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Andrew Grimes: Why the bicycle has no place on our city roads - Manchester Evening News (blog)
Google Cycling News &bull Feb 2, 2012
It is seldom a good idea to get on yer bike. Hail a taxi. Catch a bus. Drive a car. Walk. Each of these alternatives offers the likeliest chance of completing a journey through a British city without winding up at the undertakers. Cycling is a relic of cosy, Edwardian rurality, when one could take one's chances in contest with a lumbering horse and cart. Nobody got his or her skull crushed under the hooves of a farmer's shire. Today is the 21st century, burnt tyre rubber… Full Story »
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Horrible Surface Transportation Bill Unveiled Today - Bicycle Programs Eliminated
BikeLeague.org Blog &bull Jan 31, 2012
It basically eliminates our status and standing in the planning and design of our transportation system-a massive step backwards for individuals, communities and our nation. It's a step back to a 1950s highway- and auto-only program that makes no sense… Full Story »
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True Love Health
Urban Velo &bull Jan 31, 2012
Film-maker, Sasha Perry, and registered dietician, Matt Ruscigno, have been creating a series of documentary films on the efforts of vegan athletes, of which the first 3 of 5 videos involve cycling. The series is called Day in the Life… Full Story »
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Bikes, Obama, and the State of the Union
BikePortland.org &bull Jan 24, 2012
Tonight, President Obama will give the annual State of the Union address. While there's zero chance he'll mention bicycling, there is a chance he'll mention transportation investments (likely in the context of creating jobs). Go ahead, suspend your grip on reality and imagine that transportation is a non-partisan issue and that bicycling isn't… Full Story »
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Perry Explains Punctures
Kent's Bike Blog &bull Jan 19, 2012
It's raining when I bicycle over the fragment of a broken beer bottle. The rain is making the whole road glisten like glass in my headlight beam so a single shard of inconvenience is effectively camouflaged. The shard is a perfect sword, the rain is perfect cutting oil and my tire is the perfect victim. I hear a small crunch and a second later I feel the air pouring out the gash at approximately the same rate as curses leave my lips. I coast to a stop, surveying my damp options. Because I am a cautious man, I have prepared… Full Story »
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Run the NYC Half Marathon with Team LIVESTRONG!
LiveStrong Blog &bull Jan 18, 2012
When can you run 13.1 miles in NYC and have Times Square shut down just for you? March 18, 2012, is your chance. Team LIVESTRONG is lacing up to take to the streets of the Big Apple, NYC! This will be our third year returning to the NYC Half… Full Story »
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Subversive Bicycle Photos - Los Angeles
Copenhagenize &bull Jan 8, 2012
Los Angeles. 1900. Spring St. near 8th. The latest installment in our Subversive Bicycle Photos series is from a city that enjoyed a modal share for bicycles of 20% at the turn of the last century and built impressive protected… Full Story »
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Vintage Bicycle Posters, Paris Fashion Newspaper & Adding to My Collection
Riding Pretty &bull Jan 4, 2012
Besides collecting vintage bicycles I have three vintage bicycle posters from of the turn of the century, depicting women and bicycles (bicycles from long forgotten bicycle makers). You've probably have seen these before somewhere. My posters were reissued in the… Full Story »
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Fear This Future - Bikes Don't Exist
Copenhagenize &bull Jan 3, 2012
I've been puzzling over this most of the day today. A series of animated films from some group called Forum for the Future and their 'Megacities On The Move' project. Four scenarios of how we'll live our lives in 2040. I've had to watch each film twice - which is rather painful because they're not that good - in order to figure out what the hell these people are on about. I've decided to slap this into the Car Industry Strikes Back category for reasons that I'll get to shortly. What I think I've figured out is that two of… Full Story »
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Toolbox: Making a Difference in Your Mental Fitness
PezCycling News &bull Jan 3, 2012
