DJ uses BMX bicycle to mix music

With renewed interest in bike-sharing schemes around the world, how best to promote this new way of travelling to the young?

According to COGOO, a smartphone-operated bike-sharing service currently being developed at Yokohama National University, the answer is BMX-controlled music that mixes well with street culture and is fun to play.

The bike and sound system hybrid is a collaboration between professional BMX rider Kotaro Tanaka, DJ Baku and artist Toshiyuki Sugai.

An album of the BMX-controlled music will soon be available to buy on iTunes.

Dutch designers Merel Sloother, Liat Azulay and Pieter Frank de Jong built the wonderfully-whimsical ‘Feats per Minute’, a bicycle that uses pedal power to play vinyl records on its wheels as the rider cruises through the city. If you like your bicycle sounds a little less old school, but a whole lot more practical than the vinyl-playing bike, how about the Horn Bike by Bone? Made from silicon, the horn uses no power and manages to boost your iPhone speaker output by 13db.

Cycle insurance for a song

Cycle insurance from the ETA includes new-for-old cover for theft and accidental damage (race events included), third party insurance, personal accident cover and if you breakdown, they will even come out and recover you and your bike. Check your policy against the full list of benefits here.