Last week, the US House of Representatives approved an additional $2 billion for the Cash for Clunkers program, in which consumers can receive a rebate up to $4,500 when they trade their old(er) car in for a brand new car. The U.S. Senate must still approve the bill. Over the past decade, Amtrak has had […]

Plan ignores bikes; 45 days to respond to DEIR The Draft Environment Impact Review for the proposed 49ers Stadium in Santa Clara contains absolutely no provision for bicycling, and completely ignores the impact that stadium traffic will have on area cyclists who use the roads and trails. Sunnyvale resident (and former member of the Sunnyvale […]

I’ve been experimenting with using Energizer’s “Trailfinder” headlamps. I generally haven’t had much luck attaching hiking headlamps to my bike helmet — the sloped helmets I use makes the elastic strap just slip up and off — but I’ve managed to figure out a couple of tricks. The first trick is to secure the strap […]

I’ve been biking to work since the 80s, and I have bike parts laying around all over the place. Sitting on my desk at work I have a 1986 Shimano 105 brake lever waiting to be put to use somewhere. Likewise, I have an inbox of bikey links to share, some older than others. Enjoy! […]

I’ve whipped up a script that takes the California Highway Patrol live traffic incident data feed from the 20 CHP dispatch centers around the state and filters for anything mentioning bikes or bicycles. You can see the results here. At the time I’m writing this post, there’s a single incident between Woodland and Davis, CA: […]