Obama Bikes
The post-Obama revolution in cycling
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 15, 2010
You have to love this: Newly elected Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn riding his bike to a press conference. Thanks to BikeHugger for the pix. When we wondered last August whether Seattle could get a mayor “who actually rides,” we were expressing more hope than expectation. Now it’s breakthrough reality. Images like this do wonders to [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Trail Access | Tagged bikehugger, bikingbis, fanatik bikes, galbraith mountain, Momentum magazine, seattle mayor bike commuter, seattle mayor mike mcginn, whimps
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 15, 2010
Would 1,200 sharrows in downtown Portland be a good idea? A plan to do so is on the shelf, so BikePortland.org put out the question to its readers. Bike Intelligencer readers know we’re not fans of sharrows here. We feel they do little to increase safety, are an excuse to avoid real progress with actual [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes | Tagged portland cycling sharrows, seattle cycling sharrows, sharrows
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 14, 2010
“That was no lady — that was my wife!” goes the old joke. We think of it sometimes when we read yet another news report identifying an errant rider of a bicycle as a cyclist. You know how it goes: Cyclist Robs Bank. Cyclist Charged With Indecent Exposure. Authorities Say Cyclist Killed While Turning Left [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes | Tagged Culture, cycling, cyclist
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 13, 2010
BikePortland.org’s Elly Blue reviews “My year as a woman in a city of bikes”: “The resulting discourse focuses primarily on why so few women choose to ride, concluding that the primary factors are safety concerns — read, greater fearfulness — and image consciousness. More astute observers have pointed out that the majority of errands and [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes | Tagged bicycle business, buff headwear, cycling sexism, john wayne trail, rebecca rusch, ryan leech, World Naked Bike Ride
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 12, 2010
Big bike rally Saturday in Palo Alto to protest the hate-cyclist page on Facebook. Riders will convene at Facebook headquarters near California Avenue and Bowdoin Street. This is a residential area called College Terrace where the locals may well join the protest. Facebook is not well liked. Its employees sucked up all available parking for [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Videos | Tagged $290, 000 speeding ticket, Bicycle Leadership Conference, Facebook anti-cycling page protest, reckless endangerment of cyclists, The Next Generation DVD
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 9, 2010
The Facebook protest against bike-hate continues to grow. Now there’s a “Help REMOVE this HATE GROUP against cyclists!” tribe. All instructions included. The outrage targets a Facebook page showing violence against cyclists as an appropriate traffic-management technique. Speaking of hate: That deranged L.A. physician who doorstopped a group of cyclists with his car last summer [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Videos | Tagged BikePortland.org, bikingbis, cyclelicio.us, dr. christopher thompson road rage, Fatcyclist, portland cycling
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 1, 2010
Here are our Top 10 things to watch for in the world of cycling for the coming year. Yes we thought about a Top 2,010 list for numerical compliance, but hey, that’d be way too much work. 1. In the Washington State legislature, a “Vulnerable User” bill. Similar legislation failed last year but the Cascade [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Lance's Chances, Mountain Biking, Obama Bikes, Racing | Tagged cascade bicycle club, duthie hill, jill kintner, lance armstrong, mayor mike mcginn, stevens pass mountain bike park, top 10 cycling issues 2010, tyler farrar, vulnerable user bill
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 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
A friend and former colleague at The Seattle Times, Mark Matassa, was recently named new Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn’s director of communications. Numerous articles on his new appointment cited Mark’s many accomplishments and qualifications. However, none noted what we consider to be a salient, if not the crowning, characteristic of his long personal resume. That’s [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Obama Bikes | Tagged mark matassa, seattle mayor mike mcginn
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