BikeWinter L.A. Set to Roll Feb 2nd
BikeWinter, Los Angeles’ only homegrown, grassroots, bicycle festival is set to begin again - and everyone’s invited!
Councilmembers, Lemme Save You Some Time
Los Angeles City Councilman Ed Reyes recently introduced a motion to promote cycling and pedestrian infrastructure. A call to his legislative aide, Ms. Rebecca Valdez, confirmed the inspiration for the councilman's legislative suggestion.
Malcolm BMX in "Trial by Axle"
After a finger foods party at Columbia Avenue and 18th, Malcolm BMX casually pedalled back toward 13th Street, beginning that very gentle little climb just before hitting his turn and rolling, blissfully rolling, all the way downhill to the downtown and adventures his Merry Men had prepared there.
Sustainable Transportation Translation
From the land of toucans, the samba , carnaval, and the Curitiba BRT system, ( a way cool public transportation solution), comes a snazzy translation of our Benefits of a Bicycle properganda.
Nuts 'n' Bolts: Wheel Hub Rebuilds Made Easier
Wheels are the most significant part of a bicycle. The nature of the wheel determines, to a large extent, the look, feel, and operating characteristics of the bike.
Keywords: Wheel,hub,Bicycle,repair,hub,rebuild
Rome, Italian Cities Target Pollution With Car-Free Day
Cars were banned in Rome, Milan and other Italian cities Sunday, leaving residents to walk, ride bikes or use public transportation.
••• READ MORE...Groups grapple with 'parade' rule
The new rules give police the authority to arrest marchers, 'Critical Mass' cyclists, and perhaps even walking tour participants, on charges of "parading without a permit."
••• READ MORE...Interbike to Host Industry Roundtable at the 2007 Bicycle Leadership Conference
As a part of the tenth annual Bicycle Leadership Conference, Interbike will host a breakfast presentation followed by a roundtable discussion on February 4 at the Bahia Resort Hotel in San Diego, California.
••• READ MORE...S.F. climate plan calls for fewer cars, more trees
The chief agency acting as steward of San Francisco’s environment has laid out an ambitious plan to make The City greener and its air cleaner.
••• READ MORE...Paris Peddles Free Bicycle Service to Combat Pollution
The City of Lights wants to soon become a city of bicycles.
••• READ MORE...Cyclist wins road blocking appeal
Daniel Cadden, 25, was convicted of blocking a road in Telford, Shropshire, by riding in the middle of his lane.
••• READ MORE...Proposed California bill aims to protect bike riders
Assembly Bill 60, introduced by Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, would prohibit drivers from passing cyclists unless their vehicle stays at least 3 feet from the bike.
••• READ MORE...Critical Mass gets 'free ride' in B'klyn
Cyclists who pedal into Union Square for Friday's Critical Mass ride will likely be met by a large force of police officers in squad cars and on motor scooters.
••• READ MORE...U.S. motorists cutting back a bit
Americans cut miles driven for the first time since 1980. High prices are behind the change in transportation habits.
••• READ MORE...Australians embrace pedal power
Sam Powrie from the Bicycle Institute of South Australia, a long-standing advocacy organisation, believes that a new bike age is rapidly approaching.
••• READ MORE...Bhutan by bicycle: Missoula business owner helps promote bike travel in rugged country
Although many involved in the recent UM trip were there to study organic farming in the Land of the Thunder Dragon, Gallego, owner of Missoula Bicycle Works, was there at least in part to think about cycling.
••• READ MORE...My own 2007 New Year's resolution RESOLVES TO KEEP BIKING TO CLASS, HELPING SELF AND THE EARTH
Our world is ridden with scientific proof of growing climate change, and ever-increasing oil prices. As an informed college student, I'm helping ensure that the world will still be beautiful when I graduate.
••• READ MORE...Transit boss' SUV is too big to ignore
Questions about the Hummer would be off-limits. That's what the mayor's press secretary told me as we headed to a City Hall meeting with transportation chief Jaime de la Vega, whose vehicle of choice seems odd for a man in his position.
