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A limited product recall of SRAM hydraulic brakes for road bicycles announced last fall has been expanded to include all of the Chicago-based company’s hydraulic brake systems for road bikes.
SRAM and the Consumer Product Safety Commission recommended that consumers immediately stop riding bikes with those brake systems and contact a local SRAM dealer. SRAM …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/01/14/sram-recalls-25000-hydraulic-brake-systems-for-road-bicycles/
Bicyclists in Ohio and Virginia are working to enact bills that would require motor vehicles to give bicyclists 3 feet of clearance when passing.
Currently, 22 states and the District of Columbia have laws on the books with the 3-foot or more requirement. California became the 22nd to enact the law last year; it goes …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/01/14/bicyclists-in-ohio-seek-safety-in-3-foot-passing-law/
Forty cities in the U.S. host some type of bicycle-sharing system at the beginning of 2014, after 13 cities joined the effort to use rental bikes to solve traffic congestion and pollution in 2013.
In spite of successful ridership for those systems throughout the year, several had to shut down briefly because of snow and/or …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/01/06/huge-growth-for-bike-sharing-in-us-last-year/
Event organizers who operate charity bike rides and bike races in the Death Valley National Park learned just before Christmas that no new permits for such sporting events will be issued at the park in 2014.
The park service is citing safety concerns and a need to study such sporting events before issuing permits for …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/01/02/death-valley-national-park-freezes-bike-race-and-charity-bike-ride-permits/
[STP is sold out as of Feb. 18, 2014. A few more tickets can be earned, and others will be auctioned off. See Cascade Bicycle Club blog.)
Plan to register early if you want to ride in the STP (Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic), RSVP (Ride from Seattle to Vancouver and Party!), or other popular …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/31/registration-opens-soon-for-2014-rsvp-1-2-stp-and-other-cascade-bike-rides/
Specialized Bicycle Components is recalling 173 Source Eleven and Source Expert Disc bicycles with Supernova Switchable Dynamo Front Hubs after a problem with the front hub cropped up.
The Morgan Hill, California-based company and the Consumer Product Safety Commission is urging owners to stop riding the bicycles and to return them to a Specialized dealer …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/30/specialized-recalls-source-11-and-source-expert-disc-bicycles/
Hey NASCAR. On yer left!
Eight hundred bicyclists are on the way!
At least that many cyclists are expected to ride a lap on the Daytona International Speedway next spring as one highlight in Bike Florida’s week-long bicycle tour to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
The March 22-28 ride — named the Magical History Tour — …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/30/bike-florida-heads-to-speedway-for-20th-anniversary-bike-tour-in-2014/
Watching in slack-jawed amazement at the stunts these trials legends can perform on a road bike, I actually forget that Martyn Ashton, Danny MacAskill and Chris Akrigg are human like the rest of us.
A lot of trial and error — and crashes — go into these tricks. But they climb right back on their …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/28/road-bike-party-2-if-at-first-you-dont-succeed/
It turns out that Vashon Island in Washington state’s Puget Sound isn’t the only place in the US where a tree has enveloped a bicycle. But it remains the only known place where a “living” tree has done so.
The bike-in-a-tree is well known among cyclists in the Seattle area, and many have made the …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/25/another-bicycle-lodged-in-tree-discovered/
Trek is recalling 6,800 Madone bicycles because of a faulty bolt on the front brake quick release. The bolt can come loose, causing the cable clamp to come off and make the brake inoperable.
The Waterloo, Wisconsin-based company received 5 reports of loose brake bolts, but no injuries from falls.
The company and US Consumer …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/12/12/trek-recalls-2013-madone-bicycles/
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