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Campfire Cycling Blog Posts Are Migrating…Come With Us!
Hello from the www.CampfireCycling.com crew!We want to thank all of our readers for submitting amazing photos and stories of their experiences with their trailers, bags, racks, and other bike accessories. We love reading about all the ways you are getting out there on your bikes exploring the world. Please keep those photo and video submissions…
unTerrifying Facts About Bicycling
This absolute gem of a video found its way to my inbox yesterday. It’s titled “Terrifying Facts About Bicycling” and was created by BuzzFeed, the most prolific makers of lists on the Internet today. Please take the next 2 minutes to watch this video. Wow. May I be the first to say WTF just happened…
Grey Matter and Rethinking Used Bikes
No doubt, I inherited my aversion to buying used vehicles from my parents. As Great Depression era kids, they were used to having possessions which were always secondhand, but I think the final straw came when my father returned from Europe and started looking around for a car in post-WWII Chicago. The automakers in Detroit…
Do We Need 'Science' to Tell Us About Bike Commuting?
Well, we could probably design a study to answer that question… This week, the National Institute of Transportation and Communities (NITC) at Portland State University released an enormous study looking at protected bike lanes in Washington D.C., Chicago, Austin, San Francisco, and Portland. The purpose of the study was to evaluate protected bike lanes to…
Sympathy for the Salmon
You see a bike rider riding where a bike shouldn’t be ridden, or in a manner contrary to your refined sense of cycling civility. What do you think? If you’re like me, you’re a judgmental rage turd before you catch yourself, and you calm yourself with the mantra, “They’re not in a car. That’s a…
Do You Lock Your Bike Properly?
Do You Lock Your Bike Properly?
Bikes and Streetcars in Tucson – Is There a Way to Make it Work?
What happens when two very good, well intentioned modes of transportation come together in a densely populated, busy urban corridor? Well, if it’s the Tucson Streetcar and the fleet of Tucson bike commuters, the results are starting to get ugly. The Sun Link Streetcar is now in the final testing phases in the bustling University…
Where are the Bicycle Startup Successes?
Its 2014 and Tech Startup Culture/Silicone Valley/Ambitious Teenagers have been going strong with producing great consumer focused companies for over 10 years now. So what about bikes? When I look up bicycling Startups at Angel List, its not that they are non-existant. There are some interesting and meaningful efforts being made. But when I see…
The Five Commandments of J.O.Y.B.A.G.®
I have traveled into the Safeway parking lots, among the glass filled shoulders, through the misery of forgetting my spare tube. I have lugged grocery bags on my handlebars and arrived to gatherings late and sweaty. I have cursed and sworn with befuddlement at being ill-prepared to make my way through the world on my…
Protected Bike Lanes
Protected Bike Lanes
Kickstart Our Heart! Bike Commuting Specific Projects Launching on Kickstarter
Here at Commute by Bike, we get a lot of emails from folks launching projects on Kickstarter asking us to help promote their campaigns. A number of the projects look awesome, inventive, and definitely worthy of some attention. While we can’t write individual articles about all of them, I decided to start a semi-regular feature…
Crowdsourced Maps for Local Cycling Routes, Still Waiting…..
The internet waves generated earlier this week over Strava’s user data heatmaps we’re both exciting and frustrating to those of us who have been waiting for the technology revolution to catch up with smart route mapping for cyclists. It was exciting because it is definitely a sign of momentum, but frustrating in that there is…
Bicycling in Cuba
Bicycling in Cuba
Hard working trailers, panniers, and racks
Colin sent us these photos of how he’s been utilizing his bike for a pretty awesome array of activities. He packed up his MIG welder and gas tank onto his BOB Trailer, which makes for a pretty bad-ass looking commuting rig.Next, he loaded up a folding table, chairs, and all the necessary tabling supplies for…
J.O.Y.B.A.G.® Revival
3 Years ago today, we launched what I can audaciously describe as CommuteByBike.com’s version of a GoogleX moonshot. The project was christened J.O.Y.B.A.G.® (That’s, Jump On Your Bike And Go). Our mission was to figure out what it would take for a bicycle to be as convenient and user friendly as a car. Given that…
Electric Bike Commute Video
It’s more and more common to see electric bikes on the roads these days. I must admit, I sometimes get pangs of purist thought when it comes to electric bikes. I mean, I can pedal, so why would I cheat? But honestly, electric bikes are the way to go in so many cases. And an…
Why yes, I am wearing my bicycle pants to the office…and hiking…and camping…A review of Bluff Works adventure-ready pants
You know those guys who go a year without breaking a sweat? Youve seen them walking, bellies a swingin, from one boring meeting to the next in some sprawling city where people get lost in thoughts about whether there is more to life than this. Well, unfortunately, you can do that in these pants if…
Maximum Impact Bicycle Advocacy
The development of serious and dedicated bicycle infrastructure is a requirement for any car centric culture, such as the US, to be able to get people utilizing bicycles for transportation in any serious way. The Netherlands and Denmark are the best examples of this. As a US based bicycle advocate, this is a depressing reality. …
Less Car More Go Documentary on Kickstarter
I don’t know what it is about cargo bikes, but they do have a funny way of getting into your heart. I’ve had a lot of bikes comes and go from my life over the years, but there is one I miss more than any of the others and that’s my old Xtracycle. The Xtracycle…
60 Minutes
I’m sure that our loyal readers have noticed some decline in the regularity of our posting here at CommuteByBike.com after the departure of Ted Johnson, our ponderous and insightful editor and marketing expert here at www.CampfireCycling.com. In his wake we’ve been working to come up with a new strategy for maintaining and growing this blog. …
Cyclovia Tucson Spring 2014
Our family has just celebrated one year living in Tucson, Arizona. There are a lot of great things about Tucson, but as a cycling family, one of the things we have enjoyed most is the nearly year-round cycling season. Granted, our first summer was a bit of a rough adjustment (toasted bums on blazing hot…
Bicycle Evolution Video
Bicycle Evolution Video
30 Days of Biking
Spring has officially arrived, though many of you may not exactly feel too springy yet, since the weather has continued to be pretty harsh throughout most of the country. Although here in Arizona, we’ve been having one of the warmest, driest winters on record, so we’ve been watching the rest of the country shiver while…
National Bike Summit Overview
National Bike Summit Overview