Between the heavy rains on Friday and the fog on Sunday, Saturday was the archetypal fall day on an American college campus.
I can confidently use such a highfalutin word referring to Jungian psychology after attending a lecture by one of my son's profs at a parent's weekend event.
Accidentally, I caught a bike rider …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/10/26/biking-across-campus-on-a-sunny-autumn-day/
Later this fall, 24 people will travel to Africa to ride their bikes in Zambia and South Africa to learn more about what World Bicycle Relief can make possible.
The bike tour, which includes pro cycling team manager Johan Bruyneel, also hopes to raise $1 million toward the efforts to provide tens of thousands of bicycles to people in those countries.
The non-profit was founded in 2005 by the SRAM Corporation and Trek Bicycle to get transportation — bicycles — into coastline communities devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Since then, World Bicycle Relief has expanded its reach to Africa. The group believes that many of the problems on that continent — access to market, education, and health care — are problems of mobility that can be solved by the bicycle. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/09/22/world-bicycle-relief-takes-bike-tour-to-africa/
Ernest H. Simpson will surely be missed, not just by his family and friends in his hometown, but by thousands of people in developing nations around the world who ride bicycles he collected and refurbished.
Known locally in Gettysburg as The Bicycle Man, Simpson passed away this summer at the age of 88. He leaves behind a tradition of salvaging discarded and unwanted bikes, fixing them up, and giving them away. We're talking more than 10,000 bicycles.
The Patriot News has a good article about Simpson, and tells how it all started one day when he was walking home from work in the early 1950s and saw a man throwing out a couple of bicycles …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/09/09/pennsylvanias-bicycle-man-recycled-bikes-for-people-near-and-far/
A trail in Freund Canyon in the Cascade Mountains near Leavenworth was closed recently after reports of encounters between a cougar and mountain bike riders.
At least four times in the past couple of months mountain bikers reported being either chased or stopped by a cougar on the trail that forms an 8-mile loop through Freund Canyon.
The Yakima Herald reports the trail was closed until Saturday, when a local landowner killed the cougar.
In reports in the Seattle Times, two mountain bikers report being chased by the cougar. In another harrowing tale …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/08/18/cougar-confronts-mountain-bike-riders-in-washington/
Alabama's new state motto (with apologies to Orsen Wells who delivered this punch line for Paul Masson):
“We will serve no wine before
it's timenaked nymphs on bicycles are removed from the label.”
The Cycles Gladiator brand of wine has been banned from shelves in Alabama by the Alabama Beverage Commission because the label is deemed pornographic.
The art is nothing new. The label is a replica of a Parisian bicycle poster dating back to 1895 and shows a nude woman flying through the heavens with a bicycle. Naked, yes. Pornographic, no …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/07/28/alabama-bans-wine-depicting-naked-nymph-flying-with-bicycle/
It's not uncommon to find wide varieties of sports supplements and high-tech training gadgets hawked at major bicycling events.
But a journalist for the Des Moines Register stumbled across a truly unique device for sale at an expo booth in Council Bluffs for the kickoff of RAGBRAI over the weekend.
Called FUDS — short for female urination devices, the product allows women to answer the call of nature just as men do, by standing up.
The funnel-shaped, silicon devices are sold by GoGirl, whose slogan is “Don't take life sitting down.” …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/07/20/enabling-women-to-stand-up-to-the-call-of-nature/
Thousands of bicyclists passing through Chehalis, Washington, this past weekend on the Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic rode bicycles sporting high-tech materials and components unheard of just a few years ago.
Their route passed within 20 miles of tiny Pe Ell. That's where the rusting frame of a bicycle that employed cutting-edge technology for 1902 was recently re-discovered.
The find unlocked a dark family secret and prompted descendant Alfred Duane Tietjen to write a book, “Restoration,” about the bike and his efforts to restore it. It's interesting how a piece of rusting junk can reveal so much.
That bicycle, the Hill-Climber, is believed to be the first production model in the US to boast multiple-speed gear ratios ……
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/07/16/restoring-the-hill-climber-first-multiple-gear-bike-produced-in-us/
If you're a bicycle enthusiast in Seattle and want to see how the other half lives down in Portland, you can check out the documentary “Veer” this Thursday at Columbia City Cinema.
The film by Gregory Fredette and Jason Turner looks at the bicycling culture of Portland [see trailer at left].
It stars the Sprockettes, earnest bicycle advocates and dozens of cyclists who use the streets of Portland to get around by bicycle.
The documentary has been accepted for viewing at several film festivals and won for Best Documentary at the Calgary Underground Film Festival …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/06/24/bike-culture-documentary-veer-screening-in-seattle/
I've seen some poorly paved bicycle paths, but this one is the worst.
Actually, the canyon the cyclists are pedaling into is a 3D sidewalk art creation intended to slow down bicycle riders on the Regents Canalway in Islington, north of London.
A spokesman for British Waterways told the BBC that the “canyon” was commissioned to remind bicyclists to slow down and avoid pedestrians…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/06/19/is-it-art-or-a-slow-down-warning-for-bicyclists/
Hmmm. Pie.
A gal in San Francisco who sells pies from her bicycle is just one of a number of folks who are putting their bikes to work these days.
The BikeBasketPies baker announces her schedule via Twitter. Apparently she launched her business on Monday in Delores Park at the western edge of the Mission District.
Her specialties are strawberry-rhubarb, blueberry-mango-coconut, and mixed berry mini pies. Other working bikes…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/06/02/putting-your-bicycle-to-work/
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