Seeking Seattle-area volunteers on Saturday
The possibility of sending bikes to Africa or building bikes in Africa is on a lot of people's minds this weekend.
The Village Bicycle Project, for instance, is looking for volunteers from the Seattle area to help pack its 100th shipping container full of recycled bicycles on Saturday.
The group based in the Pacific Northwest has sent 45,000 bicycles and 7,000 tools to Ghana over the past 10 years. It also provides the training to teach mechanics how to fix the bikes.
Working through the Peace Corps, the Project has distributed bicycles to 60 communities …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/23/loading-the-100th-shipping-container-of-bikes-headed-to-africa/
The mile-high city celebrates Earth Day by launching its Denver B-cycle bike sharing program on Thursday.
The system will be the largest in the US, sporting 500 bicycles available at 50 bike-share kiosks located across the city when fully operational. It starts with 360 to 400 sturdy red bikes.
This is the first bike-share roll-out in the US this year, to be followed in Minneapolis-St. Paul and Boston this summer. Washington DC is currently the only other bike-share system in the US, although much larger systems are up and running in Montreal and Mexico City.
The annual subscription is $65. Access for shorter periods ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/22/denver-rolls-out-nations-biggest-bike-sharing-program/
Launches on Earth Day, April 22, 2010. More at B-cycle Denver
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“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live.”
— Mark Twain, “Taming the Bicycle” 1917
This is one of my favorite Mark Twain quotes and most apt for this blog. I mention it now because today marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Samuel Clemens.
I've been reading the entertaining biography “Mark Twain: A Life” by Ron Powers. He tells about Clemens learning to ride a high-wheeled bicycle as he waited for his book “Huckleberry Finn” to be published in 1884.
In letters, Powers found that Clemens' riding instructor wrote that his pupil had discovered more ways to fall off a bicycle than the man who invented it. Clemens himself claimed that he had invented all the bicycle profanity that had since come into common use.
The famous quote about bicycling comes …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/21/mark-twain-learns-to-ride-a-bicycle/
Dan Beard illustration in “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.”
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/21/sir-galahad-takes-a-header/
Lance Armstrong and defending champ Levi Leipheimer are among cyclists returning to Tour of the Gila.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/21/tour-of-the-gila-2010/
Lance Armstrong helped shine an international spotlight on the Tour of the Gila in New Mexico last year when he showed up to compete in the five-day race with two compadres from the Astana team.
He's returning to the bike race again this year from April 28 through May 2 with defending champ Levi Leipheimer and Jason McCartney from the RadioShack pro cycling team. They'll be joined among the elite cyclists with three from Garmin-Transitions — David Zabriskie, Danny Pate and Tom Danielson.
The arrival of the pros will definitely spark more interest in the race located in southwestern New Mexico near the Gila National Forest …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/21/lance-armstrong-returns-to-tour-of-the-gila-next-week/
A draft law that essentially would have put a “Not Welcome” mat out for bicyclists at the bridges to Mercer Island has been struck down by the City Council.
The proposed ordinance addressed bicyclists riding in groups of two or more on the populous island in Lake Washington between Seattle and Bellevue. It was aimed at the scenic, winding, 15-mile training loop around the island that occasionally becomes a flashpoint between motorists and bicyclists.
The law would have required those groups to ride single file as far to the right as possible, and to actually pull off the road to allow a car to pass along stretches of road that are too tight for safe passing.
In other words, it would have made bicyclists second-class road users by law…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/20/proposed-bicycling-restrictions-rejected-by-mercer-island-officials/
Bicyclists and motorists sharing East Mercer Way and West Mercer Way can sometimes cause a flare-up. City Council has struck down a proposal to ban groups of bicyclists from the loop.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/20/mercer-island-wa/
RAGBRAI. BRAN. RAW. GABRAKY. BAK. GOBA. XOBA.
This isn't a command that Klatuu gives his robot in the movie, “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” or the agency listings in an acronym-crazy state government phone book.
Dyed in the wool bicyclists will recognize these as just a few of the shortened names among the dozens of mass participation, across-state bicycle tours that are held every summer in the US.
The recession economy doesn't seem to be hurting the popularity of these outings. In fact, David Harrenstein, head of the National Bicycle Tour Directors Association, says:..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/20/overnight-mass-bike-tours-are-going-strong/
Adventure Cycling Association Trail biking Rails to Trails Conservancy League of American Bicyclists
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