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We create, strengthen and unite advocacy leaders who are transforming their communities into great places to bike and walk. Donate to the Alliance for Biking & Walking. Read more » Download or buy this essential resource for advocates, media and public officials Read more » Sign up today to attend a Winning Campaigns Training. Vittoria Shoes. Tour Cycling. Ultralight Cuben Fiber Outdoor Gear - Hyperlite Mountain Gear. OUTLIER Tailored Performance Clothing for a Life in Motion. All Weather Cyclist. Bike Forums. League of American Bicyclists * Home. Bikes Belong. Bicycles >> MetaEfficient Reviews. East Coast Greenway.
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Bike and Cycling Forum. Bicycling Mags -n- Blogs. Best DC Bike Commuting Neighborhoods? Bike Gear and Accessories. What's The Best Bike For Cycle Commuting? By John Stevenson, Cycling Plus | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7.00am Your choice of bike for the ride to work will depend on your own tastes and on the distance, terrain and varying surfaces you’ll encounter on the journey.
For longer tarmac commutes, experienced riders tend to favour drop-bar bikes of one sort or another for their extra turn of speed. United Bicycle Institute. Paul Dorn's Bike Commuting Tips: Repairs/Maintenance. The most common repair you will encounter as a bike commuter will be a flat tire.
You can minimize pneumatic distress by buying durable tires. You should also monitor brake wear to make sure they're not rubbing against the sidewalls of your tires. You should also look for and remove glass or metal fragments stuck in the rubber. However, sooner or later you will experience the distinctive hissing of a punctured tire. RideTHISbike.com: Folding Bike Sales, Rentals & News. Bicycle Panniers, Racks and Bags. The definitive guide to bicycle commuting. Bicycle Commuting - A Primer from Work by Cycle. How to bike to work (or anywhere else) There's never been a better time to consider walking, public transportation — or the greenest, most efficient form of transport: cycling.
Once a novelty of the Industrial Revolution, bicycles now supply millions of people with efficient, healthy, pollution-free daily transportation. Bicycles can reduce traffic congestion and noise. You can park a dozen bikes in the space of a single automobile, and the idea of a morning commute free of fossil fuels seems particularly attractive fuel costs go up and down. Even if you only cycle once a week — on Casual Fridays, perhaps — you'll be reducing your weekly commute's environmental impact by 20 percent.
That's about the same as trading your current vehicle for a hybrid, and a lot cheaper. Transcendental Transcontinental - Bicycle commuting. Bike Commuting – finer points Before you tour, you commute.
When your bike becomes your primary mode of transportation, you are well on your way. Yes, gas is around $3/gallon and bicycling is good for your health, but you choose your bike because – you like it. Commute by bike anytime! BikeWhenever. Flipphandle.com. Osloh Cycling Apparel and Clothing New York. Surly Bikes. High Visibility. Speed Vest. Systems labs » Blog Archive » Speed-Vest! You Shall Have Bike Lanes Wherever You Go. Some cities are slow getting around to approving bike lanes; others don't bother. Here is a way to carry your bike lane with you wherever you go: project it onto the road with fricking lasers. Alex Tee and Evan Gant of Altitude write: Bicycling Street Smarts - Authorship, Ordering, Acknowledgements. SURG 2011: Project Aura. Our mission is to promote the bicycle as a practical and equal member of the roadway by providing riders with a bicycle light which makes you more visible and identifiable as a cyclist, while also being a novel/cool/beautiful addition to your bike.
However, we have always had a bigger goal than just making a great bicycle light, but I don’t think we ever really put out there our bigger thinking behind this project. Our greater goal is to get more people to ride bikes as a practical means of transportation. A study done in New Orleans found that when the city built more bike lanes, more people started riding. This may sound obvious but I think it’s an important idea.
The whole, “if you build it they will come” concept - when you provide riders with the infrastructure that supports riding more safely, suddenly more people decide to ride bikes. Community Bike Programs, Bike Libraries, Bicycle Sharing, Bike Coop, Bicycle Collective. This category covers a wide variety of groups, with a wide variety of structures and without well defined boundaries between types of programs.
