Single-speed bicycle

Artur Brito is on a unique mission to spread affection and goodwill and to champion the reason for mankind. What makes Artur unique is that regardless of life not giving him the best cards, he has gone ahead to make the best of everything and praise life to the full. His being a vagrant or losing his left leg in a motorbike mishap 25 years prior has not held him down. He simply finished the greatest test he set for himself in life, to ride a 125 cc bike from his home in Portugal to Kathmandu…

Last week, after my group was rejected for having a wooden compost bin on campus, we decided to look into transportation. We want to have a bike cage outside of Dudley Moorhead Hall, because we seen a lot of student illegally parked their bikes, and locked them in the walk ways. Once again, my group was looking for answer to our new idea, and went back to Corporation Yard A. The same lady was there at the front desk, and told us to speak to the transportation department, which was near the new…

journey, spanning four states and twenty-one days. And the mode of transformation? Road bike, or in my case, an old mountain bike with road bike tires - a ridiculous frankenstein of a bike for such a serious commitment. Fourteen people and fourteen bicycles, a group appropriately dubbed Bike Across America, and myself included, an individual so very lucky to have been a part of it all. I signed up for the trip a naive…

I love mechanics, it is one of my favorite hobbies. I like taking stuff apart and putting it back together. I am thinking about making my go-kart faster, but that means I would have to make it a 1-1-1-1 belt and sprocket and chain. I also want to make it 2 wheel drive. Which means I would have to get a new axle and put it in. Another one of my projects for this summer it getting the dirt bike going. Whenever I try to start it leaks gas, it needs a new gasket and new carburetor. I need a…

Have you ever tried something new? When you do you tend to want to give up because you don’t accomplish it on the first try. Or maybe you feel scared to try a new food or ride your bike without training wheels. All of these things are scary for someone at the age of 7. At the age of seven trying new things was like jumping off a cliff. I had always ridden my bike with training wheels because I didn’t have much balance. My babysitter and I were writing on the sidewalk with chalk. I told her…

transportation. While some walk or drive to class, many students prefer bicycles. The university has been gracious enough to provide bicycle racks at all residence halls and academic buildings; yet, students have been parking and locking their bikes to benches or stair rails outside of or near these establishments. The Baylor University Department of Public Safety declared that doing so was prohibited on campus. As a result, any bicycles caught apprehending the law are given a second lock,…

Since many more adults are looking for a bicycle to commute to work, rather than a car, a now small market for bikes shows an opportunity to develop a bike that will tailor to consumer’s needs. After going through the first five steps of the new product development process, it is time for testing. After establishing the idea to expand the market of bicycles to fulfill consumer’s needs, we took the next step in the product concept development and screening. Here the decision was made for a…

Adjust First Breckenridge, Colorado is an awesome town that my family went to for vacation when I was maybe eight. Along with my immediate family other relatives went with us. One of the family members there was my Uncle Jim. Jim lived in Portland, Oregon at the time of the trip and he is really big into two things; chocolate and running. It is important to know that the elevation of Portland is fifty feet whereas the elevation of Breckenridge is 9,600 feet. In every room of the condo we were…

My child observation and classroom observation took place at the Mt. San Jacinto Child Development and Education center in the preschool/pre-k (ages 36 months to 54 months) program room. This classroom has 2 teachers and 15 children in attendance during my observation. My study child is a male student age 4 who for this assignment I will refer to as C. The classroom environment as a whole can handle the children within the program, however I will provide a better picture of the entire room to…

I live in portland. The city has transformed a lot over the years. Biking is the new norm in, and if you don’t bike what is the point of living in portland. Bikers are vehicles now and they have same sized lanes as the cars. They have their own special traffic lights and have all the advantages of a car plus the perks of a pedestrian. Though I have lived here all my life I am still not used to them riding all over the streets. They still seem to fill me with anger. I don’t like bikers they…