Posts under ‘Cycling in the Media’

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There is often the feel of art when you a ride a bicycle, whether in your mind or as an inspiration for other art. The movement of the wheels and your legs create a graceful visual cacophony of motion. Today’s video takes it to the next level by using the spinning bicycle wheel to create [...]

Minneapolis’ Midtown Greenway: Good for Biz, Good for Bikes. from Streetfilms on Vimeo. This brief little film came out just a couple of weeks ago, and from the moment I saw it, I knew that I wanted to write about what I saw and felt as I watched the video.  Having lived in MSP for [...]

The Austin Master Bicycle Plan calls for the education and promotion of cycling through public education, and to that end the City of Austin has released this new feel good Share the Road PSA ad. After their initial bizarre, extremely negative Share the Road Rant ad, this one is a welcome change. Lots of happy, [...]

R.I.P.- Steve Jobs (1955-2011) In the mid 80s, Apple founder Steve Jobs noted that the bicycle is the most efficient form of transportation on the planet. This second clip is not bicycle related per se, but an excellent speech about what is really important and following your dreams. It ends with this gem: “Your time [...]

With cyclocross season fast approaching, we hope you can join us for our third cyclocross skills practice this Sunday at 6:30 PM, this time at Garrison Park. Being a clinic open to beginners, we’ll tackle the most important skill newbies need to learn: dismounting and remounting the bike. We’ll also be raffling off among participants [...]

This Sunday, we’ll be hosting another cyclocross skills session plus a hot laps practice. Why? Because everyone needs cyclocross practice. As this film from the 2007 World Cyclocross Worlds shows, even the best racers in the world wipe out spectacularly. Of course if it can happen to the pros, it can happen to us mere [...]

One of my pet peeves when I am talking to a non-cyclist is the question “So, are you ever going to ride the Tour de France?” I understand that in America the overuse of the phrase “Tour de ___” by innumerable charity and century rides has diluted the idea of the TdF, but really? I [...]

This story just off the wire actually goes beyond awesome. Arturas Zuokas, the Mayor of the Lithuanian town of Vilnius, has a message for inconsiderate motorist who park in bike lanes: park elsewhere or see your car become the victim of a monster truck show. Zuokas took to an armored troop carrier and crushed a [...]

Cycle Chic is a movement started by such sites as Copenhagen Cycle Chic and Amsterdamize to show fashionably dressed people on bikes in order to, as Copenhagenize’s Mikael Colville-Andersen says, “show the bicycle as part of the Good Life.” Spandex, helmets, and logo bestrewed bikes are out. High heels, suits, and simple, upright Dutch bikes [...]