The Let’s Bike Taiwan tour continues through Yanmingshan National Park. Cyclelicious shot the video with a bikecam and represented in a Hugga Jersey.
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In what maybe considered the best day ever for a cyclist like Eric Steele, he rode with us down the Vegas strip in the Mobile Social Interbike
and then won a Novara Fusion
Photo: Byron on Eric’s Camera.
Eric provides a variety of marketing services for the outdoor and hospitality industries at Steele Media and is based in Idaho Springs, CO.
He gets his Fusion next week and will upload the photos. REI is giving away more Fusions online via Facebook.
Cruel
Puffy
Plaid
More from the Bike Works NYC Saddle archive. Carbon saddle from Roues Artisanales.
From the what’s old is new department and odd, comes this Stepper seen on Hong Kong Fixed.
Every year another type of stepper will get invented, we saw them at Interbike and of course in the gym.
Another Bicycle v. (insert vehicle name here) went down and, as our readers would expect, the bike wins! This time it was a helicopter in Sao Paulo.
What we’d love to see is a semi trailer v. cargo bike. A UPS run for the day? Each holiday UPS delivers with bikes. We’ve had
A resource for the chic plain clothes women (and 2 guys) are wearing on their bikes is Chictopia’s Topshop Bicycle Club from this Summer.
During the contest, entrants uploaded photos of themselves with bikes and the 5 chicest ones won a new bike. If not for the clothes, the contest is a study in urban bikes, like Erin’s basket bike.
Also a good example of the bike market that exists outside of the bike industry/bike shop silo. Do you think Erin would go into a bike shop or would prefer to get her new cruiser with a matching outfit at Top Shop? While some dissed Urban Outfitters for selling fixies, we saw it as a sign of sales to come.
Eventually all these urban bikes the industry is making will have to find a channel that isn’t a bike shop, it’s a boutique.
Slate Olson from Rapha shows us his bespoke suit.
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A bike romantic, David Byrne talked about his travels with the bike and how unfriendly most American cities are to cyclists. He was on the Seattle stop of a tour for his new book: the Bicycle Diaries. Unlike the usual book tour, David focused the event on advocacy with a civic leader, an urban theorist, a bicycle advocate, and himself each giving 10 minute presentations.
After the talks, the audience interacted with questions. In the hallways of the venue, various agencies represented their cause and there were more bike-related books for sale.
That big-ass wheel we spotted in Hed’s booth? They’re bringing it to market for downhillers that want more aero
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A civic leader, urban theorist, bicycle advocate, and David Byrne will each speak for about 10 minutes followed by a Q&A with audience tonight at Town Hall Seattle.
The event is sold out. We’ll live blog it from the audience.
- Civic Leader: Barbara Gray, Manager of Transportation Systems Design and Planning Team for the Seattle Department of Transportation
- Urban Theorist: Mark Hinshaw, architect / author / consultant
- Bicycle Advocate: Dave Janis, Executive director of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington
Photo: richardmasoner
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Product managers and designers take note of what the Belgians are doing with flax and carbon. The time I’m spending on a Flax Fixed is most enjoyable because of the smooth ride. The bike glides like a Barry White sample in a chill out, lounge mix.
More on the carbon/flax mix from Cozy Beehive.
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“We live in the city of dreams, We drive on the highway of fire.”
A MetaFilter post on David Byrne’s Bicycle Diaries, starts a community discussion on what to wear on the bike for work.
“When I wore a backpack with my work shoes and purse, I ended up with a huge sweaty patch on my back.”
“Do male cyclists whose jobs require suits and ties wear said outfit while biking … or do they don their business suits over a sweaty body.”
and so on. What to wear on the bike, plain-clothes cycling, is a current topic and one we’re discussing with our partners. Cycling lacks technical commuter wear. By that I mean, gear you can wear on the bike and right into a meeting in the office. Outlier has some high-end Merlino tailored gear and Slate shows us his bespoke Rapha suit in this video.
For 2010, MonkeyLectric has a programmable pro version and more.
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Spoke cards with hearts on them.
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Mark V is in Taiwan with other bloggers and journalists for a cultural tour, including Cyclelicious.
Mark left for the tour on Friday, the day after Interbike and our Mobile Social.
A French fixie from Bertelli Cycles. That’s a Bertelli spec’d Alien.
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Just out for an everyday ride on a Davidson titanium carbon belt drive travel bike in Vegas.
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Photos from the MASH SF Stage Race at Interbike 2009.
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The Mobile Social Interbike presented by REI with Globe Bikes and Dahon is on tonight. We’re riding from the Sands, on the Strip, to a USA Crits VIP Tent at Mandalay Bay.
Where to Meet
Outside of the Sands Main Entrance at 6:00 PM - we’ll start to congregate at 5:45. You’ll find us. Were the ones with the bikes. Get a wristband from Mark V.
The Route
The route has changed due to construction and we’re going to turn left out of the Sands, left on the Strip, and onto Mandalay Bay where our VIP tent awaits us with cold beer.
The Rules
To keep peace with the PoPo, all we ask is that you ride with us in one lane and obey the traffic laws. The City of Las Vegas requires lights and Princeton Tec has that covered. They’re giving away lights at the VIP Tent.
Bikes
Globe Bikes has bikes to lend, first come first serve.
Schwag-a-thon and Prizes
We’re giving away schwag and prizes from our partners
- Novara Fusion
- Hed Wheels
- Sun RingleAccelerator X2.0 Wheelset
- Crumpler Bags
- Osprey Packs
- Ibex Gear
- Breezer Bike Tees
Kickstand Mag and New Belgium hooked us up with beer and Substance is a media partner. See you there.
Fill that with your bread and make deliveries.
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A bicycle cab, sidecar style is used at the San Miguel brewery. Don’t think we see sidecar cargo very often.
Photo: Reuters Pictures
Alley Cat Gentlemen’s Race during Interbike with live blogging from us.
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A messenger delivers packages in traffic-clogged Sydney. Sydney is talking now about their expected population growth and how to deal with the traffic with public transport, including bikes.
Photo: Getty
Our Interbike coverage began earlier today with David moblogging from the Dirt Demo. The rest of us arrive in Vegas over the next few days. You can follow our coverage on the Interbike Hub and
Here on the main blog we’ll post daily digests and Huggacasts. Our focus is urban, velocouture, fixed/free, the offbeat, and Cross, like this Felt Single Speed.
Events and Parties
We’ve got full calendar this year with the iBikeTweetup, Cross Vegas, various parties, and our Mobile Social.
We’re just hearing about Alleycats too.
In the used-bike economy, worth what? $500.00
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More fixed photos from Jonathan Winstone. Taken at Aldgate.
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I was at a social event with Pam and didn’t attend, but the reports are it was a rainy, great night of Cross racing with Heule taking the win. Andrew raced Single and should have a report up soon. While all us of aren’t racing yet, we are secretly cross training.
The course lay out featured long grassy straight-aways with riders going in and out of the Marymoor velodrome. As the weather turned for the worse, bike handling took precedence over power as the off-camber turns slickened with rain. Tim Johnson (Cannondale) went down on the first lap and soon an elite field formed: Page, Trebon, Heule, Troy Wells, and Andy Jacques-Maynes (Bissell) and Jeremy Powers.
More Cross
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At an undisclosed location in Seattle, we are training for Cross. You’ll just see us later in the season. While everyone else is going fast, we’re just getting going.
This Museeuw Flax bike is an orphaned demo bike that Road Bike Action didn’t want anymore and offered to us to test ride. We said "hell yeah" and converted it into a fixed/free with an Eccentric Eno hub.
Why not equipped with SRAM Red and destined for the cobbles? It’ll do that too in the Spring. For the Fall, like other cyclists, we want a fixed/free bike for just riding and spinning the legs. We’ve also been wanting to ride carbon fixed since seeing the District Carbon at Trek World (and before that in Lance’s twitter stream). So we converted a flax/carbon road bike and you can do it too for a few hundred dollars.
