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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 11
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 11

by Mark Frauenfelder
August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
190 pages
7h 38m
English
Make: Community
Content preview from Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 11

Rock the Bike

Social biking with Fossil Fool and the Juice Pedaler.

By Paul Spinrad

IF YOU’VE NEVER BEEN ON A BICYCLE cruiser ride before, here’s what happens. You and your party gather someplace in town and maybe have some beers and/or dinner. Then you ride. The city and the night are yours. If you’re lucky, one of you is on a Soul Cycle, supplying the soundtrack.

The audio is thrillingly crisp, far better than any car stereo, thanks to no engine and less tire noise. You pedal, steer, and move to the beat, and some of your friends sing along, but others chat and laugh, steering in and out of different conversations. As the sky darkens, Down Low Glow tubes spill rolling pools of vivid, colored light onto the pavement below. Every pedestrian that ...

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