College students on bikes at the San Jose State Univerity Campus.
Monthly Archives: November 2009
San Jose bike commuting up 206%
November 11, 2009 – 1:30 pm
Congratulations to: New York City, where cycling is up 66% over the last two years Ft Collins, CO and their 37% jump in bike commuters. Philadelphia’s 83% increase from 2005 to 2008. San Jose, California blows all of these out of the water with an astounding 206% increase in bike commuters from 2005 to 2008. read more
Bike share coming to Silicon Valley?
November 11, 2009 – 11:00 am
A pilot project by Santa Clara VTA may have bike share stations at Caltrain stations in Mountain View, Palo Alto, and San Jose with satellite destination stations at locations such as Stanford, San Jose State University, San Jose City Hall and Moffett Park. From Streetsblog SF… Despite the much ballyhooed talk by San Francisco Mayor read more
Cycling, veterans and PTSD
November 11, 2009 – 9:00 am
Today is a national holiday to honor military veterans in the UK Commonwealth Nations, the United States, and some European nations. The United States spends about as much on the military as the entire rest of the world combined and has been on a nearly constant state of war since the Korean War, so we read more
Alexis Cole: The Greatest Gift
November 10, 2009 – 7:00 pm
Proceeds benefit World Bicycle Relief Jazz vocalist Alexis Cole released her new CD, “The Greatest Gift” on October 13th. An interesting element to this release is that proceeds will benefit the World Bicycle Relief — an organization dedicated to providing bicycles to people in developing countries around the world. World Bicycle Relief allows these individuals read more
2010 Breezer Thunder first impressions
November 10, 2009 – 3:45 pm
In the early 90s, Joe Breeze introduced the aluminum Breezer Thunder. He stopped production of all mountain bikes after 1998 to focus on bicycle advocacy and, later, he relaunched Breezer Bikes as a commuter bike company. Something old, something new. For the 2010 model year, Breeze will re-introduce the retro but all modern Breezer Thunder read more
