Last year I wrote a story about the hostility from drivers that I've encountered while biking to work. It generated a lively discussion, some of it from motorists who held deep resentment toward bicycle infrastructure like bike lanes, bike boxes and ...
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On Biking: bike lanes make sense
The truth is that healthy communities are communities that support walking, biking, and pubic transportation. The truth is that well-designed streets leave plenty of room for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists, help calm traffic, and make our streets ...
Biking in the TOC is big for American Riders and American Brands
By BROOKE WRIGHT SANTA ROSA -- As 128 pro cyclists and their staff prepare for the Amgen Tour of California -- including training rides, media conferences and sponsor events -- time to think is a luxury they sacrifice. "Woke up, was greeted by a rep ...
When Biking Is A Crime
Officers can take the bikes from where they are parked, or from the bike riders. Police records show dozens of bike seizures in the past three years from the city's lowest-income neighborhoods, including Park Place, Huntersville, Barraud Park and ...
Biking Culture
Boise-based Village Hope and the Boise Bike Project have joined with Moscow's Village Bicycle Project to distribute 40 bikes in rural areas of the African ...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Australia's crime-busting biking banker!
by Simon_MacMichael on November 7, 2011 - 12:12 A quick-thinking bank worker in Sydney, Australia, took to his bike yesterday to help thwart what police believe is an international criminal gang targeting automatic teller machines (ATMs). ...
Despite designated bike lanes, many motorists still oblivious
For example, we often roll through four-way stop signs - a huge source of conflict between cars and bikes - because biking is all about momentum. It's more efficient to treat the stop sign as a yield by slowing and checking the intersection than it ...
Wilmette Shop Strives to Build Biking Culture
Beyond selling bikes, Velosmith works to promote biking culture in the area. The store is the starting point for weekly 62-mile, three-hour road rides to Libertyville and back. Tony said the rides bring out about a dozen people on average, though their ...
Biking: Individual and collective culture change in Minneapolis
"There are lots of people living here who have biking as a major part of their identity." All of these advances make it possible for Garwood to not own a car, something he has never done. When essential, he can borrow or rent, or use Hour Car's ...
Cycling festival boosts Fort Collins' biking culture
"We want to see this grow over the next few years so Northern Colorado becomes one of the biking mecca's of the United States," Weinbeck said. Next year, event organizers hope to qualify for a national race calendar, bringing in more international and ...
Triple Pundit: How Biking Has Become Part Of Levi's Brand Culture
By Triple Pundit on May 17, 2012 Biking to work does more than offer a more sustainable way to commute and good daily exercise - it can directly contribute to business innovation and a thriving culture. A bit of perspective: I'ma lifelong biker.