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The DJs of the Sun will lead the ride from the Sands, mixing up a lounge-like, mellow vibe for the peloton and rocking during the Mobile Social Interbike schwag-fest. They joined us earlier the year in Austin for the MoSo SXSW. They roll with a Voltaic System on Dahon bikes.
Tony Choy Spotted in Explore this morning.
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With some many bikes in Amsterdam, some of them get abandoned and rot.
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You can win a bike and gear at the Mobile Social Interbike. Our partners are bringing the goods with them and giving it all away. That’s the way these MoSos work: we ride, blog, party, and give away product.
Novara Fusion
The Fusion is all about commuting and we’re giving one away at the end of the MoSo. Make sure you get a raffle ticket and you’re present when we call your number. We’ll give you a card to take to your local REI.
Continuing our visit to Specialized HQ, we look at some of their concept bikes, the idea room, and briefly meet the brains behind the operation.
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Bike Hugger visits Specialized HQ with stops at the testing lab and learning center.
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Reader Julian asks us if Globe Bikes are really for cargo.
Hey! As some of the few guys to ride Globe bikes more than once, I’m curious to know what you think of the Live and Haul, and your gut check favorite. Wondering how the Live porteur rack handles a front load (like your roll-on suitcase!) in motion and when parked & loading. And curious about the utility of the slightly stretched Haul rack. It’s a gorgeous rack, but without custom larger panniers (how much larger could they be?), it seems that a Live with aftermarket rear rack and panniers might be its cargo equal. I understand the Haul’s welded-on rack can handle much more weight, but realistically how would you carry that weight without freeloaders or other cargo solution? And isn’t the Haul begging for a centerstand (Hebie or other) rather than the chainstay-mounted kickstand? Love to know your thoughts! — Julian
The answer is light cargo yes, but not a big industrial load no. The bikes are errand-running, grocery-getters and work well for that purpose and a bit heavier loads, but I wouldn’t use them for delivering goods.
As you can see in the photos, I carried my suitcase from the Airport and rode the Live about 30 miles to Morgan Hill. Once the suitcase was strapped down, the ride was good. The bike was predictably tippy when parked and will fall over unless secured, even with a centerstand. I leaned it against a tree (known as a Treestand) when we stopped at Bicycle Express.
We rode from SJC to Morgan Hill via the Coyote Creek Trail yesterday. The downtown part of the ride was a bit confusing with a trail terminating at a railroad crossing.
We thought if any locals saw they’d wonder WTF we were doing on that trail and Reeve who works for the RR had to tell me
Stay off the tracks. Railroads are private property and you are likely trespassing. Always expect a train, any time, any direction. Yeah, you’re smart and prolly won’t get hurt. Its kind of like wearing a helmet while motorcycling. Operation Lifesaver. I work for the rr so I have to say that.
Word.
Stopping for Turkish coffee we all marveled at the Starfuckers trick fixie bike. It was outside of Japanese store that sells clothes and fixie gear.
Ride Mojo
I found this toy that became the ride mojo and the mojo was working when a California Condo buzzed us and a turkey made sure we knew who was boss of the trail. We also saw deer and turtles, but not many other cyclists on the trail. They must come out on the weekends with their families.
Mexican Mini Golf
A few hours later, we arrived and ate lunch at Morgan Hill’s premiere mexican restaurant/minature golf course where I shot a hole-in-one!
Sushi and True Morgan Hillers
For dinner, it was sushi and then a bike pile at M&H for drinks where we met true Morgan Hillers.
Today we’re riding to Specialized HQ for a tour and more time with @globebikes.
uBRDO Cycle and Mountain Supply, a full service independent bicycle and outdoor shop in Kirkland, Washington, is now carrying a selection of our race cut Neo Retro Jerseys and Wool Tees.
You can see them late this afternoon at the Big Finn Hill Park cross race After Party.
@globebikes is meeting us at SJC and we’ll ride the Coyote Creek Trail to Morgan Hill for lunch tacos.
Later we’re talking bikes with the people from Specialized.
There’s a long story behind this decal, if you see it on a bike, ask the owner … .
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Jeremy Honorez hits a bollard and his bike shatters.
