My buddy Ken Conley spent the day in Santa Rosa and environs following Team Astana at their California training camp as they prepared for the Tour of California. Lance Armstrong was in his trademark black and yellow Livestrong kit as his teammates sported their light blue Astana uniforms. Armstrong is a walking billboard: See him […]
Tomorrow (Thursday, February 5, 2009) at 10 AM, the Caltrain Joint Powers Board meets to hear and consider various proposals that Caltrain staff will present on increasing bicycle capacity on board the trains. One of the proposals that Caltrain Operations Director Chuck Harvey and special assistant Mark Simon may give is increasing capacity on the […]
Jill in Middletown, CT has designs for a weatherproof bicycle canopy. Her design plans for the bicycle canopy includes 9 pages of text that describes all the materials you need to buy in order to build your own bicycle canopy, precise instructions of how to build the canopy on your own bicycle, and four sketches […]
In a surprisingly transparent article about the fears she has jumping into the world of blogging, Bicycle Retailers and Industry News editor Megan Tompkins expresses her skepticism about new media while acknowledging the influence blogs can have in politics and business. You can find the BR&IN blog here, and so far it looks like they’ve […]
Sussex (UK) police have reopened the case of Emma Alice Smith, the 16 year old girl who disappeared while riding her bicycle in 1926. Here’s what the police know: Emma left her home in the morning, riding her bike to the train station to get to work. That was the last time she or her […]
This 1972 bicycle safety comic book from the Highway Safety Division of Virginia is a like a Jack Chick tract for safe cycling. Flip through the whole comic at Comics With Problems and follow “Dan the Disaster” as he learns his lesson to become a safe cyclist. Scofflaw cyclists, repent of your wicked ways and […]