Yes, that post on Tuesday about GM buying Specialized was an April fool's joke. One of a number that were posted across the web and blogosphere yesterday.
This is no joke: I checked my stat counter and discovered that Biking Bis has scored more than 1 million hits since I started keeping stats in March 2005. Exactly 1,019,684 as of right now…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/04/02/no-joke-more-than-1-million-hits-on-biking-bis/
Attila Horvath gets his inspiration while pedaling down the road. But unlike the moments of creativity that some of us mistakenly believe we achieve on the bicycle, Horvath's are worth hearing.
Horvath is a bike rocker, maybe the only one around. Here's a link to two bicycling songs — “Ride On” and “Flyin Free” — on his Attila Horvath MySpace page.
The musician who makes his home in Athens, Ohio, wrote an article about his work in the March issue of Adventure Cyclist, the monthly magazine of Adventure Cycling Association …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/04/02/spinning-along-with-bike-rocker-attila-horvath/
My decision to renew interest in some of my old bicycle routes by peeling back the history of my small slice of western Washington has led to some startling discoveries, at least to me.
Just the other day I decided to explore some side roads off a hill climb I often make up to Cougar Mountain. I stumbled across this old cabin, which turns out to be one of the oldest buildings still standing in King County.
It's called the Baima Cabin. It's an old coal company town house dating from about the 1880s. That's only about 30 years after the first white settlers showed up over in Seattle; ancient history in these parts…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/04/01/bicycling-through-history-and-march-ride-stats/
Eugene A. Sloane gained a passion for bicycling in middle age when he picked up a 3-speed to get back into shape in the 1960s.
He loved it so much that he jumped at the chance to write a book on the subject for Simon & Schuster. The result was “The Complete Book of Bicycling,” probably the first modern end-all beat-all book for bicyclists. It was published in 1970 and found a waiting audience.
Sloan died Saturday at age 91 from the complications of pneumonia at a hospital in Wilmette, Illinois …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/04/01/complete-book-of-bicycling-author-dies/
Could General Motors be going green?
BikeBiz.com reports early Tuesday morning UK-time that the world's biggest carmaker is buying California-based Specialized Bicycles.
Maybe GM sees the writing on the wall; one day there won't be any more oil to put in its cars. GM's Flora Lopi, VP for environment, energy and safety policy attributes it to GM being in the forefront of developing new transportation choices with limited impact on the environment.
See the San Jose Business Journal for the full story. Be sure to check out the “Related News” on the SJBJ website for the latest developments to this story of interest to all bicyclists; and definitely check out Quickrelease.tv. Seriously. Check it out …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/04/01/gm-buying-specialized-bicycle-company/
Bicycle guru Sheldon Brown, who passed away in February, was fond of April Fool's jokes. That's why bicyclists in Seattle and Portland are picking Tuesday as the day for memorial rides.
In Portland (BikePortland): 6 p.m. Col. Summers Park, SE 20th and Belmont.
In Seattle (Kent's Bike Blog): 6 p.m. BikeStation 311 3rd Ave. South.
If you'd like to see a classic Sheldon April Fool's joke, here's his foolproof method to clean a bike chain…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/03/31/sheldon-brown-memorial-rides-in-seattle-and-portland-on-tuesday/
Six West Seattle students — ages 10 – 18 — were to begin a 22-day bicycle ride across the US today to deliver a message about global warming.
Their 5,400-mile route is charted to take the group through 65 cities that have signed on with Seattle Mayor Greg Nickel's Climate Action Now program. The noble endeavor is led by a Chief Sealth High School teacher who has organized similar rides in the past.
They're calling the bike tour “An Inconvenient Ride,” borrowing from Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth campaign …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/03/31/an-inconvenient-ride-sets-off-from-washington-dc-on-monday/
Most racers do it as a team
In 10 weeks, that great sleep-deprivation bicycling event known as the Race Across America gets underway as the 3,008-mile endurance race begins in Oceanside, California, setting off for the first time to Annapolis, Maryland.
In addition to the men and women who pedal and suffer in solitude, there are two-, four-, and eight-person teams that complete the race relay style. Most of these are raising money for charity, and quite few are comprised of older bicyclists, possibility inspired by images of Lon Haldeman and Pete Penseyres from more than 20 years ago.
The Aged Wisconsin Cheese Heads, for instance, is a team of five men and three women who average 59 years of age. They'll race four at a time, covering five miles before switching with their teammates …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/03/30/bicycling-the-race-across-america-for-a-cause/
Top fund-raisers for the American Diabetes Association's Tour de Cure charity ride will get to bike with Greg LeMond again this year. The one-day ride sets out from Redmond (Washington) on May 17.
The 3-time winner of the Tour de France is the honorary chairman of the nationwide Tour de Cure series, which sponsors nearly 80 rides in 40 states and raised some $13 million to support the diabetes foundation last year.
I doubt that he can participate in all of the rides, but the Redmond ride is convenient for LeMond because it's located near the home offices for LeMond Fitness Inc. in Woodinville. LeMond lives in the Minneapolis area, but travels here every few weeks
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/03/27/greg-lemond-biking-tour-de-cure-2008-in-redmond/
If you didn't find your dream job in “Bicycling advocacy jobs: You call this working?”, then here are two more jobs that are available for the East Coast.
The Bicycle Coalition of Maine is looking for a new executive director after Jeffrey Miller accepted a position as head of the Thunderhead Alliance.
Also, you bicycle bloggers might be interested to know that the East Coast Greenway Alliance is seeking a travel writer…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/03/27/two-more-bicycling-advocacy-jobs-on-east-coast/
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