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Spotted at Eurobike by Dan Goldwater from Monkey Electric. We’re not seeing a fish in there, but maybe a Chupacabra or Seamonkey?
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A HUB beer bike would need taps, of course, and taps made from hubs by Metrofiets.
Pam sent me this Drop 8 Pounds e-card from Self Magazine to remind me to keep the weight off this Winter.
That’s a tough one with all the porters and seasonals coming on tap … maybe if I read Carmichael’s new book and ya know all those new carbon bikes offer performance fit with a tall head tube instead of spacer stacks.
The race caravan, while seemingly chaotic fast, and unnerving, has a certain flow to it and a collegiate spirit. Before the 2009 USPRO Race we talked with Mavic about their setup and then got into the cars with them. Zabriskie attacked early and George won.
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Carnivelo is a celebration of bike culture at REI HQ. In this Huggacast, we take a look at some interesting employee bikes, the first Novara Mountain bike, and more. Our favorite was the Golden Beam and we'd never seen an AWD MTB before.
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As she said,
Do you have any idea at all, you guys, how mother ucking hard it is to straighten seamed stockings by yourself?” Yes, I ride in this. I have before, I will again, many times. The heels are five inches and make my toes lose feeling. The stockings are inexpensive and replaceable.
We missed Ms Minx when we were in MPLS, but are sure it’s a spectacle when she rides.
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John Prolly has captured Papi the Bike Stealer’s moves from the now Internet Famous Don’t Steal Bikes, Bro video.
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Enjoyed a Fall ride with Hed’s new Stinger 6s to Labor Day Cross and a stop at South Park for photos of the Create mural.
Quick review
The Stinger 6s are the best wheelset Hed has made. It’s an evolution of their C2 platform and equivalent to cavemen dropping their stones for spears. They spent 10 days in the wind tunnel with these and I noticed the aero tweaks right away.
Besides all the wind tunnel numbers, what’s going on is the tire sits in a cradle and not on top of the wheel. That means the wheel/tire interface is minimzed and facing the wind is one large curved shape. No homies it’s not spokes that matter most in the tunnel (or twin-paired spokes), it’s the wheel/tire interface. Decrease that interface and less drag results.
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Inspired by poetry slams, reality television competitions, and celebrity death matches, the New Amsterdam Bike Slam is a unique battle for the future of New York City transportation.
Spread over four days, the New Amsterdam Bike Slam is a live design battle, a dance party, a world-class transportation summit, a bridge across the Atlantic, and a path forward.
The Slam occurs from 9/10 - 13. Working now on getting into this for some live blogging and we suggest they get the Vortex of Terror there too.
We rode to the Labor Day Cross race in Seattle where racers were digging deep like this.
Accelerate, dismount into a sand pit, a few steps, then run up through the pain.
More Cross
We return to Starcrossed in a couple weeks.
Now that’s putting a bike to work: herding camels.
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Henry is an influential amongst the Cargonistas who you may not know about yet. He’s likely responsible for the cargo bike your either riding or thinking about riding. Henry left the American corporate world to change the world with bikes and does so from a shop in Amsterdam called WorkCycles.
Regardless of who was copying who it was all very much about cult audiences, and the few firms involved were busy keeping it all to the extremist elite. I was fascinated by the possibilities and fun of these crude machines and convinced that with better design, quality, service … in short professionalisation the bakfiets would be popular amongst normal families and businesses.
Last week during his annual pilgrimage to Eurobike, Henry takes issue with the latest Handbuilt bike show knockoffs, Amsterdam via China, and mountain bikes apparently built to carry pizzas to skiers. He also blogs what you won’t see in the glossy mags or ad-plastered websites.
We visited WorkCycles last year and are planning another visit next month. I’d like to zip around Amsterdam on a one speed with a step through frame while there. It’s Dutch for fast.
Bike Hugger is a member and sponsor of Buy Local Cycling, an Oregon-based team highlighting local bike products and builders.
The team is masters-class cyclocross racers and casual riders. Coming into Cross season, we’ll blog from the Buy Local organized events, including the State Championship.
