Category: Cycling Advocacy

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LeBron James Bikes to Work “All the Time”

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Feb 15, 2012 in Cycling News

by Ben Fried This Twitter photo of LeBron James biking to American Airlines Arena before facing off against Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls last night has gone viral on sports news sites all over America. There are some interesting sociological currents swirling around LeBron James, bike commuter. While the photographer labeled James a “manchild” for taking to [...]

Peter Lee - A photo, taken by a local named Peter Lee, surfaced on Twitter: James atop an oversized mountain bike, backpack strapped to his shoulders, tattoos peeking out from a black lycra jersey.
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LeBron Hops in the Peloton

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Feb 15, 2012 in Cycling News, Featured, Wall Street Journal

JASON GAY JANUARY 31, 2012 wsj.com Look, I know we’re all supposed to dump on LeBron James for the rest of our lives, until he cures a global disease, or, far less likely, the vengeful Cleveland Cavaliers win an NBA title. But the LBJ hate parade has become a little tedious, a little last year, [...]

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Kinzie Street: Chicago’s First Protected Bike lane

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Feb 15, 2012 in StreetFilms

Streetfilms Kinzie Street: Chicago’s First Protected Bike lane from Streetfilms on Vimeo.

Photo by Choh Wah Ye.
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The Zen of urban cycling

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Feb 07, 2012 in Cycling News, Featured

BY JOEL GWADZ 27 JAN 2012 2:49 PM http://grist.org/biking/finding-the-zone-the-zen-of-urban-cycling/ I am a mountain biker and mountain bike racing is a big part of my love for cycling. There’s only one problem: I live in the city. To get to the hills, I have to put my bike on the car and drive an hour out [...]

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BikeyFace : The Blog

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Feb 04, 2012 in Cycling Advocacy, Featured

URL: http://bikeyface.com/ ABOUT THE BLOG I started this blog in June 2011 as I was learning my way around Boston by bike- both the city streets and the bike community. It wasn’t originally meant to be a cartoon blog but more of a personal blog writing about my various two-wheeled adventures. But I’m an artist [...]

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Alpine Coaster Ride – No Brakes

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Jan 18, 2012 in Cycling Safety

The mountain ride of a lifetime on a single-pipe alpine coaster in Austria – at full speed, without using the brakes.

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Looking for Bicycle-Related Summer Employment?

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Jan 18, 2012 in Active Transportation Alliance, Featured

JOB DESCRIPTION: BICYCLING AMBASSADOR START DATES: March 12, May 14 and June 18, 2012. LENGTH OF JOB: Through Mid-October, 2012. COMPENSATION: $10-$13 per hour, approximately 35-40 hours/week. PURPOSE AND GENERAL DESCRIPTION The Active Transportation Alliance, a non-profit advocacy group, manages a city-funded education and encouragement program called the City of Chicago’s Bicycling Ambassadors. The Bicycling [...]

Winter Cycling Gear - Gerald Davison
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Cold-weather riders pedal along McHenry County paths

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Jan 12, 2012 in Cycling In Winter

CHRIS CASHMAN The (Crystal Lake) Northwest Herald CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (AP) — For some hardy souls in McHenry County, it’s never too cold to ride a bicycle. “Cold is when I grow icicles in my beard,” Eberhard Veit said. “When the breath freezes in my beard, then it’s cold. But I still ride.” Veit, 52, [...]

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Testing the Efficiency of Generator Hubs

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Jan 11, 2012 in Cycling Electronics, Featured

Reprinted with permission from Vintage Bicycle Quarterly Vol. 3, No. 4 – Jan Heine Click to read copy of VBQgenerator in PDF format. Read additional information on SON Generators Hubs and Lights.

Brompton on Amtrak Bus
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Austin Bike Show 2011: Brompton Bicycle Ltd

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Jan 10, 2012 in Brompton, Featured

Uploaded by uRidetv on Feb 26, 2011 www.BikeWearWorld.com and www.uRide.tv were on location in Austin, Texas for the annual North American Handmade Bicycle Show. Brompton shows off their stuff at NAHBS 2011.

