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New Belgium Brewing Boosts Biking
The Fort Collins-based company has launched an interactive online blog for its 15,000 Team Wonderbike members, who pledge to bike instead of drive as often as possible - assuming, of course, they don't do either after tossing back a couple of Fat Tires. The brewery released its list of top 10 Marvelous Reasons Why Our Employees Love to Ride. See more reasons at teamwonderbike.com/blog. The Fort Collins-based company has launched an interactive online blog for its 15,000 Team Wonderbike members, who pledge to bike inst... more
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RideTheCity.com: A Google Maps App for Safe Biking
RideTheCity is a cool mash-up application that allows you to plan bike routes based on safety and speed. By typing - or selecting - a start and end location in New York City, the application will find the safest and quickest routes by factoring in bike routes for “safest” trips and the shortest travel distance for the quickest trips.
The project is run by three bikers, Jordan Anderson, Vaidila Kungys, and Josh Steinbauer (Full disclosure: I went to college with Jordan but found out about this via NPR.) who connected Google maps to a few basic heuristic rules and added a cool logo. The GIS data comes from the city itself and is merged with Google Maps for display. RideTheCity is a cool mash-up application that allows you to plan bike routes based on safety and speed. By typing - or selecting - a ... more -
Denver Police Beat A 58 Year Old Cyclist and Get Caught Lying About It!
Here we go again.....
Just as NYC a few weeks ago police have been caught on video assaulting a cyclist, after lying about it in court!
This time it was 58 year old John Heaney of Denver.
Please click link for video-
Another post of same topic:
http://current.com/items/89199297_police_assault_58_yea...
This seems to be happening more and more frequently.
Luckily Citizen Journalism saves the day!
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60 cyclists protested in Santa Monica
I had seen this current pod from traffic kills/Italy:
http://current.com/items/89070591_a_polite_display_of_p...
and here is a California version.
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(SANTA MONICA) Published by Alex Thompson
Yesterday approximately 6o cyclists protested police harassment (photos on Flickr & Ridazz) of Santa Monica Critical Mass. In response to the 14 citations of Santa Monica Critical Mass (SMCM) riders last Friday we, the Crimanimalz, blocked 4 crosswalks for a cumulative period of 40 minutes. By walking back and forth across crosswalks continuously the Crimanimalz were able to legally create massive traffic jams. We effectively showed that legal behavior can be outrageously disruptive. Further, we showed that should the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) continue targeting cyclists on Critical Mass, there will be consequences for traffic in Santa Monica on other days.
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SMPD traffic officers clearly took the cue from their superiors. For example, while issuing over 30 tickets for “no light” violations, officers repeatedly checked the box “this is not a correctable violation.” However, every “no light” violation for a cyclist is a correctable violation in California, as the California Highway Patrol has pointed out numerous times to riders who go to pay these violation. Once a rider demonstrates that they have a corrected the violation by equipping a light, the fine drops from over $100 to just $10. By misleading cited cyclists SMPD has improved their revenue stream and cost riders thousands of dollars more than is legally justified.
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This is Santa Monica’s reminder. If we are to be painted as disruptive, then we shall act so. If we are to be treated as insignificant, then we will show that we are not. Actions like this will continue to occur, at unpredictable times, using unpredictable means, until the Santa Monica Police Department quits ticketing Santa Monica Critical Mass.
•click on article for more pictures / and full article• I had seen this current pod from traffic kills/Italy: http://current.com/items/89070591_a_polite_display_of_power ... more -
David Byrne, Cultural Omnivore, Raises Cycling Rack to an Art Form
A well written description about the David Byrne bike rack project. Very cool stuff.
David is a rad biking head.
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In recent years his interest in bicycles has expanded from riding them to thinking seriously about the role they play in urban life, as he has started making connections with politicians and international design consultants keen to keep cars from taking over the city. So when the Department of Transportation asked him to help judge a design competition for the city’s new bike racks, he eagerly agreed — so eagerly, in fact, that he sent in his own designs as well.
They were simple shapes to define different neighborhoods around the city: a dollar sign for Wall Street; an electric guitar for Williamsburg, Brooklyn; a car — “The Jersey” — for the area near the Lincoln Tunnel. “I said, ‘Well, this disqualifies me as a judge,’ ” he recalled, “but I just doodled them out and sent them in.”
But for the 364 days that the racks will be out on the streets, Mr. Byrne doesn’t want them to be admired as artwork, he said; he wants them to be lashed with heavy chains, banged with Kryptonites and scratched by gears. He wants them to be used.
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Find the WSJ video from last month here:
http://current.com/items/89170200_biking_with_david_byr... A well written description about the David Byrne bike rack project. Very cool stuff. David is a rad biking head. ... more -
Kaiser and the cutest bike commercial.
This is LOVELY! I heart blue bikes!
Watching the fashion in the opening Olympics Ceremony (thank you Project Runway).
Even BART gets a shot. I'm pretty sure it is BART I spotted, unless there are other metro transit trains sporting the same very ugly blue wool dirty seats... :)
Anyways, very cute, if not the cutest commercial I've seen.
