The city of Huntsville, Alabama will begin promoting cyclists’ rights with an ad campaign on city buses. Rolling billboards attached to city buses will try to hammer home the point “that bicycles are vehicles, they’re allowed on the road,” [bike commuter Jamie] Miernik said Wednesday. “There’s a percentage of drivers out there,” she said, “that read more
Low dark clouds threatened rain as we unloaded our mountain bikes and looked over our gear one final time before cycling up the trail. Bikes: check. Tent: check. Food: check. Rain gear: check. Spare inner tube: check. Rifles and ammunition: check. In Montana, some of the most spectacular and fruitful hunting grounds are deep in read more
Stephen Moyers rides a bike around Venice, California. Nice rack on that bike!
Nobody rides bikes in Buenos Aries. As David Byrne writes of Buenos Aries: “Is it so uncool to ride a bike here that even messengers find other ways of getting around?“ David Byrne’s Hypothesis: “I think the idea of cycling is simply off the radar here. The cycling meme hasn’t been dropped into the mix, read more
Happy Hump Day. I left my helmet on the bus this morning and I’m bummed. The bad part: My Planet Bike Superflash was attached to said helmet, and with Daylight Savings over my evening commute is in the dark. I popped into Palo Alto Bicycles this morning to buy another light but they don’t open read more
That’s the list of words Dottie came up with when asked how she would promote bicycling. I would use all the tactics that automobile advertisers use. They show the car as sexy, safe, freeing, fun, attractive, normal, necessary. In my experience, these adjectives describe bicycling more accurately than driving, especially in the city. Bicycling delivers read more
