Marian Hunting and Carson Blume will publish Women’s Cycling Magazine. They’ll cover road, track, cross, mountain, college, high school, masters, lifestyle, commuting, sustainability, training, tech, product, repair, rides, and community. The first issue will publish in June, but the Women’s Cycling Magazine blog is now online.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall on Cannondale’s 2009 “Six” road bike because they’re missing wheel frisbees. US Federal safety regulations mandates spoke protectors on all new bicycles. Cannondale authorized dealers will install the spoke protectors for you free of charge as shop staff razz you. More at CPSC. The “Six” is read more
10 Speed Guy has all the great ways to stay in shape: the dork disk, those rockin’ 70s orange wheel reflectors, drivetrain on the non-drive side of the bike, and huge plastic platform pedals!
In Carbusters issue 37, Jonas Christian notes while the need to protect non-smokers is well established, the necessity of protectin non-drivers has yet to arrive in the mainstream. Christian raises a fascinating question as to whether the protection of non-smokers is a curiosity or a precedent. In a completely cycling-free lecture, Marjane Satrapi comments that read more
Chang recently rode in a 5,000-mile bike tour called The Pleasant Revolution with the band Ginger Ninjas. They set off from Northern California and traveled — with a bike trailer for his cello — all the way to Mexico. They would pull up into a town and talk to people at different bars trying to read more
Sue Lempert, former mayor of San Mateo, California, explains how cycling advocates got to have a voice in California politics. They may not have an expensive office on K street in Sacramento and they are not known for their generous campaign contributions, but the bicycle lobby is one of the best organized and most effective read more
