News Cycle
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By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 19, 2010
Cozy Beehive to Look Bicycles: Your Ergopost has a problem. Wheel Fanatyk documents 3 gems in Seattle. Ric is so right about Elliott Bay Bicycles. Hard to believe how many years have passed since Bill Davidson, Bob Freeman and the rest of us on Team Green Death were the young rebels forging a vision of [...]
Posted in News Cycle | Tagged Elliott Bay Bicycles, look ergopost seat post failure, ric hjertberg, sam bleninsop broken wrist
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 18, 2010
Inspiring: Thousands join Lance’s Twitter ride Down Under. I’m trying to think if I’ve ever seen 5,000 cyclists in a peloton. It must have been quite a sight. Perspiring: British dude wheelies for 8 miles, claims world record. Aspiring: The Schleck brothers take aim on this year’s Tour. We’re big fans of Andy Schleck and [...]
Posted in Lance's Chances, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Racing | Tagged Andy Schleck, lance armstrong twitter rides, mark weir, sam hill
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 17, 2010
From an alert issued by the California State Parks System… I was riding in Arastradero today and the rangers were all over, battening down the hatches. “Don’t expect much in the way of riding weather through the end of the month,” one told me. We at Bike Intelligencer ride when sane mortals rest. But this [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Trail Access | Tagged cycling storm, cycling weather, mountain biking storm
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 16, 2010
The Washington State legislative session in Olympia is only a few days old, but so far it’s looking good for “vulnerable user” legislation backed by Seattle’s Cascade Bicycle Club. Or at least it isn’t looking bad. This year’s bill is more “wakeup call” than “strict punishment,” and we think that’s good. The point with upping [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes | Tagged askmen.com, b.c. bike scammer, north american handmade bicycle show, top 10 bike-friendly cities, trek bicycles, vulnerable user bill
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 14, 2010
Passed: New cycling safety laws in Boise. Given a pass: Woman driver who killed mother on bike cleared of wrongdoing because, she says, she fainted. Kolelinia: A severe lapse of judgment, marked by bouts with insanity, while riding skinny half pipe suspended 12 feet over traffic in crowded metropolitan areas. Curiously high rates of occurrence [...]
Posted in News Cycle, Rider Down | Tagged b.c. bike scammer, bicycle theft, boise cycling laws, cycling safety, kolelinia
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 11, 2010
I came up pretty dry today, but there are plenty of other Monday Morning Roundups around…up. Cyclelicio.us: Quakes, Complete Streets, Peak Car Ownership & more… BikePortland.org: Transit ridership, S.F.’s first bike box, history’s most expensive traffic ticket & more… SF.Streetsblog: Transit cuts, Riders drop their pants, Bike Racks on Great Highway & more…
Posted in News Cycle | Tagged peak car ownership, san francisco bike box
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 10, 2010
Indianapolis has a set of new bike laws, including 3-feet-please. Florida law says bikes get the whole friggin’ lane, thank you very much! Now if we could just get that “vulnerable user” legislation passed in the Washington State legislature. Have you checked out the Ghost Bikes Film project’s blog? Cool stuff… Guy turns 70, decides [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Trail Access | Tagged bicycle legislation, Duthie Hill mountain bike park, ghost bike film project, ghost bikes, sea otter classic
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