2011 archive
“USHUAIA!!!! THE END OF THE WORLD!!! WE”RE HERE!!!! WE DID IT!!! WE REALLY DID IT!!!”
With that, Nancy Sathre-Vogel announced at her Twitter site on Monday that her “family on bikes” had successfully completed a self-supported bicycle tour the entire length of North and South America — a distance of some 17,290 miles.
For parents John and Nancy Vogel of Boise, Idaho, it's the dream of a lifetime. For 13-year-old twins Davy and Daryl, it means they'll be recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest to ride their bicycles the entire length of the two continents.
It also means that for the past 2-1/2 years, instead of attending school or watching TV, the boys were road-schooled by their parents and by the cultures and histories of the landscapes that they pedaled through ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/22/family-on-bikes-completes-record-setting-pan-american-adventure/
The Vogels celebrate at the end of the world in Tierra del Fuego. It's the southern-most point of the Pan American Highway.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/22/the-vogels/
A 19-year-old California cyclist who was killed by a motorist texting on her cell phone is being honored this spring by his father.
Dr. Robert Okerblom set off from San Diego on a solo cross-country bicycle tour on Feb. 27 to remember his son and bring attention to the big problem of cell phones distracting motorists.
Already he has raised awareness about the issue through newspaper interviews, classroom presentations, press conferences and one-on-one conversations with folks who just happen along and ask what he's up to with that bicycle.
Okerblom said he hadn't done much bicycling until after his son, Eric, was killed in July 2009 ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/21/father-rides-bike-across-country-to-honor-son-killed-by-texting-motorist/
Eric and Robert Okerblom horse around in recent photo. After Eric was killed by a texting motorist while he was cycling, Robert took off on a cross-country bicycle ride to bring attention to the dangers of texting and driving. EOFoundation blog.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/21/okerbloms/
Weather-wise, there probably aren't too many North American cities more different than Toronto and Miami Beach. But they both suffer the same problems with traffic congestion.
This spring, both cities are trying to tackle that problem with bike-sharing systems designed to encourage people to use bicycles, instead of cars, for short errands and commuting.
Miami Beach launched its bike-share program this week that makes 200 lime-green beach cruiser-style bicycles available to the public. It expects the program to grow to 1,000 bicycles available at 100 solar-powered stations by the end of the summer.
Toronto, on the other hand, is launching its bike-sharing system ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/19/toronto-and-miami-beach-use-bike-share-to-solve-traffic-woes/
The lime colored beach cruiser style bike will be used in Miami Beach.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/19/decobike-2/
My early years as a writer were all in print media, so it's a thrill to see one of my blog stories appear in the March issue of the magazine Riders' Collective.
Actually, Riders' Collective is a web-based publication; an e-zine. But publisher Paul Kramer gives the stories inside such a full-blown print magazine treatment with snappy graphics, large photos and stylish fonts that you can imagine it's something sitting out on a coffee table.
And Kramer does it all without felling one tree.
Kramer has coined the term “aggrezine” to describe his publication. That word is protected by a trademark.
Essentially, he scours the Internet for a wide variety of web stories ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/18/riders-collective-cycling-related-writing-and-photos-in-a-green-format/
Into every tragedy a few nuggets of positive news often appear. Tsuna Kimura is one of those nuggets from last week's earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan.
CNN found the 83-year-old woman in a shelter in the town of Hachinohe, one of the coastal cities partially swept away by the tsunami that followed the 9.0 earthquake.
The life-long rice farmer lived alone in a house, now flooded, when the earthquake and tsunami hit. She told CNN …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/18/the-woman-who-out-pedaled-a-tsunami-on-her-bicycle/
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/18/tsunami-escapee/
The 19 teams that will compete at the Amgen Tour of California have been announced and 11 are based in the US, although they feature an international cast of cyclists. Fourteen of the have been to this show previously.
Although the rosters for each team won't be known until shortly before the race, Sky ProCycling (current home of last year's champion Mick Rogers, who left HTC-Columbia) and Team RadioShack (home to three-time winner Levi Leipheimer, 2007 – 2009) have been selected ..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/17/19-teams-selected-for-tour-of-california/
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