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View Article  My 10 biggest goofs on a bike

The Cyclelicious blogger recently wrote about trying to rip off a piece of dangling handlebar tape while riding in a peloton.
I was dumbfounded that someone else had done something that stupid on a bike. It also gave me a great deal of comfort. Misery loves company.
Here's the dumbest things I've done on a bicycle. I'm sure many of you will find ...   more »

View Article  The Ditty Bops, cycling and singing in LA

Cycling might not make you musically talented, but The Ditty Bops are proof that it won't hurt either.
The female singing duo from Los Angeles say that bike riding is one of their favorite leisure pursuits.
Amanda Barrett (mandolin and dulcimer) and Abby Dewald (guitar) enjoy cycling so much that they've included it in their ...   more »

View Article  Bike parts fashioned into objects d'art at Arizona shop

Is it art? Or is it a bicycle component?

The Bicycle Inter-Community Action and Salvage project of Tucson answers that question Sunday at its 10th annual art auction.

BICAS is a nonprofit community coop where people can buy or rent bicycles.

But most importantly, it's a place where people can learn how to do repairs on their own bicycles. Cyclists ...   more »

View Article  Trike into bike one of Time's amazing inventions

I did a double-take when I saw the cover of the latest Time magazine. There is a picture of the SHIFT, the tricycle that turns into a bicycle as it rolls faster.

Time had judged the tricycle one of most amazing inventions of 2005. My blog covered the Purdue University student project back in April after it took the first ...   more »

View Article  Stolen bike bust in Berkeley is just that, a bust

Karim Bicycle is open and back in business in Berkeley about five months after police swooped in to bust an alleged stolen bicycle ring.

Berkeley police served a search warrant on June 16, entered the shop and dragged out dozens of bikes for the assembled media, who duly reported the raid, as evidenced in the San Francisco Chronicle. ...    more »

View Article  Seattle and Boulder bicycles headed to Louisiana

The Katrina Bikes Partnership Project in Seattle closed the second weekend of its bicycle collection drive at Magnuson Park with a total 834 bikes last Sunday.

The bikes, helmets and other gear donated by Seattle area cyclists is on its way to Baton Rouge, where a delivery of bicycles from Boulder already has arrived, reports the Baton Rouge Advocate. ...    more »

View Article  Pan-Massachusetts Challenge and Ride for Roses score big

The two-day Pan-Massachusetts Challenge bike ride retained its title as the most successful athletic fund-raising event in the nation again this year.

When combined with the totals accumulated through the Lance Armstrong Foundation's Peloton Project and countless other charity bike rides, it demonstrates another powerful ability for cycling to do good. ...   more »

View Article  Keeping Cherokee language alive on bicycle spokecards

Being a "spokesperson" can have a different meaning for cyclists than the usual, "So and so is the spokesperson for such and such."

As artist America Meredith explains on her Cherokee Spokespeople website, spokespeople can be bicyclists who have jammed laminated cards -- spokecards -- in their wheel spokes. The cards are especially popular among bike messengers who collect ...   more »


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