Search Results for: Good life cyclist

Bikes and advertising

Do you remember that casting call for a cyclist in San Francisco last month? That Droid Razr advertisement began airing nationally last weekend. (Update: video marked private, but found a publicly available version directly from Verizon’s YouTube channel. You may remember this also happened in real life and was posted to Strava for Valentine’s Day read more »

Book giveaway: Hell On Two Wheels

Update: James in Austin wins, in spite of my misspelling of Gubish’s name. Watch for more book giveaways in the coming days. My first book giveaway of 2013 is Amy Snyder’s Hell On Two Wheels, which chronicles the author’s trip across the United States with the solo leaders of the 2009 Race Across America (RAAM). read more »

Book: The World’s Toughest Endurance Challenges

This looks like a cool coffee table book.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

Thoughts lead to words. Words lead to action. In 1868, James Cavanaugh represented the Territory of Montana as a non-voting delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. He testified to the House, “I like an Indian better dead than living. I have never in my life seen a good Indian – and I have seen read more »

D.C. Emancipation Day

Happy Emancipation Day, everybody. For U.S. residents, that’s the reason tax returns are due on Tuesday instead of today. The IRS deferred the tax return deadline in deference to this holiday, which marks the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Compensated Emancipation Act on April 16, 1862. This law ended slavery in D.C., which read more »

25 Compeletely Awesome Cycling Advocacy T-Shirts

Guest Post from Melody Stone in Sacramento. T-shirts are for making statements and as cyclists we’ve got a lot to say. So I set about collecting the coolest cycling activism t-shirts on the web. Some of these t-shirt designs are simple and with a subtle statement, but I feel they still loudly exclaim the benefits read more »