Mark V is joining a Taiwan Cycling and Cultural Tour the day after Interbike. In the few years we’ve traveled, ridden, and blogged Taiwan, it has become a bike country.
Cycling is the national pastime and they’re working now on promoting the country as a cycling destination. We’re happy to help! The tour itinerary includes:
- Sun Moon Lake, Round the Lake Road
- Poet’s Aria Taroko
- Dongfong Green Green Passage
- Guanshan, Taitung County
- Taipei Guandu Left Bank of Bali.
While on the trip, I’ve asked Mark to watch out for dogs in shoes, bring back a crazy small folding bike, and enjoy a Hello Kitty Pie. Also obey the traffic robots and get some Pizza Cut Five shirts.
Previous Taiwan Coverage
That’s a 14 pound ProTour bike in the photo. It’s owned by Rich Hincapie (George’s Brother) and it’s pretty much what Team Columbia rides. I raced the bike in the South Carolina State Championship Road Race last weekend. My bike got garage-doored the day before and Rich was nice enough to let me ride his bike. We were in town for the Style in Motion, USPro weekend and part of the festivities is racing with the locals.
Considering how best to review the bike and share my experience, I thought this is what it’s like to blog cars. All day long it’s the mundane Hyundai or Prius this, that, and meh. Then one day you get the keys to a super sports car, like a Ferrari or Lotus. It makes your dayjob worthwhile.
This bike isn’t for everyone. Nothing is practical; afterall, it weighs 14 pounds and is aptly described as an “effing rocketship” with several, “whoas,” punctuated by a big “wow.”
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Bonus points for the fixie and PBR in this new addition to the Pelostaches Group on Flickr.
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The IOS XL and FreeCharge is generating considerable blogosphere buzz on bike, gadget, and tech blogs. Dahon just uploaded video of the FreeCharge system charging an iPhone.
Working now with Dahon to have a mobile charging station at the Mobile Social Interbike.
She lives at the bottom of Queen Anne, works in downtown Seattle, and loves riding her bike around.
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Images from Matt W. Moore’s Momentum Exhibit at the Chorus Gallery.
Matt showed 5 recent series of his artwork: Watercolor Paintings, Cut Paper Collages, Printed Textiles, Vectorfunk Posters, and 5 Hand-Painted Bike Frames.
Those are Traitor Cycles frames.
Delcruiser’s Steampunk bike project. We think all Steampunk bikes need a Van de Graff generator.
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After getting dropped 4 inches into the first meter of the Paris Mtn climb last year, I was determined to never let that happen again. Not only was I going backwards on the climb, but Pam (wife) dropped me for George Hincapie. Yep.
We were in Greenville SC for the Hincapie Style in Motion Weekend and USPro race. On Friday, George rides with Hincapie Sporstwear dealers on the USPro Course, including Paris Mtn. Pam looked back as I struggled, looked ahead to the George group, back again, and accelerated away. I couldn’t blame her really. I was not having a good day.
Once we confirmed our return to Greenville this year, I started thinking about Paris Mtn.
Not a Climber
Where a climber’s ancestors were scurrying up cliffs and into trees, my clan roamed the lowlands, rolling along. Us bigger guys do what we can to survive the climbs and bomb the descents. We rock the circuits, rolleaur style courses, and crits. I usually don’t get too engaged in the climbs, but this one became my nemesis.
The Climb
As you can see in the iBike chart below, the climb is a sustained hard effort. Paris Mtn was a season-long focus for me. For two months before the big day, I drank no beer, ate bread just once a day and added hillier races than usual to my calendar.
Portland’s all-female group of tall bike builders and riders — the Irondelles.
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When Fast Boy isn’t building bikes like this, he’s teaching cancer to cry.
Also see the custom bash guard from a post we did last year.
Dahon’s new IOS XL won a gold in the Eurobike Design Awards. The IOS XL features integrated ights, pump, and phone charger. Road.cc previewed the high-tech folder last month. Dahon also won an award for a new folding helmet. I was just commenting on the need for a travel helmet.
Wore the Novara Kit on a relaxed downtown Seattle ride yesterday. The caption on the shorts says, “Never a Bad Time to Ride.”
