Is it art? Or is it a bicycle component?
The Bicycle Inter-Community Action and Salvage project of Tucson answers that question Sunday at its 10th annual art auction.
BICAS is a nonprofit community coop where people can buy or rent bicycles.
But most importantly, it's a place where people can learn how to do repairs on their own bicycles. Cyclists …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/19/bike-parts-fashioned-into-objects-dart-at-arizona-shop/
I did a double-take when I saw the cover of the latest Time magazine. There is a picture of the SHIFT, the tricycle that turns into a bicycle as it rolls faster.
Time had judged the tricycle one of most amazing inventions of 2005. My blog covered the Purdue University student project back in April after it took the first …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/17/trike-into-bike-one-of-times-amazing-inventions/
Karim Bicycle is open and back in business in Berkeley about five months after police swooped in to bust an alleged stolen bicycle ring.
Berkeley police served a search warrant on June 16, entered the shop and dragged out dozens of bikes for the assembled media, who duly reported the raid, as evidenced in the San Francisco Chronicle. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/12/stolen-bike-bust-in-berkeley-is-just-that-a-bust/
The Katrina Bikes Partnership Project in Seattle closed the second weekend of its bicycle collection drive at Magnuson Park with a total 834 bikes last Sunday.
The bikes, helmets and other gear donated by Seattle area cyclists is on its way to Baton Rouge, where a delivery of bicycles from Boulder already has arrived, reports the Baton Rouge Advocate. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/11/seattle-and-boulder-bicycles-headed-to-louisiana/
The two-day Pan-Massachusetts Challenge bike ride retained its title as the most successful athletic fund-raising event in the nation again this year.
When combined with the totals accumulated through the Lance Armstrong Foundation's Peloton Project and countless other charity bike rides, it demonstrates another powerful ability for cycling to do good. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/07/pan-massachusetts-challenge-and-ride-for-roses-score-big/
Being a “spokesperson” can have a different meaning for cyclists than the usual, “So and so is the spokesperson for such and such.”
As artist America Meredith explains on her Cherokee Spokespeople website, spokespeople can be bicyclists who have jammed laminated cards — spokecards — in their wheel spokes. The cards are especially popular among bike messengers who collect …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/11/04/keeping-cherokee-language-alive-on-bicycle-spokecards/
Michael Killian introduced his Sideways Bike invention to the world this weekend.
Will biking ever be the same? Probably so.
The engineer from Dublin, Ireland, displayed the bicycle with independently steerable front and rear wheels at the annual British Invention Show in the UK. An enterprising reporter from Reuters mentioned it in his invention show story, along with a Viagra-like …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/23/sideways-bike-captures-attention-at-uk-show/
Let's say I coast down a hill near my house at 20 mph and return at 10 mph. What's my average speed on the hill?
No. The answer is not 15 mph. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/19/who-said-theres-no-math-in-bicycling/
I picked up the story of Helen Roberts when she left Colorado to ride her bicycle to Hurricane Katrina's destruction zone.
A city in her area had adopted the small southern Mississippi River town of Pearlington and she felt compelled to volunteer. She bicycled nearly to Baton Rouge, where she caught a ride to Pearlington.
What's going on in Pearlington? Clayton James …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/18/cyclist-seeks-kitchen-ware-for-hurricane-victims/
Abandoned at the bus stop by the Santa Cruz Metro drivers' strike? Pick up a free bicycle.
The city will begin handing out 100 free bikes on Monday at the Metro Center to residents who can't get around because of a 10-day-old strike …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2005/10/05/free-bicycles-to-stranded-santa-cruz-bus-passengers/
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