The 2009 National Bike Summit starts Tuesday, March 10 with hundreds of cycling and cyclist advocates in Washington DC to visit with Congresscritters and their aids, staffers, lackeys and hangers on. The IMBA sent out a press release saying they’ll liveblog from the Bike Summit, but then they marvelously left out a key piece of […]
Larey is a utility cyclist in Fort Collins, Colorado and he has an interesting idea: A Darwin Award with an actual cash prize. You submit the top three places in your town you expect to get run over and put $20 into a pool. If you get run over at your #1 spot, then you […]
I’ve uploaded about 50 photos from today’s TriFlow Menlo Park Grand Prix to this Flickr set. I have about 200 more photos to go through and select for uploading, hopefully by tomorrow evening. I’ll try to post race results, too. I saw Ken Conley there too, so look for his always excellent set of photos […]
“Is there a photo contest or something?” asks Justine. “Huh?” I reply. “Why do you ask?” “You’re like the fourth person today to take my picture,” she says. “It’s because it’s really cool that you carry your violin on your bike like that.”
My wife, daughter and I visited Año Nuevo State Park today and took the elephant seal tour. Isn’t this little pup a cute one? Northern elephant seals were hunted to near extinction in the late 19th Century for their blubber that was rendered into (tada!) oil for household and industrial use. They were thought to […]
There are some interesting jobs available in the bicycle industry and related fields… Boston: Bicycle Tour Travel Consultant Denver: Gopher for a “small, nationally recognized manufacturing company in the bicycle industry.” Hmm, who could it be? Spot? Gates? Flagstaff: Bike Trailer Shop needs people to join them. Houston: Bike taxi operator. Smells like a scam […]