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That bike-mounted cell phone recharger that Motorola CEO Ed Zander announced a couple of days ago at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) isn't the first one to pedal down the road.
A Sweden-based company named Ikon Global Ltd. marketed a cell phone battery recharger named Pedal & Power up until a year or so ago, but has now apparently dropped off the face of the Internet.
The invention by Kieron Loy received write-ups in TreeHugger, Wireless Business and Technology, Engadget, and BikeBiz (back in September 2000) ….
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In his continuing efforts to make the fight against cancer a leading election campaign issue in 2008, retired pro cyclist Lance Armstrong penned an opinion article that appeared Wednesday on the CNN website.
In it, he chastises politicians for cutting funding for cancer research. He also says political candidates ignored the nation's No. 2 killer as they tried to get voters to the polls last November.
Armstrong also is a main guest on a CNN one-hour special on the fight against cancer airing Saturday and Sunday.
In the op/ed piece, “Armstrong: Washington weakens fight against cancer,” the 7-time Tour de France winner writes:
“The political ads didn't tell voters that earlier in the year funding for cancer research was cut for the first time in 30 years…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/10/lance-armstrong-cancer-needs-to-be-election-issue/
Bicycle advocates in California and Texas are lobbying for state laws that would require passing vehicles to give at least 3 feet of clearance when passing bicycles.
Efforts to pass 3-foot legislation have failed in both states before.
The California bill, entitled AB 60, was introduced by Assemblyman Pedro Nava of Santa Barbara in memory of a cyclist killed by a passing truck on a narrow road. The Texas bill has yet to be filed. If the bills pass, the two states would join seven others that currently have similar laws …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/09/california-and-texas-wrangling-over-3-foot-clearances-for-bicycle-riders/
Construction on a 6-mile bikeway across Lance Armstrong's adopted hometown of Austin is expected to start this spring.
Talk about the Lance Armstrong Bikeway started in 2000, but the plans, access and funding has taken this long for approval. It's expected to be completed in 2008.
Another bikeway in Austin is the Veloway, pictured at left. Allocation of funds made it controversial when it was built in the '90s, but it's said to be well-used now.
For those familiar with Austin….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/09/bikeway-in-austin-named-for-lance-armstrong/
I'd say this is definitely a bicycle used as a decoration.
Motorola CEO Ed Zander rode this yellow comfort bike onto the stage for his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Monday.
Was it left over from Interbike in September? Maybe. The boss of the $35 billion electronics giant (2005) wanted to make the point that digital content is portable, even in countries that rely mostly on bicycle transportation.
(Update: Motorola plans to sell a bicycle-mounted cellphone charger that will broaden its cellphone markets to developing countries.)…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/08/ces-bicycle-as-decoration-or-function/
Photo by Bruce Friedland at BPF Photography
Here's a bicycle my friend Bruce shot outside a restaurant on Orcas Island up in the San Juans on Puget Sound. At first it looks like a prop, but there is air in the tires.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/08/san-juan-islands-bicycle-as-decoration-or-function/
I always thought custom bicycles just so much froufrou. They're critical equipment for bicycle racers, but the rest of us citizens would do just fine with something off the rack at the local bike store.
An everyday guy like me owning a custom bike? That would be like buying a Range Rover to drive to the local grocery store.
An article in the LA Times today goes a long way to changing my mind. The writer makes several good justifications for buying a custom bike which all boil down to this: If a custom bicycle gets you out on your bike more often, it's worth it.
Here are some of the advantages of a custom bike mentioned in the article….
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The results are in for the 2006 bike mileage survey, and I see there are quite a few long-distance cyclists who voted. Nearly one in five responded that they had bicycled 8,000 or more miles this year.
I'll do the calculations for you: 8,000 miles is an average 154 miles per week. Wow. Even if the bulk of the miles were tallied on long summer rides, you'd still have to put in a good weekly average to get your miles up there.
I'm also impressed that more than half of you — 57% — bicycled more than 3,000 miles last year …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/06/results-for-2006-bike-mileage-survey/
For more than 30 years, June Curry has been serving cookies and lemonade to TransAmerica bicycle tourists on the steps of the Blue Ridge mountains in Afton, Virginia.
Her efforts earned her the nickname “Cookie Lady” to more than 14,000 cyclists who passed through. After they ate the cookies and drank the lemonade, or spent the night in the “Cookie House”, June would snap a Polaroid picture of her visitors. They'd sign the photo and the guest register and be on their way.
Most of those Polaroids are now available online at The Cookie House Registry at the Crazy Guy on a Bike website…
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/05/the-cookie-house-registry-30-years-of-bicycle-touring-in-pictures/
Where is it that a main thoroughfare has stop signs, but private driveways have none? At car crossings for the Burke-Gilman trail in Lake Forest Park near Seattle.
For years, bicyclists on the heavily used paved trail have had to stop at numerous driveways and minor street crossings that access waterfront properties on Lake Washington. At times, police have even issued tickets to cyclists who didn't come to a full stop.
Now that Lake Forest Park has upheld this law in Ordinance 951, the Cascade Bicycle Club is appealing that decision …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/01/04/bike-group-appeals-decision-to-support-driveways-over-trail/
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