Open Bicycle

If you have been sitting around scratching your head, wondering how you would help build you local bicycle community this spring, look no further! Studio Gelardi developed a tool that they claim will “Builds Biking Communities” – the Contrail Biking Community Tool.  In its simplest form, you rub chalk on your rear wheel and leave colorful path wherever you ride, which I personally think is a bit dumb.  Gelardi’s site quotes doobybrain.com,  “By using this device, bicyclists will have a clearer path on which to ride safely and out of the way of vehicular traffic.”  I assume this person is from the burbs, because you’d last five minutes riding downtown with this method of navigation. Enough criticism! I’ll leave you with the industrial prototype sketches, which I do enjoy: