Hungry Like the Wolf
Wolfpack Hustle is a weekly ride designed to test riders cycling limits on the streets of LA. Their website warns that while everyone is invited to start the ride, not everyone will finish.
Losing 3,000 lbs in One Day: The Amazing Car-Lite Diet
Drop the weight of your daily automobile usage and gain a more intimate connection with your community and yourself.
BikeCar: The Movie
A few beers, a crazy suggestion and Walla! We have a road trip movie about four guys who take a month long snowboarding trip in a pedal powered car.
Malcom BMX: The Unbeatable Oppressor
A semi-underground hideout is expected to be drafty. One would think that being partially underground would make a place better insulated. This might be true for many places, but not so for hideouts.••• READ MORE...
Del Mar Gold Line Station Bike Parking Facility is Open
Bicyclists traveling through the Del Mar Gold Line station in Pasadena, now have access to an indoor bicycle parking facility.
Upcoming LACBC Board Elections
What is the LACBC? It's the LA County Bicycle Coalition, and you know what? It's supposed to represent us.
Cyclists soon to get safer routes
On her purple Huffy, 9-year-old Page Robinson isn't intimidated by the other bicyclists rushing by with handlebars as high as her pink helmet -- or the rumbling cars and trucks that have her ears ringing.
••• READ MORE...Cycling summit scheduled for April 13-14 in Sisters
A cross-section of people interested in bicycling and in promoting it in Oregon will come together April 13-14 for the second Oregon Bicycle Summit
••• READ MORE...Paris Embraces Plan to Become City of Bikes
Paris is for lovers -- lovers of food and art and wine, lovers of the romantic sort and, starting this summer, lovers of bicycles.
••• READ MORE...Bicycle Commuter Act Reintroduced
On Wednesday, March 13, the Bicycle Commuter Act was re-introduced into both the House and Senate.
••• READ MORE...Trek's John Burke Tells Industry that Advocacy Is the Future
Trek's president John Burke told Taiwan's leading manufacturers they must shift a portion of their marketing and research budgets toward advocacy and promote the bicycle as a solution to fast-emerging worldwide problems.
••• READ MORE...Tuesday March 27th is for Beer and Bikerowave Lovers
Westside LA: Library Alehouse, New Belgium Brewry and Patgonia or helping raise spirits and funds for the fresh and fabulous Do it Yourself bike repair space, Bikerowave.
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READ MORE...Chris Rall's Transportation Tirade: A heretic in the land of the exalted hybrid
First, 10 percent of the energy consumption associated with a car’s life cycle is from manufacturing the car.
••• READ MORE...Don't stop peddling. You can't.
Fixed-gear bikes are growing in popularity; one shop says they make up 10 percent of business
••• READ MORE...State tries to make LI more bike-friendly
With an 85-mile string of small green signs, state transportation officials are calling out to Long Island cyclists: These roads belong to you, too.
••• READ MORE...Mother touts bicycle awareness
Her passion stems from her belief in bicycle riding as a way of life. She extols it like a used-car salesman.
••• READ MORE...Gentlemen, don't start your engines
It seemed like a great idea for dealing with greenhouse gas emissions -- power our cars from biodiesel fuel derived from palm oil, a commodity used in everything from shampoo to cosmetics to potato chips and literally, "grows on trees."
••• READ MORE...Yarra wheels turn for bikes
THE City of Yarra intends to tighten planning rules to make developers include bicycle parking in small residential blocks.
••• READ MORE...National Bike Summit 2007
The National Bike Summit brings together stakeholders from user groups, industry, government, and elected officials from around the country to share their ideas and best practices.
••• READ MORE...Planning a pedestrian-friendly city
In the 'new urabanism', communities are navigable by pleasant and easy walks.
••• READ MORE...13th Annual Los Angeles Circuit Race™ Sunday March 25th
Fast paced event that encompasses all levels and age ranges for today’s cyclist - amateur or professional cyclist.
