If the winter weather is getting to you, this video should remind you that good bicycle traveling days are ahead.
This 6:18-minute video is a compilation of photos taken on the Bike the US for MS 2009 cross-country bike tour from Virginia to Oregon that raised $25,000 for the charity.
According to Adventure Cycling Association's Bike Bits newsletter, MS biker Bret Taylor attached a digital camera to his bicycle and set it to shoot an image every 5 miles. He strung the images together ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/07/transamerica-bike-tour-in-6-minutes-18-seconds/
It's good to have a friend in the federal government who sounds like he's looking out for bicyclists and pedestrians.
Granted, most federal transportation projects are road-building exercises that support our car culture. But DOT Secretary Ray LaHood appears to understand that bicycles are one of the solutions to the traffic congestion that's stifling our cities.
It's a refreshing change from his predecessor, Bush-appointee Mary Peters, who complained in 2007 that spending on bike paths and trails was taking away money from upgrading the nation's transportation infrastructure.
I just saw recently where LaHood came to the defense of bike paths that a couple of Republican senators attacked last month because they got funding in the economic stimulus package ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/07/a-us-transportation-secretary-who-gets-bike-paths/
Jan. 9 update: Cyclists overrun anti-bicycling hate page
Jan. 8 update: Facebook page launched to counteract hate page (see below)
As a former newspaperman I take dim view of censorship, but this Facebook page has no redeeming value and espouses violence against bike riders.
This Australia-based Facebook page — “There's a perfectly good path right next to the road you stupid cyclist” — is a platform for rants and threats against people riding bicycles.
It may have started innocently enough by someone who had to slow down one day to share a narrow stretch of road with a bicyclist, but it has devolved into hate-mongering and harassment of cyclists fulfilling their rights to the road.
The statements do more damage than reflect poorly on the authors. They turn cyclists into objects who may be considered rightful targets by some drunken, drug-addled driver whose grip on sanity is looser than his grasp on the steering wheel ……
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/07/anti-bicycling-facebook-page-promotes-violence/
He who hesitates is lost. That proverb is ringing true for some Cascade Bicycle Club members who discovered available spaces for the 2010 RSVP bike ride filled up quickly this week.
Members-only registration for the Seattle-based bicycle club's eight bike rides in 2010 opened at 9 a.m. Monday; Ride from Seattle to Vancouver BC and Party on Aug. 13-14 was booked before the end of the day.
Based on past experience, I'd expect Ride Around Washington, which visits the “forgotten corner” of northeast Washington for a week of bike touring from July 31 to Aug. 7, to sell out of spaces next. It was 75% sold out the first day. …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/06/seattle-to-vancouver-bike-ride-fills-up-fast-rsvp-2-offered/
As it could have been reported in my hometown newspaper:
A Bellevue resident celebrated his 60th birthday with a 60.5-mile bike ride on Sunday.
“It shows what you can do if you ride regularly and have a strong stubborn streak,” said Gene Bisbee, who writes the Biking Bis blog.
An avid bicyclist, Gene said that he'd run into a streak of bad luck — all his own fault — with bicycling the past year and didn't know whether he would be able to achieve his goal of 60 on his 60th.
It all started with a fall in January 2009 caused by his improperly maintained bike. He stayed off the bike for several weeks and thought everything had cleared up until this autumn when he was again forced off the bike with severe knee pain. A physical therapist told him it was related to his hip injury ……
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/04/man-60-celebrates-birthday-with-60-mile-bike-ride/
A 49-year-old bike rider was seriously injured on Saturday when he steered into a ditch to avoid being struck head-on by a minivan east of Sammamish.
The Washington State Patrol is asking any witnesses to contact Detective Stacy Moate at 425-401-7746.
The injured man, identified as the Seattle P-I's bike blogger David Longdon, was among a group of cyclists training for the Cancer Care Alliance Starbucks Cycling Team. They were heading westbound on Redmond-Fall City Road (Route 202) near Ames Lake Road about 11:45 a.m. Saturday …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/03/update-cyclist-injured-avoiding-collision-with-van-in-sammamish-wa/
A new year means new laws in many states, although there are only a few that affect bicycling.
A ban on texting while driving in three states went into effect on Friday, promising to make the roads a little bit safer by protecting bicyclists and others from distracted drivers. That makes 19 states that prohibit the practice (see the list below).
About the only law addressing bicycles specifically is a strange one in California that allows a person to ride a bicycle without a seat if the bicycle was designed by the manufacturer to be ridden without a seat.
After reading that one over a couple of times, I searched high and low for an explanation and finally ran across one in the Sacramento Bee ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/01/now-its-ok-to-ride-a-bicycle-without-a-saddle-in-california/
Deadlines. Always the deadlines. With this being the last day of 2009, here are a few things you might want to know about photo contests, Cascade Bicycle Club memberships, and New Year's Day bike rides.
Midnight is the deadline to vote for your favorite photos at the Alliance for Biking & Walking (formerly Thunderhead Alliance) People Powered Movement Photo Contest. More than 2,000 photos were submitted in 7 categories. The grand winner gets an all-expense-paid bike tour of Tuscany, so I'm sure the photographers appreciate all votes cast for their pics.
While you're thinking images, there's still time to enter your most prized picture from your bicycle tour in the first Adventure Cycling Association Bicycle Travel Photo Contest. The winning photo appears in Adventure Cyclist magazine. You can check out the entries at flickr.com; they're amazing.
Thursday also is the last day to sign up at the 2009 rate for a new or renewed membership at Cascade Bicycle Club and qualify for early-bird event registration in 2010 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/31/end-of-year-bike-deadlines-first-of-year-bike-rides/
It's good to see a cyclist finally named as an Athlete of the Decade.
No. It's not Lance Armstrong, who got squeezed out by a golfer in the Associated Press and USA Today polls.
We're talking about world champion track cyclist Marty Nothstein of Trexlertown, Pennsylvania. The 38-year-old got the nod from the editors at the Allentown (PA) Morning Call this week.
Nothstein grew up racing at the velodrome in Trexlertown and used that experience to earn an Olympic gold medal and win three world championships and 34 gold medals at US National Championships ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/29/cyclist-wins-male-athlete-of-the-decade/
Remember this video from back in April? It changed a cyclist's life.
Former Edinburgh bike mechanic Danny MacAskill became an overnight sensation when this video — about 6 months in the making — hit YouTube. If you're not one of the 13 million people who have seen it, you should take 5 1/2 minutes to check it out.
Now the New York Times interviews him in “A stunt cyclist's Tour de Fence” and tells how the 24-year-old's life has changed since YouTube stardom struck.
Earning $9 an hour a couple of years ago as a bike mechanic, MacAskill could pull down a six figure salary in 2010 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/12/29/the-bike-stunt-video-that-changed-a-life/
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