On Two Wheels
...I
never imagined that I would miss Mike Barlows greeting.
Tables 'n' Booths 'n' Bikes -- Oh My!
Our Earth Day experience was much more successful then we had
anticipated.
Happy Earth Day!
Earth Day events update, and a new domain name for C.I.C.L.E. too.
Spoke(n) Art Ride - April 8, 2006
Due to various circumstances, the confluence of bicycling and art has
once again resulted in a bike ride; a short tour of art facilities in
Highland Park and Eagle Rock.
LA Scavenger Hunt 2006
On the north shore of Echo Park Lake, an amorphous mass of cyclists is seemingly multiplying...
Keywords: LA,Scavenger,Hunt,LA,Bikes,Rides
Subvert the Chevy Commercial Challenge
Chevrolet has
created a 'gimicky' website designed to advertise its monster bohemith
gas guzzler, the Tahoe.
Baking Up Some Fun at East L.A. Bike Oven
Baby Krishna gazes down on an eclectic mix of bikes and bikers from his
elevated position as a poster on the garage wall. Its a brisk
Wednesday night...
Keywords: bike,oven,community,repair
Thousands of cyclists ride around Hungary's capital to celebrate Earth Day
Organizers estimated the crowd at more than 30,000 riders, including President Laszlo Solyom, an avowed environmentalist, and his grandchildren.
READ MORE...Santa Clarita: 2 Bike Paths Still in Ruins
Bicyclists are complaining that two city bike path sections along local creeks remain in disrepair after they were washed out in the storms of 2005.
READ MORE...Group Pushing Pedal-to-Work Program
Bike Pittsburgh has introduced "BikePool" in conjunction with the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission's CommuteInfo program, which organizes car and van pools for two or more people sharing a ride.
READ MORE...Swedish Article on NYC Bike Culture
A thing to ponder over when you bring out your bicycle for the upcoming spring: Be happy that you do not live in New York.
READ MORE...Southends First Critical Mass Stopped by Police
After about one and a half hours joyful riding the police finally decided to join us.
READ MORE...Look for these signs of bike trips to come
You might need your reading glasses to make out the small print, but that's one of the few complaints cyclists have about the new bike signs going up around town.
READ MORE...28 California Counties Fail American Lung Association's Annual State of the Air Clean Air Test
Transportation is the single biggest source of air pollution as cars, trucks and buses clog our roadways and spew dangerous pollutants into the air we breathe.
READ MORE...Bicycling commuters extol benefits of riding to work
If high gasoline prices havent persuaded you to bike to work, Intercity Transit is offering another incentive: prizes.
READ MORE...Council Approves Bicycle Measures
The city council unanimously approved amendments to city ordinances Monday that could encourage more residents to use their bicycles to get around Las Cruces. One change will implement bicycle facility design standards.
READ MORE...New Bicycle Friendly Communities Designated
Communities as diverse as Milwaukee, Wis., Carrboro, N.C. and Longmont, Colo. now share an achievementthey are all Bicycle Friendly Communities, as designated by the League of American Bicyclists.
READ MORE...Bush eases environmental rules on gasoline
Under election-year pressure to reduce surging gasoline prices, President Bush on Tuesday halted filling of the nation's emergency oil reserve, urged the waiver of clean air rules to ease local gas shortages and called for the repeal of $2 billion in tax breaks for profit-heavy oil companies.
READ MORE...Recycle By Cycle
Two people at Eastern Mennonite University ride bikes just for work hard work.
READ MORE...CSP Puts Brake On Controversial Cap On Bicycling Events
The Colorado State Patrol announced Tuesday that it will end its controversial policy of capping the size of bicycle events to 2,500 people.
READ MORE...Pedestrian commuter tallies 15,000 walking miles and counting
Egbert, 56, is among a growing legion of Americans who walk or bicycle to work to fight pollution, improve their health and save money.
READ MORE...Benefits exist for high gas prices, some say
High gasoline prices are awesome.
READ MORE...Evening ride in May to remember bicyclists killed: The Ride of Silence
Across the country on Wednesday, May 17, bicyclists will take to the streets and highways to quietly remember those who were killed or injuried in collisions with vehicles.
READ MORE...Bush dodges muddy obstacles in Earth Day bicycle ride
Bush marked Earth Day with a lung-busting mountain bike ride high above Napa County wine country.
READ MORE...A Hard Climb on Hill for Bicycle Safety Law
Even in a region notoriously treacherous for bicyclists, the past month was particularly grim for the local biking community.
READ MORE...Pedaling for Global Health Issues
Add five more weeks to the Tour de France, plus the objective of teaching the public about global health issues, and you've got the Ride for World Health.
READ MORE...Sharrows in L.A. Campaign Update
Nine streets in Los Angeles are in the final running for possible sharrows.
Bicycles a cheap, faithful mode of transportation for Madison residents
Thousands take to the streets upon springs arrival.
READ MORE...Blooming Bicycles
Radio Netherlands interviews Saskia Hoogendoorn about her "happy bicycle plan".
READ MORE...MICF: From Bombay to Beijing by Bicycle
From Bombay to Bejing by Bicycle is a self-devised piece, a solo show by Russell McGilton, economically directed by Kimberley Grigg.
READ MORE...Woman-specific: The Bike Shop
On a visit to South Africa, BikeBiz editor Carlton Reid talked to Ellen Feibig, co-owner of bike shop start-up Femme Sportif of Cape Town. Is this the first women-specific bike shop in the world?
READ MORE...Roving University Patrols to Boot Illegally Parked Bicycles
Roving University patrols will begin booting illegally parked bicycles beginning at the end of May as part of a monitoring program intended to curb unsafe parking.