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Wedges shoes, cute boys, the city(cities) featured, hauling your bike a flight of stairs, farmer markets oh my. This is LOVELY! I heart blue bikes! Watching the fashion in the opening Olympics Ceremony (thank you Project Runway). ... more -
Bikes, Copenhagen and Disneyland
Bikes, Copenhagen and Disneyland: what we have in common.
Steve Hymos is a blogger over at the LA times. He interviewed blogesphere celebrity (in the cycle-chicness world) Mikael Colville-Andersen -aka- Zakkaliciousness in Flickrland and his series of Cycle Chic blogs from Copenhagen (links posted @story link) whom, has inspired a myriad of blogs, Flickr™ groups and people around the globe to ride a bike, relax and look good while at it. Mind you, Copenhagen & Europe are quite different in traffic structure than here in the US, but we can still look good trying, right?
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He notes an interesting history facts from both cities, Los Angeles and Copenhagen.
"There is no part of the world where cycling is in greater favor than in Southern California, and nowhere on the American continent are conditions so favorable the year round for wheeling. -It's from a 1897 newspaper article, back during Bicycle Culture 1.0 and back when 20% of all trips were made by bike in Los Angeles. Impressive stats and an impressive cycling history in L.A."
Hundreds of thousands of cyclists on the roads. Ironically, the world's most impressive separated bike path was built to connect Pasadena to Los Angeles in 1900. At that time 20% of all trips where made by bicycle in the Los Angeles region so the construction of the eight-mile Arroyo Seco Cycleway -- an elevated, multilane, wooden bike path, complete with streetlights and gazebo turnouts -– was a given.
Copenhagen was a congested, polluted city in the 1960s and more and more cars were being bought.
Now, 40-odd years on, a progressive network of separated bicycle lanes blankets the city. Doctors, students, parents with kids in a cargo bike, lawyers and shop assistants are all apart of a pleasingly aesthetic flow of human-powered goodness. Fifty-six percent of Copenhageners say that they ride their bikes because it's easy and fast.
Bicycles are normalized transport vehicles and they are the lifeblood of the city, not the domain of impenetrable subcultures with political leanings. With my Copenhagen Cycle Chic blog I try to show how my fellow citizens ride each day. In style, with ease and every day of the week.
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Alternative Transportation
According to Triple A’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report, the average price of gas in Massachusetts has risen to three dollars and fifteen cents per gallon – not far behind the national average of three dollars and twenty-nine cents per gallon.
With gas prices at a record high, many drivers are abandoning their cars in search of alternative forms of transportation. According to Triple A’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report, the average price of gas in Massachusetts has risen to three dollars and fifteen cent... more -
Knives, Bikes and Politics
Tim Wright has never owned a car. A self described
craftsman/machinist he travels where he must via bicycle. This short
doc features a conversation with the man who can't seem to divert from
politics, even when discussing his forte - knife making. Tim Wright has never owned a car. A self described craftsman/machinist he travels where he must via bicycle. This short ... more -
Bike City-Copenhagen
Copenhagen Denmark is all about biking and being green. On every road, there are wide bike lanes for commuters and they zoom around all day long. And if you feel left out of the biking madness, you can rent one for free. Copenhagen Denmark is all about biking and being green. On every road, there are wide bike lanes for commuters and they zoom around a... more
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Biking in Copenhagen
Copenhagen is a city full of bicycles. Its dangerous actually. The speed demon, and Weave-master can all be found riding two wheels through the streets of Copenhagen, as tens of thousands commute daily. Well take the camera on wheels and see the gorgeous city of Copenhagen in all its glory via its favourite mode of transportation. Copenhagen is a city full of bicycles. Its dangerous actually. The speed demon, and Weave-master can all be found riding two whee... more
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Paris on 2 Wheels a Day
A new bicycle rental service, called Velib', a combination of the words 'velo' (bike) and 'liberte' (liberty), is an initiative pushed by Paris' mayor who has made fighting traffic and pollution his No. 1 goal. A new bicycle rental service, called Velib', a combination of the words 'velo' (bike) and 'liberte' (liberty)... more
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360 degrees of separation
As modern circus performers, the job of freestyle motocross athletes is to push the envelope of what is physically possible. Flying high and falling hard, this is a glimpse inside the life and mindset of a freestyle motocross rider . This piece chronicles the story of 22 year old Jason Rowe as he attempts his first ever backflip. The results, like the rider, are well, up in the air. As modern circus performers, the job of freestyle motocross athletes is to push the envelope of what is physically possible. Flying h... more
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Taco Tuesday Bike Ride // LAfixed
Weekly rides occur to bring bike enthusiasts together. Sharing common interests these ridders relish in the glow of good times and good company. This is a sample of one of these moments. enjoi
"Life continues to roll on whether we choose to capture it or not"
audio: Ernest Gonzalez // "While on Saturn's Rings" Weekly rides occur to bring bike enthusiasts together. Sharing common interests these ridders relish in the glow of good times and goo... more -
Landis Victory
Landis lands the U.S.A. its 8th consective win in the Tour de France.
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Fixed Pedal Love in SF
MASH is an indy film about the fixed pedal bike scene in San Francisco. Cool video teaser on the click through.
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BBC SPORT | Other Sport... | Cycling | Cancellara snatches stage victory
I get the feeling that without Lance Armstrong in the hunt, cycling is doomed to go the way of soccer, here in the States.
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