Win this leather toe clip sewing kit

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Update July 22 2008: This contest is closed. I’ll select a winner later today! I have a leather toe clip sewing clip to give away. It’s a kit with two strips of leather, some string, a needle and instructions to customize the look of your MKS toe clips. Akihiro aka “swamp” in Japan creates these […]

Private Joker to bike through Brooklyn

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Meet Matthew Modine (Private Joker in “Full Metal Jacket”) as he rides his bike on Tuesday, July 15 through Brooklyn and the Lower East Side. He’ll stop at a number of local bike shops to spread awareness about his September 20th event – Bicycle for a Day. Bicycle For A Day (BFAD) takes place September […]

Dan Burden speaking TONIGHT in San Jose

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Dan Burden is director of Walkable Communities, a non profit organization dedicated to helping communities become more pedestrian friendly. Dan took a walking audit of the downtown San Jose area, and he’ll talk about his findings tonight at 6 PM at the San Jose Repertory Theater on Paseo de San Antonio as part of the […]

Benefits of higher gasoline prices

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Like Brian says, always look at the bright side of life. With public transit use nationally at a 50-year high, traffic dropped 2.1% in the first four months of this year across the country. That mileage reduction — along with people driving smaller cars, and more slowly, to save gas — could mean that 12,000 […]