Adventure Cyclist Conquers Cook Strait.
For many years I have thought how much fun it would be to cycle around
our beautiful backcountry bush-clad lakes. As a keen mountain biker
and road cyclist most of my life, I wondered why cycling on water
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Happy Car-Free Day!!!
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Malcolm BMX in Do Good, Mentor a Child
Bike Buddies Get Rollin'
On Friday some new Los
Angeles area bicycle commuters are going take a ride with their very
own Bike Coach
Nuts and Bolts: Get A Grip
Pretty
much the most useful single tool in a bike shop, home or pro, is a
bench vise.
San Fernando Valley's CM hits the pavement
Getting this ride together was the logical next step for the rapidly
expanding bike culture. It was hard to come up with a date on the
weekend that didnt conflict with something that was already happening.
Homemade Headset Cup Press for Under $6 Bucks!
Put away the hammer and the blocks of wood -- there's a better way to install your own headset
READ MORE...NYC Critical Mass Riders Prepare for Police Harrassment
As in past months, police officers are expected to give numerous false tickets to riders, even those following the very letter of the law.
READ MORE...Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer true - on a bicycle built for two
They cruise. They come to an almost dead stop and still remain on their bike. They speed down the street at 35 miles per hour and never fall off.
READ MORE...Bloomfield work shuts down free-bicycle program
A program that's fixed 1,850 broken bicycles over the last six years and given them to children, immigrants and other people in need has been closed since Aug. 16.
READ MORE...L.A. Basin Is Again Nation's Smog Capital
The Los Angeles Basin is once again the smog capital of the U.S., beating out Houston and the San Joaquin Valley, air officials said Wednesday.
READ MORE...Cities of Joy
At about the same time professionals in Delhi were finalising the First Master Plan for the city in the early 1960s, Jane Jacobs published her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
READ MORE...Commentary: Car-Free Day is not enough
For nearly a week now, City of Montreal officials have been patting themselves on the back, offering congratulations all round following last Fridays successful Car-Free Day.
READ MORE...Firing off at fixed-gears
As the Indian summer heats up, you'll notice the bike lanes will be nose to tail with bikers like a line of baby elephants. This is a good thing.
READ MORE...The Bicycle Man Is Evicted
Moses had set up his bicycle repair and refurbish operation four years ago in a facility now belonging to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission.
READ MORE...Car-Free is So Sexy: Life Can Be So Car-Free Audio Ad
Listen to the new audio ad for the Life Can Be So Car-Free Celebration this Saturday September 30 at the New Los Angeles State Historic Park. Who says car-free transportation isn't sexy?
READ MORE...Clean, Renewable Energy Powers Performance Bicycle
Performance Bicycle has become the first U.S. sports retailer to use renewable energy exclusively to power its stores, corporate headquarters, distribution centers and call center.
READ MORE...Unlicensed to Kill
Andy Frattin believes the tougher punishments will help deter dangerous drivers. "The threat of jail will keep people walking on the straight and narrow," he said. "Driving is a privilege, not a right."
READ MORE...Peddler's Market
Life is never without its frustrations. So they say. And certainly that is true of my life. The operatic message summing up the operant daily mine.
READ MORE...Life Cycles
The driver that killed Michael Katz was driving on a suspended license, admitted to not paying attention to the road and driving while exhausted, he received little punishment. READ MORE...Cycle of Life: CICLE shows how life in L.A. can be car-free.
If clogged streets, sky-high gas prices and polluted air arent reasons enough to run out and buy a bike or give the subway a try, CICLEs hoping to show the way to a less car-dependent lifestyle with a series of gatherings, workshops and, well, partying.
READ MORE...Memorial Ride for Ilia Pankin
There is a memorial ride for the Honor of Ilia Pankin going down this Friday night the 22nd. A ghostbike will be installed at the site in his honor.
READ MORE...Soapbox Transportation
Promoting soapbox alternatives is a strategy that some San Fernando Valley residents are beginning to adopt to create a more livable city.
READ MORE...With a good bike box, you can see the world
There are two things I call "baby": my dog and my bicycle.
READ MORE...Cyclist hopes to share his pedal passion
For drivers concerned about the skyrocketing price of gasoline these days, don't bother comparing the fuel efficiency statistics of the latest SUVs. There's no need to research ethanol or vegetable oil, leave the pickup truck gate down or check tires for proper inflation.
