Seattle area bicyclist Kent Peterson prepares to leave on Tour Divide from Issaquah.
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Bicyclists who use Nokia cell phones won't have to find electrical outlets to recharge them much longer. The company says it will start selling chargers that are powered by bicycles before the end of the year.
Aimed at cell phone users in developing countries where electric-power can be scarce, the chargers uses a small electric generator that spins on the bicycle's front tire.
The electricity from the dynamo is carried by wire to the cell phone holder mounted to the handlebars. Touring bicyclists can easily stuff that attachment in their front bag if their handlebar “dashboard” already is crowded with headlamps, bells, altimeters, bike computers and GPS devices.
The faster and longer you ride …
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Nokia has developed a cell phone charger that works with a bicycle. See press release.
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Four Los Angeles policemen got starring roles in a video shot in Hollywood on Friday night, but their actions earned them desk jobs while the department investigates their clash with bicyclists.
This video shot by a witness shows police officers making an arrest during a critical mass ride on Friday night, then one of the policemen kicking at a passing bicycle.
Several policemen then go to the witness. The camera falls but continues filming while police, carrying nightsticks, order the man to “Get down” and “Get up!”
The video has been viewed more than 91,000 times at YouTube and is reminiscent of a video …
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Six bicyclists injured a few years ago on the newly laid South Lake Union Trolley (S.L.U.T.) tracks are suing Seattle.
The Seattle Times reports that the lawsuit claims that the city was warned about the unsafe conditions before the December 2007 opening of the trolley line, but it went ahead with its plans anyway.
The tracks were installed in a groove in the pavement that can catch narrow road-bike tires and flip a bike. Dozens of cyclists fell victim to the tracks.
Since the opening of the 1.3-mile trolley line, the city has installed warning signs …
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Started talking to this guy about the weather and his RSVP jersey along the Burke-Gilman on Tuesday and discovered that he was taking a very special bike ride.
His name is Bill Glaeser and his 70th birthday is Wednesday. Thanks to Tuesday's break in the chilly “liquid sunshine” that's been inundating the Seattle area the past week or so, he chose to celebrate his birthday with a 70-mile ride a day early. He's been taking such a ride for the past four years.
I've read about people doing this over the years, so I started my own tradition by riding 60 miles on my birthday back in January. An old college friend who lives in Portland saw what I did, and so knocked out his own birthday ride this spring.
It's a ride that's just going to get longer every year, and I hope I'm up to it at Bill's age.
That jersey, by the way, is from the 2005 …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/06/02/hats-off-to-cyclist-on-his-70-miles-at-70-years-bicycle-ride/
Bicyclists riding the paths of the Erie Canalway in New York this summer shouldn't be surprised if some communities all but roll out the red carpet when they arrive.
The towns would be following suggestions in a 28-page booklet that explains why it makes economic sense to encourage and embrace two-wheeled visitors in their communities.
Entitled “Bicyclists Bring Business: A Guide for Attracting Bicyclists to New York's Canal Communities,” the book is used in roundtable workshops offered by Parks & Trails New York and the New York State Canal Corporation in canal towns.
Although we might like communities to cater to traveling bicyclists for altruistic reasons, it's a matter of dollars and cents to business people. According to the booklet:
“When a particular bicycling destination is so appealing to bicyclists that they come from some distance away to enjoy it, the dollars they bring with them can be significant” ……
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Bicyclists Bring Business created for towns and businesses along the Erie Canalway.
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Here's an emotional video from a cross-country bike rider whose journey didn't go exactly as planned. Not that many long-distance bicycle trips do. That's part of the adventure.
But this is an experience that Australian Janeen McCrae, aka Noodle, doubtedly could have done without. As she explains in her video:
“I was riding my bicycle across America. I was having such a good time. Then I wasn't riding my bicycle across America. I was in a ditch.”
A couple of weeks ago, very early in her coast-to-coast bicycle trip to raise $4,262 for Team Fatty and Livestrong — $1 per mile — she suffered a crash. She was on a downhill ….
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Australian on Livestrong fund-raiser bike ride across the US crashes in Virginia. Read more at No Direction Known website.
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