Darlene McCue was killed when a car hit her bicycle in Kendall County. | Submitted photo
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Woman forms group to find Yorkville bike path

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Jan 08, 2012 in Cycling Planning and Resources

By Steve Lord slord@stmedianetwork.com Updated: January 1, 2012 2:38AM hearldnews.com YORKVILLE — When Darlene McCue’s husband, Dan, died of cancer in 2005, her neighbor across the street, Lynn Dubajic, was there to comfort her. Dubajic, Yorkville Economic Development Corp. director, helped Darlene through the tough times, and Darlene was there just three years later when Lynn’s [...]

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The True Cost of Commuting

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Dec 29, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

Mr. Money Mustache Blog It was a beautiful evening in my neighborhood, and I was enjoying one of my giant homebrews on a deck chair I had placed in the middle of the street, as part of a nearby block’s Annual Street Party. I was talking to a couple I had just met, and the topic turned [...]

Slowing Down the City
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In the future, urban bikers go faster than cars

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Dec 27, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources

Cities around the world are considering radical new speed limits on cars — slowing down in the name of progress BY WILL DOIG salon.com In Hollywood movies, the cities of the future have speeding monorails and flying cars, everyone careening toward their destination at a zillion miles per hour. (The future always looks surprisingly like “The [...]

And You Thought Urban Traffic Was Gnarly?
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And You Thought Urban Traffic Was Gnarly?

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Dec 19, 2011 in Cycling Movies, Featured

Before forewarned that the riding depicted in this video requires at least two things in great abundance, (a) mad skills as a single track rider and (b) courage that you can handle whatever the trail throws at you. (Note: If you have any sense of vertigo please be careful while watching you may feel queasy [...]

Barnard’s Oak Park Cyclery has been owned and operated by the same family for 100 years. (Credit: CBS)
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Someone You Should Know: Oak Park Bike Shop Owners

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Dec 14, 2011 in Featured, Vendors

Reporting Harry Porterfield cbs.com OAK PARK, Ill. (CBS) – One family has owned the same bicycle shop for 100 years. They are celebrating that anniversary now and also enjoying the public’s renewed interest in bike riding. The two brothers who run the business are both “Someone You Should Know.” CBS 2′s Harry Porterfield reports that, this [...]

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Chicago: Guidelines for Taxi Drivers

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Dec 14, 2011 in Cycling Safety

Tips on sharing the road with bicyclists (PDF)

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Recumbent Trikes – Scouting Mission to Planes of Fame Air Museum

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Dec 13, 2011 in Recumbents

Uploaded by dregerclock on Oct 18, 2011 Besides recumbent trikes, another thing I like are WWII aircraft and airplanes in general. The #1 air museum which restores old aircraft (specializing in military airplanes) to flyable status is PLANES OF FAME AIR MUSEUM and it happens to be very nearby to where I live. It has [...]

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Are urban bicyclists just elite snobs?

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Dec 11, 2011 in Cycling Advocacy

As cycling’s popularity rises, the cyclists are despised. If riders want to change cities, they need a new attitude BY WILL DOIG salon.com See this article from the Medill School of Journalism also… In March, New Yorker columnist John Cassidy blogged about the city’s new bike lanes. He was annoyed that they made it harder for him to [...]

Justin Hurst on his route in Palo Alto. Photo: Karen T. Borchers/Mercury News
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UPS Delivering Holiday Packages Via Bicycle

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Dec 10, 2011 in Cycling News, Featured

excerpted from sfist.com This should please those commenters whose knee-jerk response to any and all posts regarding transit woes is “Get a bike.”: UPS, who lately has been bombarding us with those ads with the white-board guy in a lady wig, is going inadvertently green this holiday season. Due to the unsustainable costs of renting extra [...]

Chicago Cyclists In The Loop - Photo: Steven Vance
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Spandex wars: Chicago bike critic looks crappy in tights

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Dec 10, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources

BY GREG HANSCOM grist.org The two-wheeled revolution has arrived in the Windy City, thanks to its bike-loving mayor, Rahm Emanuel. (Finally, a way to describe the man without calling him a potty mouth!) During his campaign, Emanuel pledged to build 100 miles of new separated bike lanes within five years. The first of them went in this [...]

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