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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 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
God this is ugly. The guy who ratted out Sam Brown, the once-celeb freeride mountain biker who hanged himself after being arrested in a drug sting last year — the guy who ratted him out was himself a major drug kingpin. And he ratted Sam Brown out in return for a promise of immunity from [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, This Day in Doping | Tagged helicopter drug running, new world disorder III, sam brown, sam brown hamster wheel
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 10, 2010
Ibis has responded to Bike Intelligencer’s query about why the new Mojo HD won’t come with a coil shock option. With any bike of nearly six and a half inches in rear travel, a lot of riders lean toward a coil for increased consistency, reliability, durability and tuneability. But Hans over at Ibis says coil’s [...]
Posted in Accessories, Mountain Biking | Tagged brian lopes, cane creek double barrel, Chris Cocalis, Dave Weagle, fox rp23, ibis mojo hd, pivot firebird, scot nicol
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
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 9, 2010
Well here’s a deja vu for U. Banshee is leaking photos and details of its forthcoming trail bike called the Spitfire. Ironies abound. The first being that Banshee has the greatest bike names in the industry, placing first in our recent Top 10 Of All Time list with the Banshee Scream. 08172008034 from http://dseelye.vox.com/ The [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged banshee spitfire, schwinn spitfire, top 10 bike names
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 8, 2010
It’s funny how these things happen. The small southeastern King County town of Black Diamond was originally named after the nickname for coal. Coal mining brought big bucks and lots of people to Black Diamond in its heyday a century ago, a phenomenon commemorated by a coal car on rails at the town limits. The [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail, Trail Access | Tagged black diamond freeride park, Lake Sawyer, southeast king county mountain biking, summit ridge freeride park
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 6, 2010
Right now it’s a seedy vacant lot. But if the mountain biking community in Aptos CA and its Santa Cruz environs have any say, the open field behind the Post Office jump park will soon be transformed into a major drawing card for NorCal riders. Led by Epicenter Cycling, a new bike shop in Aptos, [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking | Tagged aptos ca, aptos jump park, cam mccaul, epicenter cycling, jamie goldman, mark weir, mountain bikers of santa cruz, pump track
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 6, 2010
Folders are hot! The ugly ripple effect when a major retailer closes its doors. Bicycle insurance: Idea whose time has come? With more folks, especially Gen/pick your letter/ers, relying on bikes only for transportation, maybe so. If it does happen it will tell us something about a major demographic shift. Insurance always runs the numbers [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bicycle insurance, Dave Wiens, folders, marin dirtbowl.net
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