More... Amateur and professional cyclists spend a great deal of time, energy, and money on physical fitness, and rightly so. And yet, it is often mental fitness that makes the difference in riding, training, and competition. When you assess the mental skills you need on the bike, and begin improving the skills that arent yet strong enough, youre on your way to getting much more from the sport. By Marv Zauderer Earlier this year, I attended an impassioned presentation by the great actor, director, and photographer Leonard Nimoy (best known as Mr. Spock from Star Trek). In one of his… Full Story »
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SF Bicycle Coalition Architecture Ride: The Reid Brothers in SF - Streetsblog San Francisco (blog)
Google Cycling News &bull Jan 3, 2012
From the turn of the 20th Century through its first few decades,James and Merritt Reid designed an impressive number of San Francisco's buildings, from theaters to hotels, office towers to townhouses, bandshells to barns. With scant professional training but plenty… Full Story »
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Lookin' Ahead
Guitar Ted Productions &bull Dec 31, 2011
Last day of 2011. Ah........buh-bye now! On to next year and new changes and new challenges. Here's a few things I know that fit those categories right now. I'm sure more things will pop up along the way. Old look… Full Story »
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Unicorns on Unicycles and Sexy E-Bikes
Bike Hugger &bull Dec 27, 2011
Yanko Design, the primary purveyor of fantasy cad bikes, posted this "racer bike" in their best of 11 design feature. I saw it in Guy Kawasaki's G+ stream and it's a comment getter, mostly, "LIKE & +1." Bloggers might as… Full Story »
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Report cites progress in efforts to 'close gaps' in Canalway Trail - Little Falls Evening Times
Google Cycling News &bull Dec 27, 2011
Bicyclists prepare to leave Rotary Park in the city of Little Falls during the 2011 Cycling the Erie Canal. Completion of the Erie Canalway Trail will result in more than 1.5 million bicycle and pedestrian trips across the trail, an increase of 500,000 trail users annually and will generate an… Full Story »
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100 Iconic Bicycles At Your iPad Fingertips (Video) - Treehugger
Google Cycling News &bull Dec 19, 2011
CYCLEPEDIA for iPad is a collection of 100 truly classic bikes, displayed in interactive style (you can spin each bicycle 360 and magnify gorgeous details 20x) - from the simple Skoot folding bike, to Tour de France road biking classics,… Full Story »
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Ask Levi: Waterproof and Visible Garments for Evening Rides?
Coachlevi.com &bull Dec 14, 2011
Hi Coach Levi. I'm a father of two and an English teacher living in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan. I commute in the evenings by bicycle. I'm curious if you could recommend a reputable American company that produces very visible, waterproof and… Full Story »
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The Curmudgeon Effect: Cultural Retrogrouchery
Bike Snob NYC &bull Dec 13, 2011
So, like, the world. What do we think? Better? Worse? The same? Every generation ponders this question, and every generation comes to the conclusion that the world was great once but that it sucks now. This is called the "Curmudgeon Effect." Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers." This quote certainly supports the theory that the "Curmudgeon Effect"… Full Story »
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Locked Up: Colorful, quirky touring bike at NoPo Library
BikePortland.org &bull Dec 12, 2011
I don't know about you, but every so often I come across a parked bike that makes me stop in my tracks for a closer look. Whether it's a vintage steed worthy of a museum collection, or a quirky customized… Full Story »
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Bicyclist wants to thank fellow riders who saved his life
Biking Bis &bull Dec 6, 2011The survivor of a life-threatening bicycle crash during a century bike ride in Oregon last summer wants to find and thank the bicyclists and passersby who saved his life.Jim Phillips, 68, says he's alive today because of the cyclists who… Full Story »
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Portland bicycle accident survivor seeks rescuers - KOIN Local 6
Google Cycling News &bull Dec 6, 2011
Jim Phillips wants to thank the people who saved his life after he lost control of his bike and crashed down a 20-foot embankment during the Pioneer Century. Dec. 5, 2011. PORTLAND, Ore. -- Jim Phillips is grateful to be… Full Story »
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