Precious, the 'bike with a brain,' rides itself across the country -- with a little help from friends (video)

We hear so much complaining on a day-to-day basis that frankly we're not sure how we feel about a bicycle that has been taught to bemoan the weight of its rider or, indeed, the sweatiness of their palms. That's what we have with Precious, a Specialized cruiser given an array of sensors and circuitry, able to tell things like distance covered, temperature, and, yes, the perspiration of the sorry sucker astride the thing. All of this is reported on the Precious Twitter feed in... creative English that we're pretty sure has been enhanced a bit by human hands. It's a creation of Breakfast, who earlier made the iPad dirigible, and as it goes coast-to-coast is working to raise money for Livestrong. Precious is currently in Berea, KY, 832 miles into its journey and has raised $2713 toward its goal. You may not have a chance to ride Precious, but you can at least help to boost that dollar figure at the source link.

[bowmessage Posted Aug 14th 2010 10:36PM]

Bike, Forrest, bike!

[McKirf Posted Aug 14th 2010 11:13PM]

@bowmessage

Reminds me of my favorite movie, Precious!

[Very Powerfull Codfish Posted Aug 15th 2010 5:41PM]

Anyone notice the guy is using Bing on his Mac? x)

[Stratus41298 Posted Aug 14th 2010 10:48PM]

Neat.

[sajkhoe Posted Aug 14th 2010 11:29PM]

A blogging bicycle?

[kojo87 Posted Aug 14th 2010 11:31PM]

was that dude seriously soldering with a match?

[Protato Posted Aug 14th 2010 11:43PM]

@kojo87
He didn't want to hurt the bike's feelings.

[sasihk Posted Aug 15th 2010 6:45AM]

@kojo87
He is just heating the heat-shrink tubing.

[canthonytucci Posted Aug 14th 2010 11:40PM]

Ok, i'll like it 'cuse its for charity....but 'rides itself' is a bit of an overstatement...

[alexr58 Posted Aug 15th 2010 12:50AM]

@canthonytucci more like a huge overstatement but still kinda cool

[Heywatchitbuddy Posted Aug 15th 2010 1:09AM]

Based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire?

[cdf74dc9 Posted Aug 15th 2010 1:20AM]

Predator plane FTW!!! This is just wannabe with wheels.

[NikkoTheGreeko Posted Aug 15th 2010 1:23AM]

In communist Russia, bike rides you!

[LiveFromThe215 Posted Aug 15th 2010 3:55AM]

oooo so you gonna look down at me like you're a real bike? YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT REAL BIKES DO!!

*throws glass @ tires*

NOW BLOG AT THAT!!!! BITCH!!!!!!!

[R2 D2 Posted Aug 15th 2010 7:01AM]

Oh right I thought "rides itself" meant it rode itself.

[DistantHere Posted Aug 15th 2010 9:29AM]

I don't get it. There's so little said about the technology and 80% of it can be had with off-the-shelf mass-produced stuff.

Why not talk more about the technology?

Plus lots of cancers can be prevented, but nobody talks about diet and lifestyle because there's less money changing hands dealing with prevention.

With all that said, happy riding.