. Like Douglas Gordon’s Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait, this riveting film from the Scottish Documentary Institute looks at the some of life’s larger questions through an intimate and aesthetic portrayal of sport. One man stands for all men through most of the film, and only in the sparse scenes of a multi-person race are we reminded that this struggle for strength, explosive strength, has meaning because of […]
Dave Wofford: Bull City Bikers
When Dave Wofford (37) tires of preventing forest fires, he designs graphics and presses letters at Durham’s finest fine-art letterpress, the Horse and Buggy Press. Originally a champion of Raleigh’s art community, Wofford has come to see the aesthetic benefits of living, biking, and now blogging in the Bull City. His Critical Mass posters (featured in the far right column) have become an icon within Durham’s two-wheeled community. A decidedly old school and opinionated fellow, he has been known to let loose on City Council as ferociously as Draplin lets loose on Blippo Bold. But perhaps because he knows that […]