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No more training wheels, “Gyrowheel”

Why didn’t someone invent this when I was a kid. If you have kids and they’re just learning to ride a bike, the Gyrowheel is the way to go. They could learn to ride in an afternoon. Check out this video.

Now that’s a Rocking Horse!

Now what kid wouldn’t love to rock on this bike/horse? This incredible Rocking Horse was custom built from old German motorcycle parts designed by Felix Götze. How cool is that?

For the full story and more photos, head on over to the rocking horse.

[via the blog paper]

IPhone Case Mod to MapMyRide

I've been biking quite a bit lately, two to three times a week. I was using Google maps to map my rides until I found MapMyRide.com (they use Google maps as well but with a whole lot more). At first I was mapping my routes out by hand, it was a little tedious, that is until I recently got an iPhone. Guess what?  They have an app for that. No more mapping routes by hand. The GPS in the iPhone tracks every movement I make and the Free iMapMyRide app takes care of the rest.

The next thing was to mount my iPhone to my bike somehow. At first I was using an arm band but I couldn’t see it while riding and it was difficult to work the app while on my arm.

I searched and found a few mounts that were made for this but they were a little pricey and the worst part was they looked like any bump would have the iPhone sailing right out of the mount, so I came up with the iPhone case mod you see here.

To make it, I found a multi use case (Lowepro Volta 20) and cut a hole in the top to view and have access to the touch screen and the home button (see pic below).

Then I got the shoe guy down the street to punch a hole for me where the wired headphones plug in. It’s not the cleanest job, but works for now, I eventually want to get a Bluetooth wireless headset.

Then I had the shoe guy sew onto the front of the case a Velcro tab to secure it around the goose neck of my bike, then he made a Velcro belt for the belt loop on the bottom of the case to fasten to the top bar of my bike.

Altogether it cost me about $32.00. What do you think?