Bicycle historian David V. Herlihy was called upon to provide background for CNN’s Art of Movement feature this month that focuses on the bicycle — “the world’s most popular vehicle.”
“From Boneshaker to BMX: 150 years of the bicycle” tells the story of the bicycle from the first wood and steel draisines to today’s lightweight carbon fiber …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/01/28/150-years-of-bicycle-history-at-cnn/
A Wisconsin motorist was surprised to notice a man’s body poking through his car’s windshield when he pulled up to his house Saturday night.
“He looked at me and said, ‘Who are you? What are you doing in the car?” said Steven Gove, the bicyclist who crashed through the windshield.
Gove told a reporter for …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/01/22/motorist-to-cyclist-in-windshield-what-are-you-doing-in-my-car/
The Steel City has a long-time love affair with the bicycle.
It started before local cyclist Frank Lenz left on his tragic global bike ride in 1892 and continues to this day with Pittsburgh as one terminus of an off-road bicycle route that stretches 335 miles to Washington, DC.
So it’s not surprising that the …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/11/10/bikes-science-on-two-wheels-at-pittsburgh-museum/
The simple, yet efficient, design of the common bicycle is repeated again and again — 3,144 times — in the sculpture Forever Bicycles on display in Toronto for the next couple of weeks.
The sculpture is the work of Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, an internationally renown artist who is not allowed to leave his home …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/10/10/thousands-of-welded-bicycles-create-unique-sculpture-in-toronto/
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/
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/
When Olympic gold-medal winner Kristin Armstrong of Boise opened on Tuesday two bicycle boxes used to ship home her racing bicycles she used in the Summer Games in London, they were empty.
One — the Felt DA time trial bike — is valued at about $30,000. The other — a Felt F1 road bike — …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/09/12/bicycle-theft-strikes-gold-medal-winner-kristin-armstrong/
The mostly quiet rural roads of the Snoqualmie Valley were busy with hundreds of bicyclists riding the North Bend-based Tour de Peaks bike ride on Sunday.
The bike ride features routes that criss-cross the Snoqualmie and Tolt river valleys. Above, cyclists pass each other on the Tolt River Bridge near Carnation.
It great to see so many people out enjoying the clear skies and summer temperatures on Sunday. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/08/12/tour-de-peaks-cyclists-tour-the-valleys/
Some of you who have just finished up the Seattle-to-Portland Bicycle Classic this weekend might be looking for new road biking routes to tackle in the Pacific Northwest.
You’ll find them in spades in two new bicycle route guides published this summer by Mountaineer Books.
“75 Classic Rides Washington: The Best Road Biking Routes” and …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/07/16/two-new-road-bicycling-route-guides-for-washington-and-oregon/
See June 14 update: New route for Ride the Rockies will avoid fire zone
Five high mountain passes and 24,937 vertical feet of climbing can’t stop the 2000 cyclists on the Ride the Rockies bicycle tour this week in Colorado, but a wild land fire can.
The High Park Fire has burned about 43,000 acres …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/06/12/wildfire-could-reroute-ride-the-rockies-and-bicycle-tour-of-colorado/
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