A bike computer can give you a lot of data about your journey including speed, positioning, route, and more. Here are some ...

The popularity of Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch hasn’t just resulted in an explosion of apps available from the iTunes Store, it’s also spawned a stack of hardware accessories designed to extend the ...

Earlence Fernandes is a computer science professor at UC San Diego. He’s also a cycling geek. He stands next to his bike at UCSD’s computer science building and tells how he commutes to work on his ...

I have been speeding around on a new bike this weekend, a cheap-o fixed gear I picked up in order to study for the Gadget Lab build-a-fixie project. I’m hooked — it’s so much fun riding the thing.

Computer scientists in Germany have developed a wireless bicycle brake and demonstrated its efficiency on a so-called cruiser bike. Furthermore, they confirmed the brake system’s reliability through ...

Bike computers get better and more complex every year. The trick now becomes simplifying the experience, from easily accessing the fancy data to being able to attach and move the hardware quickly.

In my neighborhood in Portland, Ore., the hipsters all like to ride minimalist fixed-gear bikes (aka fixies). Without a freewheel, a fixie generally requires pedaling forward to move forward and ...

As part of an odometry project in progress, I discovered that a digital bicycle speedometer, the bike computer, seemed to be the perfect pick for some tinkering. I looked for a cheap version online, ...