Everything And Nothing

A new way to roll

D. Curtis DeForest, Jr., was not pleased with the engineering of everyday bicycles - the center of gravity was higher than the axles of the wheels and losing balance meant falling on the ground. Sitting down is an inefficient way to pedal - and it encouraged bad posture.

So he invented the HyperBike.

It is designed like "a roll cage within a roll cage" and can go 50 mph or more.

Even NASA has become interested in the contraption, as astronauts could use their own power to travel farther on the moon and Mars with a collapsible version of the bike. (Old lunar rovers have a limited power supply and can only travel a few miles.)

Picnic perfect

I can just see myself pedaling to my picnic - with the wine in this damn cute faux-lace carryall - on my bike. (In real life, I have an ugly wire basket from Wal-Mart I can't figure out how to put on my damn bike. It is starting to irritate me, because I bought it because it said it was idiot-proof right on the package. They obviously had not tried enough idiots before their claim!)

Pedal in your head, Shawn. Spring day. Picnic. Basket. Wine. Ahhhh.

$50

Bringing up the rear

“Monkey butt” is a term coined by bikers to refer to the soreness, itching and redness that can result from long hours on a bike seat. It makes for red buns and the tendency to walk bowlegged like a monkey. (It doesn’t feel real good either!)

Anti Monkey Butt® Powder (AMBP) is a combination of talc and calamine powder specially formulated to reduce frictional skin irritation...and prevent "monkey butt."

$6.50

Princely skate decks

In a second installment of the Supreme Artists Series, Richard Prince has designed two exclusive skate decks for Supreme. The first features a black, abstract character on a white background and the second design has a laser etching of a skull-bunny on a black background.

Available at Supreme stores worldwide.

More power to you

Canada's Thera-P-Products has just introduced the first all-solar electric bicycle. Photovoltaic cells in the wheels collect the sun's rays, and a motor mounted on the front fork converts them to 19-mph power.

Also availabe as a conversion kit to retrofit your current bike.

$699 - $1,139