Update: See “Confusion, Sweet Confusion: The Commuter Relief Act” for Stacey’s search for answers to the questions raised by this article. Recently, U.S. House Representative Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore, proposed the Commuter Relief Act. This legislation, which is co-sponsored by Virginia's Jim Moran (D) and Hawaii's Mazie Hirono (D), seeks to equalize the field for all…
The Invisible Cyclists
Today is Memorial Day in the United States. For you readers outside of the US, what this means is that some of us get to take the day off work, and it’s a great day to get a deal on a mattress. It’s also a day to commemorate U.S. Service Members who died while in…
Ever since the North American Handmade Bike Show we’ve been accumulating these short videos of people declaring, on record, that they commute by bike. This is the first of what we hope will be an ongoing series. Our hope is that we can show the world that bike commuting is not just the realm of…
Thanks everyone for coming out last weekend to our grand opening. We had a good crowd test riding the e bike lineup, checking out the new showroom and enjoying the refreshments.
With the rapidly approaching summer season, melting snow on mountain bike trails, and warming days, I figured it was high time to write a post dedicated to bike patrolling. Bike patrol, in the context of utility cycling, does not refer to police bikes or law enforcement by bicycle, rather it focuses on the use of…
It’s a busy Friday night in a college town. You see a man setting up a strange blinking apparatus right next to the train station–just as the Amtrak is loading and unloading passengers. The man quickly walks away. What do you do? I got some funny looks from a few bar hoppers as I walked…
Complete Streets
Steve Benning has been experimenting with bike commuting on a loaner Ohm XS 750 e-bike. Now he has to return the fancy Ohm bike. But he sounds like he’s ready to dust off his own bike and to switch to pure pedal power. Sure, he’d like to keep that sweet $3,799 bike, but it has…
A recent post on Cyclelicio.us discussed the economics of car commuting as a function of personal time. James Schwartz at the Urban Country figures car ownership costs the average American about two hours a day "” that works out to about 500 hours each year to buy, insure, and maintain a car. Compare with the…
I somehow have managed not to read Mark Twain’s essay, Taming the Bicycle until recently. I particularly enjoyed the section on dogs: There was a row of low stepping-stones across one end of the street, a measured yard apart. Even after I got so I could steer pretty fairly I was so afraid of those…
Saturday came and went with no rapture to speak of. If you were aware of Harold Camping’s prediction, you fell into one of three broad categories: People completely convinced the rapture would happen, and bewildered when it didn’t, People who didn’t really expect the rapture but passed Saturday with your fingers crossed, hoping for the…
Come Ride with Sophie
Inside the drab building you see in the video below is the headquarters of Commute by Bike. But yesterday we de-drabified the building a bit with a new stainless steel sign. And today–at the conclusion of Bike to Work Week–the online cycling accessory powerhouse that is Campfire Cycling is unveiling a nice showroom squeezed into…
I’ve gotten in touch with my inner lawyer, and feel compelled to clarify that today is Bike to Work Day–and not, as I wrote yesterday, Bike to Beer Day Yes, there is a Bike to Beer event today sponsored by my local bike advocacy organization and a local tavern. But today is Bike to Work…
We’ve had a windy and wet Bike-To-Work week here in Flagstaff. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that the warm weather comes back as predicted this weekend for our showroom Grand Opening.The Showroom Grand Opening starts at Noon at our Downtown location at 120 E. Phoenix Ave. We’re featuring our lineup of Electric Bikes by A2B,…
The oil companies and the auto industry control the weather! Wake up people! That’s how I felt yesterday afternoon, riding into what felt like a relentless spray of icy buckshot. The day started out just a bit chilly and drizzly, but that didn’t keep more than 100 dedicated bike commuters from visiting a “Bike to…
Our Josh Lipton was interviewed about Bike to Work Week yesterday on local radio by Steve Benning (our e-bike commuting Guinea Pig), along with Anthony Quintile from our local advocacy organization. I snuck in halfway through, and snuck out again before the interview was over. (My sneaking is in full view in the video below.)…
We’re having quite the windy Bike-To-Work Week as often happens this time of year in Flagstaff. For cyclists with long commutes that are often into the wind, electric bikes can be a great way to make regular bike commuting more feasible.This is one of the many reasons we are introducing a lineup of electric bikes…
We’re having a sale on ALL Chariot Carriers, Croozer Child, Cargo & Dog Trailers. Everything is 10% Off thru May 24th.
As headlines in the States are littered with concerns about the country's national debt, the ever increasing cost of oil, and the health and environmental repercussions of a largely inactive and auto-dependent population, the fate of federal funding for bike and pedestrian infrastructure is uncertain. According to the League of American Bicyclists, the Senate Committee…
Flagstaff Bike to Work Week is underway in Flagstaff and around the country. We’re excited to be getting in on all the action. Check out our coverage of the Bike to Work Week kick off at Commute by Bike.For Bike to Work Week we are offering up one of our big semi-annual specials with 10%…
May has long been a month dedicated to bicycles. Fifty-five years ago, the Cycle Trade Association declared the month to be American Bike Month. Several decades ago, May became known as National Bike Month when the League of American Bicyclists took over the cause, and the emphasis shifted more towards cycling advocacy and away from…
Bike commuting is fine for you, but I have kids who I need to take to daycare every morning. Oh Mama, are we ready with a comeback to that one. Child bike trailers aren’t just for towing your spawn to the playground on weekends. Many owners of child trailers use them daily as parents drop…
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