Nirve chopper-style bicycles Red Star, Skulls and Cannibal Chopper recalled because the handlebar stem can break. More info at Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/06/broken-stem-on-nirve-bicycle/
2010 26” Epic and 26” Era Bicycles recalled due to shock absorber mounts that can break. See US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/06/specialized-bikes-recalled/
Something that immediately caught my eye when I stumbled across a list of America's Fattest Cities is that none of the top 10 were on the list of Bicycle Friendly Communities.
In fact, you had to go down to No. 15 on the list (Philadelphia) before you could find a city that the League of American Bicyclists says encourages bicycling.
Among the Top 10 Leanest Cities, however, 8 are considered bicycle friendly, and half of those have a high rating of silver, gold or platinum.
You probably can't make the argument that these cities are fat because they're not bicycle friendly …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/05/most-of-top-10-leanest-cities-are-bicycle-friendly/
A 5-day bicycle tour of breweries along the San Juan Skyway and a one-day bike ride to the top of Pikes Peak are new two-wheeled opportunities in Colorado this summer.
Colorado already has a full slate of bike rides, but there's always room for more. As their names imply, these rides are geared to bicyclists who aren't timid about tackling the state's greatest bicycling resource — mountains.
The Assault on the Peak is a one-day bike ride that ascends 14,115-foot summit of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs. It gives most cyclists their first opportunity to ride their bikes to the lofty summit as the solitary road is usually closed to bicyclists …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/05/peaks-and-pints-assault-on-the-peak-are-new-colorado-bike-rides/
You'd expect lots of bike industry press releases and bicycling news in the general media this month as May is National Bike Month.
But I was surprised that the American Automobile Association took the time to remind its members to share the road with bicycles.
Maybe they recognize that bicycle transportation is one very good solution to traffic congestion.
Or that using bicycles instead of cars for trips under 2 miles will reduce the fossil fuel emissions that are contributing to air pollution and global warming. [See the 2-mile challenge]
Or the demand for crude oil is reduced everytime someone chooses a bike trip …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/04/support-for-national-bike-month-from-the-aaa/
What's the next big thing in the future of bicycle touring?
It could very well be the US Bicycle Route System, a nationwide network of officially numbered bicycle routes to link cities, suburbs and rural areas.
The map at left is an April 2010 update of the overall corridor scheme criss-crossing the US.
Cartographers at Adventure Cycling Association are charting routes within some 50-mile wide corridors marked on the map with the blessing of the American Association of State Highway Transportation officials and the help of volunteers at the state level.
Some 30 states are interested in the system or actively working to implement US Bicycle Routes in their states ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/03/progress-on-the-us-bicycle-route-system-funds-needed/
April 2010 version of US Bicycle Route System. See a larger version of the corridor map at Adventure Cycling Association.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/03/usbrs-2010/
Baltimore Sun columnist Michael Dresser gets the whole idea of requiring motorists to give bicyclists a three-foot gap when passing.
After the Maryland legislators passed the law on the last day of the session in Annapolis, many motorists vented about lawmakers capitulating to a noisy minority and the terrible troubles caused by bicycles in traffic lanes.
Here's what Dresser writes in “Sharing the road with bicycles is hardly a hardship”:
….”For decades now I've driven the back roads of Maryland, occasionally coming upon groups of bicyclists pedaling furiously but poking along by gas-driven standards. …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/03/3-foot-passing-law-awaits-maryland-governors-signature/
Levi Leipheimer won his second Tour of the Gila championship on Sunday while Aussie Darren Lill won the Stage 5 Gila Monster Road Race.
High winds and snow flurries, instead of high winds and heat, greeted the cyclists on the final day of bike race based in the Silver City, New Mexico, that has become a domestic training race for elite cyclists.
Lance Armstrong, who launched this retreat to southwestern New Mexico last year to test his recovery from a broken collarbone, finished in 17th, 6:53 behind Leipheimer. Finishing second and third overall were Tom Danielson and David Zabriskie. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/03/leipheimer-repeats-tour-of-the-gila-championship-lill-wins-monster-stage/
The most recent issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine published by Adventure Cycling Association features an article about Thomas Stevens' globe-girdling ride in 1884 on a 50-inch penny farthing.
In “The Fearless Traveler: Around the World with Thomas Stevens,” author Geof Koss describes the trials of becoming the first person to accomplish the feat.
But before Stevens could become the first person to bicycle around the world, he had to cross the United States.
During his around the world bike ride, Stevens sent dispatches to Harper's Weekly. In 1887, he published a book about his journey, “Around the World on a Bicycle.”
Here are some excerpts I collected and published at this blog back in 2007 from his trip across California, leaving from Oakland and heading up to Sacramento, then across the Sierra Nevada. …
“With the hearty well-wishing of a small group of Oakland and 'Frisco cyclers who have come, out of curiosity, to see the start, I mount and ride away to the east, down San Pablo Avenue, toward the village of the same Spanish name, some sixteen miles distant. The first seven miles are a sort of half-macadamized road, and I bowl briskly along.
“The past winter has been the rainiest since 1857, and the continuous pelting rains had not beaten down upon the last half of this imperfect macadam in vain; for it has left it a surface of wave-like undulations ……
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/02/thomas-stevens-describes-bicycling-in-california-1884/
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