Malcolm BMX: Being Neighborly
Malcolm BMX sat on an oil can in the garage of the Sheriff. It was 2 PM
in the afternoon. He had been watching the sheriff for weeks...
Local Shock Jock Wants To Make Cyclist a Hood Ornament
A few years ago several shock jocks for Clear Channel stations tried to drum up ratings by advocating violence against cyclists on the roadway. The ratings may have been boosted for a while, but this programming also lead to on-air apologies, suspensions, terminations, and FCC inquiries. Now a local shock jock in San Diego seems to think he can play it up as well...
Recognize: Snapshots of Los Angeles Bike Riders
Photo Essay :: Los Angeles, California. The name itself conjures up the automobile. Since the introduction of that metal beast on our streets, the City has been defined and shaped by the needs of the car.
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Adventures in Culver City
This is where we were,
out somewhere in south Culver City, in a totally blank area on the L.A.
maps. Originally, it was part of Lucky Baldwin's 6,000 acre spread, a
hundred years ago, but now it's nothing but scrubland and oil pumps.
Lots of oil pumps.
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Bike Tour Offers Fun, Sun and Meaning
Sustainable Energy in Motion Bicycle Tour focuses on giving their
participants a meaningful experience, one they hope will be
incorporated into the riders everyday life.
Keywords: Bike,Tour,Bicycle,Tours,Sustainable,Energy
Dave Bonan's Car Free Anniversary
Those who live in Danbury and are involved in either the music or political scene are sure to already know Bonan.
READ MORE...Car-Free Days Bring Quiet to Communities, Advocates Say
The constant cacophony of honking horns, roaring engines, and booming car stereos has helped fuel a sixfold increase in noise pollution over the past 15 years that is driving people from cities, according to advocates for peace and quiet.
READ MORE...Code Pink LA Joins Fossil Fools Day Action
This Saturday afternoon, join CODEPINK L.A., Plug-In America, Rainforest Action Network and others to protest the war and the policies that "fueled" it at the largest Ford dealership in the country.
READ MORE...Carl of the Wild
About the only thing East Montpelier bicyclist Carl Etnier can't do is float on his back. He says he'd sink like a rock.
READ MORE...City Plan on Cars Could be a Boon for Suburbia
What? You want me to tell you what I think of living in the car-dependent suburbs? Geez, not around all these people, it's too crowded.
READ MORE...Patrick Seidler Receives Recognition for Advocacy Work
Wilderness Trail Bikes president, Patrick Seidler, received top honors from the League of American Bicyclists when he was presented with the Bicycle Industry Leadership Award during the 6th annual National Bike Summit.
READ MORE...BikeTown USA'' Program Coming to 12 Cities around the Country for 2006
Can something as simple as the gift of a bicycle change someone's life?
READ MORE...Bikers Go After Extreme-Sports Crowd
The entryway in the second-floor office of Dallas-based YBS Bikes Inc. contains a nondescript desk, furniture and some bicycle frames built as a result of a beer-induced discussion held during the Fry Street Fair in Denton.
READ MORE...Spring Brings Cycling Back to Life in Canada
Many Canadians are looking to the two-wheeling pastime as a means of transportation -- and daily exercise.
READ MORE...Move to charge toll for driving in core of downtown San Francisco
Congestion charging -- imposing a toll on drivers in a city's downtown core -- is about take on a bureaucratic life of its own in San Francisco.
READ MORE...BIKEOPOLIS Seeks to Shift Boca Residents' Bicycle Use
BIKEOPOLIS, a new community-based effort to promote bicycling among City of Boca Raton residents as a health-enhancing strategy for both recreation and transportation, gets into gear this month.
READ MORE...Schwinn stolen from 'Bicycle Man' in late 1970s finds its way home
Everyone in Portland -- and a lot of people in downtown Louisville -- knew John Eaton, "The Bicycle Man."
READ MORE...City Commits to Big Cut in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Calling global warming a "planetary emergency," elected officials and a mayoral commission today presented a series of recommendations for curtailing Seattle's greenhouse gas emissions.
READ MORE...Workshop Offers Tips for Walkers and Bicyclists
Local transportation planners and national "walkablility" experts are making that offer to Guilford County residents all week long.
READ MORE...From Bihar: A Bicycle that Floats
Necessity they say, is the mother of invention. When floods ravaged Mohammad Saidullah's village, he found a new way to survive.
