Eric and Robert Okerblom horse around in recent photo. After Eric was killed by a texting motorist while he was cycling, Robert took off on a cross-country bicycle ride to bring attention to the dangers of texting and driving. EOFoundation blog.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/21/okerbloms/
Weather-wise, there probably aren't too many North American cities more different than Toronto and Miami Beach. But they both suffer the same problems with traffic congestion.
This spring, both cities are trying to tackle that problem with bike-sharing systems designed to encourage people to use bicycles, instead of cars, for short errands and commuting.
Miami Beach launched its bike-share program this week that makes 200 lime-green beach cruiser-style bicycles available to the public. It expects the program to grow to 1,000 bicycles available at 100 solar-powered stations by the end of the summer.
Toronto, on the other hand, is launching its bike-sharing system ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/19/toronto-and-miami-beach-use-bike-share-to-solve-traffic-woes/
The lime colored beach cruiser style bike will be used in Miami Beach.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/19/decobike-2/
My early years as a writer were all in print media, so it's a thrill to see one of my blog stories appear in the March issue of the magazine Riders' Collective.
Actually, Riders' Collective is a web-based publication; an e-zine. But publisher Paul Kramer gives the stories inside such a full-blown print magazine treatment with snappy graphics, large photos and stylish fonts that you can imagine it's something sitting out on a coffee table.
And Kramer does it all without felling one tree.
Kramer has coined the term “aggrezine” to describe his publication. That word is protected by a trademark.
Essentially, he scours the Internet for a wide variety of web stories ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/18/riders-collective-cycling-related-writing-and-photos-in-a-green-format/
Into every tragedy a few nuggets of positive news often appear. Tsuna Kimura is one of those nuggets from last week's earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan.
CNN found the 83-year-old woman in a shelter in the town of Hachinohe, one of the coastal cities partially swept away by the tsunami that followed the 9.0 earthquake.
The life-long rice farmer lived alone in a house, now flooded, when the earthquake and tsunami hit. She told CNN …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/18/the-woman-who-out-pedaled-a-tsunami-on-her-bicycle/
On CNN
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/18/tsunami-escapee/
The 19 teams that will compete at the Amgen Tour of California have been announced and 11 are based in the US, although they feature an international cast of cyclists. Fourteen of the have been to this show previously.
Although the rosters for each team won't be known until shortly before the race, Sky ProCycling (current home of last year's champion Mick Rogers, who left HTC-Columbia) and Team RadioShack (home to three-time winner Levi Leipheimer, 2007 – 2009) have been selected ..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/17/19-teams-selected-for-tour-of-california/
The Tour de Fat's long-running costumed celebration of bikes and beer won't be rousing the inner-cyclist of Seattle and Portland this year.
New Belgium Brewery's popular traveling bicycle-beer fest is bypassing the Pacific Northwest's two great bicycling cities to add Durham, NC, and Nashville, TN, to its 13-city nationwide tour (full list and dates below).
The news will be a disappointment to the 4,000-some bike lovers in Seattle and the smaller crowd of 1,750 in Portland last year who rode in the bike parade, and enjoyed the entertainers, beer and goofy bikes that made the show special.
As a fund-raiser to local bicycle-oriented nonprofits, the loss the Tour de Fat in Seattle and Portland also will affect the bottom line at local bike charities ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/17/tour-de-fat-jilts-seattle-and-portland-13-cities-on-tap-in-2011/
Riders' Collective, aggregates blog content into a bicycling magazine
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/16/riders-collective-cover/
Seattle cyclist Don Cox has developed a product that every wet weather Pacific Northwest cyclist can appreciate. Mud flaps.
That's not real sexy, but very useful in a region that averages 140 days of “measureable precipitation” every year.
I was introduced to Don Cox and his RainyDayBiking mud flaps on one of those days that exhibited an extreme amount of “measureable precipitation.”
When I biked through the rain to the Seattle Bike Expo on Saturday, I was soaked from head to toe. As I dripped across the lobby and followed the crowds upstairs, his RainyDayBiking booth was the first I noticed. Given the name, I reckoned this guy might have something I'd be interested in. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/16/cleaner-and-more-visible-with-rainy-day-biking-mud-flaps/
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