February 2009
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By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 25, 2009
About half of the 15,000 bicycles used in Paris’ innovative bike rental scheme have somehow disappeared, BBC reports. Apparently they’re not turning up on eBay! Still, the program — where you rent a bike from a rack for a nominal fee, then return it to another rack at your destination — is deemed a success. [...]
Posted in Transportation | Tagged bike rental, commuting, Culture, Paris, Portland, Yellow Bike Project
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 24, 2009
David Zabriskie, who finished second, that’s right, No. 2, in the recent Tour of California, obviously does a lot of traveling that takes him away from home. So it’s understandable that thieves would have an unattended house to target. What’s hard to believe is that they could take everything — cars, bikes, personal items, collector’s [...]
Posted in Racing | Tagged bike theft, burglary, david zabriskie, road racer, tour of california
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 24, 2009
Rain still threatening today after torrential a.m. dump, so I played cautious and did U District/Ravenna loop. Lots of variations here but I typically dart through Lower Woodland, up N. 45th St. through Wallingford, over I-5 and then cut up Brooklyn or University Avenue to Ravenna, dink around on the bike lane back to Green [...]
Posted in Today's Ride, Transportation | Tagged Downhill Zone, LBS, local bike shop, mountain bike, Transportation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 24, 2009
So yeah, you’re stuck riding at night without a taillight…but you’ve got your iPhone! This supposedly is an app that converts your device screen into a blinker. Um, right. How much did you pay for your phone/iPod Touch? You’re mounting it how, exactly?
Posted in Accessories, Transportation | Tagged bicycle, bike ride, blinker application, iPhone, iPod, taillight
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 24, 2009
Mountain Biking by 198, a ripping bike blog, has a detailed review of the 2009 RockShox Reba Team fork. I ride a RockShox Lyrik on my Intense 6.6 which I’ll be reviewing soon, but the quick take on RockShox is that the forks really rock. In my sojourns around the West Coast I run into [...]
Posted in Accessories, Mountain Biking | Tagged bike fork, lyrik, Mountain Biking, reba, robb sutton, rockshox
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 23, 2009
I started out today on my Ridge-to-Ridge ride. Despite the exotic name, it’s totally in town (Seattle). I go from Phinney Ridge near my house to View Ridge via the Burke-Gilman Trail and North 65th St., then back around Green Lake to home. It’s a good workout, scaling three major rises from the BGT to [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Today's Ride, Transportation | Tagged Mountain Biking, Phinney Ridge, Road Cycling, Transportation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 22, 2009
I’m fortunate enough to live close to Green Lake and Woodland Park, so ride time is just about any time. When the weather is threatening, I stay fairly close to home and practice stuff. Lower Woodland Park, with some rollicking trails, a jump strip and log rolls, is a good place to get in a [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail, Today's Ride | Tagged bike jumps, intense bicycles, lower woodland park, Mountain Biking, seattle, transition bikes
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 21, 2009
Jim and I went to the annual Seattle Bike Swap this a.m. and scored big-time. The opening line was incredibly long, wrapping all the way around the yard outside the Magnuson Park hangar entrance, wrapping back into the yard and then snaking back out again. There were probably 500 people waiting to get in by [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Transportation | Tagged bike swap meet, Magnuson Park, Mountain Biking, road cyclist, seattle, Seattle International Bike Expo
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 21, 2009
It was a gorgeous day and the tail end of a fantastic sunny week in the soggy Northwest, so I made the trek for a second time in 4 days to Black Diamond. It’s funny and ironic, but “black diamond” in this case refers to coal, which was mined heavily in this area’s past — [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail, Today's Ride | Tagged black diamond, Bob Hollander, EMBA, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Jim Hendricks, Lake Sawyer, Mountain Biking, Today's Ride, Turtle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 20, 2009
Meetings at the south end of Lake Union — Paul Allen country! — and Green Lake put me on a big round-the-hub loop. Down Aurora to Dexter, then cutting across south end of Lake Union to I Love Sushi for lunch. Then north on Eastlake to University District, picking up Ravenna and winding up at [...]
Posted in Today's Ride, Transportation
