March 2009
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By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 23, 2009
AP: “Today” show co-host Matt Lauer suffered a “displaced” (separated? dislocated? hire an editor?) shoulder when he took a header to avoid hitting a deer that jumped into his path. Sounds reasonable. You don’t want to hit a deer under any circumstances, because the deer always wins. Where in New York was he riding? The [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bike park, collapsible bike, Culture, foldable bike, matt lauer, mayor bloomberg, Mountain Biking, stevens pass bike park, united bicycle institute
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 21, 2009
A spot of sun, so I have to get outta Dodge for some trail ridin’!! Tiger Mountain reportedly is snowed in, so I headed for Lake Sawyer/Black Diamond and some more exploring. Sawyer is such a playground. You can spend hours riding in circles, not having a clue where in Sam Hill you are, and [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Today's Ride
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 21, 2009
The Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance is showing video of Wade Simmons at Colonnade. Pretty cool, but I’m thinking it’s a teaser or trailer or something. Several clips are repeated and the good stuff flashes by too quick or is off-angle. Watch for a better take in something commercial soon. Anyway, here ’tis — Bell helmets [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Videos | Tagged colonnade, Mountain Biking, video, Wade Simmons
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 20, 2009
I was out making my usual rounds through the U District when whoa! a mini-Katrina! It got really dark, then fat raindrops started falling and within 138 seconds I was in a veritable deluge. I ducked into Fluidride to sit it out and founder Simon Lawton asked if I needed anything. Um, what did he [...]
Posted in Culture, Today's Ride | Tagged Culture, seattle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 19, 2009
Bicycle Retailer & Industry News: Iron Horse goes down. We’ve known for some time the company was on the ropes — as a friend put it, “How did those guys screw up so bad?” Iron Horse helped make the DW-link and could’ve rode that, um, horse to surefire success. But somehow it never found quite [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bikes and chicks, Culture, Dave Wiens, Iron Horse, lance armstrong, Leadville 100
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 19, 2009
Today’s ride took me all around north Seattle, but the highlight was riding through the University of Washington campus. I was practicing some “skinny” riding on the raised curbs by the entrance when a crop of trials bikes grommed on by. Little low-slung single speeds with no seats. I knew exactly where they were headed, [...]
Posted in Culture, Today's Ride | Tagged Culture, trials, University of Washington, william h. gates hall
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 18, 2009
Not Your Average Bike Messenger: “Joking around, I changed my Facebook status to “How Many Drunks Will I Run Over Today With My Bicycle?” I got some funny responses throughout the day while I was riding, including “not enough” “extra points if they are wearing orange,” and “be a human pinball machine.” Biking Bis:”A Washington [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Videos | Tagged 3 feet please, Culture, days of dirt, Mountain Biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 18, 2009
Today I had errands that took me up north to the Greenwood District. While cruising through I saw a wonderment in the window of a local store on Greenwood Ave. N. just north of N. 85th St. The shop turned out to be a Mexican grocery market and restaurant called La Conasupo. The shirt from [...]
Posted in Culture, Today's Ride | Tagged AIG, Culture, soccer
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 18, 2009
At the past weekend’s Seattle International Bike Expo I connected up with Phillip Ross and Jamie Nichols of Metrofiets. A great bike blog, AustinOnTwoWheels, had asked me to look them up and post something. My piece went up today. So what do I think of Metrofiets? If I didn’t have a car, I’d definitely be [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged bakfiets, box bike, cargo bike, Culture, metrofiets
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 17, 2009
Today’s ride: Mucho errands, so I popped over to the U District by way of Fremont and the Burke-Gilman Trail, then my standard Ravenna Way — Green Lake ride home. Uneventful for once, and the sun was even out. I did enjoy the sign in Gregg’s Greenlake Cycles. But I have to say, I’m going [...]
Posted in Culture, Today's Ride | Tagged Culture, lance armstrong
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