Posts Tagged ‘Bicycle for Transportation’

This weekend, the Oregon Manifest kicked off with their Oregon Manifest Constructors Challenge contest and race. The Oregon Manifest, their hand built bike show, has expanded this year from a long weekend highlighting local builders to a six week celebration of all things bicycle related. The schedule of events puts our annual Bike Month celebration [...]

This article is is the final part of a series I’ve been writing about my experience taking a two week bicycle frame building class in December from master framebuilder, Doug Fattic.
Two weeks somehow became three and a half months. Back in December, I spent two weeks learning the trade of framebuilding from Doug Fattic in [...]

Late last week, the blog Bicycle Design released the finalists for its competition to design a new commuter bike for the masses. The winner of this contest will win a Cannondale Bad Boy Disc.
It’s a pretty cool idea to see what the general cycling populace would come up with it they could design a bike. [...]

And little of this is coming from the bike industry
Being the consumer driven society we are in America, television commercials often seem to be the cutting edge on the latest trends in the national conscience (One can argue they book end trends based on the number of super-duty pickup truck ads I still see.) We [...]

I just found this great video below of a cyclist buzzing by a ridiculously long line of cars waiting to fill up at a gas station in Atlanta. 
So, I don’t know what is more comical, that people would see no other option other than wait in line for hours to feed their metal and rubber [...]

I’m writing this on an iPhone so I’ll be brief. I spent the afternoon walking around downtown Portland, and everthing about this city is set up to support cycling and encourage people to use bikes for transportation.
From bike paths to the airport, to hooks and space for bikes on trains, to bike boxes and covered [...]

This article is part of a series we are writing on getting started biking for transportation. Articles include:

Taking the Plunge
Picking a bike for everyday transportation
Putting it all together: The accessories you need to successfully bike for transportation
Locking Your Bike: Will your bike (and wheels for that matter) still be there when you return?
Biking Safely in [...]