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The Post likes bikes, and more Hump Day bicycle news

June 5, 2013 – 10:01 am

The New York Post suddenly likes bikes? The caption for this bike style gallery includes the text, “We like bike! No matter your style, there’s an outfit for every ride.”

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Bay Bridge bike path bolts fail

May 29, 2013 – 10:00 am

Thermal expansion shears dozens of bolts used to anchor the pedestrian / bicycle path to to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge The eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has been under construction since 2002 with opening of the roadway scheduled for Labor Day weekend 2013. The Chronicle reports hundreds of these one inch read more »

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Jeremy Clarkson rides a bicycle

May 27, 2013 – 7:30 am

The famously anti-bike motorhead and co-host of BBC car show “Top Gear” says he’s bought a bicycle! There’s only one way they [i.e. avid, lycra clad cyclists] can be defeated. And that’s for normal people to start riding bicycles. We need to swell their ranks with moderates, people who ride a bike because they’ve had read more »

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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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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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Invisible gorillas, guerrillas for visibility, and more bicycle news

April 9, 2013 – 8:00 am
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