May's Urban Expeditions Celebrates the Trees (this Saturday)

Pedal along with the C.I.C.L.E.istas and City Tree Experts on Saturday, April 25 at 11:30am for The Tree Ride, a bicycle tour celebrating all things green and leafy.

Bike Week Pasadena Needs You!

The 3rd Annual Bike Week Pasadena kicks off on May 11. Be a part of the team that brings this year's Bike Week to Pasadena.

S.F. bike-sharing program part of growing trend

Two months after Mayor Gavin Newsom announced plans for a bike-sharing program in San Francisco, city officials are working to implement the pilot program, which will include 50 bicycles available at five stations around downtown.

Bike Path to Blight Path … and No One to Blame

The Orange Line Bike Path is 14 miles of bureaucratic "no-man's land" and a jurisdictional "hot-potato" that has departments and agencies scrambling for cover as the City's Transportation Committee asks "Hey! How did the Bike Path turn into a homeless encampment?"

Bicycle sales still up despite cheaper gas

Soaring gas prices encouraged many to rediscover pedal power a year ago, but the demand for bicycles and accessories has remained solid as prices fell at the pump.

Crankin' and mobbin' across Los Angeles

Local bike riding groups get together for a monthly ride called Crank Mob.

Sunday Streets: Freewheelin' on car-free day

Have you ever fantasized about riding your bike on city streets that are free of cars?

Bike Issue: Can’t we all just get along?!?

Rider vs. driver: the duel that is … and doesn’t have to be

Cycle of Justice

What is incredibly uncommon is for one of these stolen bikes to be recovered—and even more uncommon is for such a bike to be recovered by a 25-year-old bioengineering grad student...

You drive me crazy

One time, my friend Nicole saw a man pull out his eyeball on the Metro system in Los Angeles. She told me this as the two of us rode for an hour and a half from her suburban condo to Hollywood.

'Mister Jalopy' is the reuse, recycle guru

One of its pied pipers is a man known by his pen name, Mister Jalopy. His agenda is simple. "You need to be able to modify, hack, repair, rebuild and reuse the stuff that you buy."

In defense of the rolling stop for bicycle riders

Oregon is debating a law that would make stop signs into yields for cyclists.

Bicyclists are changing our streets and cities

A backstage hero of Jeff Mapes' book "Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities" is an intense young bureaucrat named Mia Birk, who put Portland on a "road diet" and created bike lanes across the Rose City.

Riding the It Factor

THE Great Downturn may have its first real status symbol.

Hugging Highway 1: Blind Pilot's Bicycle Tours

"Everything was bike-powered," Nebeker says. "We had little bike trailers and carried our instruments."

Biking Has Its (Tax) Benefits. Or Does It?

Last year, many commuting bicyclists rejoiced at news that deep in the bailout bill was a provision to extend commuter tax rebates to two-wheeled travelers.

Joining the green commute

When Don Brazelton's wife asked whether he enjoyed riding his bike to work, "I looked at her like she was crazy." And not the good crazy.

Is Boston Ready For a Revolution?

Can Boston really go from being the worst city for bicycling to the best?

Mayors Across America: A 3,600 Mile Bicycle Journey Documenting the American Mayor

The moving outcome of Ed's journey is the book Mayors Across America, an insightful montage of the men and women who form a collective identity of our nation.

Local women take to biking as primary transportation

It's raining off and on. The temps are hovering below 50. People driving by likely have their car heaters on. Windshield wipers wiping. Radios humming.

Study looks at cost of bike lanes on Bay Bridge

It's still little more than a vision, but the idea of bike lanes across the Bay Bridge, between Oakland and San Francisco, continues to move forward like a bicyclist battling a headwind.

Bicycle Sundays Are Back

he ever-popular Bicycle Sundays are back and, once again this year, joggers and walkers and those with strollers are welcome to join the fun on the Bronx River Parkway.

Tech Coast Angels Investors Fund Bikestation(R), a New Transportation Paradigm and Tech Coast Angels' First Triple Bottom Line Investment

The Orange County, Calif. network of Tech Coast Angels (TCA), the largest angel investor group network in the United States, today announced that TCA members have provided growth capital to Bikestation®, the nation's only turnkey solution for bicycle and other alternative transportation infrastructure for municipalities, campuses and developers.

'Idaho Stop' is a go for bicycle safety

A couple of Sundays ago, my 9-year-old daughter caught me bicycling in my own private Idaho.

In Baton Rouge, bicycle peramedics a common sight

Two-wheeled EMS came of age in Baton Rouge when the driver of a Mardi Gras float lost consciousness and plowed into the crowd, injuring 13.

Austin unveils bicycle sharing for city workers

A new going green project in Austin involves people power and balance.

The Bicycle Thieves Among Us

Bike theft and its cousin, bike abandonment, are aspects of urban cycling as sure as broken glass, potholes and the lurking threat of being doored.

Best American bike trails

Bicycling has come a long way since you pedaled the old neighborhood on your Sting Ray with the sissy bar and purple banana seat.