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Tour de Fat: Test rides
Bike Ring, Circle of fun bikes - San Francisco, Tour de Fat Festival 2008 / New Belgium Brewery - The San Francisco Bike Coalition
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Tour de Fat: The Sprockettes /2
Talented chicas
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San Francisco-Tour de Fat Festival 2008 / New Belgium Brewery - The San Francisco Bike Coalition
Spockettes (1/2 video‹s›) from Portland OR.
their mission: "The Sprockettes are an all female synchronized mini-bike dance troupe.
In a basic sense it is our mission to entertain audiences by choreographing dances while using our bikes in our performance."
more: http://sprockettes.org/ Talented chicas - San Francisco-Tour de Fat Festival 2008 / New Belgium Brewery - The San Francisco Bike Coalition ... more -
Tour de Fat: The Sprockettes /1
Talented chicas
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San Francisco-Tour de Fat Festival 2008 / New Belgium Brewery - The San Francisco Bike Coalition
Spockettes (1/3 video‹s›) from Portland OR.
their mission: "The Sprockettes are an all female synchronized mini-bike dance troupe.
In a basic sense it is our mission to entertain audiences by choreographing dances while using our bikes in our performance."
more: http://sprockettes.org/ Talented chicas - San Francisco-Tour de Fat Festival 2008 / New Belgium Brewery - The San Francisco Bike Coalition ... more -
Tour de Fat: Happy jugglers
Talented boys. - San Francisco, Tour de Fat Festival 2008 / New Belgium Brewery - The San Francisco Bike Coalition
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UK Invests Big Money In Bikes : TreeHugger
Well, the UK has done something else right. Like all the good (and not so good) European countries they're increasing spending for cyclists.
A couple good quotes:
"The first step in persuading people to leave their cars at home is to offer them a real choice," said Transport Minister, Ruth Kelly. "Providing a step change in cycling facilities, dedicated cycle lanes, more training and information will have a big impact on how people choose to travel."
"A quarter of journeys made every day by car are less than two miles, Cycling is an alternative that could bring real health benefits to millions of adults and children, as well as helping them save money and beat congestion."
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NY's Broadway becoming the Great Bike Way
Glad to see NY is looking into embracing bikes as opposed to restricting them.
Interesting article... we'll see how far it goes...
Seems to be that Bloomberg is changing his stance on two wheelers.. Let's hope it's true.
Ride on!
NEW YORK - Call it the Great Bike Way.
New York City plans to turn a swath of Broadway in midtown Manhattan into a bike lane and public esplanade _ leaving two fewer lanes for vehicles on the busy thoroughfare.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that the plan will benefit the environment as well as people's health.
The Broadway plan will "give us a lot more room to walk on the streets and to get people ... out of their cars and walking, which is good for their health and also good for the environment," Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show.
The area, called Broadway Boulevard, will run from 42nd Street eight blocks south to the busy shopping district of Herald Square, which includes Macy's department store. The esplanade will be flanked by a pedestrian walkway with cafe tables and umbrellas, separated from vehicular traffic by planters filled with flowers.
The area's Fashion Center Business Improvement District is working with the city's Department of Transportation to create the street plazas, at a cost of $700,000. Jan Gehl, an urban designer based in Copenhagen, was hired as a consultant.
Work already is under way. The esplanade is to open in mid-August, with newly painted pavement and plastic traffic barriers popping up on the street.
The project is in line with Bloomberg's vision of reducing New York's traffic and pollution by encouraging bike riding and other alternatives to cars.
City transportation officials also are exploring other possibilities _ from banning cars on Park Avenue on three Saturdays in August to a bicycle-sharing program. Glad to see NY is looking into embracing bikes as opposed to restricting them. Interesting article... we'll see how far it goes... ... more -
Bike Hugger - Economic Indicators
I've noticed similar circumstances at my local shops, business is booming!
Small little article, but great and brings a smile to my face.
CleverCycles: http://clevercycles.com/?p=231
Check out the Retrovelo site too, great looking bikes! http://retrovelo.de/ I've noticed similar circumstances at my local shops, business is booming! ... more -
Pedal-Powered Businesses Popping Up In Portland : TreeHugger
Every just want to give it all up and get a pedi-cab? How about an ice cream cart?
Well, more people are doing it everyday. I want to move to Portland! Every just want to give it all up and get a pedi-cab? How about an ice cream cart? ... more -
Biking On The Job Enouraged To Save Gas
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. ― Riding a bike as part of the job has become standard for some workers in Colorado mountain communities like Breckenridge. It is all part of an effort by towns and counties in the high country to save money on gas and conserve.
The building inspectors in Breckenridge are now riding city owned bikes to job sites.
"So we're doing it to save fuel for sure, but the broader footprint is obviously the carbon footprint of the town," said Glen Morgan of the Breckenridge Building Department.
