Do-it-yourselfers can make their own bamboo bikes at the Bamboo Bike Studio
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Didn't Bob Dylan sing “…the signs, they are a-changin'”?
Maybe not, but I couldn't get that song out of my head when I read at Bike Portland that the feds were establishing new guidelines for signs and road markings that included changes that effect bike riders.
While some of the improvements deal with freeway signs and traffic signals, many changes involved making bike lane markings more uniform and establishing common signs for bike routes and paths.
The ones at left caught my attention at first.
The U.S. Bicycle Route signs will be used on the 50,000-mile bike route corridor network being established by Adventure Cycling Association and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation officials.
Those bike route designations are already being used for USBR 1 and 76 in Virginia. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/18/signs-of-the-times-for-bicycling/
Some of the new signs that relate to bicycling in the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices put out by the Federal Highway Administration.
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–Updated with more gran fondo events–
Amateur cyclists and recreational bicyclists in the US and Canada will get more opportunities to participate in Italian-style gran fondo bike rides in 2010.
Nearly a dozen gran fondo bike rides are scheduled next year in California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ontario.
Cyclists appear to be hungry for such events.
When 3-time Tour of California winner Levi Leipheimer launched a gran fondo-style bike ride in Santa Rosa last October, 3,500 cyclists signed up.
Word must have spread among cyclists, because when online registration opened on Tuesday for the October 2010 King Ridge Gran Fondo — 10 months before the event — half the 6,000 spots were reserved the first day.
In addition to Leipheimer's event in Santa Rosa, the Tour of California is sponsoring two gran fondos along the course of two Tour stages before the race in April. Centurion Cycling is launching its first season of gran fondo with rides in California, Colorado and Wisconsin, and Gran Fondo USA is offering rides in San Diego and Philadelphia next year …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/18/gran-fondo-bike-rides-gain-popularity-in-us/
More information at Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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A company that imports CO2 bicycle tire inflators is recalling about 24,000 units that were sold exclusively at WalMart stores nationwide.
The Zefal brand cartridges, containing pressurized carbon dioxide used to inflate a bicycle tire, can break at the pump head.
Although no injuries have been reported, importer Todson Inc. of North Attleboro, Mass., launched the recall with the assistance of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/18/24000-zefal-brand-co2-bike-tire-inflators-recalled/
Organizers for the Vuelta a Espana, the last of the trio of Grand Tours, announced a 2,068-mile route for the bike race in 2010.
While much will be made about the mountain stages and the reduction of time trials to just two, this Vuelta may best be remembered for changing the color of the leader's jersey from golden to red.
As last year's Vuelta winner, Alejandro Valverde will be the first to wear the red jersey when the bike race begins in Seville on Aug. 28.
The opener is an evening team time trial, one of only two time trial in this year's race (the other is on Stage 17. The bike race ends in Madrid on Sept. 19 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/16/route-announced-for-2010-vuelta-a-espana/
The course of the 2010 Vuelta a Espana. More at the website.
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Associated Press picked golfer Tiger Woods to be its Athlete of the Decade, beating out nine other male and female athletes, including Lance Armstrong.
Woods, whose squeaky clean image has been tarnished ever since he crashed backing out of his driveway last month, was chosen for dominating the world of golf for the past 10 years.
Armstrong finished second in voting by AP member editors. Woods got 56 to Armstrong's 33. And Armstrong finished far behind Woods in the number of late-night talk show jokes written about him.
More than half the ballots were turned in after the Woods crash that launched his sex scandal …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/16/is-armstrong-big-enough-to-be-athlete-of-the-decadeno-hes-no-2/
Seattle experienced a 15% increase in bike commuting in the past two years, based on a count conducted in September.
Volunteers stationed at 30 locations around the city counted 2,609 bicyclists heading into the core downtown area the morning of Sept. 16.
Many of those commuters were using bike lanes, routes and paths that were created thanks to the city's Bike Master Plan, passed in 2007.
The ongoing improvements in the Bike Master Plan are aimed at tripling the number of people commuting by bicycle by 2017 ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/16/big-jump-in-seattle-bike-commuting-the-past-two-years/
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