If you didn't find your dream job in “Bicycling advocacy jobs: You call this working?”, then here are two more jobs that are available for the East Coast.
The Bicycle Coalition of Maine is looking for a new executive director after Jeffrey Miller accepted a position as head of the Thunderhead Alliance.
Also, you bicycle bloggers might be interested to know that the East Coast Greenway Alliance is seeking a travel writer…
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All the obituaries for Richard Widmark, 93, talk about his roles as a villain in films, but I remember him mainly as Jim Bowie in “The Alamo” in 1960.
What I didn't know is that the Minnesota-born actor became interested in acting while giving lectures after a bicycle tour he made through Nazi Germany.
Apparently Widmark went on his bike tour of Deutschland in the early 1930s. He was unsuccessful in his attempts to visit a camp for political prisoners named Dachau, which later became one of Hitler's infamous extermination camps. However, he did sneak into a youth camp …
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Interest in acting grew from bicycle tour.
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And tips on stopping aggressive dogs
This is an amusing — and frightening — segment from the Judge Judy Show a couple of years ago in which she rules in favor of the cyclist, Kevin Gilmore, who was injured when a dog ran into his path.
It's amusing because the dog's owners are so clueless about who's responsible for the injury, and frightening because their argument — that the cyclist caused the accident by riding down the highway instead of using one of the state's hundreds of miles of bike paths — is probably a common perception among a lot of people…
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While the lion's share of bicycling advocacy and development work seems to fall to dedicated volunteers, there are quite a few paying gigs in those fields that are being advertised this spring, including three in Seattle.
Two of those are offered by the Cascade Bicycle Club and one by the Bicycle Alliance of Washington. There also are positions in Berkeley and Sonoma County, California, Lansing, Michigan, and Washington, DC.
There's nothing wrong with making a living out of what you love. Check out this list. It's not comprehensive; just a few jobs that I've stumbled across recently….
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There's no arguing that I'm a dyed-in-the-wool roadie. But I've been thinking about narrow, muddy trails ever since I borrowed my son's Gary Fisher Wahoo for a few rides a couple of years ago.
The more places that I discovered here in the Pacific Northwest where I couldn't take my road bike, the more I thought about getting a mountain bike.
Last week, I stumbled across this hardtail for sale at Craigslist and, after some light haggling, bought this Specialized RockHopper. The guy was the second owner, so this bike has been around, but it's in pretty decent shape. I'd put the year at 1991. …
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I bought it clean.
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My “new” set of wheels — a 1991 Specialized RockHopper.
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The League of American Bicyclists calls our attention to an op-ed piece in the San Francisco Chronicle that was published in reaction to media coverage of the tragic deaths of Matt Peterson and Kristy Gough in Cupertino earlier this month.
Leah Shahum, executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, writes that there's a “looming prejudice” against those who ride bikes.
There have been media reports about which streets are “most dangerous” for bicycles, the frequency that bicycles are considered at fault by police and reports of cyclists not following the rules of the road.
“The Cupertino tragedy has been portrayed as a “bicycle safety” story, instead of what it really is, a story about the risks of dangerous driving. …
“Yet, the public dialogue has not focused on which streets are most dangerous for driving, bad behavior by drivers, or the fact that 40,000 people a year are killed in motor vehicle collisions in our nation. …
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Some engineering students at Rowan University in New Jersey are developing a way to harness bicycle-pedal power to run a small grain crusher.
It's latest effort I've read about in the ongoing attempts at many colleges and nongovernmental agencies to jump-start small-scale economies in developing nations where electricity is scarce and expensive.
In the Rowan project, an aluminum grain crusher is attached to the bicycle, which is mounted on a stand. Pedalling the bicycle crushes the corn, lentils, split peas and barley fine enough for cooking
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/03/24/helping-feed-the-world-with-bicycles/
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