In the world of bicycling, one of the biggest mysteries to me is how someone can lose a bicycle.
I can understand a person losing track of a bicycle that is stolen and ditched, but apparently people will occasionally park a bike and then not retrieve it. Do they forget it? Did they die? Were they whisked away by aliens?
For instance, the Seattle Metro transit system reported that 863 people put their bicycles on bus racks in 2007 and forgot to remove them….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/18/bicycle-lost-and-found-leaving-your-bike-on-the-bus/
Some New York City investors plan to build a bike parking lot — “the premier bike parking facility in the country” — on a lot on West 33rd Street in midtown (artist rendering at left).
Stonehenge Management has offered the 34th Street Partnership a 1,200-square-foot lot that's about a block from Penn Station, and the execs are looking for a corporation to invest about $200,000 in the idea.
Similar facilities available in six cities on the West Coast are called Bike Stations. Chicago has the McDonald's Cycle Center. All offer secure parking, as well as showers and repair shops …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/17/bicycle-parking-in-new-york-city/
Bicycling blogger Larry Lagarde is trying to stir up interest in so-called “bike trains” on Amtrak.
The author of RideThisBike.com is excited about last year's success of Bike Train on ViaRail, the Canadian national passenger rail carrier. The service allowed dozens of bicycles to be loaded “as is” — without boxes or disassembly — between Toronto and Niagara on four weekends.
ViaRail was so happy with the response that it's considering more service this summer. Larry emailed to say that he's convinced that such a service on Amtrak would have similar positive results …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/16/getting-onboard-with-the-bike-train-idea/
Ride your bike. Hammer. Repeat.
No, this isn't a crude way to maintain your bicycle. It will be the routine for bicycle riders in seven “Bike & Build” cross-country tours this summer.
Participants in the Bike and Build Program collect donations before setting out and ride in groups of about 30. The routes cross 42 states. On days that they're not pedaling an average of 75 miles, they're building affordable housing…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/15/biking-and-building-across-the-us-2/
It's nice to know that some cities want to be considered bicycle friendly. It shows that town officials believe that thoroughfares should be used for more than gas guzzling cars and trucks, and that bicycles are a form of transportation too.
Some cities actually apply for the official Bicycle Friendly Community designation from the League of American Bicyclists. That's no rubber stamp. Of the 200 communities that have applied, only 73 have earned the designation.
Here are recent stories about three communities — Boca Raton, Florida; Franklin, Pennsylvania; and Roanoke, Virginia — that want to be more bicycle friendly…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/14/bicycle-friendly-or-not-whats-happening-in-3-communities/
The first road hazard I ever fell victim to on a bicycle was a storm drain with openings that ran parallel to the road. I picked myself up, danced around as I waited for my road-burned palms to cool off, and said to myself, “I'll never do that again.”
That would have been in the early 1960s. Those road grates have disappeared in many places since then, although they're still quite common on the streets of Seattle.
Replacing those storms grates is a problem in Seattle and other cities. Storm grates cost about $500 apiece, not counting labor and other drain work that might be needed …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/14/storm-grates-are-a-catch-for-seattle-bike-riders/
Once every winter the rain stops, the winds die down, the clouds part and the sun shines. Every few years that day falls on a weekend.
I exaggerate, but only slightly. Sunday was such a day in Seattle. After several weeks of nearly daily rain and drizzle, the sun shone in the Puget Sound area and temperatures rose to the low 50s.
The weather drew lots of bicyclists outdoors. Lots of their bikes had fenders and buddy flaps. Those machines looked kind of grungy. I figure those folks would have been riding Sunday anyway — rain or shine…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/14/one-in-a-hundred-day-for-a-bike-ride/
While the big suits of the electronics industry waited in traffic in their limos, taxis and rented cars last week, analyst Roger Kay found the easiest way to get around Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show was by bike.
The first thing Kay did when he landed in Las Vegas was rent a Cannondale mountain bike, which he used to speed from his hotel to meetings or to the convention floor.
CES is spread out between two convention sites (including the Sands Expo Center, home of Interbike) and dozens of hotels where industry gurus take meetings. Instead of spending up to an hour waiting for buses, taxies or just plain walking, Kay made the rounds on his bicycle…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/13/fastest-way-to-get-around-vegas-at-ces-bicycle/
You might find the name Kajuan Cornish in more bicycling stories than that of Floyd Landis or Lance Armstrong for the next few days.
A judge in Newport News, Virginia, ordered the 19-year-old man to pay a $1,050 fine for recklessly riding his bicycle across an intersection during rush hour.
Virginia has an abusive driver law that charges fines against drivers with egregious traffic offenses. Even before this incident, the governor said the fees had failed and called on the legislature to repeal them…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/12/bike-ride-costs-virginian-a-1050-fine/
Bicycle retailers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states can see and rides lots of new bikes without having to travel to Las Vegas to participate in the Interbike Outdoor Demo next fall.
The trade show is inaugurating the Outdoor Demo East from 9 to 5 on Oct. 21 and 22 at the Roger Williams Park in Providence, R.I., this year to serve retailers on the East Coast.
It follows the annual Interbike show in Las Vegas, with the Outdoor Demo in Bootleg Canyon slated for Sept. 22-23 and the big show at the Sands Expo and Convention Center on Sept. 24-26…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/01/12/interbike-outdoor-demo-visits-east-coast/
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