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Motorcycle awareness month

May 20, 2013 – 11:22 am

May is both national bike month and Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. In California, this means Caltrans posts “Watch for motorcycles” messages on their electronic Sigalert highway signs. What’s the impact of this enhanced safety awareness?

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A bike demo, hill sprints, and oh my aching legs

May 6, 2013 – 11:22 am

Whatever doesn’t kill me only makes me cry “Uncle!”: I overdid things with an extended demo on Specialized’s latest Roubaix bike and then hill sprints on a fixed gear bike. I’m in some real pain today. Ow.

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Bike Week kicks off tonight in Santa Cruz

May 3, 2013 – 10:20 am

Kick off bike week tonight at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for a bike-themed First Friday party.

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Free bikes, Earth Day, and more

April 22, 2013 – 11:26 am

Happy Earth Day, you bike riding hippies. Did you know today is also the birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (pictured to the left with a bicycle)? He was an enthusiastic cyclist and photographer, combining both of these hobbies while traveling before beginning his second career as architect of the Red Terror. More bicycle news Free read more »

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MAP-21, transportation funding and bicycles

January 11, 2013 – 3:26 pm

Happy Friday, everybody. The League of American Bicyclists created this handy-dandy infographic showing how US Federal transportation funds are divied up for bicycle projects.

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About that 8.7% jump in cyclist fatalities

December 12, 2012 – 12:34 pm

Just released US NHTSA data shows bike fatalities in 2011 are up 8.7% in spite of an overall 2% decrease in traffic fatalities. Pedestrian fatalities are also up 3%.

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