The Rockefeller family put their name behind several shareholder proposals to split the leadership, limit greenhouse gas emissions and encourage development of alternative fuels, proposals that were defeated at the recent annual meeting. Currently, the CEO and Chairman of the Board positions at Exxon Mobile are tied up in a single individual, Rex Tillerson. Shareholders, […]
Here’s the view under my desk at work this morning. That’s three pairs of cycling shoes with clipless pedal cleats under my desk. I brought my street shoes home Friday before the long weekend and I forgot to bring a replacement pair into the office. I get to pad around in my stocking feet or […]
After IKEA buyers and managers were seen at recent international bicycle shows, Bike Europe reports that the Dutch furniture retailer IKEA sells bicycles in the Netherlands now. Read more at Bike Europe. Elsewhere in Europe… French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to cut the European sales tax (VAT) on fuel to reduce fuel prices. Fishermen have […]
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 […]
The city of brotherly love is now the city of bike theft in Kryptonite Lock’s latest ranking of top American bicycle theft cities, beating out New York City for the first time ever. “Our premier line [of bicycle locks] is the “New York” line because we know, in the US, that’s the bike theft capital,” […]
I’ve actually been far away from any Internet connectivity spending time in the outdoors with my family this last weekend. The posts you’ve seen come to you via the magic computer software that automatically publishes these pre-written posts. In the United States, Monday is the Memorial Day holiday, a day set aside to remember those […]