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Robert Ariail Editorial Cartoon

Apparently gas prices have gone up. I hadn't noticed. I ride a bike. Of course I do notice the news and the fact that the local sandwich shop has raised it's prices. But the price of gas for my transportation itself does not affect me or my fellow cyclists and I just wish that more people would wake up to that fact and wake up fast.

petal power

This photo was sent in by Lorraine Chisolm of Vancouver.

Taken on Mothers Day, it's a nice taste of the end of spring on the Bikeway.

Thanks Lorraine!

Outside Mojo Bicycle Café on Divisidero St., SF

The Momentum lady posse power trio are on assignment in the Bay Area. Though our main mission is to attend Maker Faire this weekend, there are lots of other bikey types to visit while we're here. Too many to fit into one trip!

So retarded you've gotta love it....

Photo: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid

MOMENTUM is going on the road - and we'd love to meet YOU at Maker Faire:

May 3 & 4, 2008
San Mateo County Fairgrounds
Bay Area, CA

http://makerfaire.com

Dubbed "Vancouver Does Copenhagen" by the inimitable cycling style guru Dale Herriot, Vancouver's inaugural High Heels Ride was yet another sign that 2008 is going to be a sexy year for the world of cycling. The March 14th evening ride which circled False Creek, was punctuated by a number of pleasant stops including a musical interlude from Glenna Evans and Raphael. Among the ride's distinguished attendees was Paul Davis of Whitehorse, creator of
the award winning short film -40ºC.

Ben Johnson photographed the beginning of the ride and his photos may be viewed in the Momentum photo gallery.

A certain Vancouver car dealership persists in its um... dramatic demonstrations of the crushing capacity of it's SUVs. Last year the Unpopular Mechanic photographed their Hummer crushing a sedan (it's 'Free Tibet' bumper sticker still attached). Now they have upped the ante with the 'Dummer' atop a minivan. Blech.

Thanks Sean for tipping us off to this latest display of stupidity.

We need a Momentum distributor in San Francisco (preferably pedal-powered!) and as we were gazing over all our San Francisco contacts I noticed Laughing Squid (I don't know them - but I like their Bay Area art, culture & technology events website).

"Oh Tania," I said, "do you know about Laughing Squid? They're really cool!"

Now, a few hours later I have casually looked at their site, and today's story is a 12-foot high tall bike built by Atomic Zombies.

Thanks to Alex MacKenzie creator of Vancouver's legendary (now defunct) Blinding Light Cinema for sending along a clever link from London.

You may want to skip the intro, but definitely do the test.

http://www.dothetest.co.uk/

Alex also included this photo he took of a metal bike sculpture on a roof in Rotterdam.

It was my pleasure to work as a volunteer and a projectionist at the Blinding Light from 1998 - 2003. One of my favourite films watched there was the Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal - by Matt McCormick.

I recently discovered the Sartorialist and his passion for fashionable pedestrians - the ultimate in self-propelled.

This ad is on the bus shelter outside the Momentum clubhouse.

Naturally it caught my eye. It's an ad for an anti-inflammatory drug called Celebrex.