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
Happy Monday. Four days of bike racing finished up yesterday up in Redlands California. Visit the Redlands Classic website for race results and highlights videos. My pal Ross now runs Velo Reviews. Today’s Rate My Velo photo of the day is of this woman with a red umbrella I shot in Taiwan. Is it bragging read more
It’s cloudy and 60° F (15° C) right now in Menlo Park with a brisk breeze along the San Francisco Bay. That’s 30° F (17° C) less than it was this time last week. I think it’s even colder now at lunch than when I biked into work this morning.
Happy Sunday, everybody! Yesterday, San Jose held its first ever open streets event, Via Velo, when the city closed off about a mile of San Fernando Street across downtown. This modest street party inspired by other Ciclovia style street closings brought out a number of families with their bikes, along with information booths from the read more
For me, the big part of a big bike festival like the Sea Otter Classic is meeting old friends and making new ones.
I’m once again looking at my car-free transportation choices for traveling to the Sea Otter Festival at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey. The audio in this is lousy, but in this video from 2009 Sea Otter, Gary Fisher tells my buddy Erik how Sea Otter at Laguna Seca is a monument to our auto addiction. read more
