Advocacy
All about gaining respect for cyclists and cycling … on the streets, on the trails, in the halls of justice
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 29, 2009
Can a professionally run mountain bike organization also be a socially vibrant club? Or, as one Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance member put it at a sometimes painfully frank board meeting Monday evening, “Are we turning ourselves into a fund-raising group for mountain biking or are we a mountain biking organization that needs to raise funds?” [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Obama Bikes | Tagged Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club, Bob Bournique, Bob Hollander, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Jen Lesher, John Lang, Len Francies, Tim Banning
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 28, 2009
See Kranked’s latest “Revolve” mountain-biking film and benefit your trails at the same time — head for North Bend Theater Thursday evening at 6:30 and enjoy the show! See a blind rider do jumps at Whistler! Find out how Jamie Goldman got fired from Santa Cruz Bicycles! Watch in dumbfounded wonder at how Lance McDermott [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Trail Access, Videos | Tagged Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Kranked Revolve
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 21, 2009
Lake Tahoe Forest Service officials are warning against unauthorized trail building, but they still don’t get it. They suspect “ongoing illegal trail-building has risen significantly with the increased popularity of mountain biking and newer, better equipment.” While those are factors, the real reason trail building is increasing is because the Forest Service and other official [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Trail Access | Tagged freedom riders, imba, Lake Tahoe mountain biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 21, 2009
In the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, a car driver took out two cyclists in a classic dooring incident. I was just thinking the other day how lucky I am never to have gotten doored. Then I almost got doored twice in three days… (Thanks to MyBallard.com) In Ottawa, a minivan took out 5 cyclists in [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Rider Down, Trail Access, Videos | Tagged iPhone bicycle apps, Kranked, lance armstrong, Leadville 100, steve peat
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 18, 2009
Kudos to Cyclelicio.us for picking up on this: In Colorado, of all places (mountain and road biking both are hugely popular there), Jefferson County commissioners have some cloth-eared notion of banning bikes on any and all county roads. Richard asks we help spread the word and nip this stinker in the bud. Here’s some key [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bike license fee, downieville, Mountain Biking, Road Cycling
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 17, 2009
Some days a poor bike just can’t catch a break. In Leavenworth WA, a bike got blamed for “Passion of Christ” actor James Caviezel’s “minor injuries” when a man “hurled a bicycle into the path” of Caviezel’s motorcycle. C’mon motos are bikes too! They just have combustion engines on them… In South Carolina, a man [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Transportation | Tagged Burke-Gilman Trail missing link, Cascade Bicycle Club Seattle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 16, 2009
Bike Rumor: Google maps adding “Go by bike” to its “get directions” feature? This would be super cool, especially on my new iPhone G3S. You could enter in your route and get the best route combining things like bike paths and bike lanes with major thoroughfares. The database on this would have to be pretty [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged Fluidride, Google maps, Iron Horse, Marin County mountain biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 15, 2009
I’ve been traveling from the San Francisco Bay Area to Seattle the past few days — got in some great rides in Ashland OR — so need to do some catching up. Fortunately the blogosphere never sleeps! Biking Bis gives a great recap of the Seattle-to-Portland double century. Jacquie Phelan is riding and writing her [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, News Cycle | Tagged ballard, BikeSport, Bruce Rosar, Jacquie Phelan, Seattle-to-Portland Bicycle Classic
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 12, 2009
I didn’t know Bruce Rosar, but the overwhelming response to his death has caught all of our attention. Bruce was an experienced cyclist, a tireless advocate for cycling and a safety instructor. A car mowed him down in Apex, North Carolina. Police took a statement from the driver, who said Bruce made a wrong turn. [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Rider Down | Tagged Bruce Rosar, cyclist dead
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 9, 2009
I spent yesterday exploring Marin trails with a couple of locals. The Marin that gets depicted on the maps and in the guide books is a mere appetizer to the feast of Marin mountain biking that actually exists. The “public” mountain-biking Marin naturally shunts riders onto the well-trammeled routes, mostly on Mount Tamalpais, in the [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Obama Bikes, Trail Access | Tagged Camp Tamarancho, China Camp State Park, Marin County mountain biking, Mount Tamalpais
