Author Archives: Ben Denham

The Busycle

11 Jan ’07 – 12:28 pm

Last year we linked to Moz, the creator of one less ute, a load bearing bicycle designed to carry up to 200kg. Given a recent random encounter with the man at a new years festival, it was hardly surprising that Moz should show up again, this time as part of the crew behind the construction [...]

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Sketchy transport

22 Dec ’06 – 10:51 pm

The bicycle and other human powered vehicles are the most energy efficient forms of transport that our species has managed to engineer, but just how well this latest bicycle adaption runs is a question for those who live in a climate cold enough to warrant it… the snow bike via the make blog. Also from [...]

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The carcass of western capital

19 Dec ’06 – 7:18 pm

Although the developed world is full of abandoned mining and industrial sites like the Bethlehem steel works, the problems they pose are nothing compared to the difficulties of numerous sites in the third world. Africa is now facing major pollution issues, for instance, but South America has an even longer history of western exploitation. Now [...]

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Bicycle ute

9 Nov ’06 – 1:52 pm

Here’s another bicycle reuse. This time its Moz who, among other things, adapts old bicycles to become new load-bearing human powered vehicles like this one. Often this kind of adaption is a prototype for building these designs from scratch, as with the development of the long bike into one less ute.

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