March 2009
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By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 2, 2009
BikeHugger has a detailed review of riding bamboo. Not the joke you might think. We raise bamboo in our back yard and that stuff is gnarly!
Posted in Culture | Tagged bamboo bike, calfee, Culture
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 2, 2009
Well my opinion of Miley Cyrus has gone up. She and boyfriend ride to yoga class in Toluca Lake CA (not LA as the article states), and that can’t be bad. (Actually I’ve never had an opinion, having never heard her sing or anything else, so perhaps I should say, my opinion has been formed!) [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking | Tagged bed and breakfast, bike-friendly cities, Culture, Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus, Mountain Biking, Mountain View
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 1, 2009
We’re entering into the 2009 bicycling season on a roll (so to speak!), with lots of talk about cyclist’s rights and trails access. The past week several data points passed our desk, including opening more trails on Tiger Mountain trail, PUMP’s newfound activism in Portland, Iowa legislation strengthening cycling awareness and safety, and Dave Wiens’ [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Tiger Mountain | Tagged Advocacy, bicyclist rights, Mountain Biking, Tiger Mountain, trails access
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 1, 2009
Co-founder and longtime fixture at the Downhill Zone Darren Brown is leaving to do other things, primarily contractor work, having sold the shop to Adam Schaeffer. Most of the “The Zone” will be pretty much the same, said Adam, who’s been wrenching with Darren for five years. Red-headed Adam’s hilarious riffs on everything from Jon [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged Downhill Zone, Mountain Biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 1, 2009
This is great: The Bellingham Herald reports on cycling repair classes at Bellingham High School. Pretty handy, given the proximity of Galbraith Mountain and other trick haunts for groms and disciples of the knob. Wish I’d had something like this when I went to high school. I might’ve skipped calculus, which somehow has not figured [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged Bellingham, bicycle repair, bicycle repair classes, Culture, galbraith mountain
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 1, 2009
In Iowa, new legislation: “Drivers would face new penalties for not giving bicycles five feet of space when passing them, following too closely or failing to yield to bikes.” There’s some further interesting points about cycle safety and driver requirements in the legislation, including driveway, crosswalks and other dilemmas familiar to all of us who [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Transportation | Tagged bicycle legislation, bicycle safety, bike advocacy, Culture, Transportation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 1, 2009
From BikePortland.org: “With the voting in of six new board members at their monthly meeting earlier this week, the Portland United Mountain Pedalers (PUMP) are set to embark a new era of off-road advocacy. These new board members mark a significant turning point for PUMP, a group that some advocates for more off-road riding opportunities [...]
Posted in Advocacy | Tagged EMBA, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Mountain Biking, Portland, PUMP, trail advocacy
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 1, 2009
The New York Times has a moving report on a white-bike memorial to a young woman killed while riding a bicycle. While the article eloquently describes the family’s sadness at their loss, it does cycling a disservice by implying that the accident was the woman’s fault. The only reference to cause is the line, “The [...]
Posted in Culture, Rider Down | Tagged Culture, dead cyclist, ghost bikes, New York Times, Rider Down
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 1, 2009
Dave Wiens, the former mountain bike racer who currently specializes in distance competition and kicked Lance Armstrong’s ass at last year’s grueling Leadville 100, weighs in on bike advocacy after the latest Outside magazine’s profile on him: “The bottom line here in the Gunnison Valley today is that trail users, including our freeriding community, and [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Racing | Tagged Dave Wiens, lance armstrong, Leadville 100, mountain bike racing
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