2011 archive
The horror and grief caused by a motorist who plowed through a group of peaceful critical mass cyclists in Brazil is captured in this scene from a video posted on YouTube.
The moments that precede this are a sickening reminder of how some motorists become monsters in the presence of bicyclists. Here's a link to the video, but I'll warn you that it's very graphic.
The savagery committed in Porto Alegre on Friday night started with the monthly critical mass bike ride through the streets of this lakeside town in southern Brazil. At least 40 were injured in the attack, incredibly no fatalities have been reported ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/28/motorist-plows-through-critical-mass-cyclists-in-brazil/
A man reacts after a VW plowed through a group of critical mass cyclists in Brazil.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/28/critical-mass-reaction/
The man credited with inspiring a generation of handmade bike builders in Oregon won the coveted “Best in Show” award at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show on Sunday.
DiNucci Cycles, owned by Mark DiNucci, led the list of 17 award winners presented at the conclusion of the 7th annual NAHBS located at the Austin Convention Center this past weekend.
The 2011 NAHBS was the largest yet, featuring 172 exhibitors who displayed their wares to some 7,300 visitors. Show director Don Walker announced next year's show will be in Sacramento from March 2-4, 2012 …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/28/winners-at-2011-handmade-bicycle-show-in-austin-nahbs-comes-to-sacramento-in-2012/
Oregon bike builder wins Best of Show at 2011 North American Handmade Bicycle Show
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[Note: Here's another story about a couple of early bicycle explorers. Written by noted bicycling author David Herlihy, the book was published this past summer.]
If you're looking to travel by bicycle vicariously this summer by reading about someone else's adventures, I'd recommend “The Lost Cyclist” by David Herlihy. But I'll warn you that, as the title implies, it ends badly.
From the opening pages, you can tell “The Lost Cyclist” is not going to be your average book about a bicycle tour. It's an historical account of Frank Lenz's around-the-world bicycle adventure gone wrong, possibly made worse by attempts to make it right again.
Herlihy starts by describing how one of the main characters in the story walks out of the mists of time and into a newspaper office in 1953 to take care of some business. He's recognized by the editor. They chat, and the editor asks if he'd like to talk to a reporter about his attempt to rescue a missing bicycle traveler halfway around the world a half-century earlier …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/24/herlihy-finds-the-lost-cyclist-a-good-topic-for-new-book/
[Note: Busy with some family issues through the weekend, so I'm pulling up some stories from previous years. Here's one about Peter Zheutlin's great-grandaunt, who became the first woman to ride a bicycle around the world.]
Imagine that you're a writer with a growing appetite for riding your bicycle.
Then consider that a researcher who had contacted your mother years earlier about your great-grandfather's sister — no one in the immediate family had ever heard of her — gets back in touch and asks if you had learned anything more about her.
Oh, and by way, that great-grandaunt had bicycled around the world more than 100 years ago.
There you have the circumstances that launched Peter Zheutlin on his quest to research and write a book about Annie Kopchovsky (aka Annie Londonderry): “Around the World on Two Wheels, Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride” …..
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/24/author-tracks-down-annie-londonderrys-bike-ride/
Felt Bicycles is in the midst of recalling 1,550 F-series model bicycles because of a potential problem with the carbon forks.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the Felt recall, and one involving 160 Novara Fusion bicycles, on Tuesday.
Irvine, California-based Felt Bicycles issued its own recall notice on Felt F3, F4, F5, F5 Team and F75 back in November 2010. Although no breakages or injuries have been reported, Felt said a test sampling of the carbon forks did not meet the company's standards …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/23/two-separate-bicycle-recalls-by-felt-and-novara/
Recall notice for Felt bicycles from Consumer Product Safety Commission
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Recall notice from Consumer Product Safety Commission
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[Editor's note: Family obligations today and throughout the week. Here's a blast from the past that you might find helpful for an upcoming mass-participation bike tour. Good comments too.]
You have to take the bad with the good, and that certainly goes for large group, week-long, cross-state bicycle tours.
Whether there are 200 or 2,000 cyclists on these organized bicycling events, don't be surprised if a few things don't go to your liking. It takes years for the organizers to work out the kinks, and even then things crop up that nobody could expect. Plus, there are plenty of annoyances over which they have no control.
I'm warning you so you can prepare yourself. Don't let these adversities ruin your idyllic bike ride; remember, this is an adventure. Roll with it ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/21/how-to-prepare-for-10-bad-things-on-good-bike-tours/
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