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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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lets coexist <3 fact one/ this was not critical mass - ... 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 -
Down Low Glow provides essential side visibility for bike commuters.
Front and rear safety lights (blinkies) protect you well in many riding situations. But blinkies are weakest when viewed from the side. Unfortunately, side visibility is the most common cause of nighttime bicycle-car collisions. Every time you approach a turn or an intersection, your side visibility is key to drivers seeing you.
Bike commuting, early morning training, and sunset rides should be inspiring, relaxing, fun and invigorating. And they can be, when you take the right safety measures. To feel relaxed and confident at those intersections, you need to know that drivers from all angles, especially the sides, can see you as early as possible. Front and rear safety lights (blinkies) protect you well in many riding situations. But blinkies are weakest when viewed from the side... more -
A new generation of carbon-free musicians brings pedal to the people
sweet inspiration.
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(link/article for full story)
"... A fresh undercurrent of musical culture is reinventing what’s cool — and taking gasoline out of the equation. Around the country, musicians are embracing pedal-power, biking from show to show, city to city, even nation to nation.
The movement arrives as a reaction to the trends of global hip-hop and mass-produced rock, worlds in which stars may preach socio-political and environmental righteousness yet indulge in glamorous, grossly extravagant limo lifestyles."
But not the Ginger Ninjas. In April, this folk-ska band from North San Juan, California (fronted by Xtracycle co-founder Kipchoge Spencer) completed a fully pedal-powered tour of 5000 miles from Lake Tahoe to Chiapas, Mexico. The Ninjas’ tour — called Pleasant Revolution — included 80 dates. So did the Rolling Stones’ 2006 Bigger Bang Tour, but the tired supergroup’s tour also included 80 semi trucks, a jet plane and 37,000 barrels of oil — each incinerated, of course. The Ginger Ninjas, who employed a pedal-powered sound system at most shows, estimate they expended a third of a barrel of oil on their journey.
In San Francisco, Fossil Fool, “The Bike Rapper,” has achieved an unlikely alchemy. Known more casually as Paul Freedman, the innovative vocalist and tech wizard has blended the shadowy realm of streetside rap with the gentle notion of the bicycle. He rides a massive, self-designed pedal-powered chopper from gig to gig. It’s a bike mean as hell and cool as night. It glows when pedaled and serves as a human-powered P.A. system at Fossil Fool’s mobile street parties, and it gets great gas mileage between venues — which is to say none.
“My character when I perform is a rapper born in an alternate universe where bikes are cool and cars are lame,” says Freedman. “There’s no doubt we live in a car culture, but I also have no doubt that bikes are way cooler. People are sick of the hip-hop culture where the rapper has the newest Mercedes.” sweet inspiration. - (link/article for full story) ... more
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