Archive for the ‘cycling’ Category
A fish bicycle wrench
A friend sent me this link. I’m not quite sure what to make of it.
Gov. Quinn will sign 2 cycling bills on July 5
From: League of Illinois Bicyclists [mailto:lib@bikelib.org]
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 5:21 PM
Subject: LIB Alert: ADDRESS CHANGE for bill signing
TIME AND ADDRESS CHANGE FOR MONDAY’S BILL SIGNING – (My apology – just after we sent notice of our bill signing, the Governor’s office let us know of a location and time change.)
We just received late notice [...]
Black Hawk Colorado Bans Bicycles
A town in Colorado has banned bicycles from all streets in the town. Cyclists are upset and angry. Bicycle Colorado is staging a protest at the state capitol on Tuesday evening June 29.
Adventure Cycling is putting out a warning since one of their published routes goes through Black Hawk.
The League of American Bicyclists [...]
Ghost Bikes
A movement started in 2002 by an artist in San Francisco, Ghost Bikes are memorials erected at the site where cyclists have perished while riding their bicycle. The first installation of such a memorial happened in St. Louis in 2003 and has spread to 21 Countries and includes 35 US States.
Now Meaghan Wilbur, a [...]
Rock River Trail
I went to the Green Fest in Chicago on May 23rd. Working Bikes Cooperative had a booth at the festival and I spent most of the day in the booth talking about Working Bikes to people who visited the booth. Fortunately I had some time to walk around and visit with many of the other [...]
Bike Ride to Riverwoods
On Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, I took a short bike ride to Riverwoods. It was above 90 degrees but another beautiful day.
Early in the ride I stopped to watch a Blue Heron. Later there was a Canada Goose with her goslings and Mr and Mrs Mallard. After getting to Riverwoods I headed home down [...]
Bike Ride to Algonquin
Last Saturday I joined other Arlington Heights Bike Club members on a 53 mile ride to Algonquin. it was a beautiful day, temperature around 83 degrees and not a cloud in the sky.
We stopped at Penny Road Pond for a short break; then at the lunch stop in Algonquin. Some of the riders skipped the [...]
Business and Bicycles
Most businesses are not bicycle aware or bicycle community aware. Sure, some retail stores might have a bike rack out front for people to park and lock up their bikes, but that is done to attract shoppers or to meet local ordinances rather than providing services to cyclists.
For each retail store which does acknowledge cyclists [...]
Bicycle Safety then and now
Check out these cycling safety videos
from 1950
from 1963
Ken Steinhoff wrote about some printed material about bicycle safety from the same era. He had a follow-up piece too.
Compare the older videos to this more modern piece aimed at kids.
Unfortunately most cycling safety pieces today concentrate on wearing a helmet only. This one rhymes and is pretty funny. Another one. There is something to be learned from the earlier [...]
Arlington 500 – Scenery
Scenery from today’s ride