Oregon bike builder wins Best of Show at 2011 North American Handmade Bicycle Show
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[Note: Here's another story about a couple of early bicycle explorers. Written by noted bicycling author David Herlihy, the book was published this past summer.]
If you're looking to travel by bicycle vicariously this summer by reading about someone else's adventures, I'd recommend “The Lost Cyclist” by David Herlihy. But I'll warn you that, as the title implies, it ends badly.
From the opening pages, you can tell “The Lost Cyclist” is not going to be your average book about a bicycle tour. It's an historical account of Frank Lenz's around-the-world bicycle adventure gone wrong, possibly made worse by attempts to make it right again.
Herlihy starts by describing how one of the main characters in the story walks out of the mists of time and into a newspaper office in 1953 to take care of some business. He's recognized by the editor. They chat, and the editor asks if he'd like to talk to a reporter about his attempt to rescue a missing bicycle traveler halfway around the world a half-century earlier …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/24/herlihy-finds-the-lost-cyclist-a-good-topic-for-new-book/
[Note: Busy with some family issues through the weekend, so I'm pulling up some stories from previous years. Here's one about Peter Zheutlin's great-grandaunt, who became the first woman to ride a bicycle around the world.]
Imagine that you're a writer with a growing appetite for riding your bicycle.
Then consider that a researcher who had contacted your mother years earlier about your great-grandfather's sister — no one in the immediate family had ever heard of her — gets back in touch and asks if you had learned anything more about her.
Oh, and by way, that great-grandaunt had bicycled around the world more than 100 years ago.
There you have the circumstances that launched Peter Zheutlin on his quest to research and write a book about Annie Kopchovsky (aka Annie Londonderry): “Around the World on Two Wheels, Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride” …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/24/author-tracks-down-annie-londonderrys-bike-ride/
Felt Bicycles is in the midst of recalling 1,550 F-series model bicycles because of a potential problem with the carbon forks.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the Felt recall, and one involving 160 Novara Fusion bicycles, on Tuesday.
Irvine, California-based Felt Bicycles issued its own recall notice on Felt F3, F4, F5, F5 Team and F75 back in November 2010. Although no breakages or injuries have been reported, Felt said a test sampling of the carbon forks did not meet the company's standards …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/23/two-separate-bicycle-recalls-by-felt-and-novara/
Recall notice for Felt bicycles from Consumer Product Safety Commission
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Recall notice from Consumer Product Safety Commission
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[Editor's note: Family obligations today and throughout the week. Here's a blast from the past that you might find helpful for an upcoming mass-participation bike tour. Good comments too.]
You have to take the bad with the good, and that certainly goes for large group, week-long, cross-state bicycle tours.
Whether there are 200 or 2,000 cyclists on these organized bicycling events, don't be surprised if a few things don't go to your liking. It takes years for the organizers to work out the kinks, and even then things crop up that nobody could expect. Plus, there are plenty of annoyances over which they have no control.
I'm warning you so you can prepare yourself. Don't let these adversities ruin your idyllic bike ride; remember, this is an adventure. Roll with it ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/21/how-to-prepare-for-10-bad-things-on-good-bike-tours/
You never know when or where inspiration will strike, especially in the bicycle industry.
Take Harry Montague, who died at 77 earlier this month, for example. A professional architect for 30 years, it is his folding bicycle design that will be his legacy.
The Washington Post writes that Montague liked to ride a bicycle around his neighborhood in the 1970s and 1980s, but standard bicycles took up too much room at home. He said small, commuter bicycles were too wobbly for his big frame.
So what Montague did was start tinkering in his garage …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/20/harry-montagues-idea-for-a-folding-bike/
A bicycle industry group that encourages people to get out and ride awarded grants to five projects this winter.
Recipients of the $40,000 Bikes Belong grants include three trail projects, a ciclovia in Minneapolis and a pump track in Philadelphia.
The grants raised through donations by bike industry employees reflect the wide diversity of bicycling projects that are underway across the US.
For instance, as your basic roadie, I was unfamiliar with pump tracks until a couple of years ago. Essentially, they're a loop on rolling terrain and banked turns that can be ridden without pedaling …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/18/trails-ciclovia-and-pump-track-receive-bike-grants/
It's crunch time for the Washington state Vulnerable Users bills that create greater penalties for motorists who kill or injure bicyclists, pedestrians or other vulnerable road users.
The Cascade Bicycle Club says House and Senate versions of the bills received favorable support in committee hearings in Olympia. Now they face deadlines for votes by the full House or Senate by the end of the month so they can move on to the other chamber.
This is where a Vulnerable Users bill bogged down last year. That's why advocates at Cascade are asking members to encourage their state representatives to press for the bills to go to floor votes.
Cascade has created a email form making it easy to contact your legislators. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/17/advocates-seek-support-for-washington-state-vulnerable-users-bills/
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