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By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 17, 2010
The show schedule for “Women of Dirt,” the much-anticipated feature movie on downhill/freeride grrllzz, is starting to round out. The worldwide premiere will be Feb. 5th in Seattle, and Cyclelicio.us broke news that the film’s California premiere will be in Santa Cruz Feb. 28 at the Rio Theater on Soquel (Yokota promises more details, including [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Videos | Tagged aptos post office jump park, awesome land women of dirt, galbraith mountain, galbraithmt.com, mark brent, mtbchick.com
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 5, 2010
Naked Seattle cyclist charged with indecent exposure. Guy participates in World Naked Bike Ride, gets a citation. Your taxpayer dollars at work. This is a real puzzler because law enforcement has been pretty tolerant of naked rides. Every year a klatch of unclothed (albeit body-painted) riders enliven the Fremont Fair’s Solstice Parade. This seems like [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged black diamond mountain biking, naked cycling, naked cyclist, vulnerable user law
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 4, 2010
If location and name mean anything in the bike business, Epicenter Cycling is golden. The new shop sprung up in a prominent corner of the rustic Aptos shopping mall. If you’re headed up to Forest of Nisene Marks or over to the Post Office jump park, you can’t miss Epicenter Cycling. Plus it’s practically within [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged aptos jump park, carbon fiber bicycle frames, epicenter cycling, pump track, shawn wilson, Sherwood Gibson, summit bicycles, trek bicycles, trek y-33, ventana bicycles
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 24, 2009
It had been another fitful night before Christmas for Tim. Tossing and turning, wondering what bounty this year’s presents would yield. There were more this year than last. This year, their mom had told Tim and Donny, they had been blessed. Tim rolled over in his bunk and checked the alarm clock, ticking methodically on [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged christmas story
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 16, 2009
New York Times: “Why a Toronto man stole 2,865 bicycles last year remained a mystery on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to reduced charges… While various theories have been floated about his plans for the bikes, he declined an invitation by the judge to make a statement.” Why make this more complicated than it is? [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged bicycle theft
