Facebook iBike Cycling Community
Posted August 30th, 2007 in Culture, Meta
Like just about everyone else on the planet I’m on Facebook, and it’s proven to be a good way to keep in touch with a small circle of friends, join some amusing and interesting groups like America Deserves Kyle Sandilands and We Want Funky Little Pubs in Sydney, and play around with some interesting applications. No question Facebook is the most useful time waster ever invented.
But what does this have to do with bikes you ask? In the same way that it’s impossible to avoid Facebook if you live online, it’s also impossible to avoid bikes on Facebook if you live online.
The iBike Cycling Community is one of those applications I liked immediately. Like most Facebook applications, it’s simple in concept and easy to use, it asks users to establish a profile of themselves and their bikes, add favourite rides, and what I think could prove to be the the killer use, a buy sell option for users.
iBike neatly fills a need that we all understand as cyclists, our self identification with our bikes. Facebook users who cycle (or cyclists who use Facebook) should definitely add this one, and while you’re there, add me as a friend.
technorati tags: cycling, bicycles, facebook, ibike
What others have to say…
At least they’ll know I’m committed to modernity, with a sloping TT and new world gruppo….unlike some folks I know.
Hey at least I don’t have 10cm of spacers, an impotence inducing saddle and an experimental groupset.
The neo-liberalism of the past 30 years has certainly made our youth conservative in their thought processes and unwilling to think ahead to the future.
So many of them have become cardigan wearing retro grouches.
It’s just so sad.
Some things never go out of style
just like cardigans
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Now the CIA knows what your bike looks like Phil.
Look out!