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Pedicab in Times Square late Friday night
Just returned from a too short trip to New York City, and thought I'd share some bicycle photos I took while I was there.
What struck me the most on Friday was the overwhelming number of folks who earn their living on bicycles. For these people it's not so much bike-to-work, but bike-at-work.
Of course I spotted, and dodged, plenty of bicycle messengers running errands in the Times Square area as soon as I started walking around Friday morning.
Then toward lunch-time, I started seeing guys on heavier bikes who were delivering food either in plastic bags hanging from handlebars, or in boxes attached to the bikes. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/11/the-hard-working-bicyclists-of-new-york-city/
When your company does something that you're proud of, you want the world to know.
That's the impression I got from Ryan Burns, an employee at the Logos Bible Software company up in Bellingham.
With Bike-to-Work Day coming up on May 15, he wanted to brag a little about the in-house bicycle shop that Logos has funded.
You wouldn't be surprised to hear something like this about Microsoft, which has a bike repair shop for its hundreds of employees at the sprawling campus in Redmond. But Logos has just 170 employees, many of whom are serious bicyclists who work on their own bicycles.
By the way, Bellingham has been named a silver level Bicycle Friendly Community.
Here's a story that Ryan wrote up about the bike repair shop …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/10/bellingham-wa-software-firms-bicycle-shop/
A petition that trail advocates are pushing in Virginia could result in hundreds, if not thousands, of miles of bicycling trails alongside active railroads.
The central idea of the petition is that citizens should benefit directly from railroad projects that receive government subsidies for new construction or improvements.
The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy points out there already are 200 rails with trails projects in the US totaling more than 2,000 miles.
Currently, the Virginia Bicycle Federation is asking Gov. Timothy Kaine to support trails with rails on all major railroad projects in the state.
Here is VBF's take on the issue …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/08/virginia-petition-seeks-bike-trails-along-railroad-projects/
A jury took less than two hours to reduce the charges against a woman who struck and killed a bicyclist in last year's Tour of the Scioto River Valley (TOSRV).
The motorist was originally charged with the third-degree felony of leaving the scene of a fatal accident. The Pike County, Ohio, jury on Wednesday reduced the charge to a misdemeanor crime of leaving the scene of an accident.
The jury reasoned (and I'm using the term loosely) that because the bicyclist suffered head injuries that killed him instantly, the motorist's failure to stop did not in and of itself result in the bicyclist's death.
The third-degree felony carries a 1- to 5-year prison sentence; the maximum punishment for a misdemeanor conviction is a 6-month sentence and $1,000 fine
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/07/jury-reduces-charges-then-convicts-motorist-in-tosrv-bicycle-fatality/
Mark your calendars: The 2010 edition of the Amgen Tour of California is scheduled for May 16-23.
This change could be a good or a bad thing. The race previously has been scheduled for a week in February for its first four years.
Good: May is a much more weather-friendly month in California than February. In fact, a couple of stages in the past two years have been downright miserable.
Bad: The dates put it smack dab in the middle of next year's Giro d'Italia, which has been the cycling world's focus in May for decades …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/07/2010-tour-of-california-will-be-raced-in-may/
A Seattle-based outdoors magazine is offering a new Norco bicycle as first prize to the person who tells the best bicycle commuting story — in 300 words or less.
The publishers of Outdoors NW are looking for real-life bicycle commuting experiences from the Northwest:
“Stories may include your experiences about your first bike commute, why you decided to start commuting, your best – or worst – commuting day, your rainiest commute, how it helped you get in shape, how it changed your life, etc. Stories may be funny, sad, contemplative … anything goes…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/06/best-pacific-northwest-bike-to-work-story-wins-a-new-bike/
That failed sprint up Pinos Altos in the Tour of the Gila last Sunday must have sent the message to Lance Armstrong that he's not ready to win the 3-week Giro d'Italia that starts on Saturday.
In a dramatic turnaround, the 7-time Tour de France winner announced Tuesday that he'll ride in support of Astana teammate Levi Leipheimer, the 3-time winner of the Tour of California and winner of last week's Tour of the Gila.
Armstrong had said early in his comeback season that he wanted to race to win the Giro; it would be his first appearance in bike race around Italy. But a broken collarbone suffered in a crash at the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon in March delayed his training …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/05/armstrong-to-work-for-leipheimer-at-giro-ditalia/
Are you lucky enough live in a Bicycle Friendly Community?
The League of American Bicyclists named 13 more cities to its esteemed list, bringing the number nationwide to 108.
And as an added bonus, the League named four states — Washington and Wisconson (silver) and Arizona and Minnesota (bronze) — to its newly launched Bicycle Friendly State program.
Here are the 13 new states on the Bicycle Friendly Community list …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/04/13-new-bicycle-friendly-communities-named/
You might think the odds that someone could beat Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer in an uphill stage finish are about the same as a 50-1 horse winning the Kentucky Derby.
Well, Mine That Bird won at Churchill Downs on Saturday and Phil Zajicek, 30, won the final stage of the Tour of the Gila in New Mexico on Sunday.
Leipheimer and Armstrong, teammates on Mellow Johnny's bike shop team for this year, did finish 1st and 2nd overall in the five stage Gila bike race; Zajicek finished in 3rd overall …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/03/leipheimer-and-armstrong-finish-1st-and-2nd-at-tour-of-the-gila/
Bicyclists who achieve the Eastern Continental Divide on the Great Allegheny Passage this year will be rewarded with murals of historical scenes from the trail.
The murals, by artist Wayne Fettro, are installed on the rail-trail underpass of MacKenzie Hollow Road in Pennsylvania.
The picture above is just one of dozens of photos that make up a 3D viewing experience at PhotoSynth.net.
The four panels grace both sides of the east and west entrances of the underpass at the 2,392-foot elelvation summit for the trail in Somerset County …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/05/03/picturing-the-history-of-gap-bicycle-trail-in-pennsylvania/
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