I was on the Modal in Nexus mode. Without a cyclo-computer and a smooth internally-geared drivetrain, it was just a relaxing ride.
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This Fall, we’re back in the Cross scene. We’ll cover it more with racing and new gear. Also working on our Baryshnikov over the Barriers technique, knowing where the saddle is, and more style.
Last year with produced a series of videos, like this one. See more of them on our Cross collection page and Cross tag.
The BFF is coming to Seattle on September 11 and 12th.
The early Eurobike buzz is an electric, mini penny farthing. As cool as that sounds, it also causes some concern in the position of the cyclists and in “doing a header,” “endo,” or getting out of the way of a delivery truck.
The modern bike we ride today is based on an innovation called the safety bike. It had wheels of the same size, double triangles, and so on. Now we don’t want to buzzkill any excitement about an electric bike that folds and all, but hope they’ve done some testing on potholes and bumps.
To their credit, YikeBike’s FAQ address safety, handling, and maneuverability and they claim they started with a blank sheet of paper. The bike has built-in lights and maybe it’s like a folder that rides on rollerblade wheels or the Strida. Cool for going a block to the subway and about human-powered urban mobility, as opposed to a Segway.
We’re on the lookout for the YikeBike at Interbike and hope it rides as good as it looks. We do wonder why this industry constantly reinvents the old. Imagine if the computer industry was still on 8 bit Ataris, but dressed up in carbon cases.
Notes: Penny Farthings (aka boneshakers) were called that because one of the wheels was smaller than the other and looked like a penny and a farthing. The YikeBike truck photo was photoshopped for this post.
This may have been shirts and skins racing at the track or possibly a road rash dare. Maybe “show your farmers tan?”
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Just back from Greenville for Style in Motion and USPro, then we’re off to
- 9/9 — Carnivelo @REI_COOP HQ
- 9/14 — Riding with Globe Bikes around Morgan Hill CA
- 9/24 — Mobile Social Interbike
Then in October, we’re bike touring Prague. We may return to Taipei as well. That’s being discussed.
While we were in Greenville SC, Critical Mass rode across the West Seattle Bridge. Imagine the busiest, elevated highway in your local area, and Critical Mass rode across that.
They had a police escort. The action starts at 1:44 in. At the beginning, there’s a bonus roller blader.
Lots of comments on the West Seattle Blog did not appreciate the mass on a freeway.
JJTweets was on the scene and snapped this photo. Check the Critical Mass tag for our previous coverage.
Mikael Colville-Andersen from Copenhagenize photos are included in a Tyden Mobility exhibition in Pardubice, Czech Republic. The exhibition is part of a larger European Mobility Week that promotes the improvement of city climates.
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Across the US, Cross Clinics are on and cyclists are working on their skills like this Team Beer Style Dismount in Portland. Here in Seattle, there’s a season ending crit this weekend and we’re onto practicing with our bad selves. We’ll work on controlling the bike when running and more.
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A Cycle Track is a dedicated bike lane common in many European countries and Portland just unveiled one. NYC has one too.
More on the Cycle Track from an Oregonlive report that claims bicycle commuting contributes $2.6 billion to the Portland local economy every year (even as supporters of bike commuting that seems like bike-voodoo economics).
Also see
Video from today’s stage in the Vuelta that has taken out Chris Horner.
It’s confirmed that Chris Horner has a broken wrist and is now out of the Vuelta. We’ll miss you Chris—please stay strong.
@TeamAstana. Follow along on Twitter.
Video was pulled by copyright owner.
We’re already planning our return to SXSW with the Mobile Social 2010 and this year we’ve pitched Steal this Panel
“Pick this SXSW panel and we’ll get up there and talk about whatever the Twitter tells us to do via @replies and hash tags.”
If that gets picked, we’ll have lots of fun with it and observe how much game Twitter has changed socially, in cycling, and for business.
We can’t think of a better way to talk at SXSW than with audience participation. Of course, I’ll talk about what we do here at Bike Hugger and more.
Please give the panel a thumbs up. Voting closes this week on September 4th.
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