Bicycle club out for training ride along Lake Washington bike trail.
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A professor of Chicano studies is taking a bicycle tour around the United States to study the nation's “Latino-ization.”
Louis Mendoza, chairman of the Department of Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota, left Santa Cruz on his touring bike in July headed to New York and is returning via the Sun Belt. He recently left El Paso.
At his very insightful A Journey Across Our America blog, Mendoza writes about the increasing presence of Hispanics in large and small cities all across the country. He told an El Paso newspaper that he chose to travel by bicycle because “I'd be more likely to have unpredictable experiences along the road.” …
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Louis Mendoza, the chairman of the Chicano Studies department at University of Minnesoa, is bicycling around the US to learn more about the “Latino-ization” of the US. He writes about his experiences in his blog, “A Journey Across Our America.” The portrait came from his blog.
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Pity poor George Hincapie. His teams can't seem to keep their sponsors.
First, the Discovery Channel announced that it would not renew its sponsorship for the Tailwind Sports team of which he had been a member since the late '90s. Then Tailwind finally gave up looking for a sponsor and disbanded.
Hincapie jumped over to the team that Deutsche Telekom and affiliate T-Mobile had sponsored since 1991. T-Mobile announced today that it was pulling the plug …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/28/t-mobile-drops-pro-cycling-sponsorship-team-takes-the-high-road/
I stopped attaching foreign objects in the vicinity of my bicycle wheels ever since I ruined a perfectly good Roy Campanella basball card a long time ago.
But let me pass along a couple of websites for wheel decorations suggested by a reader. Each sells circuit boards with LED lights attached that mount on the spokes of a bike wheel and display text or images as the wheel spins.
I've seen these before, but never really looked into it. If you have some time over the holidays …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/27/bike-wheel-light-art/
Photo by hokieznuts at flickr.com
This spinning image of Homer Simpson was made with an LED circuit board kit sold by SpokePOV.
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She started Trips for Kids bicycling group
Marilyn Price was riding her mountain bicycle through redwood forests north San Francisco one day when she wondered how she could share the experience with disadvantaged kids from the city.
Scoring 10 donated bikes, she started Trips for Kids. Nineteen years later, that dream has turned into an organization with 57 chapters across the US that seek to steer kids away from trouble by getting them outside and away from bad influences …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/26/california-bicyclist-in-line-for-national-hero-award/
One day as a newspaper reporter in an earlier life, I was stuck on a small boat in the Chesapeake Bay with a US Fish & Wildlife Service biologist. To avoid justifying the environmental policies of the current adminstration (Reagan), he swung the conversation around to books.
His favorite was “A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold. I had never heard of this conservationist (he died in 1948), so I bought that book a few days later. It later found a place on the bookshelf with John Muir, Edward Abbey, Colin Fletcher and John McPhee.
Leopold's home state of Wisconsin has honored his memory by naming the state's 42 trails as the Aldo Leopold Legacy Trail System….
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Argue as he might, Steven Gravenites couldn't convince the federal judge in San Francisco earlier this month that he should be found innocent of possession of a bicycle in a wilderness area.
The 45-year-old mountain biker and well-known Marin County, California, wheel-builder was fined $60 but was able to reclaim his bike. Rangers had taken it as evidence for illegal trail riding in the Point Reyes National Seashore in June.
An account of the trial — it actually made it to federal court — in the Marin Independent reports that Gravenites tried to get the court to consider the bigger picture of the history of mountain biking. …
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Wikimedia.
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