By BikeIntelligencer staff on May 25, 2010
Road dieting, bicycle helmets, Seattle’s Bicycle Master Plan & more …
Posted in News Cycle | Tagged bicycle helmet laws, bicycle helmets, Cyclelicious, invisible gorilla, jerry baker, road diet, seattle bicycle master plan, seattle department of transportation, seattle times, seattlelikesbikes
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 20, 2009
The Tour de France is enjoying a rest day, but bloggers never sleep. Bloggers never sleep because, as mainstream media constantly remind us, we work in our pajamas. Until someone comes up with a new form of sleepwear, bloggers can consequently have no rest. Neither will Andy Schleck, my man in this year’s Tour and [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Racing | Tagged evil bikes, Jan Heine, Ragbrai, seattle times, Tour de France, Tyler Morland
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on July 16, 2009
Followup to yesterday’s note on James Raia’s excellent coverage of Wenatchee’s Tyler Farrar in the Tour for the Wenatchee World. Today Washington State’s largest newspaper, The Seattle Times, ran a Raia story on yesterday’s stage as its lead Sports section story. That’s quite an acknowledgment of Raia’s insightful reporting, and Tyler Farrar’s growing prominence in [...]
Posted in Racing | Tagged James Raia, seattle times, Tour de France, tyler farrar
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 28, 2009
Bill’s Trail in Samuel Taylor Park is a 4-mile, switchbacky joy ride through the redwoods. In what is being called a “historic opportunity,” mountain bikers have a chance to gain access to the trail, one of the first expansions in decades to riding in Marin, mountain biking’s renowned birthplace but also host to its bitterest [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Racing, Trail Access | Tagged bikewise.org, Giro d'Italia, Marin mountain biking, mclaren park, seattle times, SF Urban Riders
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 13, 2009
Perhaps it’s mere coincidence, but I found pregnant symbolism in the announcement that Jim Vesely, head of The Seattle Times editorial page, will retire on Bike to Work Day. Vesely is no friend to cyclists. He opposed bike trail funding in Bellevue and, more infamously, championed an annual fee on cyclists in King County — [...]
Posted in Culture, Transportation | Tagged bike to work day, jim vesely, seattle times
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 11, 2009
Seattle Times: “Attacks spur rider awareness.” The Times, in another example of why we need newspapers, covers the followup bicycle event promoting alertness to muggings around Sam Smith Park near the I-90 tunnel. “We’re not trying to make people paranoid about their safety, but we are trying to stress awareness,” said David Hiller, the Cascade [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Racing, Transportation | Tagged bicycle mugging, Culture, deflation, high school mountain biking, Mountain Biking, portland bicycle registration, seattle times, sidi
