Alert! Alert! A serious warning has just come in from Denver, everyone. According to Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes, the city’s pro-bike programs are spinning the mile high city into the clutches of UN Control! According to the Denver Post, no doubt itself already under control of the New World Order, Maes recently lashed out […]
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Not Having a Car Makes You an Anti-Sex Symbol
Slate has a cool article up about Hollywood’s relentless portrayal of biking people as dweebs and losers. It’s not something I’ve really thought about before but reading through the article I realize, hey, they’re totally right. I can’t remember a recent film where someone got around by bike who wasn’t a total sad sack. The […]
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Headphones & Bicycles, A Love Story
Dudes dudes! Don’t look at me like that. I know, I know, I’ve heard it a thousand times, (mostly from my nun of a mother), I SHOULDN’T listen to music through headphones while on my bicycle. It’s not safe. It’s probably against the law. It can cause me to become a really reckless cyclist, especially […]
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Today in Perhaps Too Adorable Bicycles
LOOK, BICYCLE! If you’re cold, why don’t you put on a sweat… oh, you did. Spotted on the Lower East Side of NYC, via.
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Need Some More Bike Drama? No? Whatever.
Dan Christensen Today on the people–who–hate–bikes beat, a TriMet bus driver is placed on administrative leave for posting a call to kill a bicyclist on his blog. This isn’t Al M, mind you (he’s not allowed to podcast from the driver’s seat anymore). This time it’s Dan Christensen, who was named one of WWeek‘s “Best […]
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Did Someone Set Up a Trip Wire for Bikes in Ladds?
Reader Lauren Hudgins just sent in this account of a bizarre experience she had in Ladd’s Circle: I just biked through Ladd’s Addition around 1am. Someone had set up clear tape like a trip wire across the road. Another biker and I stopped to dismantle it, assuming it was kids playing a prank and complaining […]
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Recyclery Closes Stores, Blames Media
Minh Tran Recyclery owner Robby Fenstermaker: Mad about business, calls me fat. I reported in March that local bike shop the Recyclery had broken the law in the past and potentially sold stolen bikes and parts… Jonathan Maus over at BikePortland.org reports that the SE Madison and Ladd’s Addition branches of the troubled bike shop […]
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The World’s First Gumby Bike!
Tony Kyrlacou/Rex Features Gumby Bike does the pretzel Attention all bike nerds! Mere youngster 21-year-old Kevin Scott from the UK has just designed a bike that can bend around poles and lock to itself. This cool Gumby-bike has been praised not only for its flexibility, but also for its state of the art locking system, […]
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With Bike Funding, Even a Cut is a Win.
Whew. So THAT was a tense meeting this morning, over at Metro’s Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation (JPACT), an obscure-but-powerful group that this morning decided guidelines for how to spend a $24 million pot of money that is split between bike/pedestrian projects and freight. As we’ve been talking about all week, the flexible funds […]
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The Opposite of Green Urban Planning
In a move that can only be described as the exact opposite of the way things should be going, Black Hawk, the smallest town in Colorado with only 118 residents, has recently banned bicycles on their roadways. Michael Copp, the City Manager, said that the city council “believe their actions are what’s best for it’s […]
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Sharrow the Road!
SE Ankeny: Now with more bikes literally on the streets. Like elves of infrastructure, Portland street crews have been installing bike “sharrows” on the busiest bike routes around town. I haven’t actually ever witnessed anyone in the streets laying down the white plastic arrows, and yet they’ve popped up this week all along my commute. […]
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Cyclist Hit on SE Ladds—Sent to Hospital
Reporter Amanda Waldroupe is on the scene in Ladds Addition where a serious bike crash occurred about an hour ago just north of Ladds Circle, according to police officers who responded to the incident. The cyclist involved is not identified and was injured enough to go to the hospital. SE Ladds is a major bike […]