Recovering a Stolen Bike With Pedal Power

When one of Rock the Bike's best cargo bikes was stolen after a meeting a few weeks ago, team members reached out to friends on social media, friends and a stolen bike recovery network to keep an eye out. So when one of the crewmembers spotted the highly-customized Mundo 500 locked to a sign in his neighborhood. 

They called SFPD to report it, stuck their own lock on it and came back in the morning with an angle grinder with a cutoff wheel and a Rock the Bike Pedal Power Utility Box to collect the energy from two different bike generators to saw off the offending lock. All of which is captured in the video above.

Have you ever had your bike stolen? Did you get it back?

[via Rock the Bike & BikeHugger]

Mountain Biker Speeds Down Ski Slope at 135 MPH

Barone and his bike via http://www.vitalmtb.com/

Last week, Eric "The Red Baron" Barone, a 52-year-old high-speed mountain bike specialist (apparently that's a thing) from France, sped down a crazy steep slope at 135 mph at the Les Arc ski resort and set the world record  for speed on a serial production mountain bike on snow (which is, apparently, also a thing). 

Don't know what 135mph down a snowy slope looks like? Well, the brief video clip below will give you an idea. Be sure to listen with your sound on and up for the full experience. Oh, and don't blink or you might miss it.