News Cycle
All the news that’s fit to bike … we leave out the stuff you’re not interested in reading
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 10, 2010
Jacquie Phelan on Sunday’s Dirt Bowl fundraiser in Fairfax. How the premiere of “Women of Dirt” in Seattle last Friday evening went, here and here. Banshee Bikes, winner of our Top 10 Bike Names of All Time citation, has a killer new Web site. Unfortunately, someone forgot to renew the bansheebikes.com URL. We’ve messaged them [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Videos | Tagged awesome land women of dirt, banshee bikes, fork drag, hayes prime, Jacquie Phelan, marin dirt bowl, richard cunningham
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 5, 2010
Reminder: World premiere of “Women of Dirt” tonight in Seattle! The DVD is out btw and can be ordered online. Washington’s “Vulnerable User” legislation is already further along than a similar bill made it last year. Jonathan Maus at BikePortland.org raises the question of why a local newspaper seems deliberately provocative (one might say antagonistic) [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Videos | Tagged awesome land women of dirt, Bicycle Leadership Conference, BikePortland.org, jeff mapes, Jonathan Maus, pedaling revolution, ryder hesjedal, the portland oregonian
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 4, 2010
The Ghost Bikes Film Project that Bike Intelligencer subscribed to failed to reach its fundraising goal, but Meaghan Wilbur says she’ll soldier on and do the documentary one way or another. Best of luck to her! Man riding a bike in Naples, FL gets a “DUI” for being intoxicated. $7,000 bail. Chicago DUI Lawyers is [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged ghost bikes film project, left cross, utah bicycle yield legislation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 1, 2010
So we have a question here. Exactly how cautious does a cyclist have to be to prevent a driver from turning left in front of him or her? We almost got run down today in Aptos in that very scenario, so we’d like, really, we’d love to know. You wonder if this cop would tell [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Lance's Chances, News Cycle, Rider Down | Tagged e-bikes, electric bikes, lance armstrong, pinarello dogma, tour de france 2010
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 29, 2010
If you try to run down a cyclist in your car but somehow miss, never fear. You can always go for strangulation. In L.A., a booming promise that “The culture of the car ends now!” No throwing projectiles, no verbal abuse, no cutting within 3 feet … and yes! No strangulation! “(No) making physical contact [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Rider Down | Tagged alliance for biking & walking, awesome land women of dirt, Cyclelicious, ecovelo, Gary Fisher, ipad, marin dirt bowl
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 27, 2010
Guy gets so excited about Google Street View camera he crashes his bike. I’ve heard of more riders losing their iPhones exactly this way. In 2009, the Dutch bought 1.3 million bicycles. Which is 1.3 million fewer than Americans bought in the first quarter of 2009. No longer does Preston Peterson have an excuse to [...]
Posted in Lance's Chances, News Cycle | Tagged bicycle RV, cycling for haiti relief, lance armstrong
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 26, 2010
BikingBis: Top bike-club names. Can’t argue with Gene on these. We did have the privilege of serving with a 1980s club founded by the estimable epicure, Bradford O’Connor, in celebration of one of his favorite beverages. It was called Team Green Death, in reference to the suitably toxic Rainier Brewery product, which served as official [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Lance's Chances, News Cycle, Rider Down | Tagged bike safety, bikingbis, lance armstrong, zoic
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 25, 2010
Justice Rising: Guy gets 5-year sentence for killing a cyclist while texting. Does requiring helmets reduce cycling among youth? Bicycle light leads to evacuation of downtown homes and businesses in Arcata. What were they smoking??? Seattle’s Bicycle Master Plan is lagging. Let’s see now. 19.7 percent of city’s population rides bikes. Cars banned from driving [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Rider Down | Tagged bicycle helmets, bikehugger, google latitude, iphone cyclemeter, San Francisco Bicycle Plan, seattle bicycle master plan, texting fatality
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 22, 2010
Reminder: Facebook anti-cycling hate page protest is tomorrow at FB headquarters near the foot of California Street (and Bowdoin) in Palo Alto. Gets rolling at noon. Protests are good. Action is even better. What you can do today to actually combat anti-cycling mentality is to click on over to Cascade Bicycle Club’s advocacy page and [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes | Tagged cascade bicycle club, facebook anti-cycling hate protest, florida honk at cyclist, portland cycling community, vulnerable user law
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 21, 2010
Mark Weir’s tragic house fire has a lot of the bike community stepping forward offering help. We continue to wish him and his family the best. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ULqg8TycIE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] The legal woes blocking the San Francisco Bicycle Plan are finally ebbing, and work is getting under way. I’m having trouble getting worked up about the Tour Down [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes | Tagged league of american bicyclists, mark weir house fire, San Francisco Bicycle Plan, tour down under 2010
