A NAHBS Interview trial run, Bisbee Bicycle Brothel, When Tabloids Attack, Rage Against Your Machine.
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Commute by Bike T-Shirts: Get 'Em Now!
We made a big batch of Commute by Bike t-shirts, and they are available on Bike Bag Shop as of today. If you weren’t one of the five random t-shirt winners, there’s another chance to win.
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Bicycling
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Bicycling
A Link History of NAHBS – While Prepping for Austin
After a full day of Internet browsing through the bicycle porn that is the history of NAHBS, here are the bits that stand out.
Celebrities: Bike to the Oscars
Celebrities: I want to help you prepare for your most important commute of the year-–whether you care about the planet, or if you just want to appear that you care.
Interpreting Interpretations: An Analysis of the Bike Accident Tracker
The Bike Accident Tracker can “help move everyone past the overly-simplified arguments about cars vs. bikes and spur discussions on bike safety that are based on data instead of preconceived biases,
'There is a fine line between being safe and carrying on a conversation with yourself in public' (Roundup)
A visible target of ridicule is still a target.
Cycling & the Media in the Netherlands
Cycling & the Media in the Netherlands
FlashBak Lighted Safety Device – Enough is Enough
When I first got the FlashBak, I could only think of humorous applications. I milked it for laughs. I clipped it to my butt and called myself Mr. Flashypants.
Princeton Tec PUSH Headlight
It’s brighter than any headlight I’ve tried–and I’ve tried many. And by “many†I mean “a handful of cheap ones.â€
Moving Beyond the Automobile Series
Moving Beyond the Automobile Series
Bicycle Diaries: A Review
Byrne’s unique observations are a result of his viewing the world from the saddle of his bike, but Bicycles Diaries, published in 2009, proves to be different from many other advocacy-themed books that offer far less social and political commentary.
Chrome and Schwinn: Love is Blind or Worlds Collide?
What is one to make of a cross promotion in the form of a Chrome contest to give away a Schwinn tandem? Nothing, unless your old.
A Commuter Trailer as a Job Benefit
At Bike Trailer Shop, we want to promote the idea of a bike cargo trailer as a job benefit for bike commuters–to get them to bike commute even more.
Poll: Would you borrow a bike trailer from your boss?
Buying a bike cargo trailer seems like a relatively easy and inexpensive thing a business could do to encourage those of us who do bike commute to do it even more.
Tandem Wheelie and Trailer Train
I love wheelies. I’m not so good at them anymore, but I’m a sucker for them.Last night, I had a dream that I was doing a wheelie on an adult tricycle. Please leave your psychoanalytical theories in the comments.Brown Cycles of Grand Junction Colorado makes KidzTandems, which are tandem bikes with the stoker position in…
Bicycles and Public Transportation
When given the choice to ride a bike or to take the Metro (rail or bus), I would love to be able to choose the bike every single time. But, the reality of living in a city like DC (and most cities across the country) is that sometimes combining methods of transportation is necessary to…
Black Hawk Clowns vs. Andy Kerr
I found out that Andy Kerr not only bike commutes to work. It turns out, he is advocating for a legislative solution to the problems created, and the troubling precedent set by Black Hawk. Kerr is a co-sponsor of “The Open Roads Act” a.k.a. House Bill 1092.
'My copy of the Constitution doesn’t even mention highways' (Roundup)
Bike Paths are Unconstitutional. You heard it here first–unless, er, you read it first on Bike Commuters, or DC Streetsblog.
Epic Tours (Roundup)
As most of you know, BikeShopHub is the publisher of UtilityCycling. In the past, we’ve covered a lot of epic tours over on our sister site, but we are now going to be switching gears (oh puns…) so to speak and BikeShopHub will now be taking over the reporter position.
Replacing Bike Trailer Bearings
For those of you who are having trouble finding a way to replace bearings on commodity trailers, wikiHow has a new step-by-step tutorial on what you need to use and how to do it in just 16 steps!
Bike Church Tool Cooperative
Bike Church Tool Cooperative
Saved by the Bike: Bill & Daisy Mae
In a small town in south-central Pennsylvania, salvation found a man and a dog through cycling.
The Buff Seamless Headband
Over the course of two weeks, I tested the Buff Headband while running and cross country skiing, as well as during my regular bike commute to work.