They all have in common that they are facilitating more bicycling in their communities'. Some are truly free, but others have some revenue generating element to try an make them more stable and increase their longevity. Clearly there is a multiplicity of approaches to this. Black Bike to Work Pants. Trousers With Inner Brilliance Traditional spandex bike pants make for silly work pants, and vice versa.
So we created these handsome hybrids that perform equally well on the road or in the office. Bicycle commuter gear & ideas. Seattle Snowpocalypse. No matter how much we swear we've learned our lessons, Seattle always seems to get caught by surprise by the snow.
There we were, minding our own business with our feet all toasty in our sandals and socks, when the temperature plummeted and it turned into Juneau in January. While this year the City did a much better job than last year at preventing widespread carnage and destruction, we at Dutch Bike Seattle still didn't bring in studded tires because it never snows in Seattle. Even if we had stocked them, I'm not sure they'd sell because it never snows in Seattle, right? We found something else, though. Something else entirely. You're not going to believe it at first. It's quick, it's cheap, and yes, it looks completely ludicrous. BUT. WorkCycles. Bike Commuters. Guest Article: Ann's DIY "Porteur" Rack.
Our friend Ann Rappaport has been at it again…some of our readers marveled at her homemade kitty-litter bucket panniers, but that’s nothing compared to this incredible feat of DIY engineering!
She was gracious enough to document the process in words and photos for us. Here it is: Front Rack Supplies and Construction: BikeHacks. Reader Matteo recently contacted us and noted that he had turned an old wheel into a ceiling light. His bike deco hack kicked my brain into search mode for another post along the same lines, and before I knew it was in full search mode for hacks we have posted related to decorations made from bike parts. A bunch of time typing and mousing through memory lane resulted in this cumulative post. If you have a bike deco hack you would like to have featured on bikehacks.com let us know. 1. Cyclelicious. The online guide to outstanding and specialised cycles.
Bike Hugger. Bicycle Tutor - Bike Repair Video Tutorials. Bicycles for Utility, Cargo and Transportation - Madsen Cycles. Bicyclinginfo.org. Bikerumor. Custom cargo bikes - Handbuilt in Portland, Oregon. Welcome to Slowtwitch.com. Two weeks ago I wrote my own tips on how to ride safely while on rural roads. I noted my own relative success rate: one crash in 20 years. I also noted the likelihood that, after boasting of my success, I was due for another crash. And—lo! —two days after publishing that installment, while sharing the road with no vehicles or cyclists or pedestrians, riding entirely solo, I managed to find and tumble over a manhole.
Just goes to show you, doesn't it? As I was casting about for themes on urban writing, I find that what I wrote on this subject two years ago stands up fairly well. In a 2006 survey of 18- to 24-year old Americans, barely a third could find Iraq on a map; just over 1 in 10 could find Afghanistan; fewer than half could locate Ohio or New York. This year marks the completion of three decades since I first (as Phil Liggett might say) turned the pedals in anger. But most of those occurrences took place during my first half-decade as a cyclist. I'll be honest. Community Bike Cart Design. Mark Rehder - Bicycle Utility Trailer. July 2007 Update: I've been getting emails and pics from folks that have seen this page and built their own trailers. These have been posted to my blog here and here.
Bicycle Trailer: Assembly Instructions. The Re~Cycle Trailer. This site is run by Re~Cycle, a charity shipping unwanted bikes to Africa. People for Bikes. The Metric Century. Guided and Self Guided Cycling Holidays, Mountain Bike Holidays and Road Cycling Holidays. Why Cycle? WhyCycle? - The impartial cycling advice site. Free advice on how to fix your bicycle. Bicycle travelogues, bike safety, bicycling advocacy, and cycling humor. National Center for Bicycling & Walking. Jim Langley Bicycle Aficionado Site Map. Fixed Gear Gallery. Pedaling.com - Home - Bike Routes & Rides, Cycling Tours & Events, Cycling Resources.