Monthly Archives: January 2010

Pedicab races a taxicab down midtown Manhattan. Guess who wins? H/T Main Street Pedicabs of Broomfield, Colorado and “Pedicab King.”

Leadville, Colorado is the highest incorporated city in the United States at elevation 10,152 feet above sea level. That means it will probably be pretty chilly there on January 23, 2010, for the first of a series of winter snow mountain bike races. The temperatures generally range from the single digits to low 30s Fahrenheit read more »

Mountain bike charity ride with Leadville 100 six time winner David Wiens The Marin County Bicycle Coalition and the NorCal High School Mountain Bike League have organized the 1st Annual Dirt Bowl, a benefit ride to ensure that kids have safe roads and great trails. Proceeds from the Dirt Bowl will go towards the ongoing read more »

Update: Contest and comments closed. Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities In a world of growing traffic congestion, expensive oil, and threats of cataclysmic climate change, a grassroots movement is carving out a niche for bicycles on the streets of urban cityscapes. In Pedaling Revolution, Jeff Mapes explores the growing urban bike culture read more »

We’ve all seen the bike point of view videos from Lucas Brunelle, Macaframa, MASH SF and others. David Goodman writes a short history of bike messenger videos from David Leopold’s appearance on Letterman to big screen films, TV pilots, and the ubiquitous Internet shorts in The New York Times City Room blog: “Cycling on Camera, read more »

Andreas aka the London Cyclist timed trip times of some common journeys, riding his bike and taking the London Underground and comparing the times. You can read about his experiment here. In the various commuter challenges I’ve seen, bikes generally come out ahead of other transportation modes in urban environments, even beating out a helicopter read more »