edited by: Andy Cline,
Cycling Editor
this weekend at a party\art show I was chatting with a fellow cyclistWhile researchers say that risk is a big issue that keeps women off bicycles on the road, a documentary comes to grips with another problem of perception -- it's just not cool.
Says one of the subjects in a UK documentary about young women on bikes: "I thought it was just'" [...]
On my bicycle, riding through the streets of Springfield, Missouri, I am a legal vehicle on the road. If the road is sharable (wide enough for a car to pass a bicyclist safely in the lane), then I am obligated by law in this state to ride as far to [...]
Admit it, you'd totally love to have this on your bicycle.
Though these are mostly available online, I still like to read the dead-tree edition of magazines if I have them. A few bike oriented magazines I like that might make a good gift for the cyclist in your life:
Bicycling in Washington County presentsThis past year has involved many transitions at the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. Staffing has been particularly affected — over the course of 2009, nine full time [...]
When I wrote about Farmington, Missouri, opening a bike hostel in an old jail on the TransAmerica Trail this fall, I wondered how many hostels are primarily devoted to bicycle travelers.
I could name three off the top of my head from my TransAmerica trip 25 years ago -- [...]
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This photo shows a group of men posed with their high-wheel bicycles, circa 1885, in Wichita, Kansas.
Presumably, the men were members of the Wichita Bicycle Club, which was organized in the 1880s, to be succeeded by the Wichita Wheelmen in 1896. Articles from the Wichita [...]
Check out this recent article from the Dallas Observer about the tensions between vehicular cycling and bicycle advocacy that focuses on infrastructure (a dichotomy, BTW, that I do not believe is as clear as the polemics).
As I have tried to make clear on Carbon Trace: I follow VC [...]
It’s a gray, cold, yucky day. Luckily, I dress for riding a bicycle in cold weather. I find lots of appropriate bicycling attire in my closet — called clothes.
Here’s what’s happening:
I see no precipitation from my office window. But apparently it’s coming. Current conditions (1:30 CST):Â N [...]
Bronze level bicycle-friendly Philadelphia is in the throes of a bike-riders vs. everybody-else controversy.
After two pedestrians were struck and killed by bicycle riders in Philadelphia in October, the police launched a crackdown last month against cyclists on sidewalks as well as those who don't make full stops at stop signs or' [...]
Visitors to the 2010 Winter Olympics based in Vancouver next February should certainly consider riding bicycles as the easiest way to get around town.
Of course, people might want to think twice about riding their bicycles to the mountaintop skiing slopes, but bikes should be an ideal choice for [...]
