54 mph is the fastest I’ve ever gone on a bicycle. This personal record was wind and gravity assisted on St. Vrain Road in Boulder County, Colorado as I zoomed east toward Longmont out of the Rocky Mountain foothills from Highway 36. If I recall correctly, the speed limit on St. Vrain Road is 40 read more
One of the problems with the Caltrain bike cars is cyclists often don’t know if there are one or two bike cars. There’s Twitter/Bikecar, but less than 10% of riders follow that services. It’s difficult spotting the second bike car from the usual waiting place for cyclists on the train platform. One of the announcements read more
Last year, folding bike designer Mark Sanders applied the Blue Ocean marketing strategy in which he compares the international bike market to a big blue ocean of potential. There’s a small red ocean of bike enthusiasts where the major bike oceans direct all of their efforts. Mark makes the case that the bike industry should read more
A little while back, the California Association of Bicycling Organizations people discussed this article in The Inland Daily Bulletin in which columnist Michelle Pearl asks the local CHP for the Final Word on traffic law for cyclists. A retired police officer “took umbrage” at an earlier statement about the legality of riding side by side read more
UK Conservative Party leader David Cameron is well known for riding his bike to get around. Here, he’s seen arriving at Parliament on March 11th. Can anybody picture U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner riding his bike to Capitol Hill? var iamInit = function() {try{initIamServingHandler(320,486,738173,”http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/Resources/Css/css2.css”)}catch(ex){}}()
In the Chron today, an article by Christopher Heredia: despite the car-oriented landscape, residents of the city’s Latino community, for the most part, liked to get around on foot and bicycle and, as a result, were bending the neighborhood to their collective will. . . . The bicycle was a key mode of transportation even read more
