2009 archive
A lifelong cyclist, advocate and bicycle shop owner is hospitalized with internal and spinal injuries in Winston-Salem. A motorist ran him down while he rode his recumbent bike home from work about a week ago.
Bruce Hermann owns the Neighborhood Transportation bicycle shop in nearby Lewisville, NC. He's well-known and respected among local cyclists and has worked on the local and national stage for more bicycle lanes and more rights for cyclists.
Regarding the crash, his wife, Margaret, told the Winston-Salem Journal:
“I've always been worried about that … he tended to work late. We've always been afraid that something like this might happen.” …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/03/north-carolina-bike-shop-owner-fights-for-life/
Bruce Hermann poses outside his Neighborhood Transporation bike shop in Lewisville, NC.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/03/bruce-hermann/
Relocating the North American Handmade Bicycle Show to Indianapolis did nothing to hurt its popularity this weekend.
The show celebrated its fifth year — its first in the midwest — with overall attendance at 6,500 enthusiasts, nearly equal to Portland's record draw last year.
The show also drew a geographical mix of bicycle-builders from across the US. The list of winners demonstrates the widespread interest among builders, with “bests” ranging from Portland, Oregon, to Cleveland, Ohio, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Show owner Dan Walker is based in Indiana, and he says that two-thirds of the US population is within a day's drive of Indianapolis.
Among those winners, the Peoples Choice award went to Sam Whittingham …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/02/north-american-handmade-bicycle-show-winners/
Here's a TV news broadcast about a Wisconsin cyclist who records close calls on video.
After lacking evidence in several near misses, Jeff Frings of Milwaukee started shooting video of his bicycle rides with a helmet cam and a rear-facing handlebar cam.
Capturing his near-misses on camera, he shows the video footage to police as proof a motorist violated Wisconsin's law that requires drivers give bicyclists a 3-foot clearance when passing. His experiences are no different than many of ours …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/03/02/bicycling-with-a-rolling-surveillance-system-in-wisconsin/
The effort to install and maintain bicycle lanes and build bike paths around Mountain View, California, has paid off with a renewal of its “Bicycle Friendly Community” designation.
The League of American Bicyclists announced the city at the south end of San Francisco Bay will keep its bronze level award.
The bike league cites continued work by the city on improving and extending the Stevens Creek Trail, shown here with a “bicycle posse” posing for a photo on flickr.com at Lee Comma Dennis …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/28/mountain-view-california-bicycle-friendly-status-renewed/
Salsa Bicycles is recalling 8,600 faulty handlebar stems after receiving three reports that they broke or cracked under normal use.
The handlebar stems were sold as individual aftermarket items and installed on bicycles from November 2007 to December 2008.
Salsa requests that consumers stop using bikes equipped with the CroMoto S.U.L. handlebar stem and return the bikes to dealers for free inspection and replacement …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/28/salsa-recalls-handlebars-stems-bicycles/
Salsa Bicycles is recalling handlebar stems that can break. Details at Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/28/handlebar-stems-recalled/
When President Obama signed the federal Economic Recovery Package into law recently, it included funding that could be used on bicycle and pedestrian projects in every state.
AmericaBikes and the Safe Routes to School Partnership are two of the many advocacy groups that are recommending how local advocates can ensure that the federal money gets to local bicycling and pedestrian projects.
One of their targets is the so-called Transportation Enhancements, generally 3% of the highway funding allocation to states. This is a direct source of funding for most bike lanes, bike paths, sidewalks and other such facilities.
Nationwide, that's nearly $803 million …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/26/how-to-put-stimulus-money-to-work-for-bicyclists-and-pedestrians/
Phil Keoghan is getting real with an amazing bicycle tour this spring.
The host of “The Amazing Race” reality TV show is embarking from Los Angeles on March 28 for a cross-country bicycle tour to raise money and awareness for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
The MS Society has chosen the bicycle as a successful form of fund-raising. The non-profit sponsors more than 100 one- to two-day charity bicycle rides around the US every year. Combined, the rides raise about $65 million annually.
Keoghan, who lives in New Zealand, says he'll ride about 100 miles a day …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/25/amazing-race-host-takes-cross-country-bike-tour-for-ms/
Phil Keoghan, host of the TV reality show The Amazing Race, will ride his bicycle cross-country to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society beginning in May.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2009/02/25/phil-keoghan-rides-cross-country-for-ms/
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