By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 4, 2009
City of Seattle: “Comments needed for a safer Nickerson.” They’ll be putting in bike lanes on Nickerson, which can get a bit dicey heading out toward the Ballard Bridge. Open house tonight (Wed. March 4) at Seattle U. You can also add comments to the Web site queue. Bike Rumor: “Racing up despite economy.” Sea [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, News Cycle, Rider Down, Transportation | Tagged bike lanes, Culture, LA Bike Summit, Nickerson, Sea Otter, seattle, Transportation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 3, 2009
Not a huge ride today, although the weather was again unexpectedly mild. In the Northwest, “mild” means some sunshine came out and it got above 50. I dropped down Fremont Ave. to the Burke-Gilman Trail and tooled around the north end of Lake Union, winding up over in Montlake. The Montlake Bike Shop is a [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Today's Ride | Tagged Culture, evil bikes, Fluidride, local bike shop, seattle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 3, 2009
Bicycle Sundays will return on Lake Washington Boulevard every weekend May through September, and at Carkeek Park Road west of the Environmental Learning Center on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. And several Seattle neighborhoods will “go carless,” cordoning off main thoroughfares for pedestrians and bicycles only, during a series of “summer streets” parties, [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged city of Seattle, Culture, Seattle neighborhoods
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 3, 2009
Bad stuff happens: “TASMANIA Police are investigating an incident where a female mountain bike rider received injuries after hitting a wire that had been deliberately strung between two trees.” There was a similar incident in Marin last year. The local newspaper picked up on it, and it became a rallying point for mountain biking trail [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Trail Access | Tagged bike light, Culture, Daily Roundup, Jet Blast 1000, Mountain Biking, Rudy Project glasses
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 3, 2009
As we mentioned on the post on yesterday’s ride, the city of Seattle is putting up new bike route signs for cyclists. The only ones I’ve seen so far are in Fremont, but plans are to establish them all over the city. Apparently they will be placed visible to motorists as well. Here’s the Fremont [...]
Posted in Culture, Transportation | Tagged Culture, seattle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 2, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flNLNpv7LUo&hl=en&fs=1]So I’m a mountain biker, right? Why wouldn’t I want to watch Kelly Saunders riding in the Elk Mountains? I watch tons of videos on YouTube and Vimeo and bike blogs, and they’re not really all that professionally done or even creative. So yeah, bring me an ad with a bike and it just might [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged disintermediation, Elk Mountains, Kelly Saunders, Mountain Biking, Nature Valley
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 2, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJmxCuPiM0c&hl=en&fs=1] Jeff Frings of Milwaukee has cameras on his helmet and handlebars (facing backward) to record close calls on his daily rides. Great TV news report showing the trials and traumas of just riding along in the big city. And does a good job of raising the issue about being “dead” right. [Note: Click on [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Rider Down, Transportation | Tagged bike safety, Culture, jeff frings, milwaukee, Rider Down, Road Cycling
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 2, 2009
By early afternoon today the sun was shining and temps approaching 60, which this winter in Seattle is like Palm Beach, so I headed out for a longer than usual in–city ride. My first stop was a return trip to the memorial to Kevin Black, the cyclist who died after colliding with a van in [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Rider Down, Today's Ride | Tagged ballard, bike route signs, Bridging the Gap levy, city of seattle department of transportation, Culture, Fremont, ghost bike
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
