Bicyclist checks phone messages while going to or from classes at UC-Davis. The city and university each have bicycle coordinators to advocate bicycle use.
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Bike crossing button at Davis, California, intersection. A traffic signal at a busy intersection in Davis has a special phase for bicycles-only.
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Bikes lined up outside bike shop in downtown Davis, California. Fat tire bikes are the most popular in the city, judged the most bicycle friendly by the League of American Bicyclists.
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Thousands of bikes parked at UC-Davis. Cars are discouraged from campus, so much of the 30,000 student population, as well as faculty and staff, ride bicycles to classes and work. Bike parking is allowed at bikes racks only, which are installed around all the buildings. Most bike commuters, like the one pictured parking her bike, …
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Cyclists in Columbus, Georgia, are mourning the death of Matthew Scott Matty, a 47-year amateur bicycle racer who was killed on a training ride on Sunday.
Matty and a companion, Jeffrey Davis, 39, had broken off from the main group of cyclists from Columbus Bicycle Racing club so they could get home to spend time with their families when they were struck from behind by a Ford Explorer.
Other club members of the ride learned about the collision by cell phone calls they received after they stopped for lunch…
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Tom Boonen is the latest pro cyclist to announce he's competing in the 2008 Tour of California, which rolls out Feb. 17-24.
The QuickStep sprinter who recently won the Tour of Qatar thrives in the spring classics in Europe, but wanted to try something different. There will be plenty of time for more those other races later in the spring….
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Two bicycle safety instructors from Portland are touring the Andes by bicycle after deciding it was pointless to put off the trip any longer.
Andy McKerrow and Elicia Cardenas had individually wondered for years when they would be ready to bike tour in South America until they recognized they each had the same idea and there was nothing stopping them doing it.
They set off a few weeks ago, and now they're sharing their adventures on a blog at Wend Magazine entitled “Elicia and Andy's Ride through the Andes.”…
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Andy and Elicia from Portland are travelling through the Andes on their bicycles.
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When I rode my bicycle out in the Central Valley of California, I always had to keep my eyes open for ground squirrels.
Those big, fat suckers would hang out in the shade of a haystack at a roadside dairyfarm, then kick up a small cloud of dust as they scampered across the road. It was always the squirrel's agility, not my bike handling skills, that averted disaster.
A 61-year-old wasn't so lucky. In spite of four transAmerica bike trips, Anthony Ricupero lost his first squirrel vs. bike tangle last weekend on a club ride near Greenwich, Conn…
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(The blog feeds for Sheldon Brown tributes has been moved to the upper sidebar of the Biking Bis “Feed Zone” page.)
The foremost Internet authority on bicycles and bicycle maintenance died last night of a massive heart attack.
Sheldon Brown's websites were the first place many of us bike geeks landed when we needed authoritative …
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