Update: Dec. 3, 2010 — The documentary about four Americans and a Chinese guide who take a 1,000-mile bike tour across China is available for free online viewing through Jan. 2.
The 1-1/2-hour film, “Man Zou: Beijing to Shanghai,” made its television premier Thursday night on Seattle's local PBS outlet, KCTS (Channel 9).
Watching the broadcast, I was reminded time and again how bicycle travel is the best way to learn about an area and its people.
The four Americans saw first-hand the contrasts of big-city wealth and rural poverty in the country. They also experienced the side effects of a growing economy …
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The Pittsburgh Dirty Dozen bicycle ride speaks to many, and it says “Granny Gears.”
The annual bike ride takes place the day after Thanksgiving and tackles 13 of the steepest climbs in the city over a 50-mile course.
While many of the slopes are rated at a 25% grade, the steepest is the cobblestoned Canton Avenue. It's only a tenth of a mile long, but it rises at a 37% grade in that distance.
Aren't you sorry that you missed that? Now you can see all the pain and suffering of cyclists struggling uphill in a newly released DVD entitled “Pittsburgh Dirty Dozen.” …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/12/02/the-pain-of-the-climb-in-pittburghs-dirty-dozen-bike-ride/
The bicycle ban imposed on most city streets in the small gambling town of Black Hawk, Colorado, is legal, according to a municipal court judge.
The ruling means that the three ticketed bicyclists who fought their tickets in court, with the help of pro bono attorneys and the nonprofit Bicycle Colorado, will probably either pay their fines or appeal the cases.
Bicycle Colorado announced the judge's decision on Wednesday.
Black Hawk city council enacted a law in 2009 to make it possible to ban bicycles on certain streets for safety reasons. Early in 2010, the city erected “no bicycling” signs on nearly every street in town and police started issuing $68 tickets …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/12/02/municipal-judge-upholds-black-hawk-bicycle-ban/
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When renewable energy advocate Tom Weis decided to start a national dialogue about US energy policies, he set out on a 2,500-mile journey to Washington DC by hybrid electric trike.
Along the way, the Boulder, Colorado, resident has been talking to people he meets along the road and to children at school assemblies. (Check out the Q&A with students at Mason Intermediate School in Ohio.)
Like many others, Weis has found that pedaling along in an essentially human-powered vehicle is a great conversation starter.
That's especially the case when the vehicle is a rocket-like trike with a canary-yellow carbon fiber shell. It sports a small electric motor to help him get the loaded 150-pound rig over the mountains ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/12/01/green-energy-advocate-traveling-by-trike-to-washington-dc/
Some 150 communities have been honored as “bicycle-friendly” by the League of American Bicyclists, but there is just one institution of higher learning — Stanford University — on that entire list.
While the home cities of UC-Davis, left, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), University of Colorado (Boulder) and others are bike friendly, the campuses themselves don't have such designations.
The League wants to award the efforts of college campuses that already are bicycle-friendly and help others adopt practices that improve the health and well-being of students.
The League is launching a Bike-Friendly University program …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/30/honoring-the-bfus-bicycle-friendly-universities/
If there's a living legend of bicycle touring, it's Heinz Stucke, the world's ultimate bike traveler.
Born in 1940, the cyclist has been pedaling down the road for 48 years after leaving his hometown of Hovelhoff, Germany, on a 3-speed bicycle.
Nearly 370,000 miles later, Stucke has visited more than 200 nations and territories and he's still going strong. Most recently, he completed a 6,000-mile tour Brazil and Alaska on his Brompton folding bike.
Now, in conjuncton with Bike-Tech, which sells Brompton folding bicycles, Stucke has launched a new website and a series of videos ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/29/new-website-and-videos-from-bike-traveler-heinz-stucke/
World's ultimate bike traveler has a new website — HeinzStucke.com.
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Next time you need inspiration for riding your bicycle, consider the case of Jimmy Button.
In 2000, the 26-year-old veteran motorcycle racer suffered a paralyzing crash in a practice round at a race course in San Diego. Family and friends were told that he was paralyzed from the neck down and would probably never walk again.
In three months, however, he'll set off for a cross-country bike ride from that race course in San Diego:
“The last time I rode an ambulance out. … But I'm not going to ride an ambulance out of that place this time, I'm going to ride a bicycle, and when we stop it's going to be when we get to Daytona Beach ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/28/jimmy-button-shares-his-miracle-on-cross-country-bicycle-tour/
Jimmy Button rides his bike with friends along the Pacific Coast Highway.
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