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Man indicted in El Tour collision

A 91-year-old man accused of crashing into several bicyclists last month has been... more

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NYC cop indicted; shown in YouTube bike knockdown

NEW YORK - A police officer who was shown in a YouTube video knocking a bicyclist to... more

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Cop in YouTube cyclist incident indicted

A little Brute Force got him in trouble... NEW YORK (AP) â A New York... more

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Cross Country Bicycle Ride-Environmental Documentary-Project: Southern Tier

A Cross Country Bicycle Ride that leaves from Newport Beach, CA on New Years Day and... more

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Tricycle-sharing aimed at North Beach shoppers -San Francisco

Today, I was star-stucked. I saw Gary Fisher on the same street+ bike lane as me. He... more

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UPS Gears up for the holidays with bike delivery

Make some green riding for Brown... Ride on! Shipping giant United Parcel... more

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Lance training but still on the fence about racing in the Tour de France

Lance has committed to race the Tour of California, Tour Down Under and the Giro... more

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Mayor's Blog: Only 5 Days Left Until Bike Miami!

Please join me this Sunday for Bike Miami, a free and family-friendly opportunity to... more

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Amsterdam Bicycles

During a 73 minute period on 9/12/06 at one corner of Nieuw Markt (a nice open square... more

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Bicyclists Show Off Their Two-Wheeling Tattoos

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Official U.S. Bicycle Route System Approved

Missoula, Montana —The United States is on a path to creating what could become... more

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Local cyclist saves money and gets in shape

Michael Vare, a local cyclist (commutes from Marin to San Francisco) saves about $5K a... more

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Bike the Bronx - Bronx president promoting bicycle use

What great news! Tour de Bronx sounds like it was a lot of fun Go NY!!!! - Borough... more

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How to Ride All Winter - Portland Maine Bicycle Commuting (Portland, ME) - Meetup.com

In a joint meeting with Portland Green Streets, we will present ideas for overcoming... more

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Pay by the mile car insurance? Only if you live in Texas

This is currently available in Texas only. Very progressive and it makes sense. Sounds... more

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Bicycle recyclers empower riders

Programs in New York and elsewhere train young mechanics and provide ‘beater’ bikes.

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[Excerpt] A year ago, Natalie Feliciano couldn’t tell the difference between a derailleur and a bottom bracket. A bike was a thing, made up of other shiny things, all of which churned together in some strange, magical concert. Sometimes she’d walk the streets of her East Village neighborhood and see rusty frames jammed into trash cans. “I’d think, you know, what a waste,” she grimaces. “All that garbage for someone else to clean up. But I never knew how much went into a bike.”

These days, her outlook is considerably more refined. On a warm fall afternoon here, standing in the cluttered back room of Recycle-a-Bicycle’s Manhattan store, Ms. Feliciano absentmindedly runs a greasy chain through her fingers and holds forth expertly on all things two-wheeled. She talks about the sudden passion in New York for fixed-gear bikes – once popular only among reckless, bombastic couriers – and her own stable of rides, which includes a bicycle she repaired on her own time. “I like knowing I can help my friends with their bikes. I like to know that I can be there,” she says. “And I like knowing how they work. How everything fits together.”

The nuts-and-bolts approach is something Recycle-a-Bicycle has always done particularly well. The organization was founded in 1999 with a straightforward mandate: Repair abused, remaindered, broken, or worn bikes and funnel them back to consumers. At the time, New Yorkers were wary, says Lisa Stein, the executive director. Used bicycles were something for the junk pile, and most experienced riders preferred the security of a brand-new aluminum frame.

But over the past decade, Recycle-a-Bike has gained an enormous amount of local ballast. A crew of employees and volunteers now runs a pair of New York stores, one here in Manhattan and the other in the DUMBO area of Brooklyn. (DUMBO means “down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass.”) The organization’s youth programs are a big draw for students like Feliciano, who enrolled last year at her public high school. She is now an expert wrench-slinger and a paid Recycle-a-Bicycle associate. Under the tutelage of an experienced mechanic, Feliciano and fellow associate Gina Estevens labored recently to tune up a long line of bikes.Programs in New York and elsewhere train young mechanics and provide... more

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72-year-old Craig resident moving to Texas — on his bike

No excuse ya'll. How inspiring!!! - Riding a bike alone through Colorado is... more

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Portable Bike Lanes

Clever.
Any excuse to get on your bike and roam the city!!

Nice!!!

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(Washington DC) - LAB's vision of a Bicycle Friendly America has taken a major step towards making every road in America Bicycle Friendly. "While cities like Portland and Madison have rolled out the proverbial red carpet for cyclists, now every cyclist is America can roll out their own 'black carpet'!" said LAB President Nigel Lark-Ascending. "The number one thing surveys have shown that keep the US from abandoning automobiles for bicycles (after level roads, cool but sunny skies, and a permanent tail wind), is the lack of bike lanes. As of today, there is nothing to hold American cyclists back."

Commissioning Portland's Awful+Design Group, the LAB's Lark-Ascending urged them to continue their groundbreaking work in importing the most dubious of European designs, and making them uniquely bad for America. "Our courageous work with blue and green bike lanes was being thwarted by having to get committee approvals around the country" said Awful's principal, Hope Itzo. "Obstinate old men wearing woolen cycling gear kept bringing up quaint notions like safety and liability. Modern trends have passed them by, and they just won't accept that they are simply scratchy woolen dinosaurs in a stretchy lycra age."

To get around professional objections to their innovative designs, Awful presented the user-deployed "MagickCarpet Bike Lane" to Mr. Lark-Ascending. He was immediately struck by its brilliance. "Brilliant!" he said, "Absolutely brilliant!"

Drawing its design from World War II anti-tank minefield clearers, every cyclist can now have a rolled up, one meter wide bike lane attached to their bicycle. As the cyclist rolls along previously bicycle unfriendly streets and roads, s/he is proceeded by 100 feet of bike lane, and trailed by by an equal one. "Like magic, all the cars and trucks stay out of the proceeding (and receding) lane. Everywhere cyclists ride, they can now have their very own 200 foot bike lane" explains Ms. Itzo, "protecting them from all dangers to the rear, and paving the way to a bright blue-green future."

Production MagickCarpet Bike Lanes will be available in either blue or green, although the prototype shown was availble in any color you'd like, "as long as it's black." Itzo and Lark-Ascending both said that problems with "curling" experienced at the "unrolling" in Washington DC will be "ironed out" prior to consumer manufacture. Expected prices have yet to be announced, although Ms. Itzo was confident the price would be considerably less than paying for an SUV's gasoline for a year.

With a look to the future, the former lobbyist Mr. Lark-Ascending said, "To maximize the safety benefits the MagickCarpet Bike Lane affords, LAB will be looking into whether or not their use should be made compulsory in LAB designated Bicycle-Unfriendly cities." MegaBikeCo has been announced as the sole manufacturer of the MagickCarpet Bike lane. Clever. Any excuse to get on your bike and roam the city!! Nice!!! -... more

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Matt Peterson and Kristy Gough Memorial Dedication and Ride

Matt Peterson and Kristy Gough Memorial Dedication and Ride SATURDAY Oct. 18th, 2008... more

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Lance is fixed

Mash SF has this cool video of great fixed gear riders hauling ass with Austin's... more

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