If you're a bicycle enthusiast in Seattle and want to see how the other half lives down in Portland, you can check out the documentary "Veer" this Thursday at Columbia City Cinema.
The film by Gregory Fredette and Jason Turner looks at the bicycling culture of Portland [see trailer at left].
It stars the Sprockettes, earnest bicycle advocates and dozens of cyclists who use the streets of Portland to get around by bicycle.
The documentary has been accepted for viewing at several film festivals and won for Best Documentary at the Calgary Underground Film Festival ... more»
I've seen some poorly paved bicycle paths, but this one is the worst.
Actually, the canyon the cyclists are pedaling into is a 3D sidewalk art creation intended to slow down bicycle riders on the Regents Canalway in Islington, north of London.
A spokesman for British Waterways told the BBC that the "canyon" was commissioned to remind bicyclists to slow down and avoid pedestrians... more»
A gal in San Francisco who sells pies from her bicycle is just one of a number of folks who are putting their bikes to work these days.
The BikeBasketPies baker announces her schedule via Twitter. Apparently she launched her business on Monday in Delores Park at the western edge of the Mission District.
Her specialties are strawberry-rhubarb, blueberry-mango-coconut, and mixed berry mini pies. Other working bikes... more»
Just returned from a too short trip to New York City, and thought I'd share some bicycle photos I took while I was there.
What struck me the most on Friday was the overwhelming number of folks who earn their living on bicycles. For these people it's not so much bike-to-work, but bike-at-work.
Of course I spotted, and dodged, plenty of bicycle messengers running errands in the Times Square area as soon as I started walking around Friday morning.
Then toward lunch-time, I started seeing guys on heavier bikes who were delivering food either in plastic bags hanging from handlebars, or in boxes attached to the bikes. ... more»
Ten major U.S. cities are targeted for urban assault this summer and fall, but don't bother to warn the Department of Homeland Security.
These Urban Assault Rides are hosted by New Belgium Brewery and are basically bicycle scavenger hunts for two-person teams.
The contests along the 20- to 25-mile routes are based on skills that have little or nothing to do with everyday bicycling: bike jousting, keg walking, inflatable slides and human wheel-barrows.
Volunteers and staff are cranking the pedals on these bicycles to power up the Jones Soda headquarters building in Seattle on Earth Day.
The building is off the electric grid on Wednesday with only bare essentials running, such as some phones, lights and computers.
With the help of the Applied Science students at the UW, Recycled Cycles bike store and plans from Pedal Power Generator, Jones set up 10 bikes fitted with generators to run the offices.
I wonder if Danny MacAskill as a youngster used to ride his bike in front of his house and shout to startled observers, "Hey look, no hands."
Imagine the reaction now when people walking down the street in Edinburgh, Scotland, see him do a backflip off a tree on his bike or bounce off the wall of a building like Spiderman.
Now the world is viewing his amazing feats on this video posted on YouTube.com on Sunday. By Wednesday morning, the clip had been viewed 780,000 times. It's less than 6 minutes long, and just gets crazier as it goes on.
MacAskill rides for the trials team for Inspired Bicycles ... more»
Congratulations to all you bicycling enthusiasts in Davis, California. Your city has been chosen as the new home of the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame.
Board members of the Hall of Fame, located in Somerville, New Jersey, had been looking to relocate for the past year, ever since the museum's home was sold for development.
More than a dozen cities made a bid for the Hall of Fame, and the contest came down to between Davis and Greensboro, North Carolina, in recent weeks.
Davis was picked because it has adopted the bicycle like no other city ... more»
Many writers will tell you that the great American novel would be about the national pasttime -- baseball. I tend to think it could be about bicycling.
Peter Gelman is a writer of fiction from Portland, and he uses the bicycle as a vehicle for many of writings.
I ran across Gelman and illustrator Neal Skorpen (left and right in the picture) at a leaky booth at the Seattle International Bicycle Show a few weeks ago.
Although they each have their individual works, they're collaborating on a graphic novel on bicycling named "Dangerous Bicycle Mystery Quest" ... more»
A reader of this blog emailed me yesterday to ask if there was a club or association for bicycle riders who had ridden organized centuries in all 50 states. As for himself, he had just one state to go -- Montana -- before completing this amazing feat.
I didn't find anything for the milestone of centuries in all 50 states. But after asking around, I stumbled across a few clubs that keep track of bicycling records that might never find their way into the headlines of the Guinness Book of World Records.
Perimeter Bicycling Association of America based in Tucson, Arizona, stays true to its name and declares World Records "for cyclists who bicycle the perimeter of any geographical boundary of 50 or more miles."
That includes cities, counties, islands, mountains and other topographical features.
Meanwhile, the Ultra Marathon Cycling Association tracks time records for cross-state, trans-continental, city to city, 12- and 24-hour rides and centuries ... more»
Have you recorded your bicycle serial number? Me neither, but I plan to today after reading how Colorado Springs police solved a string of bike thefts.
Detectives conducting a routine record search of sales from county pawn shops recently stumbled across the serial number of a bicycle that had been reported stolen.
Tracking that sale led to the arrest of the seller and four accomplices. It helped solve a year-long bicycle theft spree that had netted more than 60 bicycles from Colorado Springs and Colorado College.