Construction workers are often caught off guard when the inspectors pedal up to a building in progress.
Breckenridge bought a total of six bikes for its employees to use for business errands and meetings. Frisco also has four bikes that employees can check out.
"I love them," said one woman. "They are so great. We take them out every time we have a meeting in town."
The town's police chief has a new hybrid to save on fuel as well.
Back in Breckenridge, there is contest that encourages employees to walk, bike or use public transportation to get to work.
The public works department in Silverthorne sent out a notice to employees asking them to cut back on unnecessary driving and pair up for jobs if possible.
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How the Bicycle Emancipated Women
womanlicious!
a good quick snippet back in time with women and bikes, and horses and the bra.
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I love history.
--small excerpt /from the mentalfloss blog--
Before bicycles came along, the horse was the best means of individual travel. Of course, women’s access to horses was limited. Horses were dangerous and difficult to control; conventional medical wisdom suggested that riding them could damage a woman’s genitals. Women were supposed to ride sidesaddle, with both legs hanging off one side. In that unnatural position, women were unable to ride for long distances, reinforcing the idea that they shouldn’t be riding at all.
Bicycles, by comparison, were easy to manipulate. There was no reason a woman couldn’t get on a bike and sedately pedal farther from her home than she’d ever been before. No reason, that is, other than her cumbersome attire and the convention that if she did so, she’d either have her virtue corrupted or die of exhaustion.
As the bicycle continues to lend itself to causes of all kinds, it is important to remember its first battle. Liberating is a word easily associated with cycling. Flying down a tree-lined road with the wind in your face is certainly a liberating experience, but for early female cyclists, a simple bike ride was liberating in a much more significant way. womanlicious! a good quick snippet back in time with women and bikes, and horses and the bra. - I love history. ... more -
Bike and bus tutorial
If you are new to the put your bike on buses to cross those wonderful bridges or skip those hills (...) those weird looking racks in front of the bus could be a breeze to use. After this video you'll be a pro. It is basic and informative. (found thru the East Bay Bike coalition)
Not to mention the awesome mustache the bus driver is sporting.
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Have fun out there and remember that AC transit, and other Bay are services are alternatives to connect the bay. (bus-ferry-bart-CALtrans van during rush hour) for more info and an additional MUNI video go to the always resourceful, SFbike coalition:
http://www.sfbike.org/?transit If you are new to the put your bike on buses to cross those wonderful bridges or skip those hills (...) those weird looking racks in f... more -
When cars and bikes share more than the road
fact one/ this was not critical mass
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fact two/ I am unaware with certainty what words/actions were exchanged that caused this incident. Im the usual slow rider behind checking stuff, like this.
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Cyclist handed 'laughable fine' after girl's death
A cyclist, who killed a 17-year old girl by ploughing in to her at 17mph whilst on his $10k custom built bicycle was today handed a fine of just GBP2,0000 ($4k).
The parents of Rhiannon Bennett described the fine as 'laughable'.
A cyclist, who killed a 17-year old girl by ploughing in to her at 17mph whilst on his $10k custom built bicycle was today handed a fi... more -
SRAM Red Road Bike Group wins Design Distinction
pure bike porn.
if you are foreign to this group of components, red to SRAM is what Marc Jacobs is to Louis Vuitton. and its probably everywhere around France right now, since the Shimano people arent coming out with the new duraAce til later.
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Does anyone wanna go for a $100,000 bike ride
NEWPORT NEWS - Tom Mault of Hampton says the red Schwinn that he bought for $350 on Tuesday has fetched offers as high as $100,000 from fans and collectors on the Internet.
Turns out that Mault stumbled on a May 1963 Sting-Ray — one of the first of its kind off the line.
He says he found the bike with its distinct "banana seat" leaning in a corner at Seashore Bike & Fitness, a Virginia Beach shop that sells new and used bicycles.
Mault, who collects Schwinns, bought the bike, then posted its serial number on a forum at SchwinnBike.com to ask whether "anyone knows much about '63 stingrays."
Collectors decoded the serial number and determined that the bike was manufactured May 17, 1963 — one of the earliest Sting-Rays known to exist. May 1963 was the first month that the odd-looking bikes were produced.
Bike collectors from London to Japan "flipped out," Mault says. By 6 p.m. Thursday, his online posting had been viewed almost 1,900 times, and people had offered him between $2,000 and $100,000 for the bike.
The catch, he says: It's not for sale.
Mault, who owns roofing company Tidewater Exteriors in Hampton, says he would rather donate the Sting-Ray — one of the hottest American icons of the 1960s and '70s — to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
He says he told the collector in Japan who offered $100,000 that he appreciated the generous offer but that he'd rather give it to the national museum for everyone to be able to enjoy.
