A visit to the Shimano Bicycle Museum in Japan's Kansai region finds a modern glass-and-steel building housing an extensive, bilingual collection of bicycles spanning from early hobby horses to modern machines. The museum emphasizes the broader history of cycling and bicycle technology rather than Shimano's own corporate story, with exhibits including Freddy Maertens' steel Flandria bike displayed without barriers for close viewing.
inrng.com
· 2026-10-02
A community-built site has extended Simon Willison's informal LLM benchmark—asking models to draw an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle—into a set of 30 drawing prompts tested across 2025 and 2026 model runs. The 2026 batch currently covers prompts 1 through 10, with images displayed unedited exactly as each model generated them.
gally.net
· 2026-09-14
A technical explainer examines the internal workings of the coaster brake, a rear-hub braking system that has been used on bicycles for more than 100 years. The piece breaks down the mechanical components and physics that allow pedaling backward to engage stopping power without external levers or cables.
dougbarnesauthor.com
· 2026-08-29
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