April 2009
You are browsing the archive for April 2009.
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 30, 2009
From our recent trip, the Berkeley version of sharrows — not those skinny little things we have in Seattle that imply cyclists have to hug the curb.
Posted in Advocacy, Culture | Tagged berkeley, Culture, share the road, sharrow
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 30, 2009
Cascade is compiling a list of Bike Month events, here‘s the early release. Bike to Work Day on May 15th should be a barnburner this year! Bicycle Retailer: If what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, then Bike Magazine may have a second wind after all. Here’s the optimistic outlook. The potential darker truth: Print [...]
Posted in Culture, News Cycle, Racing | Tagged bike month, cascade bicycle club, Giro d'Italia, lance armstrong, Tour of Gila
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 29, 2009
Bicycle Retailer: Bike Magazine is the best-written bike mag extant, so it’s discouraging that the parent company is filing for bankruptcy. The promise is to keep publishing, but no one except cave dwellers is in the dark about print publishing’s woes these days. One of the great things about Bike Magazine has been its sponsorships [...]
Posted in Culture, News Cycle | Tagged bike magazine, Glenn Erickson, Hood Canal Bridge, Parkinson's Disease
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 29, 2009
A bevy of new Evil Revolts came in yesterday at Fluidride’s shop on south Lake Union. The shop is putting in a white-on-black showroom to highlight the new frames with the revolutionary pivot design from Dave Weagle of DW-link fame. Here’s a closeup (note the logo detail at the bottom bracket). There’s tons of buzz [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Racing | Tagged evil bikes, Fluidride, Jerry Knight
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 28, 2009
Traveling back from the hugely successful Sea Otter Classic and brought back to Seattle some digitally compressed California sunshine, 1,000/1 ratio enabling an entire afternoon of sunlight to be transported in a container the size of a bike water bottle. US Patent No. A3587468bbT It’s all in the algorithm. I have enough in store to [...]
Posted in Culture, News Cycle | Tagged 3 feet please, cascade bicycle club, David Hiller, Giro d'Italia, lance armstrong, Tour of Gila
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 20, 2009
“Freedom Riders,” a new film from KGB Productions and Gravnetic unveiled Saturday evening at Sea Otter courtesy of IMBA, represents a real step forward in mountain biking’s effort to gain the legitimacy it richly deserves. The film looks at compromise efforts in the Bridger Teton National Forest near Jackson WY to open hugely popular but [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Videos | Tagged bridger teton national forest, EMBA, freedom riders, imba, lithium, Mountain Biking, ritalin, skullfuck
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 20, 2009
One of the toughest mountain bikers in the world is not a guy. Last year she gave up a dominating career in mountain biking to train for the BMX event in the Olympics, tore out her knee, put off surgery and gutted it out to a bronze medal. She’s Jill Kintner, born in Seattle, 1999 [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips | Tagged dual slalom, jill kintner, Mountain Biking, Sea Otter
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 17, 2009
Bike sharing in Denver? From Bicycle Retailer: “Will 65 kiosks housing 1,000 bikes alter this sprawling Western city’s attitude toward bicycles and commuting?” Bike sharing clearly is a popular idea, the main challenge being “shrinkage” (theft). Even when the bikes are painted yellow, as in Portland, or used in densely urban areas, as in Paris, [...]
Posted in Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bike sharing, mountain biking by 198, sea otter classic
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 16, 2009
Back to Santa Cruz for a tour of Forest of Nisene Marks, billed as the leading host of lyme-disease carrying ticks in the state (1 in 5)! Well, that one won’t make the tourist promos, but anyone with their share of run-ins with ticks knows that proper precautions avert a lot of trouble. Stay on [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Today's Ride | Tagged aptos, Mountain Biking, Nisene Marks, santa cruz california
