I need a new bicycle. Consider the evidence: I’ve been caught and passed on Foothill Expressway this week by – A large fella on a Trek Navigator hybrid bike with monster panniers; A teen school girl with big foppy sneakers on a blue, full suspension Bike Shaped Object (BSO) with a squeaky chain; Mr Bean; […]
KWC has updated his cyclodrome robot to now find and list online news and commentary on cycling events during the Beijing Olympics. When this note is posted early Friday morning I’ll be riding my bike along Foothill Expressway. To those looking for Caltrain bike car updates, sorry!
From our spies at Trek One World Domination Headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin… Trek was shooting some video of a prototype Gary Fisher utility bike this afternoon at the neighborhood market just down the street from us. She described it as being about the same size as the Big Dummy, but with some kind of integrated […]
Tom Vanderbilt’s book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do is like the Freakonomics of cars. Vanderbilt draws material from his book on this Wilson Quarterly essay about “The Traffic Guru,” Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman. He gained fame especially among traffic calming enthusiasts for his “shared space” approach to urban street design. Monderman […]
Seattle bike dealer to open Dutch bike shop in Chicago Stephan Schier of the Dutch Bike Company Seattle plans to open the Dutch Bike Company Chicago (aka Dutch Bike Chicago) in September. “We already have an enthusiastic customer base in Chicago,” Stephan tells me, so it made sense for them to open a dealership there. […]
Yes, you can receive information about Caltrain bike cars in real time on your phone or other mobile device. Here’s the step-by-step guide to receiving Caltrain bike car information below the photo. Update: Ravi (who provides this community supported Caltrain update service) wrote his own “Getting Started” guide. His his better, I think. Mine is […]