Roads were not built for cars

Check out this Kickstarter campaign from Carlton Reid — the book, Roads Were Not Built for Cars due out in print, Kindle and iPad in Summer 2013. From the campaign: “Cyclists were written out of highway history in the 1920s and 1930s by the all-powerful motor lobby: Roads Were Not Built For Cars tells the real story, putting cyclists centre…

Kickstarter: Mobile surfboard-building classroom

The good folks at Maine-based Grain Surfboards  want to help surfers learn how to build their own boards and experience the power of the process.  So they’ve launched this Kickstarter campaign. They already have a truck, spent 5 years fixing up the engine. They’re trying to now raise $38,500 to outfit the truck, fill it with…