Posts Tagged ‘dallas’

The seller seems to be in Dallas, but if you just gotta get your own personal pedicab to give all your friends rides in, fork over $700 and this baby could be yours! Not every day you see a pedicab for sale hiding amongst all the ads for “vintage” Huffys.
Is this thing up to snuff [...]

Bike Friendly Oak Cliff has an interview with Boston’s Bike Coordinator, Nicole Freedman. Guess what? They’re installing bike lanes like crazy up there, trying to catch up with other cities.
For even more National Bike Summit news, look no further than D.C.’s own TheWashCycle, which reports on the free sessions and speeches.
The Bicycle Advocacy and Safety [...]

Rob D’Amico writes in support of the Lady Bird Lake Hike & Bike Trail extension at the Bicycle Austin Blog. We will have a bit on this soon too.
The blog for cleaning product Grease Monkey Wipes posted a bit about Lance’s bike being stolen, just as we did on Sunday. Anyone else quite surprised that [...]

Hi all, and Happy New Year to everyone. It’s that time again, to share the latest bike news from bloggers I’ve been reading.
Locally, there are two items of note. First, Rob D’Amico at the Bicycle Austin Blog suggests the city’s Transportation User Fee have the option of supporting cycling projects. Good idea! In the past, [...]

State Bicycle Survey Reveals Danger Concerns, Cycling Perceptions, University of Texas
Bicyclists in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio are more concerned with being involved in vehicle crashes compared to bicyclists in other Texas cities, according to a survey conducted by the Center for Transportation Research at The University of Texas at Austin.
Midtown Bike Center makes “most [...]

Passion.
That is the common word I heard from everyone I interviewed at the first Texas Custom Framebuilder’s Show in Fricso this last Saturday. It was obvious from all my discussion that no one gets into custom frame building for the money. It is an often hand to mouth affair that many must hold a day [...]

I made it up and back to Frisco (waaaay north Dallas) on Saturday to visit the Texas Custom Framebuilder’s show, the first show of fine makers of hand built bikes in the state of Texas. And I made it there and back without killing my children (always a positive.)
Below is a slide show of pictures [...]

Some news of interest to urban and commuter cyclists:
City’s bike plan has more than commuters in mind, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Getting with the (bike) program, Vancouver Sun
Oberstar Forum Features Germany Bike City Mayor, Minnesota Trails
The Cycle Pad: Fort Collins landlord creates cycle pad to encourage biking over driving, Fort Collins Now
Despite Cool Weather, Bike Sales Still [...]

I’m a little bleary eyed today as I’ve spent the last 24 hours making up for all the time I’m not been in a car the last several months.
Yesterday, Marcus and I went on a business road trip to the Dallas area that put us in a car for 9 hours. Blah. They we had [...]