••• READ MORE...Lawmaker pulls cell-bicycle bill
After a day of unrelenting ridicule, Assemblyman Jon Bramnick decided yesterday evening to withdraw his bill to ban talking on a cell phone while riding a bike.
••• READ MORE...Shifting to under-drive
So who would be foolhardy enough to attempt to navigate Ottawa without a car? A surprising number of us, it turns out.
••• READ MORE...Site Calculates Risk Factors for Travelers
A middle-aged male pedestrian is four times as likely, on any given trip, to be killed by a car as is an elementary school student, according to a new interactive Web site that lets people compare travel risks.
••• READ MORE...Don't neglect bicycle chain
Sometimes life just stinks when I'm neglected so much! Most of the time, I'm coated with thick black greasy gunk and my links are full of road dirt, gravel and grit.
••• READ MORE...American to cross Israel on bicycle for peace
Josh Spizeman, a young New Yorker and a bicycle enthusiast, has decided to prove his commitment to advancing peace and understanding between Jews and Arabs by going on a two-week bicycle ride across Israel which he calls the “Ride for Peace.”
••• READ MORE...Biker's on the right track
"After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow."
••• READ MORE...Paulsen’s bike bill vetoed
The Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition (MassBike) is sorry to announce that Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey has vetoed the Bicycle Safety Bill, H5372 (formerly the Bicyclists’ Bill of Rights and Responsibilities, H5194).
••• READ MORE...Bank of America sponsors Bike the Drive
The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation today announced Bank of America as title sponsor of Chicago's Bike the Drive through 2009.
••• READ MORE...Emissions cap may end car making in Europe
GAS-GUZZLING sports cars, four-wheel-drives and people carriers could be priced off the road within five years after a crackdown on carbon emissions to be announced by the European Commission this month.
••• READ MORE...Electric bicycles gaining traction
Environmental concerns, gas prices drive many commuters to alternative modes of transportation
••• READ MORE...Bikes primed for comeback: If Atlanta makes room, expect more pedalers
I know that's what I once thought. But I see things differently these days. I live in Atlanta. And like city-dwellers in most cities, what I see today —- quite literally —- is grayish-yellow air, particularly in the dog days of July/August. Not only that, of course, but I can also smell and taste this filthy air.
••• READ MORE...Cyclist goes the distance: Homeless man shares story along route to South Carolina
It needs to be about the cause, 51-year-old Hunter said yesterday during a Lafayette stop. Hunter's cause is raising awareness for the homeless and displaced families who lost everything in "that overlooked storm," Hurricane Rita.
••• READ MORE...Professor wants to follow you on your bicycle
A Portland State University professor is looking for help to study the travel patterns of a particularly elusive creature: the urban bicyclist.
••• READ MORE...Bike or car? Think twice
Ah, the bicycle. Is it going the way of, well, the bicycle?
••• READ MORE...The bicycle, not the motor car: From personal fitness to national security, you'd be surprised what a bike can bring you
I have made a commitment to use my bicycle as my primary means of transportation. I will drive only if the errand is one that cannot be done on the bicycle, or if the reasons for not using the bicycle are compelling.
••• READ MORE...Amgen releases Tour of California educational package
Endorsed by Governor Schwarzenegger, Curriculum Contains Lessons to Encourage Students to Live Healthy Lifestyles and Practice Bike Safety
••• READ MORE...Pacific Cycle Supports Mayor's Platinum Bicycle City Charge
Pacific Cycle, owner and distributor of the Schwinn, Mongoose and GT Bicycles brands, is supporting Madison's charge to become a platinum-rated "Bicycle Friendly Community."
••• READ MORE...Party on wheels: The Electric Warriors are a different kind of biker gang
It’s 11 p.m. when the intersection at Fifth and University avenues is overtaken. One of the Santas is first. There are at least six of them, each with the requisite floppy red hat, but otherwise different characteristics: Some are drunk and some aren’t. Some have more interesting bikes than others.
