Can you count and are you free Oct. 5, 6, or 7th?
Then you can volunteer to participate in the 2010 Washington Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project.
The state wants to count bicyclists and pedestrians at specific locations year after year to estimate demand, measure the success of investments and design future projects.
Cities seeking volunteers comprise Bellevue, Bellingham, Bothell, Bremerton, …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/09/15/washington-state-seeks-volunteers-for-bicycle-count/
One cyclist may crack on the lofty summit of a mountaintop finish. Another will fail on an individual time trial over a dead flat course. Each time, the overall race lead changes.
That's the story of the past two stages of the Vuelta a Espana.
On Monday's Stage 16, red jersey leader Vincenzo Nibali lost more than a half-minute when many of his rivals attacked near the summit of Alto de Cotobello and he couldn't respond. Joaquim Rodriguez moved into first place overall. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/09/15/decisive-loss-on-a-flat-stage-at-vuelta-a-espana-bike-race/
Taking your show on the road has a completely different meaning for muscians Ben Sollee and Taylor Ho Bynum.
Separately, the two are bicycling to their schedule of far-flung gigs. For cellist/vocalist Sollee, it's a cross-country tour. For jazz trumpeter Bynum, it's bike tour to concerts in New England.
Although it's unusual, they're not the first. They'll be following in the virtual bicycle tire tracks laid down by the Ditty Bops four years ago.
The Los Angeles-based girl band duo known for their music, as well as their love of bicycles, took off on their cross-country bicycle performing tour in 2006. At the time, band member Abby DeWald said that it was better to move their bodies “than sit in a mush pile in the back of a dirty van.” ……
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/09/14/musicians-hitting-the-road-by-bicycle-for-fall-concert-tours/
Ben Sollee and his three-person crew on the road in Kentucky. See Vimeo video.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/09/14/ditch-the-van-tour/
Cash infusions to four bicycle advocacy organizations will help pump up bicycling programs in four communities.
The $103,000 was handed out earlier this month by the Alliance for Biking and Walking as Advocacy Advance grants, funded by SRAM, as well as Bikes Belong and Planet Bike.
The four lucky programs are Bicycle Coalition of Maine, The Community Development Council of Greater Memphis' Livable Memphis Program, the Missouri Foundation for Bicycling and Walking, and the California Bicycle Coalition Education Fund.
“From rural to urban communities, from the coast to the Heartland …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/09/14/more-funding-for-bicycle-advocacy-programs/
Alliance for Biking and Walking.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/09/14/alliance-for-biking-and-walking-logo/
One of the best things about using the Washington State Ferries System to cross the Puget Sound — beyond the awesome 360-degree views — is that bicyclists are first on and first off.
That's a nice little plum for a cyclist like myself who only makes the trip a few times a year for a recreational ride.
But it's an essential time-saver for the many cyclists who commute to and from work in downtown from the islands or the Olympic Peninsula.
I've taken the ferry by car, too, and it can take 10 minutes or more to unload the vehicles. Unless the ferry is loaded for the Chilly Hilly, like in this picture, is takes maybe a minute to let the bikes off and scoot on up the road.
Just today, Cascade Bicycle Club is reporting on their blog that a report by a team of nationwide experts suggests reversing the load/unload order so that bicyclists are the last ones on, and the last ones off, the ferry ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/09/14/report-recommends-sending-bicyclists-to-the-back-of-the-ferry/
Approximate location where truck hit and killed a bicyclist. The driver realized he knew the cyclist and committed suicide with a handgun. Occurred near 228th Ave. SE and SE 444th Street in Enumclaw in rural King County. More at BikingBis. Interactive map of crash scene.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/09/13/tragic-crash-scene/
After controlling the overall lead for about 110 miles on Monday's Stage 16, everything fell apart for the Liquigas cycling team and Vincenzo Nibali in the final mile.
With Frank Schleck scampering up the Alto de Corobello to erase a few seconds in his gap to the red jersey, the group of riders surrounding Nibali attacked and the Italian could not respond.
His chief rival, Joaquin Rodriguez (Katusha), finished 37 seconds ahead of Nibali and took the leader's red jersey with 33 seconds to spare ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/09/13/another-overall-lead-change-on-this-years-toughest-day-at-vuelta/
A truck driver who struck and killed a bicyclist early Sunday morning in a rural area southeast of Seattle pulled over and shot himself with a handgun after realizing he had just killed a friend.
People in the Enumclaw area who knew the two young men are trying to come to terms with the tragic events. They created a small memorial with flowers and a candle at the scene.
Dead are Steven D. Relford, 20, the cyclist and Geoffrey M. Godley, 24, of Buckley, the driver of the pickup truck, according to the Seattle Times. Godley's cousin, 27, was a passenger in the pickup, which he owned.
Acquaintances told the Times that Relford and Godley hung out together ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/09/13/man-commits-suicide-after-running-down-his-bicycling-friend-victims-identified/
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