The century-old dilemma facing economists seeking to strike the right balance between guns and butter receives a new twist on Monday with figures showing Britain enjoying booming production of guns – and bicycles. The fastest growing segments of UK manufacturing are weapons, followed by the bicycles and motorbikes. Large UK weapons companies include divisions of […]
In this news story about the recent spate of bad attitudes and violence between cyclists and motorists in Portland, Oregon, is this fun little quote. “Eighteen percent of the vehicles that crossed the Hawthorne Bridge last year were bicycles.” The city of Portland, OR counts traffic on the four bridges that cross the Williamette River. […]
Some of the sports headlines I saw today and yesterday… Ziegler sets record in A’s 6-5 victory over Rangers Johnson pitches Diamondbacks past the Giants Carlos Sastre wins doping-scarred race I have’t listened to it yet, but David promised to rant about this on today’s edition of The Spokesmen cycling podcast. In my view, the […]
I’ve chronicled how the local trains and buses have maxed out on bicycle capacity. I’ve encountered another bicycling infrastructure capacity issue on my commute. The shower lockers are now all in use. We don’t have assigned lockers at my work — the cyclists and joggers and others who use the showers just hang our sweaty […]
Happy Sunday evening. Here are a couple of quick links for you: First, the zippered bike shorts mentioned in the title of this post are from Selle SMP. They’re to facilitate nature breaks. I’m not going to post the “how to use” illustrations here, so I’ll just point you to Carlton’s post. See Brother Ed’s […]
Bikesgonewild wins the leather toe clip sew kit. He plans to use it on an old 70s Colnago bike that he’s restoring. Tour de France Stage 19 I found another blog with Tour de France recaps: Velonoise reports on Chavanel’s win today in Stage 19. KWC is traveling and doesn’t have his own report, but […]