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Norcal bicycle blogs that you read

Richard MasonerMay 27, 200815 Comments on Norcal bicycle blogs that you read

On the survey, I asked what northern California bicycle blogs you visited. Personally, I think of NorCal is the region north of the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento, but in common usage the SF Bay Area and even the Monterey Bay area are included — I see a lot of Nor*Cal logos on trucks and surfboards around Santa Cruz, for instance. For Cyclelicious I’ll use the common usage because, frankly, there aren’t that many people in Chico, Redding, Eureka and Arcata, California.


Here are the blogs you mentioned:

Elsewhere in California

  • Somebody mentioned that Commute By Bike covers cycling as transportation in the South Bay, and that’s because I’m a contributor there.
  • Somebody also mentioned C.I.C.L.E., which is a very good resource that I follow in Los Angeles.

There are, of course, several others in Northern California and elsewhere around the Golden State. Feel free to post links to your favorites and your own blogs in the comments!

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Thank you for taking the survey

Richard MasonerMay 7, 20082 Comments on Thank you for taking the survey

Thank you to all of you who took the Cyclelicious survey. I’ll look over the responses over the weekend. I really appreciate that you’ve given me your thoughts about Cyclelicious and I really appreciate the encouragement that several of you gave.

I’ve selected a winner and sent notification this evening. I used a random number generator from Random.org to select from among the email addresses that were entered.

Thanks again!

I’m fairly busy this week, so I’ll direct your attention to a new bike blog I ran across: Cycle Pig. CyclePig is Pete, and his site is not about racing or the serious side of cycling; it’s about how to have fun on a bike. Whether you are a recreational cyclist or long distance cycle tourer you will find hints and tips that will help you get more out of your cycling.

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Bicycling to the Beijing Olympics

Richard MasonerApril 27, 2008Leave a Comment

14 people are traveling on their bicycles to the Beijing Olympics. They started in Olympia, Greece last February and will travel across Greece, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and China before their planned arrival on August 8 in time for the start of the 2008 Summer Olympics. This group are blogging about their adventures on Pentacycle.com.

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Over 500,000 children’s head injuries are recorded each year!

Richard MasonerApril 10, 20088 Comments on Over 500,000 children’s head injuries are recorded each year!

So protect your child and buy this product TODAY before it’s too late.

I can see a legitimate need for that product (children with special needs, bruising disorders and so forth), but the extra padding for everyday children seems a bit much.

Something I keep meaning to mention is Cozy Beehive. Ron, the author of Cozy Beehive, is a mechanical engineer, avid cyclist, and a Category 4 racer. He’s been blogging about bikes for a couple of years now but I first noticed Cozy Beehive a few months ago. I’ve bookmarked a whole pile of pages from his blog intending to link to them in posts here from Cyclelicious, but pretty much all of his posts are good so just go visit his blog and subscribe to his feed already.

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The bike newbie

Richard MasonerMarch 19, 20082 Comments on The bike newbie

Ray Niekamp is The Bike Noob. This 50-something journalism professor at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX got into road biking after his wife completed a local charity ride. Ray bought a new bike, got some clipless pedals, and last November completed his first metric century after only a few shorts months on the bike.

Ray is a professional writer, and I like the way he breaks down biking jargon into something any newbie can understand. His article about saddles, for example, is probably among the best I’ve seen about saddle selection and comfort. I think the bike industry should hire Ray to rewrite some of their user manuals and other consumer material.

Besides his desire to help out other bike newbies, Professor Ray has an academic research interest in blogs and how news organizations use blogs to supplement their mainstream media efforts. He tells me, “It occurred to me that having my own blog will allow me to understand blogging better. I failed last year in my first attempt at blogging — no focus — so I thought finding a narrow topic to write on would improve my blog readership.”

If you know somebody new to cycling, point them to Ray’s Bike Noob blog. The Bike Noob is well worth reading for the old grizzled vets among us, too. Check it out: The Bike Noob in San Marcos, Texas.

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