Free at last, free at last! The San Francisco Bike Plan is free at last, and the city is springing into action.

We love gelato almost as much as we love bikes, so why not combine the two? Totcycle shows how.

What do you do when you confront someone face-to-face who has repeatedly tried to run you off the road on your bike? SeattleLikesBikes mulls the options.

How did Seattle’s bike culture get germinated? The Museum of History and Industry provides some insight.

A philosopher waxes philosophic about Lance Armstrong’s philosophy. But we worry the guy is just another hypster using Lance as a springboard to attention-getting. His efforts to spin the Armstrong drug allegations into something positive: “In the end, maybe only Lance and his maker will know how successful he really was.” Oh really?

We repeat, we love to see kids on bikes. Julian at Totcyle provides today’s shot of inspiration for the future of humanity. Julian also offers upcoming Kidical Mass dates.

From Bikejuju, Haiti’s recovery efforts look no less challenging from a bicycle than any other perspective.

Megavalanche 2010 is history. Leana Gerrard missed this year’s running but watch out for next year!

Dirt Rag has Downieville’s results: Mark Weir somehow did not win! (Great photos, too.)

Why M.J. Kelly at Cascade Bicycle Club (and all of Seattle) loves Bicycle Sundays.

When we first rode Ladies Only on the Northshore in the early 1990s, we took the name literally. We were wrong then, and we’d be even wronger today.

You would think that adding mountain biking to an established ski resort would be a no-brainer, as it is in so many other places. But when you’re talking Timberline Lodge in Oregon, well, all bets are off.

BikePortland offers an incisive analysis of why you should care about the Missouri county that wants to ban bicycling (as a tiny Colorado backwater recently did).

Woo hoo! At Bike to Work Day in San Francisco yesterday, bikes accounted for three-quarters of morning roadway traffic on Market Street.

Proof that bike thieves aren’t any smarter than other thieves, especially when they’re whacked out on drugs.

Happy Birthday to Kidical Mass, and watch for ‘em on Bike to Work Day at the after-party in Ballard.

Oakland Local covers the Bicycle Commuter of the Year. “I hated being in the car and I thought there’s no way I’m ever going to do this job without a car.” That changed a year and a half ago, when a friend offered to loan her an old bike trailer…

Re bicycling on sidewalks: Yes, it’s typically not safe. But it can be safer than riding in a congested street with no shoulders, let alone bike lanes. I ride on sidewalks all the time — slowly, carefully — when the alternative is becoming road jelly at the hands of impatient inner city drivers. Generally I have only one rule governing bike commuting: Stay alive. It puts all the other rules in a proper perspective.

And wouldn’t the rules be all the easier to follow if drivers and cyclists were simply more humane about each other?

Fabien Barel, one of downhill racing’s classiest pros, is out indefinitely with a busted femur. That has to hurt. Get well soon bro!

There never was anything more than a glimmer of doubt, but it’s confirmed that Galbraith Mountain will remain open to mountain biking despite the recent change of ownership.

Up in Vancouver B.C., Velopalooza is looking like a real hoot (June 4 through 13).

And at the same time, the North Shore Bike Fest will be going on June 4-6.

We have one question for anyone who refuses to sell a bike patch repair kit to a kid on grounds the adhesive could make him high: What are you sniffing??

Niner Bikes is recalling its widely reviewed, highly praised and decent-selling Jet 9 for potential cracks on the front-triangle welds. Yes, it’s so much cheaper to build bikes in Taiwan. And this is what we get.

Sometimes it’s better to take care of the bike fix right when you notice it. You might save a life … or two!

Have a great weekend everyone! It’s supposed to be sunny and warm, even in Seattle!