••• READ MORE...It's time to put brakes on antisocial cyclists
I WAS thinking the other day - what is it that stops some cyclists growing up? This crossed my mind after being sliced up while walking along a pavement designed for pedestrians by an adult on a bicycle, for whom the road was evidently a wee bit on the grown-up side.
••• READ MORE...Alex Baum: Wheels of a Dream
Los Angeles long time cycling advocate Alex Baum is one of The Jewish Journals Top Ten Mensces of 2006 -- A mensch is a person who is upright, honorable, decent...a person to admire and emulate writes Leo Rosten, author of "The Joys of Yiddish"
••• READ MORE...Important Transportation Committee Public Meeting TODAY!
On Wednesday, January 10, 2007, the LADOT will present their "Final Project List" for the Metro's Call for Projects to the LA City Council Transportation Committee for approval. The total value of the list is 1.2 Billion Dollars.
••• READ MORE...Calling All Bikey Filmmakers: Filmed by Bike is open for entries
The Fifth Annual Filmed by Bike, the West Coast's largest festival of bike-themed film shorts, is open for entries.
••• READ MORE...Sharrows Come to Pasadena
Word has it that sharrows, or shared -use arrows, have made their debut in Pasadena.
••• READ MORE...Motorola's mission? Make everything mobile
Motorola CEO Ed Zander took the stage Monday for his keynote speech here at the Consumer Electronics Show on a bright yellow bicycle.
••• READ MORE...Just 30 minutes to steal a bike in Central London
Thirty minutes is how long it took to demonstrate just how fast bike theft is growing in London.
••• READ MORE...Bicycle riders are commuters, too
I get a steady drumbeat of requests for articles about commuting by bicycle from Dave, who rides his bike around Danbury full time.
••• READ MORE...NYC cyclists ride for those who died on their bikes in 2006
It wasn't easy to tell what had brought the crowd together — until the men and women silently hoisted more than 40 bicycles over their heads.
••• READ MORE...Bicycle Safety Act: Local cyclists upset by veto
A bicycle safety bill that sought to make the roads safer for cyclists and motorists was vetoed by former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey in the 11th hour of her tenure on Beacon Hill last week, but bike safety advocates in the county and in the state haven't given up hope just yet — especially with a new administration in town.
••• READ MORE...Chicago Winter Bike to Work Day celebrates transportation for all seasons
Bicycling in Chicago in the winter might sound crazy, but most year-round bicycle commuters attest that it's actually easy, fun and toasty warm.
••• READ MORE...Payment for cycling to school
Parents in the UK could be paid to get their children to cycle to school rather than take the bus under new plans to help tackle obesity.
••• READ MORE...Bicycle sales outpace cars and trucks
SALES of bicycles outpaced those of motor vehicles in 2006, as more people turned to pedal-power to cut petrol bills.
••• READ MORE...7th Annual Bicycle Film Festival Wants Your Bike Movies
Hey bikey fim makers, the 7th Annual Bicycle Film Festival is coming, and it wants your best bike film submissions.
••• READ MORE...She's L.A.'s pedal pusher
Monica Howe sees herself as the voice of a two-wheeled future, dedicated to the notion that an urban bicycle culture will make this a better place to live.
••• READ MORE...CRITICAL CLASS: Bike messengers sport cool clothes as they wend their way through city streets
Taking a break from her courier duties for First Legal, 24-year-old bike messenger Miriam Hinds sits in Yerba Buena Gardens eating a prepackaged sandwich and discussing the state of bike messenger fashion.
••• READ MORE...Charting a Route: Questions for Kathy Keehan
Kathy Keehan owns three bikes. She rides the road bike, with its sleek, lightweight design on longer journeys. A tandem bicycle allows her to share a scenic ride with her children. The third is Keehan's work bike, equipped with a rack to harness the loads of government paperwork she navigates for the county's 1.8 million bicycle owners.
••• READ MORE...Share the road: Vt. plan backs bicycle, pedestrian access
A draft policy published by the state envisions a more bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly Vermont.
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