Category: bicycle/bicycling/bicyclist
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Horribly Hilly’s Graveyard
This article is a hoot. Pay particular attention to Lehman’s quotes. What a character! I guess the Horribly Hilly 100 was particularly brutal this year, given all that tropical humidity. Maybe they should add another couple of ‘H’s’ in there: The Hot, Humid, Horribly Hilly Hundred.
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Guardian UK: Fair Weather Cyclists v. Bike Ragers
This article cracked me up. Apparently even the stiff-upper-lipped Brits get plenty irritated with clueless fair weather cyclists wandering all over the bike paths. Heh! Next up: Using one’s rights, not the sidewalk.
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Mayor Pave: Keeping up with the Schaumburgs
Yet another auto-centric pave over of our countryside.
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Pedaling Revolution Goes Into Third Press Run!!!!
The Oregonian reports that Pedaling Revolution has gone viral in a pandemic sort of way across the bike world.
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Cool New Regional Bus Service to Portage
Multi-modal fun on the new bus between Madison & Portage!
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Bike Zeitgeist: Being the Engine, Pedaling Revolution
GM just went bust. The Highway “Trust” Fund went bust a few months ago. The repo man is busy, busy, busy. No better time than today to introduce two great works that celebrate a better way: Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities a book by Jeff Mapes (with a strong Madison connection; more…
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NYC Makes Space for People
I’m not a huge fan of Bloomberg,* but it is great to see that he has empowered a visionary Transportation Commissioner to make NYC a more livable place for pedestrians & bicyclists. Janette Sadik-Khan has been very aggressive in taming NYC’s streets to the benefit of people (as opposed to cars). Her latest project hints…
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Another dead bicyclist, another day in the life of a speed addicted society
Hans Noeldner got a great letter to the editor about our society’s twisted priorities–speed over life–in today’s Capital Times.