Obama Bikes
The post-Obama revolution in cycling
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 26, 2009
Please consider taking the BikePortland pledge. Jonathan & crew run a great blog, must reading here at Bike Intelligencer. And while you’re at it, the Ghost Bikes Film Project is a worthwhile cause as well. BikeJuju photo contest winners. Amazing, amazing shots. BikePure: Trying to reboot a soiled sport. SeattleLikesBikes: Making cyclists 2nd class citizens. [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, This Day in Doping | Tagged bikejuju.com, BikePortland.org, BikePure, seattlelikesbikes, sexier cyclists
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 22, 2009
Following up on our recent post regarding Seattle bike commuter headcounts from last September, here’s what the Seattle Department of Transportation tells us. We had wondered whether Seattle, which experienced a 15 percent gain in downtown ridership from 2007 to 2009, had collected 2008 numbers as well. The reason: Portland, which trended upward from 2007 [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes | Tagged BikePortland.org, portland bike commuter, seattle bike commuter, seattle department of transportation, virginia coffman
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 19, 2009
The Seattle Times has a story about a West Seattle cyclist who suffered multiple injuries and went into a severe coma last August after colliding with a … what? Apparently no one knows. The cyclist awoke, eventually, from her accident with no memory of the incident. She’s now recovering, and police continue to “investigate,” if [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes, Rider Down | Tagged angela sweet, bicycle accidents, west seattle blog
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 18, 2009
Several people have breathlessly alerted me to the big announcement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the MIT “Copenhagen Wheel” — a rear wheel with hub-enclosed technology that not only boosts a cyclist with a “burst of power” on demand but contains a number of “smart bike” features, including anti-theft “braking” and email [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes, Transportation | Tagged copenhagen wheel, electric bike, mike mcginn, seattle mayor, segway
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 9, 2009
Innovative use of signal-mounted cameras to automatically change light to green when cyclists are at intersection. Santa Clarita CA, named in 2007 a Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists, has requested $390,564 to fund a “Bicycle Video Detection Project.” VeloNews: More on the LeMond—Trek legal spat, this time with backstory of Greg [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Lance's Chances, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Racing | Tagged greg lemond, Jacquie Phelan, lance armstrong, Million Car Challenge, Santa Clarita CA bicycling, trek bicycles
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 7, 2009
Bicycle Retailer: So far bike vendors are saying it’s not as bad as last Christmas. You could knock me over with a feather, or even a double-butted spoke. S.F.StreetsBlog: When bikes ride in car lanes, it’s get that damn bike outta my way! When cars drive in bike lanes, it’s get that damn bike outta [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Transportation | Tagged california state parks mountain biking, san francisco bike lanes, steevo and amy, tom stienstra
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 6, 2009
One pressing motivation behind Seattle-based Cascade Bicycle Club’s campaign to pass “vulnerable user” legislation seeking justice for cyclists injured or killed in car accidents is to force law-enforcement agencies to take bicycles seriously. No one who has been involved in a police-reported accident doubts the entrenched bias against cyclists. The attitude can generally be summed [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Obama Bikes, Transportation | Tagged cascade bicycle club, cycling justice, San Francisco anti-cyclist bias, vulnerable user law
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 2, 2009
PinkBike: A new world speed record on a mountain bike! 131mph, which is just 21 mph faster than I’ve ever driven in a car. SF.StreetsBlog: They’re dancing, and wheely-popping, in the streets of San Francisco, which just got its first bike lane in 3 years, thanks to a partial break in an absurd legal logjam [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Rider Down | Tagged bike injuries, bike speed record, deadly roadways, high school cycling leagues, san francisco bike lanes, stolen bikes
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 1, 2009
SEATTLE — After last night’s Town Hall meeting, I asked Mike McGinn if he was going to ride the horse what got him there — his electric bike — once he took office January 1st. “Definitely!” he boomed out. He might not get to ride everywhere, he noted, but he would be riding everywhere practical [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes, Transportation | Tagged cycling advocacy, seattle mayor mike mcginn
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on November 20, 2009
Seattle Times: “A 32-year-old bicyclist accused of running over a 6-year-old boy near Pike Place Market on Friday, leaving the child hospitalized with serious facial injuries, was charged today with vehicular assault and hit and run.” Re this incident, where a man on a bike apparently hit a 6-year-old boy in a crosswalk, we are [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes | Tagged cascade bicycle club, cyclist arrest, David Hiller, king county prosecutor dan satterberg
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