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.” ……
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Ben Sollee and his three-person crew on the road in Kentucky. See Vimeo video.
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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 …
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Alliance for Biking and Walking.
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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 ….
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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.
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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 ….
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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 ….
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Major Taylor may have been a world-renown bicycle racer in his day, but he died forgotten and penniless in 1932 and was buried in a pauper's graveyard in Chicago.
In the past few years, however, more people are learning about the world-class African-American cyclist, due in part to the many bike paths, clubs and even a statue erected in his memory.
Columbus, Ohio, is the most recent city to honor the cyclist by renaming a four-mile section of the Alum Creek Greenway as the Major Taylor Bikeway. It was dedicated last weekend.
It's only fitting that Columbus honor Taylor in this way ….
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It wasn't faulty electronics that nearly washed out the centerpiece of the Seattle Bicycle Music Festival on Saturday. It was some cheap skateboard wheels that started melting.
But the show must go on. Organizers fixed the problem, and the audience enjoyed pedal-powered music all day long and into the night in the festival that everyone's calling a huge success.
The technical gurus behind the pedal-powered sound system had stayed up until almost midnight on Friday putting the finishing touches on the “Bike Bar.” That's the name for the 16-foot-long hand-made generator that holds the five bicycles that provides wattage for the PA system.
They thought they had worked out all the kinks for the first show at Bergen Park at 9 a.m. Saturday morning. But they noticed the cheap skateboard wheels they had used to support the Bike Bar's drivetrain against the bicycle wheels weren't up to the task of constant spinning. They started to melt.
Jon Murray, one of the folks who worked on the Bike Bar for the festival, said they put in a call to the local board-sports shop ….
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