What is it about Copenhagen and Amsterdam that puts between 33% and 40% of its commuters on bicycles everyday?
It goes beyond the fact that the terrain is mostly flat. Nancy Keates tells about some of what they're doing in an article, “Building a Better Bike Lane,” that appeared in Friday's Wall Street Journal. Among them:
— Amsterdam has built five new bicycle parking garages, and one is in the works for 10,000 bikes at the main train station. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/05/how-amsterdam-and-copenhagen-promote-bicycling/
Not all college students are heading off to summer jobs or fooling around at the beach this summer.
For instance, more than two dozen students for the University of Illinois are cycling 4,000 miles cross-country this summer to raise money and awareness for the fight against cancer. And a Purdue University sophomore plans to ride cross-country with the American Lung Association to raise money for asthma research.
They're just an example of college students who are joining cross-country bike rides this summer to raise money for charity….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/04/cross-country-charity-cycling-for-college-students/
You'll be able see the Graeme Obree story on the big screen beginning Friday if you live in Seattle, Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Toronto or Washington DC.
Those are the “selected cities” where theaters will show “The Flying Scotsman,” a movie about the Scot who twice broke the bicycling world record for distance covered in an hour.
Here in the Seattle area, theaters showing the movie this weekend are AMC Pacific Place 11, Renton Village 8 and Lakewood Town Center 12; Regal Bella Botega 11, South Sound Cinema 10, Alderwood 7 Cinemas, and South Hill Mall 6; Landmark Metro Cinemas; Bellevue Galleria Stadium 11; and Galaxy Tacoma 6. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/03/the-flying-scotsman-cycling-movie-opens-friday/
The other day I greeted a neighbor as I coasted into my driveway after a bike ride. We exchanged pleasantries, and I told her I'd just returned from a ride out May Valley Road.
“Oh, we don't bicycle out there anymore. It's too busy.” This from a woman who thinks nothing of heading off to Austria for a bike tour with her husband.
Mushrooming population on the eastside of Lake Washington has pushed up traffic on this road in the past 15 years. But for a johnny-come-lately like myself, it's still a fun, winding road for a spin. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/02/april-ride-report-nearly-in-the-groove/
You could say that the month of May is the beginning of the prime bicycling season. It's marked by two nationwide bicycling events:
The Ride for Silence on May 16 commemorates bicycle riders who have died or been injured while using public roads; and,
The Bike to Work Day on May 18 (May 17 in some locations) celebrates bicycle commuting and encourages all sizes and stripes of workers to ride their bike to work that day. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/01/may-bicycling-events-bike-to-work-ride-for-silence/
It looks like Levi Leipheimer is back in the driver's seat for the Discovery Channel pro cycling team after Italian cyclist Ivan Basso, left, asked to be released from his contract to fight doping allegations.
Leipheimer, of Santa Rosa, California, was considered to be the next team boss until Basso came on board last fall. Basso rode in support of Leipheimer during the latter's successful Amgen Tour of California in February, as the Italian cyclist was preparing to win the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France.
A reopened doping investigation in Italy, however, has prompted Basso to drop his Discovery contract. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/01/discovery-cycling-team-says-arrivederci-basso/
Erectile dysfunction in bicyclists is as much about riding position as it is about the saddle, say two urologists who have studied the problem.
Many male cyclists who have suffered this numbing sensation down below may already have come to this conclusion. But now we have proof from two researchers at Boston University who used digital three-dimensional modeling.
A report in UroToday says the two, J. M. Gemery and S. K. Reid, concluded that cyclists who lean far forward eliminate most of the benefits of using a bicycle saddle with a groove down the middle. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/30/bicycle-saddle-style-riding-position-and-male-impotence/
After 53 miles in the saddle Saturday, Face of America 2007 riders were feeling sufficiently road tested for the start of Sunday's final 55-mile leg from Frederick to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.
As members of Team Semper Fi rallied at the start point, the able-bodied and disabled Marines on the team joked darkly about the challenge ahead.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/30/face-of-america-day-2/
At the lunch stop on the first day of the Face of America 2007 ride, a few yards away from one of Frederick County, Maryland's historic covered bridges, Mike Gibson was explaining how his single bike was set up with all the controls on the right side.
Mike, who lost his left arm in a boating accident when he was a teenager, operates both front and rear brakes and derailleurs with his right hand. Asked if that was difficult to master, he replied quickly, “You adapt. That's what all these guys do,” he said, speaking of the more than 100 cyclists participating in the ride who have been severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. “After a while, you figure it out.”
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/29/face-of-america-day-1-on-the-road/
Seamus Garrahy, a former Marine and Gettysburg resident known for his care and support of soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, hosted dinner Friday night for the Face of America 2007 riders.
Under a tent in his backyard large enough for the 250 riders and their friends and families, Garrahy welcomed the group that included many former and current members of the military, and reminded them “that you are sitting on hallowed ground.”
It was near the end of his lawn, he said, that Gen. George Pickett buried his dead after the third day of the battle that would decide the Civil War. That was as somber as things got as the riders, which include about 100 soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq, came together in high spirits to kick off this remarkable two-day, 110-mile ride from Gettysburg to Bethesda.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/28/face-of-america-2007-the-team-gathers/
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