A detective told the Colorado Springs Gazette that the theft ring might been discovered earlier if the victims had records of their serial numbers that they could turn over to police ... more»
A few years ago I wrote about Ferndale, Washington, bike-maker Kona's efforts to create a rugged bicycle for use in Africa for home healthcare workers.
The AfricaBike program was a three-way effort by Kona, Bicycling Magazine and Bristol-Myers Squibb to provide bicycles and medications to several countries in sub-Sahara Africa to provide AIDS/HIV treatment.
This past week I saw in a Seattle Times commuter bicycle review by Dan Nelson that those AfricaBikes (in 1-speed and 3-speed versions) are available in the United States and Canada as commuter bikes.
Checking around, I also learned that the Kona BikeTown project is still going strong and plans to send more bicycles to Africa this year. Since it was launched in 2005, some 3,000 all-steel bicycles have been delivered ... more»
If you're a bicycle messenger in Washington DC, or have played one on TV, you might want to apply as an extra in "Fair Game -- The Valerie Plame Story."
The movie is about the outing of CIA spy Valerie Plame by the White House during the Bush Administration. It stars Sean Pean and Naomi Watts.
Carlyn Davis Casting is looking for a bike messenger as an extra. Shooting is March 15 or 16 and the pay is $130 ... more»
Two suspects wanted in the $250,000 burglary at David Zabriskie's Salt Lake City home are in custody.
Salt Lake City police arrested the two separately on Thursday after publicizing their identities. One turned himself in and the other was apprehended when he showed up at his girlfriend's house.
The two, ages 43 and 39, could be charged with five separate felony counts.
In spite of the arrests, not much of the loot has been recovered yet ... more»
Welcome to Rexburg, Idaho, where bicycles are prohibited on plank sidewalks and the bicycle speed limit on Main Street is 5 mph; 12 mph elsewhere in town.
Don't worry. If you get a $25 ticket, you can work it off for $2 a day by working on village streets.
If those laws sound a little strange, it's because they were enacted in 1901 when hot-dogging thrill-seekers on bicycles were the scourge of many towns. Members of the Trails of Madison County committee are suggesting many changes to those laws ... more»
When David Rowe offered to stop by on his virtual book tour to promote "The Ride of Your Life," I jumped at the chance to interview him.
It's not often that I get the opportunity to talk bicycling with someone as knowledgeable and expressive as David. Based here in the Pacific Northwest, he's been riding a bicycle for 30 years. Although he doesn't race, he regularly participates in bike rides that are longer than 100 miles.
His ebook is a guide to preparing yourself mentally for the challenge of taking on long-distance cycling. We touched on some of those issues in this interview, like riding through pain, balancing bicycling with your job and family, and how to prepare for a long-distance independent bicycle tour .... more»
Richard Masoner over at Cyclelicious was kind enough to contact me this morning to ask if I had a "fantasy bicycle shop."
Funny, but this is something I've actually thought about. My shop would be located in a small- to medium-sized town in the midwest and cater to touring bicyclists. We'd live next door and have room for passing cyclo-tourists to pitch their tents in the yard.
His blog lists the fantasy bike shops of six other bloggers -- CycleDog, Andy Singer, Guitar Ted, Fat Cyclist, Bike Snob, and Swobo. You might enjoy heading over and reading it at: "Blogger fantasy bicycle shops."
I'm happy to announce that BikingBis.com will host an interview with author David Rowe about his newly released eBook, The Ride of Your Life, on Feb 12.
The Ride of Your Life is a book for sport-recreational cyclists who want to increase their mileage and their enjoyment of events of 100 miles or more. I reviewed it last week.
There are two ways to win free copies of the ebook (it sells for $19.95). If you send in a question to David for the Q&A, you'll be eligible for one of five eBooks that will be given away. Also, if a story you write about an inspirational bicycling experience is chosen for an upcoming book, you'll also receive a free copy of the book ... more»
If you have some old bicycle parts in your garage, and who doesn't, now you can put them to use if you have an artistic bent.
Spartanburg, South Carolina, is seeking applications from artists to make outdoor sculptures made from a substantial amount of recycled bicycle parts.
The sculptures will be part of Artcycle, which helps celebrate the Spartanburg Creative Energy campaign in May.
The sculptures don't necessarily have to be made wholly from bicycles, like this piece hanging in the Washington DC Convention Center a few years ago ... more»
Ten major U.S. cities are targeted for urban assault this summer and fall, but don't bother to warn the Department of Homeland Security.
Congratulations to all you bicycling enthusiasts in Davis, California. Your city has been chosen as the new home of the 
Many writers will tell you that the great American novel would be about the national pasttime -- baseball. I tend to think it could be about bicycling.
A reader of this blog emailed me yesterday to ask if there was a club or association for bicycle riders who had ridden organized centuries in all 50 states. As for himself, he had just one state to go -- Montana -- before completing this amazing feat.
How do you choose the charity bicycle events that you ride?
Have you recorded your bicycle serial number? Me neither, but I plan to today after reading how Colorado Springs police solved a string of bike thefts.
A few years ago I wrote about Ferndale, Washington, bike-maker Kona's efforts to create a rugged bicycle for use in Africa for home healthcare workers.
When David Rowe offered to stop by on his virtual book tour to promote 
