Davis, often called the “bicycle capital of the United States,” will have its own artifact-filled museum where star cyclists will be inducted each year. Davis beat out Greensboro, N.C., to capture the bicycling hall, which for two decades has been in Somerville, N.J. Courtesy of The Sacramento Bee and Bob Halem. Way to go, Davis!
Courtesy of ValleyWag: Cisco Exec Makes Death Threat Over $4,000 Bike Apparently enraged that his custom-built $4,000 Cervélo was a day late, Burton stormed into Cyclepath, a bike shop in Pleasanton, Calif., to get a final fitting. . . . You can tell that the reporting isn’t completely reliable: there’s no way that a custom […]
Ruth Slovenski is my hero. She rides a blue 1943 Huffy bicycle with a basket to get around. The cool thing — Ruth is older than the bike: she’s 83 years old. She got the bicycle as a gift from her parents when she was a teenager in 1943. It’s the only bicycle she’s ever […]
A Happy Good Friday to you. Some tweeters have started a tradition of “#followfriday” in which they list other tweeters that they follow on Twitter. I’ll list some of the blogs (mostly on bicycling) that I looked at today. A PedX Courier on Ocean Street in Santa Cruz makes a delivery. Photo by Richard Masoner. […]
New York Times: Middle School Lessons in Traffic Safety. Some interesting stuff: The number of child injuries during school dropoff/pickup times has increased over the years. Nationwide, roughly 21 percent of morning traffic is generated by parents driving children to school according to Safe Routes to School. “Traffic patterns around schools in Los Angeles have […]
The Dancing Chain, 3rd Edition. Unlike other bicycle history books, which cover only the first 100 years, this book deals extensively with the second century of bicycle development. It traces the development of the modern derailleur bicycle from its crude beginnings right up to the most modern mountain bikes and road racing bicycles. This thoroughly […]