Resist twitter by listening to cycling podcasts! Thanks to The Bike Show at Resonance FM, I learned of an Australian show called Bike Love. Speaking of Resonance FM, The Bike Show has special coverage on the Spring Classic Races this week. The Puma, courtesy of Engadget One of my favorite non-cycling podcasts is the geeky read more
Davis, often called the “bicycle capital of the United States,” will have its own artifact-filled museum where star cyclists will be inducted each year. Davis beat out Greensboro, N.C., to capture the bicycling hall, which for two decades has been in Somerville, N.J. Courtesy of The Sacramento Bee and Bob Halem. Way to go, Davis!
Courtesy of ValleyWag: Cisco Exec Makes Death Threat Over $4,000 Bike Apparently enraged that his custom-built $4,000 Cervélo was a day late, Burton stormed into Cyclepath, a bike shop in Pleasanton, Calif., to get a final fitting. . . . You can tell that the reporting isn’t completely reliable: there’s no way that a custom read more
Ruth Slovenski is my hero. She rides a blue 1943 Huffy bicycle with a basket to get around. The cool thing — Ruth is older than the bike: she’s 83 years old. She got the bicycle as a gift from her parents when she was a teenager in 1943. It’s the only bicycle she’s ever read more
A Happy Good Friday to you. Some tweeters have started a tradition of “#followfriday” in which they list other tweeters that they follow on Twitter. I’ll list some of the blogs (mostly on bicycling) that I looked at today. A PedX Courier on Ocean Street in Santa Cruz makes a delivery. Photo by Richard Masoner. read more
New York Times: Middle School Lessons in Traffic Safety. Some interesting stuff: The number of child injuries during school dropoff/pickup times has increased over the years. Nationwide, roughly 21 percent of morning traffic is generated by parents driving children to school according to Safe Routes to School. “Traffic patterns around schools in Los Angeles have read more
