January clouds hover in the trees between Cougar and Squak mountains in Washington. Seen from a recent bike ride.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/04/clouds-hover-in-pass/
This is the approximate location where a minivan narrowly missed a group of cyclists out for a ride the morning of Jan. 2. See Cyclist injured avoiding collision with van
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/03/witness-sought-in-bike-crash/
A 49-year-old bike rider was seriously injured on Saturday when he steered into a ditch to avoid being struck head-on by a minivan east of Sammamish.
The Washington State Patrol is asking any witnesses to contact Detective Stacy Moate at 425-401-7746.
The injured man, identified as the Seattle P-I's bike blogger David Longdon, was among a group of cyclists training for the Cancer Care Alliance Starbucks Cycling Team. They were heading westbound on Redmond-Fall City Road (Route 202) near Ames Lake Road about 11:45 a.m. Saturday …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/03/update-cyclist-injured-avoiding-collision-with-van-in-sammamish-wa/
A new year means new laws in many states, although there are only a few that affect bicycling.
A ban on texting while driving in three states went into effect on Friday, promising to make the roads a little bit safer by protecting bicyclists and others from distracted drivers. That makes 19 states that prohibit the practice (see the list below).
About the only law addressing bicycles specifically is a strange one in California that allows a person to ride a bicycle without a seat if the bicycle was designed by the manufacturer to be ridden without a seat.
After reading that one over a couple of times, I searched high and low for an explanation and finally ran across one in the Sacramento Bee ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/01/now-its-ok-to-ride-a-bicycle-without-a-saddle-in-california/
Bicycle-like device that simulates running using elliptical motion of the legs. See ElliptiGO
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/01/elliptigo/
Deadlines. Always the deadlines. With this being the last day of 2009, here are a few things you might want to know about photo contests, Cascade Bicycle Club memberships, and New Year's Day bike rides.
Midnight is the deadline to vote for your favorite photos at the Alliance for Biking & Walking (formerly Thunderhead Alliance) People Powered Movement Photo Contest. More than 2,000 photos were submitted in 7 categories. The grand winner gets an all-expense-paid bike tour of Tuscany, so I'm sure the photographers appreciate all votes cast for their pics.
While you're thinking images, there's still time to enter your most prized picture from your bicycle tour in the first Adventure Cycling Association Bicycle Travel Photo Contest. The winning photo appears in Adventure Cyclist magazine. You can check out the entries at flickr.com; they're amazing.
Thursday also is the last day to sign up at the 2009 rate for a new or renewed membership at Cascade Bicycle Club and qualify for early-bird event registration in 2010 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/31/end-of-year-bike-deadlines-first-of-year-bike-rides/
It's good to see a cyclist finally named as an Athlete of the Decade.
No. It's not Lance Armstrong, who got squeezed out by a golfer in the Associated Press and USA Today polls.
We're talking about world champion track cyclist Marty Nothstein of Trexlertown, Pennsylvania. The 38-year-old got the nod from the editors at the Allentown (PA) Morning Call this week.
Nothstein grew up racing at the velodrome in Trexlertown and used that experience to earn an Olympic gold medal and win three world championships and 34 gold medals at US National Championships ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/29/cyclist-wins-male-athlete-of-the-decade/
Olympic gold medalist cyclist from Trexlertown, PA
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/29/marty-nothstein/
Remember this video from back in April? It changed a cyclist's life.
Former Edinburgh bike mechanic Danny MacAskill became an overnight sensation when this video — about 6 months in the making — hit YouTube. If you're not one of the 13 million people who have seen it, you should take 5 1/2 minutes to check it out.
Now the New York Times interviews him in “A stunt cyclist's Tour de Fence” and tells how the 24-year-old's life has changed since YouTube stardom struck.
Earning $9 an hour a couple of years ago as a bike mechanic, MacAskill could pull down a six figure salary in 2010 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/29/the-bike-stunt-video-that-changed-a-life/
Here's a bicyclist gingerly pedaling over a light frost on the Mercer Slough Causeway alongside I-90 in Bellevue late Sunday afternoon.
You can see by all the tracks in the frost that this is a popular route. It's a main corridor between Bellevue and Seattle.
The slough encompasses more than 300 acres of Bellevue along the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/28/late-afternoon-winter-bike-ride-in-bellevue/
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