Every year, no matter how much I prep, I feel never quite ready for the holiday season. This year, however, with the temperatures fall to winter lows of Thanksgiving and snow is already a few times, it feels really like the holidays in Chicago. Even my bike is in the holiday spirit. My bike really inspired me this year – some of my best gift ideas come me while I my bike to the and drive from my computer. If only I sync these thoughts and ideas with an automatic thoughts recorder could be so that when I get to my destination I remember already most of you. Today I managed to remind those last minute ideas and write before you removed fleeted. (And if you look a few gift ideas, do not forget to check out our BikeCommuters.com holiday gift guide.)
But celebrate can good cheer on and off your Bike(s) bring you this season.
Like your bicycle is a part of your holiday season?
Our friend Court rye electric vehicle authority along the above review of the new RideKick electric bike trailers. This in-depth video review by all functions of the product, interviews of the CEO of RideKick enters into shows some excellent shots of the trailer in use.
The California Environmental Protection Agency is a four-week trial of a bike sharing program perform. Big whoop, right?But do it with bionx equipped e-bikes .Ihren parade, Washington DC. [Via EcoVelo]
Speaking of e-bikes, California and studies: the new wheel in San Francisco instead of a demonstration of your e-bikes in the Golden Gate Park. Get your message transported the bikes to underline your demo location on a bike trailer [Via UtilityCycling.org].
In Nashville, regional leaders recently met to discuss urban sprawl."Nashville people spend more time in their cars than in other areas."Of from the head of the Nashville Metropolitan Planning Organization, Michael understatement Skipper.Nashville leads the nation in that average time commuters spend in their cars as a result of urban sprawl.Skipper is spearheading buses, trains, bikes and Walkable communities will prioritize a transport plan.
Ethel MacDonald, a 72-year-old bicycle commuters filled your car the other day for the first time since January 23, 2010.In meanwhile has traveled nearly 3000 miles by bike; a combination of 1,200 miles in Missoula and touring from Paris to Amsterdam to commute, and horse riding along the West coast of America.
"" I love our city,"said MacDonald."I really think each person on a bike and any person, hiking or horseback riding a bus makes our city to live a more friendly place.
"Anyone who makes metal limited inside for a better community."
Apparently lots of local politicians showed up to associate themselves with the “new” multi-use tunnel just opened in Sonoma County, CA. The tunnel was built in 1884 for the railroad. Cycling advocates worked for the last 12 years to get it converted into a state-of-the art cycling and pedestrian facility.
Bowden’s guest post is the most viral post that Commute By Bike has ever published. More than 1500 Web pages have linked to the article (so far), including The Huffington Post among other prominent political Web sites.
Not to mention the link has been tweeted more than 150 times. (If that sentence makes any sense to you, you’ll be mildly impressed.)
Liberal cheerleaders of Europe fail when they grant too much prescience to Europe’s leaders and urban designers. In most cases, the urban density, pedestrian-friendly cities, transit-oriented development, and other elements that encourage alternative modes is just an accident of history.
We want to offer resources to teach people how to bike year-round, and that’s why we do the extreme in the winter – to show that it’s possible to use a bike for transportation,” [Fort Collins Cycling Coordinator, DK Kemp] said, adding that if you can dress to ski you can dress to be a winter cyclist.
If you can dress to ski… and have a roll of duct tape, that is. This helmet modification from Finland closes the vents, keeping the rider’s head warm. [Via BikeHacks]
Click image to see the original by Flickr user hugovk
Time's up! Love your lane bike clowns serenade Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz with singing telegrams, and provide a "Golden bicycle" holiday gift.
Excellent Gotha crap posts at yesterday's time's up! Action with awesome video and photos (by Adrian Kinlock) links:
Thursday, December 16, clowns "Love Your Lane" professional road bicycle racer from the environment organization time up's! came dressed in holiday and festive colored costumes to Brooklyn Borough Hall. The clowns were ready to recruit. After Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz ' clownish behavior last week in the well-attended bike lane oversight hearing, the clowns hoped to your circus join Markowitz invite. After all his rendition of "my favorite things" to the City Council Transportation Committee listen to NYC bike policy, chalk full of anti-bike lane misinformation, made him an ideal candidate.
The "Love Your Lanes" clowns interested in childhood anthem, "my favorite things" add a verse:
If the car honks,. and truck double park, If we run off the bike lane are I simply think of Prospect Park's designated bike path And then I feel not so bad.
The first episode I heard was with Richard Schwinn of Waterford precision bicycles (and a descendant of Ignaz Schwinn, founder of the Schwinn bicycle company). Although the interview not the fate of the Schwinn brand, capture, was complained thoroughly for over 15 years, we've covered topics to here on the bike path (and links feel much more informed me about the different types of welding).
I recommend to give this episode to listen to:
Here are some highlights:
The bike is one of the ways that become cities more livable.
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If you are a Republican would support to cycling, because if you go the cost of living to see, then you get people out of cars and cycling.
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If you need to successfully expect America wealth, increase the cost of living down so that we don't have such high wages in order for people to have a good life to life is cycling an important part. Reduce the costs of education? Children back riding bikes back in school. Since the number Büsing is two budget lines in the school budget. Everybody is will not bused, racial integration, but because the roads are too dangerous to walk or bike. If you have the problem of the roads and safety for cyclists, you now cut the budget for schools. By the way, have the budget for roads also reduce.
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If you really want to reduce the things are travelling costs the Government will truly like the activities by improve infrastructure for cycling and pedestrian, mass transit and things happen.
When add all benefits [steel], so far outweigh the problems with it, it is still the best material.
What [titanium frame maker LiteSpeed] discovered is less demanding of the driver was the more important weight to you. And so your lightest bike was your cheapest bike.
Sorry, there is no snappy quote from this section. But if you've ever wondered, what about bike geeks when you talk about metals and welds talk, listen to. If not, skip to...
The thing about a bike that I think some people really know is that a bicycle perhaps is the most demanding mechanical structure that is made by man.
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We design a bike frame way closer to the technical limitations of the tube and we have done for over a century.
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You can not break two pipes on the bike without something really bad happens.
Today I participated in the opening session presented by MtnBikeRiders.com Super Duper race D. This was an Invitational u Bahn event did the race mountain bikes.
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