Bike Week Pasadena Launches New Ongoing Community-Based Efforts

This year, Bike Week Pasadena took on a slightly different flavor then in years past—it functioned not just as a celebration, but also as a community-based push to support transformation in our lives and in our cities.

KTLA Live Coverage of Bike Week Pasadena

We spent a great day riding bikes and chatting it up with KTLA’s Gayle Anderson.

Bike Week Pasadena: More than just a celebration

Bike Week Pasadena is an important vehicle (pun intended) through which C.I.C.L.E. builds a strong base of public support for bicycle-friendly infrastructure.

Online mapping tool promotes bike safety

The Cascade Bicycle Club has launched an online mapping tool that gives the public a place to report bicycle collisions, hazards and thefts, and look at trends.

Santa Monica to be Presented with Bicycle Friendly Award May 29th

A representative of the League of American Bicyclists will present plaques and certificates at an unveiling ceremony in front of City Hall on Friday, May 29th, in commemoration of Santa Monica’s recent recognition as a bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC).

China Re-invents the Bicycle Wheel

Move over Japan. China is making huge strides in the field of weird and wacky.

Check out bicycle film in Bakersfield

In the past 20 years there has been a movement in North America toward increased bicycling as a means of transportation.

Not Just Present at Work, but Presentable

Once she locks up her bike each morning at work, Andrea Cortes-Comerer faces a series of potentially awkward moments.

Book Signing with Jeff Mapes on May 30, 2pm & 7pm

Portland author Jeff Mapes will be in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 30, to talk about his new book: “Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities.”

CNSNews.com Obama’s Transportation Secretary Says He Wants to ‘Coerce People Out of Their Cars’

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told a group of reporters at the National Press Club on Thursday that he wants to “coerce people out of their cars.”

Pizza's here - by bicycle delivery

When Jason Jamnik drops off a delivery for Little Sicilian Pizza in Naperville, people take notice. After all, it's not every day that the deliveryman arrives on a bike.

Midtown Cyclists Routinely Break Law, Study Finds

An expanded study of bicycle behavior in Midtown Manhattan has found that “a large number of cyclists routinely disobey many traffic laws.

OTB Bicycle Cafe 'pedals' good food, craft beers

There might not be anything inherently mouth-watering in the concept of a bicycle-themed restaurant.

Bicycle Funding Saved in City Budget Process

The City Coucnil not only saved cuts proposed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to special funds--that's where bicycle funding sits and was threatened to be completely eliminated--but they also directed LADOT not to propose cuts to the the bikeways department before consulting them.

New S.F. study: Phase in Market St. car ban

Driving cars along Market Street in downtown San Francisco would be more taxing under a plan unveiled Tuesday that encourages travel by bus, foot and bicycle along the busy street.

Seattle getting better for bikes, still needs work, club says

Seattle gets a B grade for bicycling, but has particular problems with pavement quality, safety perceptions and the number of women riders, according to a new report from the Cascade Bicycle Club.

Portland Panel Ponders Replacing Parking With Bike Lanes

Hundreds Of Portland Parking Spaces At Stake In Residential Area

Two wheels could be better than four

In these days of heightened consciousness about the environment, people are focusing on new ways of doing old things in order to lessen the impact we have on our increasingly abused home planet.

Move It: Biking to work not for the weak

Is it possible to commute by bike in Houston? Last week was “National Bike to Work Week” and, as your transportation columnist, I felt obligated to accept the challenge.

Creating a ‘Car-Free’ Community

In a new suburban district of Freiburg, Germany that discourages driving — a “car-reduced” community called Vauban — there are only two places to park a car, and both are at the edge of the development.

Dude, Where’s the Bike Plan?

It's been almost six months since the LADOT's Bikeways staff went before the Transportation Committee and announced that LA's Bicycle Plan would be presented to the community in January of 2009.

The bikes are back: Bike Week in Pasadena gets rolling

The city's on-again/off-again love affair with the bicycle - dating back to the 1900 elevated Horace Dobbins Cycleway from Pasadena to Los Angeles - is on again.

Bicycle advocate ticketed for parade without a permit on King Street

At the same time Micah Posner is pleading with city leaders to convert a neighborhood street into a bike-safe boulevard, the outspoken bicycling advocate is locked in a legal fight with them over a fine he was levied for leading a supposedly unsafe bicycle protest parade down the middle of that same street without a permit.

Looking sharp on Bike to Work Day

Just think of the efficiency that bikers could bring to the workplace, unconstrained in high-tech fibers, warmed to peak performance by a brisk ride to the office, the sweat of exertion staining desks and documents.

Santa Monica honored as 'bicycle-friendly'

The city of Santa Monica was awarded a "bronze level distinction" for its "remarkable commitments to bicycling."

8 tips for the new bicycle commuter

Funny how a seemingly short ride can serve as a great reminder how much older you've gotten over the years.