Mellow Johnny’s (maillot jaune, get it?), Lance Armstrong’s new bicycle store in Austin, Texas, opens this weekend. Armstrong anticipates that the majority of the sales will be high end road racing gear at his Trek dealership, but he says that the bike will be an important way for people to get around. Besides offering fitness […]
A group headed by the business-backed Market Street Association, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and the civic think tank San Francisco Planning & Urban Research Association is hatching a new idea to improve Market. The thought is to create dedicated bike lanes, physically separated from vehicles, such as has been done in Frankfurt, Germany; Copenhagen, […]
Most of us who use pedal retention systems have experienced the embarrassing moments of failing to release from the pedal when we first learn use them. I was talking with a friend last night whose fiancée tried clipless pedals for the first time last week. As she keeled over during a stop, the handlebar flipped […]
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 […]
I hadn’t seen Camille since she moved away from Santa Cruz a few months ago. I ran into her completely by accident at Maker Faire last weekend and I finally met her fiance (congrats!). Her friend Heather was there, too. Heather is an art teacher in Cupertino, California. She had her students do a collage […]
During the month of May bike shops, tour operators, and accommodation owners that link their site to TheCyclePeople.com will get free listings for the remainder of 2008. Manufacturers have already uploaded thousands of products to the site’s database, making it easy to search for the latest cycling gear. Over 7,000 US and UK bike shops […]