READ MORE...Top Ten Things News Gets Wrong About Crash Reports
In today's Oregonian, I read that a vacationing cyclist was hit head-on by a sleepy driver in Newport. The newspaper story noted that the cyclist wasn't wearing a helmet. That probably wouldn't have made a difference in a head-on crash, yet is always included in bike crash reports. That's just one bee in my bonnet about crash reports.
READ MORE...Time to Re-Think Glaciers Bicycle Restrictions
I've ridden the Going-to-the-Sun Highway up to Logan Pass many times, and it might be the best bike ride in the New West. But every time I travel up to Glacier to enjoy this premier bike ride, I struggle with trying to understand the regulations imposed on cyclists by the National Park Service (NPS).
READ MORE...Judge Puts Brakes On New S.F. Bike Lanes
An opposition group called CAR (Coalition for Adequate Review) is challenging the loss of parking and street space for neighborhoods and business.
READ MORE...Can the Bicycle Save Civilization?
Thanks to the triumph of motorized vehicles over the past century, North Americans, who constitute some five percent of the world's population, consume fully a quarter of the world's energy.
READ MORE...Hit and Run Driver Alert in L.A.
Police seek public's help to find hit-and-run driver who fatally struck a 23-year-old bicyclist in Beverly Hills.
READ MORE...EU citizens go car free
The objective is to facilitate widespread debate on the necessity for changes in behaviour in relation to mobility and in particular the use of the private car, the car free day campaign says.
READ MORE...City to Regulate Motorized Bicycles
They scoot down the street at 150 miles to the gallon. That's part of the allure of a motorized bicycle. With the price of gas sky high, small engines propel the bikes up hills, through traffic and around town with a minimum of energy, both fuel and people power.
READ MORE...Bicycle lanes called the motorists' friend
Motorists who gripe about sharing the road with cyclists on bike paths should know that those lanes help reduce accidents for them as well.
READ MORE...Drivers offered help to cure them of car addiction
Car addicts will be able to seek help for their 'habit' at Oxford's annual Car Free Day on Friday.
READ MORE...The Bicycle Saboteur
Someones been taking out the bikes in Riverside Park. The weapon: carpet tacks, sprinkled on the path with malicious, tire-bursting intent.
READ MORE...Roads grow more deadly for bicyclists
"At some point we need to take responsibility for our actions as drivers and not tolerate people simply for not paying attention when they are in charge of a powerful machine," said Clarke."
READ MORE...Bike to the future: A different kind of traffic island for Prague
It is axiomatic that the country made basic blunders after communism's fall. The gravest error, perhaps, was the fulsome embrace of the automobile.
READ MORE...Cyclist street theatre
Parent believes that a festive event like this can breathe life into a weak and disunited cycling community while including pedestrians and other non-cyclists.
READ MORE...New Bike Club in LA Open to All
LA BiciClika is a new bicycle club based in El Sereno, CA. Check out their new upcoming rides
Bicyclists winning a war of lanes in San Francisco
By day, they are sober-minded city professionals - teachers, doctors, lawyers - who forgo cars and buses to commute by bicycle.
READ MORE...Taipei government plans events to mark Int'l Car Free Day on Sept. 23
Lin said that the program is designed mainly to highlight the fact that roads are for pedestrians and that Taipei is a city that gives priority to people.
READ MORE...NYC Bicyclist Injuries Fall; Death Rate Stead
All but three percent of bicyclists who died on New York City's streets in the last decade were not wearing helmets
READ MORE...Ridiculous to tell kids to ride bikes in traffic
This is in response to the TV ads sponsored by the Saskatoon Traffic Safety Committee telling children that, when they are on their bicycles, they should "ride in traffic because they are traffic." Are they telling 10-year-old kids...
READ MORE...500 Winnipeg cyclists rally, distancing themselves from Critical Mass
About 500 cyclists took to Winnipeg's streets in a peaceful rally meant to ease tensions between the riders and drivers, as well as contrast with smaller, controversial rides by the Critical Mass movement.
READ MORE...Mass transport free in Budapest on European Car Free Day
Passengers will be allowed to travel free on the vehicles of the Budapest Transport Company on September 22, Mayor Gabor Demszky told reporters in Budapest on Monday.
READ MORE...CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: Life Can Be So Car-Free Event
On Sept. 30th we are hosting Life Can Be So Car-Free at the new LA StateHistoric Park near Chinatown (formerly the Not A Cornfield project site). We need volunteers to help make this event happen.