READ MORE...More Than 500,000 Rally in L.A. for Immigrants' Rights
We just had to interupt our normal bike-specific news, to bring you the news about the amazing turnout at today's protest.
Welcome Costa Mesa Critical Mass
SoCal has a new Critical Mass ride in town... and a very cool new flyer too!
READ MORE...Helmet Battle Flares Up in British Medical Journal
Australian statistician Dorothy Robinson has a cycle helmet anti-compulsion paper published in this week's British Medical Journal.
READ MORE...Its time to decommission the other lethal weapons: guns and cars
THERE are two sorts of lethal weapons causing untold havoc right now: guns and cars. And its time we began to see them in the same light. What that means is simple.
READ MORE...LACBC Letter Writing Campaign for Bicycle Coordinator
The LACBC is trying to get a bicycle coordinator for District 7 included in next year's budget.
READ MORE...Join Us at the South Central Farm Solidarity Demo
Friday March 24 @ 8:00a.m. Demonstration at Los Angeles City Hall: Aqui Estamos y No Nos Vamos!!!
'Love your Bike' Campaign Aims to Cut Traffic and Pollution
An environmental charity has today begun a major new push to cut traffic pollution and improve the health of commuters in Manchester by encouraging people to cycle to work.
READ MORE...Parsons to Begin Design Work on New Light Rail Project in Los Angeles
Parsons, in conjunction with FCI Constructors and Fluor Enterprises, will design and construct the 8.5 mile Mid-City/Exposition Corridor Light Rail Transit Project, a new light rail transit line from downtown Los Angeles to Culver City.
READ MORE...State's Air Is Among Nation's Most Toxic
Despite two decades of cleaning up carcinogenic fumes from cars and
factories, Californians are breathing some of the most toxic air in the
nation, with residents of Los Angeles and Orange counties exposed to a
cancer risk about twice the national average.
Each commuter has own reason why they add to traffic jams
I walk out into the morning rain and face the day's first big decision. Should I take the bus?
READ MORE...Mutant Bike Gangs of New York
They were meant to be edgy advertising, those tall bikes towering in Brooklyn Industries windows, but somebodyor somebodiestook their presence personally.
READ MORE...Oregon Seeks Bigger Share of Boomer Biking Crowd
They're middle-aged but not grown up. They like to play outdoors but take their creature comforts come nightfall.
READ MORE...B.I.K.E. Movie Review
B.I.K.E. is a film full of contradictions and calamity, all tied quite effectively to the underground bike movement in Manhattan.
READ MORE...Don't Hate Me 'cuz I Bicycle
You've probably never met me, but odds are that you have a grudge against me anyway.
READ MORE...Little Shop of Spokes
Last August, when a gallon of gas was poking over the three-dollar mark, Chris Kelly would sit behind the counter of his Hollywood bike shop, chuckling and rubbing his hands together like an Enron executive conspiring to game the California energy market.
READ MORE...Hip Store, on the Hot Seat
The weather is warming, and that means it's time to take the bikes out of storage. Except for Brooklyn Industries, that is, which might have been better off keeping its bikes tucked away.
READ MORE...April 1st is the Third Annual Fossil Fools Day
Admitting you have a problem is always the first step in breaking an addiction. Luckily, Mr. Bush has taken that first step by admitting that America is addicted to oil.
READ MORE...Bike Messenger Makes Auto Art
If you've got a master's degree in fine arts and make your living riding a bike, then naturally you'd find inspiration for your artwork from NASCAR crashes.
READ MORE...Oregon Bicycling Summit April 1 in Eugene
Oregon bicyclists know how exhilarating it is to reach the summit. Communities interested in turning Oregon into a premier bicycling state have a chance to share that feeling by attending the Oregon Bicycling Summit April 1, 2006 in Eugene.
READ MORE...The Ride Magazine Prints its Final Issue, Re-launches as Bike Culture
After 12 years of publishing the nation's premier regional cycling magazine, The Ride Corporation announced last week it would change the name of its popular magazine to Bike Culture-East.
READ MORE...Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: Doored v. Nailed
What is the legality of when a cyclist swerves to avoid a car door opening and is hit from behind by a car?
READ MORE...Two-wheeled Traveler Pedals through History
He has had it since 1992, but all the parts, including the frame, have been changed at least once.
READ MORE...Pedicabs Owe a Big Hail to the Chief, Steve Meyer
Main Street Pedicabs has grown in fits and starts since Steve Meyer founded the company 14 years ago.
