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Walk It Out With The Sneaker Bike

photo: thomas brown

We’ve always been jealous of those cartoon characters whose legs turn into blurry, rotating wheels when they run fast, so this new invention might be the closest we get. Wheel maker Max Knight created this bike for Intersection Magazine by replacing each tire with 8 sneakers (and socks!) and then turning each “spoke” into a sturdy, leg-like bar. But the question is…how does it ride? After the jump, see a video of the Walking Bike in action.

ENV Bike Passes On Gas

If fueling your car with bio-diesel or random waste products isn’t your thing, then a bike that run on hydrogen might spark your interest. At first glance, the ENV Bike looks like an upgrade from those grungy, run-of-the-mill motocross bikes. For starters, the clean design matches its commitment to being emission-free—the baby seals will thank you in the end. No complicated gears on this bike either. The simple button controls make it easy enough for anyone with no previous motorcycle riding experience to hop on and go. See the original concept and a few more photos of the ENV after the jump.

Did World’s Angriest Press-Hungry Messenger Ruin Monstertrack?

Mike Dee in action / Joe Fornabaio for The New York Times

Although organizers are citing safety concerns for canceling Monstertrack, we’re pretty sure this article in the New York Times certainly didn’t help any. The subject of the piece, Mike Dee—who even among his peers is known as a big mouth—blabbed to the Gray Lady about the notoriously illegal fixed-gear only alley-cat that’s been going on for over a decade. And not that we’re claiming to be experts when in comes to organizing illegal bike races through traffic, common sense dictates that bragging about it, to the paper of record, probably wasn’t the smartest thing to do. So much for that code of the streets.