In the world of bicycling, one of the biggest mysteries to me is how someone can lose a bicycle.
I can understand a person losing track of a bicycle that is stolen and ditched, but apparently people will occasionally park a bike and then not retrieve it. Do they forget it? Did they die? Were they whisked away by aliens?
For instance, the Seattle Metro transit system reported that 863 people put their bicycles on bus racks in 2007 and forgot to remove them….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/18/bicycle-lost-and-found-leaving-your-bike-on-the-bus/
Lance Armstrong must be getting to like his running game. I wonder if he's lacing up his running shoes more these days than his cycling cleats.
Armstrong is running in the high-profile Boston Marathon on April 21 to help raise money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation. It will be his third marathon.
He qualified for the 112th event by finishing last year's New York Marathon in 2:46:43. The qualifying time for his age group — 35-39 — is 3:15…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/17/boston-marathon-is-lance-armstrongs-next-challenge/
Updated Jan. 18
Seventeen international and domestic cycling teams will compete in the 2008 Amgen Tour of California, which rolls out February 17-24.
Although the teams have not announced their rosters, we can probably expect to see top Americans who have been dispersed across Astana (defending champ Levi Leipheimer), High Road Sports (George Hincapie), and Team Slipstream Powered by Chipotle (Dave Zabriskie) among others.
This year's 8-day, 650 mile bike race is the third Tour of California. The first was won by Floyd Landis on Phonak; the second by Leipheimer on Discovery Channel.
Here are the 17 teams that are competing…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/17/2008-tour-of-california-teams-announced/
Private funding sought for this bike parking lot planned for Midtown, envisioned by 34th Street Partnership.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/17/artist-rendering-of-bike-parking-lot/
Some New York City investors plan to build a bike parking lot — “the premier bike parking facility in the country” — on a lot on West 33rd Street in midtown (artist rendering at left).
Stonehenge Management has offered the 34th Street Partnership a 1,200-square-foot lot that's about a block from Penn Station, and the execs are looking for a corporation to invest about $200,000 in the idea.
Similar facilities available in six cities on the West Coast are called Bike Stations. Chicago has the McDonald's Cycle Center. All offer secure parking, as well as showers and repair shops …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/17/bicycle-parking-in-new-york-city/
Bicycling blogger Larry Lagarde is trying to stir up interest in so-called “bike trains” on Amtrak.
The author of RideThisBike.com is excited about last year's success of Bike Train on ViaRail, the Canadian national passenger rail carrier. The service allowed dozens of bicycles to be loaded “as is” — without boxes or disassembly — between Toronto and Niagara on four weekends.
ViaRail was so happy with the response that it's considering more service this summer. Larry emailed to say that he's convinced that such a service on Amtrak would have similar positive results …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/16/getting-onboard-with-the-bike-train-idea/
Ride your bike. Hammer. Repeat.
No, this isn't a crude way to maintain your bicycle. It will be the routine for bicycle riders in seven “Bike & Build” cross-country tours this summer.
Participants in the Bike and Build Program collect donations before setting out and ride in groups of about 30. The routes cross 42 states. On days that they're not pedaling an average of 75 miles, they're building affordable housing…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/15/biking-and-building-across-the-us-2/
It's nice to know that some cities want to be considered bicycle friendly. It shows that town officials believe that thoroughfares should be used for more than gas guzzling cars and trucks, and that bicycles are a form of transportation too.
Some cities actually apply for the official Bicycle Friendly Community designation from the League of American Bicyclists. That's no rubber stamp. Of the 200 communities that have applied, only 73 have earned the designation.
Here are recent stories about three communities — Boca Raton, Florida; Franklin, Pennsylvania; and Roanoke, Virginia — that want to be more bicycle friendly…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/14/bicycle-friendly-or-not-whats-happening-in-3-communities/
The first road hazard I ever fell victim to on a bicycle was a storm drain with openings that ran parallel to the road. I picked myself up, danced around as I waited for my road-burned palms to cool off, and said to myself, “I'll never do that again.”
That would have been in the early 1960s. Those road grates have disappeared in many places since then, although they're still quite common on the streets of Seattle.
Replacing those storms grates is a problem in Seattle and other cities. Storm grates cost about $500 apiece, not counting labor and other drain work that might be needed …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/14/storm-grates-are-a-catch-for-seattle-bike-riders/
Unsafe at any speed
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/14/storm-grates/
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