"It's American history, not Japanese history," he says. "I want it to stay here."
Officials at Schwinn and the Smithsonian couldn't be reached for comment.
According to SchwinnBike.com, the first Sting-Ray went on sale in 1963 and retailed for $49.95. Adults reviewed it as "weird" or "ugly," but it took off with kids. By 1968, 70 percent of all bikes sold in the U.S. were either Sting-Rays or Sting-Ray knockoffs.
Mault, 43, says his parents couldn't afford one when he was a kid, so he began collecting them about two years ago and now has about 15.
Mike Love, a mechanic at Seashore Bike, says the store's owner sold Mault the bike on consignment for a local man who bought it in 1963 for a grandson who barely used it. It was in the store for about three months and had all its original parts, down to factory-stamped tires.
Love, a bike mechanic for 34 years, says he inspected the bike and tried to determine its age by the serial number, but he could tell only that it was made before 1965. He didn't think much of it beyond that, he says.
"I've seen so many Sting-Rays over the years, it doesn't impress me anymore," he says.
If Mault's bike is a genuine '63 original, though, Love says, there might be a lot of "shoulda, coulda, woulda" on the shop's part.
The store's owner, Matt Spinelli, declined to comment and couldn't provide the name of the bike's original owner. NEWPORT NEWS - Tom Mault of Hampton says the red Schwinn that he bought for $350 on Tuesday has fetched offers as high as $100,000 fro... more -
The slow bicycle movement
We've had Slow Food, Slow Cities and even Slow Sex. So now, say hello to the Slow Bicycle Movement.
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Going green, on two wheels
After lagging behind Europe for years, US cities are finally becoming bike-friendly.
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Making Old Bikes New for Post-Katrina New Orleans | Hugg 2.0
Great little blurb about RUBARB, a bike reclamation outfit in New Orleans. They're doing some great things with nothing, for nothing.
The TreeHugger.com article links here: http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/27/making-old-bikes-new...
Rubarb's website is here: http://www.rubarbike.org/index.html Great little blurb about RUBARB, a bike reclamation outfit in New Orleans. They're doing some great things with nothing, for nothing.... more -
Around the World on Two Wheels
This is my upcoming summer read.
Thought I'd share, looks fascinating and very inspiring.
Woman pedal power.
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..."She announced her arrival by sending telegrams or telegraph messages to newspapers and cycling clubs of upcoming towns. Indeed, she exemplified the “New Woman” in the best and worst ways possible."
AROUND THE WORLD IN TWO WHEELS: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride, by Peter Zheutlin - - - -
Peter Zheutlin, Annie Londonderry’s great-great nephew, has written a masterful homage to his great-great aunt, while recounting the extraordinary “ride” of a remarkable woman.
Annie Cohen was born in Latvia in around 1870, and moved to Boston as a child. She married Max Kopchovsky in 1888 and had three children in the following four years. In 1894, presumably as part of a wager, she agreed to undertake a bicycle tour around the globe, following the example of Thomas Stevens who had made a similar trip a decade earlier. The details of the wager were either too vague or too detailed, depending on which story Annie decided to tell. Zheutlin even suggests that Annie herself may have invented the whole wager story to both rationalize and to sensationalize her voyage (after, of course, the famous wager of Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s 1872 novel, Around the World in 80 Days). According to Annie, the wager allowed her fifteen months to circle the globe and required that she earn her upkeep during the trip. Although not active in the women’s movement, Annie was surely sympathetic to the plight of the “New Woman,” much written about in the papers and the media in general in the 1890’s. As Zheutlin writes: “the bicycle represented to Annie a literal vehicle to the fame, freedom, and material wealth she so craved.”
In Chicago in late September, Annie realized that she would not have enough time to cross the Great Plains and the Rockies to catch her steamship in San Francisco, so she decided to reverse her itinerary by going back to the east coast and taking a boat to Europe.
Annie arrived in Le Havre on December 3, 1894. Although her trip in France started on a negative note: customs officials impounded her bike, her money was stolen and the French reporters wrote repeatedly that she was too muscular to be truly feminine and labeled her as belonging to the category of “neutered beings." Still, Annie claimed that her voyage through France became the highlight of her whole tour. Suffering cold weather and rain, Annie made it from Paris to Marseilles in two weeks, although she took the train for over two hundred kilometers before Lyon. In Marseilles she was given a hero’s welcome and a grand farewell as she sailed to Egypt and beyond.
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Pillowfight Bike Ride
This collection of 1200 stunning stills by vc2 producer Matthew Simmons follows the Midnight Ridazz as they bike 20 mile bikes though the streets or LA. The only thing that can stop the Midnight Ridazz is a good pillow fight. This collection of 1200 stunning stills by vc2 producer Matthew Simmons follows the Midnight Ridazz as they bike 20 mile bikes though ... more
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