By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 30, 2009
Anyone who has worked for bicycle advocacy knows how hard it is to get any legislation passed whatsoever involving freakin’ bicycles. So it was with drop-jaw wonderment that we noticed a new law expanding bicyclist rights in 2010. That’s right. In Big Bear, it is now perfectly legal to ride a bike without a bicycle [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes | Tagged big bear bike law, elliptigo, eric carter, fruita fat tire festival, logan owen, los angeles bicycle plan
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 30, 2009
[Note: Continuing our holiday series of Bike Intelligencer's past Classic Epics, we hearken back to a memorable triptych in 2003 covering Mt. St. Helens, Oregon's McKenzie River Trail and the North Umpqua River Trail.] Anthony, Mire, Gonzz and I had talked about doing Oregon’s legendary McKenzie River Trail after — not before — Umpqua. But [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged Anthony Cree, McKenzie River Trail, Mire Levy, Peter Partel, Three Sisters
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 29, 2009
[Note: Continuing our holiday series of Bike Intelligencer's past Classic Epics, we hearken back to a memorable triptych in 2003 covering Mt. St. Helens, Oregon's McKenzie River Trail and the North Umpqua River Trail.] After a rest day in Seattle it was time to hit the road for Mount St. Helens. I hadn’t explored this [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged Armando Malo, Ellsworth Dare, Juniper Ridge, Mt. St. Helens, Preston Peterson
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 29, 2009
Guy gets beat over the head with a bicycle … did the cops ask victim, “Were you wearing a helmet?” The Capitol Hill Seattle Blog is tracking what happened to the neighborhood Bike Corral. NY Times writeup on Danny MacAskill is also about how YouTube makes celebrities out of everyday folks … the way newspapers [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bike corral capitol hill seattle, bikesnobnyc, Danny MacAskill, mountain bike action magazine, rc, unicycle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 28, 2009
Bicycle.net quotes Zirbel to the effect that he doesn’t know what happened. Particularly when a new year is coming, and you want to have hope, you wish you could believe a rider who says he was wronged. But you have to think that the monitoring system is set up in a rigorous enough way that [...]
Posted in This Day in Doping | Tagged blood doping, DHEA, tom zirbel
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 28, 2009
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, this would be a gimongous post. Enough said. The bicycle as an anti-theft device. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9r6nd9ruNA&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] A bicycle without a fork. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qiR7E3dpjk&hl=en_US&fs=1&] The bicycle as a levitation device. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbJ1sseQVbY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged Danny MacAskill, forkless bicycle, thieves foiled by bicycle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 28, 2009
[Note: When the holidays slow news down, we reach into Santa's bag of tricks for a hearkening back to our favorite rides. This week we're featuring a 2004 expedition to Moab, Utah, America's mountain biking mecca and an international magnet for mountain bikers everywhere.] Planning our trip to Moab, Jim and I had talked about [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged moab mountain biking, white rim mountain bike
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 27, 2009
Pinkbike comes to Aptos and discovers a whole new world out there… Welcome Jordan! Speaking of Aptos, we were riding there the day before Christmas Eve, coming down the road in Forest of Nisene Marks, when who should pass us driving up but Cam McCaul & the boyz, pickup full of bikes ‘n lads. It’s [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Videos | Tagged aptos mountain biking, bike sharing, cascade bicycle club, Chris Kovarik, folders, Mobiky
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 27, 2009
[Note: When the holidays slow news down, we reach into Santa's bag of tricks for a hearkening back to our favorite rides. This week we're featuring a 2004 expedition to Moab, Utah, America's mountain biking mecca and an international magnet for mountain bikers everywhere.] You might think that after riding 32-plus miles and climbing 4,000-plus [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged jacob's ladder, moab mountain biking, moab race loop
