New “channelizing islands” at SE 7th and Spokane.On Saturday, the City of Portland hosted a party and bike ride on SE Spokane Street in Sellwood to celebrate the opening of a new bike boulevard. The project’s significance goes way beyond the speed bumps, “channelizers”, and [...]
Didn't Bob Dylan sing "...the signs, they are a-changin'"?
Maybe not, but I couldn't get that song out of my head when I read at Bike Portland that the feds were establishing new guidelines for signs and road markings that included changes that effect bike riders.
While some of the improvements deal' [...]
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Amateur cyclists and recreational bicyclists in the US and Canada will get more opportunities to participate in Italian-style gran fondo bike rides in 2010.
Nearly a dozen gran fondo bike rides are scheduled next year in California, Colorado, [...]
A bike lane was removed... someone died... the local cyclists are considering drastic measures
A bicycling buddy saw this beer truck blocking a bike lane while he was visiting in New York recently and sent me the picture, entitling it, "An Incentive to Ride a Bike."
I'll agree there have been times on a long, hot bike ride that the mirage of' [...]
A simple tandem bike ride may have unlocked a treatment for Parkinson's disease, a disorder of the central nervous system that impairs motor skills and speech.
The discovery happened when a biomedical engineer, Jay Alberts, captained a tandem in a 200-mile bike tour of Iowa with a friend who was afflicted [...]
Today was December 3, the latest in the year I have climbed to Blackerby Ridge.
PBOT has made major safety improvementsThe Sellwood Bike Boulevard project is nearing completion and the neighborhood wants to celebrate. The Sellwood Moreland Improvement League (SMILE) will host a bike ride and party on [...]
Many bicyclists are seeking to influence a political agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference that begins next week in Copenhagen.
A global bike commute challenge is underway and cyclists are joining climate-change bike rides in selected cities this coming weekend for Ride Planet Earth. Meanwhile, activists in The Bike Bloc Project who [...]
We already knew that, actually, but what's kind of cool is that news crews caught him and some friends as they left for a morning bike ride the Friday after Thanksgiving day.
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Do you like to ride your bike for a charity? You're not alone.
Roughly two-thirds of the 1,700 recreational road bicycling events held in 2008 raised money for a cause, collecting nearly $200 million for charities in the US.
That's just part of the' [...]
Bicyclists in more than a dozen US cities are planning to ride 29 miles on Sunday, Nov. 29, to mark the 29th anniversary of the first reported AIDS case.
The number of miles may be small but the cause is great. The bike rides are a preview of the Dec. 1 World [...]
Drew Hunter's father, fiance and best friend rode across a rainswept bridge on the Massachusetts coastline on Sunday to complete a cross-country bike ride to raise funds for kayaking safety programs.
Dubbed the Tour de Hunter, the 5,000-mide bike ride honored the memory of Hunter, a 28-year-old former Marshfield resident who died [...]
The City of Fullerton Ca., in the north of Orange County, has approximately 28 miles of recreational trails, which are spread throughout the city.
Hikers, equestrians, mountain bike riders, walkers, and joggers take advantage of these scenic trails.
On Wednesday afternoon, Hiking Stick and camera in hand, [...]
It's never too soon to start planning for a major bike ride next year.
Although cross-country bike travel isn't in the cards for me, I started checking into self-contained or fully supported coast-to-coast bike tours that are offered in 2010.
Here a a few that I stumbled across that are [...]