••• READ MORE...The Tao of Cycling
New York HopeDance correspondent Ms. Landau gives us a fascinating report of her experience with biking in NYC, the Critical Mass rides, the clown bikers who patrol bike lanes, Times Up! and Transportation Alternatives that give diversity and life to the prevalent auto-centric culture.
••• READ MORE...Critical Mass cyclists try to gain traction in McAllen
They call it Critical Mass. But in the Rio Grande Valley, it is neither critical nor massive.
••• READ MORE...Pedal Power
Since 1997, Maya Pedal has been refurbishing and selling used bicycles as well as designing and building bicycle-powered machines, or bicimáquinas.
••• READ MORE...Community of Cyclists Crossing the Continent
Bicyclists are scheduled to gather at the state Capitol at 10 a.m. March 18 to ride on an early leg of the Journey of HOPE, or Healing Our People and Earth.
••• READ MORE...Bleak Future Painted in Global Warming Report
Many – not all – of those effects can be prevented, the report says, if within a generation the world slows down its emissions of carbon dioxide and if the level of greenhouse gases sticking around in the atmosphere stabilizes.
••• READ MORE...Road less traveled: Easing gas pedal enacts a principle, proves their mettle
Isaac Wilde was tired of hearing his parents gripe about global warming. So last fall the 6-year-old burst forth with a suggestion based on his rudimentary grasp of greenhouse gases. "Why don't we just stop using our car?"
••• READ MORE...The Science of Taking a Walk
Schmitz recommends going down the trodden path in a new way: Leave the car at home one day, for example, and brave the morning commute by bike or on foot.
••• READ MORE...Following the right track on the boulevard of dreams
AT FIRST glance, Melbourne and Copenhagen appear to have little to bond them other than a former advertising worker in this city who is now crown princess of Denmark. But mention the phrase "the Copenhagen solution" to a cyclist whizzing along the bank of the Yarra or (more likely) wobbling down a city gutter dodging cars, buses and wayward pedestrians, and a blissful look appears.
••• READ MORE...NGO sets 'help girl' cycle in motion
Anita’s little sister helps her wash her bike every day in the hopes of getting a quick joyride. But for 17-year-old Anita, the cycle is more than just a form of transport. It is an engine of change.
••• READ MORE...Update on the Prokop lawsuit/appeal
The oral argument event took place Wednesday, Feb. 28th in Los Angeles. Don Harvey and Rock Kendall of Orange Co. Bicycle Coalition, John Forester, a reporter from KFWB radio, and I attended.
••• READ MORE...The Leisurely Pleasures of a Pedicab
You feel every jolt and bump of the potholed streets. You feel a communion with the pigeons that swoop down and dart just overhead. A yellow parade of taxicabs rushes by close enough to touch.
••• READ MORE...City of Roses picked to host international "car-free" conference
The European-based World Carfree Network -- which, you guessed it, promotes alternatives to driving -- has picked Portland to host its first-ever conference in the United States
••• READ MORE...A boost for bikers and walkers
What would it take to convince you to leave the car at home and start commuting by bike or foot?
••• READ MORE...Inside the Capitol: Fixies Find a Friend
A ttention all you fans of "fixies" out there -- yeah, you know who you are. You ride stripped-down road bicycles or track bikes with fixed gears.
••• READ MORE...Pedal Power
In all the sound and fury about roads in the past few weeks, there can be few groups left that have not had their say, though the arguments of cyclists have quietly glided by.
••• READ MORE...Interbike Supports the 2007 National Bike Summit - Urges Industry to Attend
Interbike, producers of the OutDoor Demo and Interbike International Bicycle Expo, today announced it is one of the sponsors of the seventh annual National Bicycle Summit to be held in Washington D.C. March 14-16, 2007.
••• READ MORE...Earth, wind and biking
Are we killing ourselves with car reliance and taking the planet down with us? And could it be that a Nineteenth Century, two-wheeled invention is part of the answer?
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