2010 archive
The same day that President Obama announced his jobs programs in the State of the Union address, an Indianapolis-based bicycle components maker announced it would expand and create jobs by 2013.
Zipp Speed Weaponry, which makes wheels, aero bars and other components for road, cyclocross and triathlete bicycling events, will expand its customer service and manufacturing division in Indianapolis, adding 105 jobs.
Currently the firm, which became a subsidiary of SRAM in 2007, employs 130 people. Hiring begins in June, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal.
This $12.5 million investment is good news. Zipp is expanding and keeping its jobs in the US, not farming out to India or China. ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/28/zipp-expansion-small-bright-light-in-bike-industry/
Brett Tracy travels the western US by bicycle and uses his artist's trained eye to document the end of the industrial age.
While the end of the industrial age might not be an accepted fact, Brett sees evidence everywhere that humans are coming to the end of their industrial phase. He imagines that a more ecologically aware human-scale era will replace it.
His website is “The Illuminated Thread: a journey by bicycle into the murky unknown of the deindustrial age.” It's full of pictures, videos, audio and journal postings of his travels.
Brett is about to set out on a bike tour from Los Angeles to Houston. Along the way, he's planning to stop at desert water projects, failed alternative energy projects, utopian settlements, mines, dumps and aircraft storage yards. ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/27/traveling-by-bicycle-to-document-the-end-of-industrial-age/
Brett Tracy pauses to grab a bite on his bike in Wyoming. Illuminated Thread.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/27/catching-a-bite-in-wyoming/
A closed shipyard in San Francisco. Illuminated Thread
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/27/abandoned-shipyard/
Stephen Allen is pedaling across the Pacific Northwest on the last leg of his around the world bicycle tour to raise money and awareness about living with epilepsy.
Allen left Telluride, Colorado, some 14 months ago and headed east on his Seize the World bike travels. Since departing, he saw 22 countries and sustained 3 1/2 seizures.
He flew into Seattle from Japan in December, and now he's pedaling his bike across Idaho after passing through eastern Oregon. He continues to give talks, like the one last week in Boise for the Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho, and use his laptop to update his website, SeizetheWorld.com.
Allen undertook the world bike tour to show that people with epilepsy can realize their dreams. He keeps his epilespy in check with medications. …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/26/cyclist-fulfills-world-bike-touring-dream-in-spite-of-epilepsy/
More than 2,000 south Florida cyclists gathered in Key Biscayne on Sunday morning for a memorial ride to honor hit-and-run victim Christophe LeCanne.
It was an amazing outpouring of support to demonstrate to elected officials and the motoring public that bike riders are tired of second-class citizenship on the road.
LeCanne, 44, was struck by an allegedly drunken motorist as he rode his bike in the bicycle lane on the Rickenbacher Causeway a week ago Sunday.
He lay bleeding to death in the road for over 15 minutes because the closest fire-rescue station was closed due to a reduction in hours …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/25/thousands-join-bike-ride-to-remember-florida-hit-run-victim/
The text-messaging motorist who struck and killed his former high school teacher told the court: “This was not intentional. It was an accident. I'm so sorry.”
Clark County (Vancouver, Washington) Superior Court Judge Roger Bennett didn't buy it.
“I've heard the term 'accident' used quite a bit today. But this was no accident.”
He then sentenced Antonio Cellestine, 18, to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and felony hit and run ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/24/5-year-sentence-in-washington-bicyclists-death/
I don't know how many ochre-colored leaders' jerseys were prepared for the Tour Down Under, but one would have been sufficient this year.
Andre Greipel donned the leader's jersey after the first stage on Tuesday and retained it through the week to win the 2010 Tour Down Under championship on Sunday.
Team Sky's Chris Sutton won the final stage, a 56-mile criterium around Adelaide. It was the only stage won by an Australian on his home soil this week.
US-based Team HTC Columbia certainly deserves a huge credit for Greipel's repeat of his 2008 Tour Down Under championship. Columbia controlled the peloton all week
Lance Armstrong, who arrived to great fanfare with the new RadioShack cycling team, finished in 25th place overall ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/24/greipel-wins-tour-down-under-australias-sutton-wins-finale/
Update: Feb. 8 — Vulnerable user bill, SB 5838, approved by Judiciary Committee. Next stop is Senate Rules Committee then a vote on the Senate floor.
—Cascade Bicycle Club blog
It's time that vulernable users of the road — such as people riding bikes or walking — get more protection from the law.
A measure that increases penalties for motorists whose right-of-way violations cause injury or death faces a major hurdle at the Washington State Capitol this coming week.
A distracted driver's inattention can cause crumpled fenders between cars, but lead to serious injury or death when the victim is on a bike or on foot.
Regardless of the outcome, in too many cases police can only issue minor traffic citations that often don't even require a court appearance.
The Cascade Bicycle Club is working to change that by getting the Vulnerable User Bill (SB 5838) passed into law. They're calling on Washington bicyclists to contact their legislators to ask them to support the bill …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/24/update-vulnerable-user-bill-passes-first-hurdle-in-olympia/
Update: Jan. 23 — Executive director Jake Beattie says response to the burglary at Seattle's Bike Works has been huge. The shop had its biggest volunteer work party
last week, and a Mercer Island police officer has pulled together a collection of “evidence bikes” that area agencies had been storing.
The program also received enough donations to cover the cost of increasing security in its storage yard.
“Thanks to all of you who helped turn a negative situation into an expression of community and care,” Beattie said. ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/01/23/update-community-helps-after-thieves-hit-seattles-bike-works-shop/
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