READ MORE...Riders Go Bare to Bear Message
Well, sort of. Cyclists in the World Naked Bike Ride had to cover up certain parts to protest oil dependency.
READ MORE...Clean Machine
Thirty-five thousand cyclists. For one glorious day in March, they rule the Peninsula: a river of rushing, ticking silver, the alternative transport lobbyist's moist-eyed dream.
READ MORE...Bicycle 'Discrimination' in Vietnam
In a parking place on the road in Nguyen Xi Street, famous for cheap bookshops, motorbikes overwhelm bicycles whose owners are students and pupils. Only a few of the latter stand modestly on a small open space.
READ MORE...Nude Bicycle Race Could be Called off Due to Lack of Helmets
The mayor of a New Zealand town wants a nude cycling race to be called off -- because the participants won't be wearing helmets.
READ MORE...Stuart Retiree Restores Bikes for Tykes, for Free
Joe Dittiger's first bicycle marked a major victory as he was growing up in New Jersey during World War II. Money was tight, but somehow his father managed to scrape enough together to buy it for him.
READ MORE...Two Wheels Good: Midnight Ridazz 2nd Anniversary
The 2nd-anniversary Midnight Ridazz cruise gathered under an ugly sky tonight in Echo Park.
READ MORE...In The Gutter
Article from the UK about a draft highway code that would advise cyclists to use bike lanes where provided. The issue is that many of the lanes are substandard and dangerous and that cyclists would be pressured to use them regardless.
'Critical Mass' Bike Ride Gets Dangerous
The young woman showed CBS 2 her fading bruises. She said she received the injuries when she was knocked from her bicycle by an NYPD Assistant Chief during the controversial monthly Manhattan bike outing known as Critical Mass.
READ MORE...A Women's Velorution
We celebrate the bicycle and some of the women who rode/ride them for International Women's Day.
READ MORE...Bicycling Advocate Works to Make County's Roads Safer
These days, Martin, who retired from the Coast Guard after a 28-year career, spends his time trying to make the roads safe for cyclists. The key he says is education.
READ MORE...One Million Bicycles to be Distributed in SA
Transport Minister Jeff Radebe gave cyclists the green light as he opened the Velo Mondial 2006 in Cape Town on Monday, with new pledges to prioritise and fund non-motorised transport.
READ MORE...Bicycle Design Contest Sets Global Trends
The International Bicycle Design Competition is marking its 10th year by bringing forward new forms, materials and functions in breakthrough design ideas.
READ MORE...Bikes for Everyone
A proposed plan would model a system for transportation after European universities
READ MORE...North American Handmade Bicycle Show 2006, part 1
In contrast to the tech-heavy wares of Interbike and Eurobike, form often takes precedence over function here as the emphasis is not so much on what it is but rather how it is done.
READ MORE...Shine Your Bike
It's a warm mid-winter night and Los Angeles has donned its Friday best. In Hollywood club-goers strut the sidewalks in shiny suits, while jewel-clad Downtowners pair fine wine with symphony seats.
READ MORE...City Considers Crackdown On Bicycle Taxis
The bicycle taxi trend is weaving its way through the clogged streets of midtown Manhattan, a movement growing so rapidly that the city is proposing regulations before it spins out of control.
READ MORE...Bike Sticker Brings out Bomb Squad
A bicycle sticker bearing the name of a Florida band - This Bike is a Pipe Bomb - prompted a three-hour scare at The Oasis
READ MORE...Biodiesel Boom Adding to the Destruction of the Rainforest
Before we celebrate biofuels as an 'eco-conscious' way to drive, perhaps we should consider that tropical rainforests and forests are currently being destroyed to meet the spike in demand for it.
READ MORE...Resident to Bicycle for Affordable Housing
Cara FitzGibbon of Belmont will bicycle from Providence to Seattle this summer with Bike & Build, a nonprofit organization that mobilizes young people to raise money and awareness for the affordable housing cause.
READ MORE...Today is Go By Bike Day
Today is Go By Bike Day when New Zealanders are encouraged to ditch vehicular transport and take their bike instead.
READ MORE...So, You Wanna Start a Revolution?
Compared to a bicycle, Larry David's Toyota Prius is a gas-guzzler.
READ MORE...Bus Driver Accused of Assault on a Cyclist
A Golden Gate Transit bus driver who allegedly ran a bicyclist off the road last month has been charged in Marin County Superior Court with assault with a deadly weapon, vandalism and reckless driving.
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