San Jose: Ride with the Movers & Shakers Thursday morning

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Join me Thursday morning on the Movers and Shakers Ride in San Jose, California. VTA is joining with the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition on Bike to Work Day for a 7-mile bike ride down the Guadalupe River Trail. This “Movers and Shakers Bike Ride” will take place next Thurs., May 12, 2016, starting at 7:30 […]

Re-thinking the commute for bike promotion

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Happy World Bike Day, USA Bike Month, and (for much of Northern California) Bike Week. Bike to Work Day in the Bay Area and the Monterey Bay region takes place this Thursday. I love the bike celebrations associated with these events designed to encourage the bike-to-work trip, but is it possible that we focus too […]

Sad bikes of Fort McMurray, AB

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The charred remains bicycles sit in a demolished residential neighborhood in Fort McMurray, Alberta, where wildfires burn out of control, forcing the evacuation of more than 80,000 residents from the area. Embed from Getty Images Embed from Getty Images The massive wildfire has also halted an estimated one third of Canadian oil production, forcing British […]

Sunnyvale Vice Mayor bikes to work

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Happy Bike Month and Happy Friday. Sunnyvale Vice Mayor Gustav Larsson, shown below in the yellow jacket and green Marin hardtail mountain bike, joined this morning’s inaugural “BikePool” ride from Sunnyvale to his day job as a software engineer in North San Jose. Gustav holds Seat 1 in Sunnyvale’s at-large city council, and is also […]