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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
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 23, 2009
Waxahachie: Police donate 70 bikes. A 10-year-old raises money to give away bikes. “Bicycle Man” breaks the record with 1,100 bike giveaways! What makes Fat Cyclist tick. Ride tandem and make yourself a robot for a stoker and guess what. No complaining from the back about not being able to see anything! You can break [...]
Posted in News Cycle, Rider Down, This Day in Doping | Tagged bike giveaways, Christmas bikes, fat cyclist, missy giove
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 21, 2009
Over at SeattleLikesBikes, Michael Snyder offers an intriguing analysis of the “sharrows” issue. We don’t like sharrows, never have, and SLB uncovers yet another reason why: Inconsistency of implementation. It’s bad enough that sharrows send mixed signals to both cyclists and drivers. As Snyder shows, rules governing sharrow placement are not even applied consistently. Be [...]
Posted in Accessories, Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Rider Down | Tagged bicycle bob, niki gudex, pastajet, seattlelikesbikes, sharrows, six six one
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 20, 2009
Bike commuting is up in Seattle but curiously down in Portland. A September count showed a 15 percent increase in downtown Seattle bike traffic in 2009 compared with 2007. An unofficial report in Portland showed a decline of 6 percent in 2009 versus 2008. But there’s more. Helmet use was up in Seattle, down in [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Transportation | Tagged BikePortland.org, portland bicycling, seattle bicycling, Transportation
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
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