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Many writers will tell you that the great American novel would be about the national pasttime — baseball. I tend to think it could be about bicycling.
Peter Gelman is a writer of fiction from Portland, and he uses the bicycle as a vehicle for many of writings.
I ran across Gelman and illustrator Neal Skorpen (left and right in the picture) at a leaky booth at the Seattle International Bicycle Show a few weeks ago.
Although they each have their individual works, they're collaborating on a graphic novel on bicycling named “Dangerous Bicycle Mystery Quest” …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/04/02/bicycling-toward-mystery-and-adventure/
The Cascade Bicycle Club in Seattle is encouraging everyone to get involved in the annual “Jurassic Petroleum Drive to Work Day” on Wednesday.
That's right, it's time for bicycle commuters, bus passengers, pedestrians and even car-poolers to jump into their individual cars and experience the love of crawling along to work on a congested four-lane superhighway, spewing carbon emissions as they go.
If you look at the calendar, you'll realize that Wednesday is April Fool's Day, so I doubt if the announcement at the Great City blog or Cascade's Twitter is being made in all seriousness. But there is a serious point to be made.
Imagine the congestion on our roads …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/31/celebrate-drive-to-work-day-on-wednesday/
A bill that would require motorists in Washington state to give bicyclists and pedestrians a 3-foot margin when they pass is scheduled for a hearing in Olympia on Wednesday.
The bill, entitled HB1491, passed the House on March 6. The schedule warns that the 1:30 p.m. hearing in the Senate Committee on Transportation is subject to change.
Meanwhile, efforts in at least two other states have reached dead ends …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/31/3-foot-hearing-in-washington-state-stalled-in-iowa-and-ohio/
A reader of this blog emailed me yesterday to ask if there was a club or association for bicycle riders who had ridden organized centuries in all 50 states. As for himself, he had just one state to go — Montana — before completing this amazing feat.
I didn't find anything for the milestone of centuries in all 50 states. But after asking around, I stumbled across a few clubs that keep track of bicycling records that might never find their way into the headlines of the Guinness Book of World Records.
Perimeter Bicycling Association of America based in Tucson, Arizona, stays true to its name and declares World Records “for cyclists who bicycle the perimeter of any geographical boundary of 50 or more miles.”
That includes cities, counties, islands, mountains and other topographical features.
Meanwhile, the Ultra Marathon Cycling Association tracks time records for cross-state, trans-continental, city to city, 12- and 24-hour rides and centuries …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/31/what-bicycling-record-will-you-set-this-summer/
How do you choose the charity bicycle events that you ride?
Is it the cause? The difficulty? The length? The other people who are riding it?
A market research class at Northeastern University in Boston is conducting a survey of bicyclist preferences for non-profit organization rides.
They contacted me to pass along information about the survey, which is available online at non-profit organization bicycle rides. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/30/college-students-research-charity-bicycle-rides/
New Belgium Brewery's rollicking Tour de Fat bicycle festival hits the road again to 11 western cities this summer and fall.
The traveling circus-style event hosted by the Fort Collins, Colorado-based brewery preaches sustainability in its message to participants. That message is flavored with a healthy dose of suds.
This year, the festival starts by visiting Chicago, followed by Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Boise, Fort Collins, Denver, San Francisco, San Diego, Tempe and Austin (dates below).
Truckee, California, and Durango, Colorado, were dropped from last year's tour; Minneapolis and San Diego have been added …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/29/tour-de-fat-hits-the-road-in-2009/
Levi Leipheimer won his second cycling championship of the year on Friday by winning Spain's five-day Vuelta a Castilla y Leon bicycle race.
The win follows on the heels of his third straight Tour of California championship in February.
The Montana-born member of Team Astana was joined on the podium by teammate Alberto Contador in 2nd place and Garmin-Slipstream's David Zabriskie in 3rd place (Zabriskie placed 2nd to Leipheimer in the Tour of California.) …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/27/leipheimer-contador-zabriskie-1-2-3-in-spain/
The driver of a truck that sideswiped and killed Chattanooga bike framebuilder and cycling advocate David Meek earlier this month may avoid prosecution.
A grand jury decided not to return an indictment against the truck driver, and police earlier did not cite him — not even for a possible violation of the state's 3-foot passing law. The grand jury based its decision on crash investigator's conclusion, reported in the Chattanoogan newspaper:
“… the truck driver 'could have seen the bike, but it is not likely that he should have seen the bike.' “
What kind of tortured logic is this?
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/27/no-charges-in-death-of-bicycle-framebuilder-in-chattanooga/
Have you recorded your bicycle serial number? Me neither, but I plan to today after reading how Colorado Springs police solved a string of bike thefts.
Detectives conducting a routine record search of sales from county pawn shops recently stumbled across the serial number of a bicycle that had been reported stolen.
Tracking that sale led to the arrest of the seller and four accomplices. It helped solve a year-long bicycle theft spree that had netted more than 60 bicycles from Colorado Springs and Colorado College.
A detective told the Colorado Springs Gazette that the theft ring might been discovered earlier if the victims had records of their serial numbers that they could turn over to police …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/26/serial-number-busts-up-bicycle-theft-ring/
The US Bicycling Hall of Fame will relocate from its current home in New Jersey to either Davis, California, or Greensboro, North Carolina.
The towns are the top finalists from among 11 that sought to house the bicycling foundation's headquarters after more than 20 years in Somerset, New Jersey.
The Hall displays bicycles, jerseys, photos, trophies and other memorabilia of more than 100 years of US cycling history. It also celebrates the sport of cycling by inducting Hall of Famers every year and coordinating annual bike races.
Its home in Somerset is demolished to make way for a redevelopment project …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/25/u-s-bicycling-hall-of-fame-narrows-search-to-two-cities/
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