That didn’t take long.
Three state legislators from northern Georgia say they will withdraw their bill — HB 689 — that would have required bicycle registration, license plates and new rules of the road for bicyclists.
The three — Republicans Carl Rogers, Lee Hawkins, and Emory Dunahoo — from the Gainesville area made their decision …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/10/09/georgia-legislators-abandon-bike-registration-license-plate-bill/
If you were like me, you might have thought (hoped) that Lance Armstrong would disappear from the public eye after he finally admitting to doping during his pro cycling career.
It turns out that Oprah Winfrey interview wasn’t the media swan song for Armstrong. A book and documentary are both coming in the next couple …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/10/09/lance-armstrong-is-back-disgraced-cyclist-returns-in-book-film/
As promised, the Cedar River Trail between Renton and Maple Valley is open for bicycling again.
A half-mile stretch of the rail-trail was closed to bicycles and pedestrians beginning in July for a project that King County officials said would be complete in late September or October.
As it turns out, the reopening is timed …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/10/08/entire-cedar-river-trail-reopens-for-bicycling/
Dave Zabriskie, the time trial specialist whose professional reputation was tarnished by doping, announced his retirement over the weekend.
He’s one of the last of a one-time storied group of American cyclists on the US Postal Service teams whose careers fizzled after they admitted to the US Anti Doping Agency that they used performance enhancing …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/10/07/pro-cyclist-dave-zabriskie-announces-retirement/
Let’s make this the local bicycle shop award season. After stumbling across a recently published list of top 50 bicycle shops, I discovered two other lists of best local bike shops that totaled more than 200 names. They’re all listed below.
ActiveTimes.com chose its top 50 bicycle shops based on input from readers. The original …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/10/06/best-bicycle-shops-in-america-3-lists-name-250-bike-stores/
Update: Oct. 9, 2013 — Legislators abandon bike registration bill
Oct. 4, 2013 — The really bad idea of requiring bicycle registration and license plates has made it into a bill submitted to the Georgia legislature.
The bill by the three Georgia lawmakers doesn’t stop with registration, however. It puts new limits on how bicyclists …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/10/04/bicycle-registration-license-plates-and-single-file-riding-pushed-in-georgia/
The official reopening of a 1.2-mile section of West Lake Sammamish Parkway in Bellevue is scheduled for Friday, but the path alongside the road was open to bicyclists on Thursday.
The new roadway and path runs between the traffic circle at Sunset Elementary School and Southeast 34th Street.
The work comprises a 8- to 10-foot-wide …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/10/03/new-bike-ped-path-opens-on-west-lake-sammamish-parkway/
People who ride bicycles are among those feeling the pinch in the federal government shut down.
Although it’s nothing compared to the impact for 800,000 government employees, housing voucher recipients, veterans seeking benefits, and many others, bicyclists have found themselves shut out of federal facilities as well.
Hiram Chittenden Locks
Close to home here in …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/10/02/bicyclists-locked-out-in-government-shut-down/
Need a little more encouragement to commute or run an errand on your bicycle?
What if you could get a 10% or 15% discount off breakfast at the local cafe or coffee shop, a free banana with your groceries or an energy bar with your purchase at a bike shop?
I stumbled across just such …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/10/01/bicycle-benefits-you-deserve-a-reward-for-riding-your-bike/
Moses Mathis worked hard for 22 years to put smiles on the faces of Fayetteville, NC, children by providing free bicycles to them at Christmas time.
(Interviewed in 2012)
Over the years, he became known as the “Bicycle Man.” Since he started the program in his Tiffany Pines neighborhood in 1990, Mathis and his team …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/09/29/north-carolina-trailhead-named-to-honor-bicycle-man/
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