READ MORE...How Many MPG are You Gettin' on that Bike?
"The logic goes thus. Everything we eat is produced somewhere, processed somewhere and transported to our supermarket and from there to our homes."
READ MORE...Eat your heart out, Lance Armstrong
Seventeen tricycles gathered at the top of Russian Hill on Sunday to prove once again why it is not a good idea to ride a tricycle down Russian Hill.
READ MORE...Mass Citations Greet Mass Cyclists
Members of Critical Mass, a loosely organized group of urban-cycling advocates, have lodged a complaint about the conduct of one city police officer who stopped and cited four members during the groups large monthly ride.
READ MORE...Choose your persona, then see bike film fest
You won't necessarily get a seat at Friday's Filmed by Bike Film Festival, but that's part of the tradition. For sure you'll be able to get a beer -- and a big hit of the anarchic joy of being bikey.
READ MORE...After-Dark Bicycle Rallies
CONVENTIONAL wisdom says that when the sun goes down it is time to leave the local park. But riders at the Central Park Moonlight Rides in New York are far from conventional.
READ MORE...Shark suit, angel wings part of move using pedal power
"One Less Car," read bike messenger Robert Burchett's T-shirt. But judging from the mattress and innerspring lashed to his trailer, and the boxes of household chattels and puppet parts stowed in his Long Haul cargo bike, he replaced a middlin' pickup at least.
READ MORE...Earth Day circa 2006 is the perfect time to consider alternative transportation
As Earth Day approaches, many people will strive not to drive, and well pat ourselves on the back for being so environmentally friendly.
READ MORE...Sideways Bicycle Wins Invention Award in Geneva
Inventor Michael Killian won the award for the first new bicycle invention in more than 200 years.
READ MORE...Needed: More Bicycle Sense in Driver's Manuals
Its spring again, voila! Im cured of cabin fever, out on the roads on my bicycle. And Im hardly alone.
READ MORE...Oberstar Forum Features Germany Bike City Mayor
In the town of Munster, Germany, more than 35 percent of daily travel is by bicycle, and if you tack on walking and mass transit that share becomes about 60 percent.
READ MORE...Behold! a Bicycle Ambulance
A modified bicycle has been introduced in Jinja to work as an ambulance to rush patients to hospital.
READ MORE...Bicycle Benefits has Incentive to Pedal
Program provides discounts at participating businesses to shift commuters from cars to bikes.
READ MORE...Geared-up Retiree Aims for New Spin on History
Over the next few months, people in nine countries will get the chance to glimpse and gawk at Stevens as he pedals his antique "penny-farthing" bicycle about 4,500 miles from England to Iran.
READ MORE...State Considers Backpedaling on Freeway Bicycle Ban
A state proposal to ban bicycles on Portland-area freeways has cyclists up in arms.
READ MORE...Pedaling to Work Works
I am 35 years old, the mother of two children and a working professional. I am a bike commuter.
READ MORE...Pedaling for Dollars Downtown
This business venture isn't for the faint of heart. Or calf.
READ MORE...How To Avoid Air Pollution When Exercising In The City
As environmentalists have pointed out, it can be as dangerous to be
outdoors behind a city bus -- walking or bicycling -- as it is to be in
front of one. This warning also extends to drivers sitting behind the wheel.
Community Incorporates Biking and Walking as a Response to American Public Health Association's Challenge
Grundy County is working to design their communities with walking and bicycling as means of transportation. This will lower the rates of cancer, heart disease, arthritis, obesity and childhood asthma.
READ MORE...Trent University Students Hold Bicycles for Progress Drive
For a person living in a developing country, owning something as simple as a bicycle can change many aspects of their life.
READ MORE...Bike report on NPR's "The World"
NPR's audio report on Santiago's cyclists efforts to encourage bicycling as a means of transportation.
READ MORE...It's a wheels thing
Whether you're an older adult going to market, a family traveling from one errand to another or someone trying to log some serious mileage while training for the next double century race, Davis is a bicycling nirvana.
READ MORE...Sakura Electric Chopper: Stylish, but why do it?
A friend proudly announced recently that he was going to buy an electric bicycle. I couldn't help but give him a hard time.
READ MORE...Opinion by Richard Ducote: Bicycle to work; make a difference
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Happily, this rule does not apply to breakfast, at least on Friday.
READ MORE...Melbourne Aeolian Ride Pics are In!
The Melbourne Aeolian Ride went off sweetly. It was a perfect day.
READ MORE...Reclaiming our Streets
AT THE RISK of being mistaken for my grandmother, Id like to state definitively that Halifax drivers have changed since I was young and for the worse!
READ MORE...Clean Air Groups Unite to Press for Better Air Quality
Environmental and consumer groups banded together Tuesday in hopes that a united force can help improve Georgia's air quality more quickly than a disparate jumble of organizations working separately.
READ MORE...Arizona Cities Promote Bicycling for Exercise, Clean Air
Gilbert is getting behind a monthlong initiative that seeks to educate the public on alternative transportation and more healthful lifestyles through bicycling.
READ MORE...March Critical Mass Not A Disaster For NYC Cyclists
In case you didn't notice, last night was the last Friday in March which means that it was time for another round of that ongoing battle sometimes known as Critical Mass vs. the NYPD.
READ MORE...Urban Young Ride Demand for Bicycle Innovation
Marcel Bouw always regarded his four-person bicycle as an indulgence, until it was stolen.
READ MORE...Spike in Road Deaths Stirs Alarm in India
With up to six lanes of high-speed asphalt, India's new superhighway is a source of national pride and a symbol of the country's economic boom, linking New Delhi, Calcutta, and Mumbai.
READ MORE...Keywords: Auto,accidents,Traffic
