Mountain bike trail tech
If you’ve been reading the blog or checking out the site you already know I love to mix electronics and mountain biking. For years I’ve been riding with a digital camera and GPS and now I’m even getting into the whole helmet cam scene with the GoPro HERO. I suppose the website is pretty high tech as well, though there isn’t any way to bring singletracks.com out on the trail with me … or is there?
USBfever.com is promoting an iPhone bike mount that lets you take your fancy Apple hardware out on the trail with you. Just think – you can make calls, surf web pages, and even snap pics of the ground while your iPhone stays firmly attached to your handlebars. I suppose this will be even better once the next generation iPhone is released since it is rumored to include GPS – delicious. And don’t forget to upgrade to a singletracks premium membership so you can view your trail maps while you ride 
via iPhone Matters.
In other mountain bike tech news, it was just last week that I wrote about the E+ electric mountain bike but it turns out there is a much sweeter electric ride available: the OB1 from Optibike. The OB1 seems to get about the same speed and range as the E+ but in a much cooler carbon fiber wrapper and smokin’ orange paint job (though I’m not sure why this photo looks like it was taken in the 80s). If you thought the E+ was expensive at around $4,000, the OB1 will absolutely blow your mind at $13,000. For a bike. That is powered by batteries. Hurry though, only 24 will be made this year! via Groovy Green.
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May 13th, 2008 at 8:20 am
[...] As if carrying your iPhone on the MTB trail wasn’t geeky enough, now you can CHARGE your iPhone on the trail using only the wind rushing over your handlebars: Meet the HY Mini Wind Turbine. Just attach the HY Mini to your bike and as long as your speed relative to the wind is over 19mph for 20 minutes you’ll get enough juice to power your iPod for 30 minutes. You’ll get power at speeds as slow as 9mph but I’m guessing that might be a losing proposition (20 minutes of pedaling just to get 10 minutes of iPod just doesn’t seem so great). [...]