READ MORE...Wearing helmets 'more dangerous'
Cyclists who wear protective helmets are more likely to be knocked down by passing vehicles, new research from Bath University suggests.
READ MORE...SAN FRANCISCO: One Gear, Will Travel
Lacking brakes and shifters, 'fixies' keep cyclists intimate with their pedals
READ MORE...We have the bikes, here come the trails
In the next few years, an unprecedented level of public investment millions of dollars, much of it from federal funds in bicycle infrastructure will at least bring St. Paul's reputation closer to that of Minneapolis, widely regarded as a national leader.
READ MORE...Bicycle bell crackdown has a ring of the nanny state
Those found guilty of riding without a bell will face on-the-spot fines, with maximum penalties of up to £2,500 or two years in jail.
READ MORE...Pedalers and politicians get pumped about Houston lanes
Elected officials and bicycle advocates created a temporary bike lane on W. Houston St. last week, protecting it from auto traffic with their own bodies in a demonstration demanding permanent bike lanes on the six-lane thoroughfare currently under reconstruction.
READ MORE...More Portland bikers cross that bridge when they come to it
Average daily summertime bicycle trips across Portland's four busiest cycling bridges have increased by 18 percent over last year. And for the first time that four-bridge total has passed 12,000 daily trips.
READ MORE...Video: Midnight Ridazz takes Santa Monica Pier by Swarm
Watch Midnight Ridazz as it swarms the Santa Monica Pier.
READ MORE...Bikin' The Local Galleries
NELAart Gallery Night has quickly become one of the coolest things to do on the second Saturday of the month in Northeast L.A.
READ MORE...Voila! Veggie Volkswagens and virtuous velomobiles
"...I just finished my thesis on a thing that makes it not so bad because it makes it useful and comfortable a velomobile a mostly human-powered vehicle with weather protection.:
READ MORE...New Delhi to ban some bicycle rickshaws
...slow moving cycles together with wagons hauling
goods, beggars lining the roads, vending carts selling drinks and
tobacco and thousands of pedestrians have made the roads virtually
impassable for other vehicles. Like polluting cars? Is the ban only to appease a minority of the population?
No break on no brakes: Cyclists object to ticketing over fixed-gear bikes
There is one group, however, the bare-bones bikes aren't so popular with: police, who say many of the bikes violate laws requiring a bicycle to have a brake.
READ MORE...Labor Day Food Drive Alleycat Wrap Up
We collected almost $300.00 worth of food. And we were a feature on the news.
READ MORE...Pedal Commuters
Along The Strand, residents are taking their recreational beach cruisers for a ride to work. Bikes are replacing more cars in Inglewood. Some residents are pedaling through the hilly Peninsula with the help of electric motors.
READ MORE...Ditch the car? Don't laugh, it works for some commuters
Six years ago, Bruce Wilbur did what most Americans wouldn't dream of: he got rid of his car. And his minivan, too.
READ MORE...Critical Mass: A personal perspective
I started noticing things Id never seen before and felt the city in an entirely new way. I could feel the streets. I could feel the pavement.
READ MORE...Modern monstrosities
Since the time of Hitler, the legacy of our freeways has been one of brutality and death
READ MORE...Tomlinson's story needed more attention
Did you read that Jane Tomlinson finished her incredible 4,214-mile bicycle ride across the United States? Sorry. That was a silly question. The American media didn't report it.
READ MORE...Asheville Bicyclists shut down Interstate to demand "Climate Justice"
After biking through downtown West Asheville the cyclists, carrying signs reading Remember Katrina, and Cars Fuel Climate Change, turned onto Patton Avenue and soon enough brought traffic to a standstill as they merged onto I-240/ I-26.
READ MORE...Childrens Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Programs
PRESS RELEASE: Eugene, OR- HealthComm Interactive, Inc. announces release of two multimedia CD-ROM programs, Walk Smart and Bike Smart. Both programs are designed for children in grades K-3 and were produced READ MORE...Critical Mass promotes bike culture
While over 75 bicyclists checked over their gear, performed various tricks, socialized and passed around refreshments - liquid and otherwise - Phil Ross, a bike messenger in Denver, explained the overarching philosophy of the Critical Mass bike rides.
READ MORE...Riders relish single speed
Symposium honors outright simplicity of fixed gear bikes
READ MORE...Bicycle group plans education event
Safety - Members will hand out information at the site where a bicyclist was fatally injured
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