Posts Tagged ‘city’

This may be good news or bad news depending on your point of view about such things, but yes, we’ve made another list of cities for young, hip, urban, blah blah blah, etc… this one is from Next Generation Consulting,and is their ranking of “Hotspots for Young Professionals.” We’re number 6 in the “large city” [...]

Thinking about trying bike commuting but don’t know where to start?
Bicycle Sport Shop has put together a series of classes this month that can help you figure out what to get, how to dress, road rules and more.
Tonight’s class from 6pm-7pm held at both store locations is a general introduction to commuting. It will cover [...]

It’s been nearly 24 hours since I asked our readers to put their two cents in on our next long-term test vehicle.  So far the Trek Soho is in the lead with three votes. Here are the bikes that have also gotten votes:
Strida folding bike – yep this would be interesting. I dunno if I [...]

Back in August, we purchased an Azor Secret Service handmade Dutch bicycle from the Seattle Dutch Bike Company. We’ve written several reviews of the bike and its accoutrements since we got it, and have ridden the bike quite a bit to events and as a general commuting and car-replacement bike.
The Azor is a great bike, [...]

Thursday I recieved the May issue of Bicycling Magazine – or at least I think I did. Sure, it had the same old cover showing a muscled, smiling racer that this Marketeer of everything carbon and spandex usually features (in fact I think all Bicycling covers feature the same racer, or at least it seems [...]

Sorry to start the roundup with sad news, but 52-year-old Burleson County cyclist Donald Nelson was killed last Monday outside of Caldwell. On Wednesday, a six-year-old was run over by an SUV in Dallas. Which vehicle is the dangerous one again?
Rob D’Amico reports in a “virus-induced fog” (his words, guess I’ll trust him that he [...]

Summary: A look at the growing urban bike culture in the United States and Europe, with a special emphasis on the personalities involved.
Rating: 5/5
Availability: Order it from Powell’s if you want to feel authentic. Otherwise you could go for the usual, Amazon.
“I often saw cyclists running red lights, riding the wrong direction on one-way streets, [...]

NPR covered Spain’s high-speed rail network recently in comparison to ours, which is obviously WAY behind. So far behind as in not really there at all (unless you count Amtrak’s Acela service in the northeast, which is kinda-sorta-high-speed in some places and at some times because our tracks suck).
It’s worth a listen, especially considering President [...]

Building the Cause for Change, Bike Friendly Oak Cliff
In a sad revelation, Beth noted a conversation with Dallas Bike Co-Ordinator PM Summer, where he stated, “As long as I’m the Bike Coordinator for the city, Dallas will never have on-street bike lanes”.
Bicycle on METRO light rail; your emails & attendance needed again, Bicycle Commute Houston
Please [...]

CityRacks Design Competition Winner, NY City Racks Competition
The design of Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve (Bettlelab), based in Copenhagen, Denmark, was selected as the first-place winner in the outdoor competition that attracted over 200 entrants from around the world.
Product Review: Blackburn X4, Jack and Adam’s Bicycles Blog
With the loss of light associated with this [...]