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• These cycling jerseys send a message to drivers

  
  Biking Bis - Bicycle Touring and More — Authority: 475
  Theres a jersey up ahead. Its being worn by a guy who is riding the greatest invention of all time -- the bicycle.  Emblazoned across the back is a message. More like a slogan. "SHARE THE DAMN ROAD" The motorist is confused. Is it meant to humor him or taunt him? Is he having a good day or a lousy day? ...
  6 days ago

• Springfield Advocacy News

  
  Carbon Trace — Authority: 126
  The STAR Team meeting this week hosted two guest speakers. Springfield City Manager Greg Burris brought his “listening tour” to the meeting. He’s been meeting with civic groups to get a picture of how citizens envision the future of Springfield. He said he hopes to meet with 40 to 50 groups during the tour. ...
  1 week ago

• Signs of the times for bicycling

  
  Biking Bis - Bicycle Touring and More — Authority: 475
  Didnt Bob Dylan sing "...the signs, they are a-changin"? Maybe not, but I couldnt get that song out of my head when I read at Bike Portland that the feds were establishing new guidelines for signs and road markings that included changes that effect bike riders. While some of the improvements deal with freeway signs ...
  1 week ago

• Bicycle Friendly Springfield Tops 500

  
  Carbon Trace — Authority: 126
  Christopher McNeese reports this morning that Bicycle Friendly Springfield group on Facebook has just reached 500 members — all  in just a few short weeks. He says the goal is now 1,000 by May. Ozark Greenways also has a Facebook page now with 266 fans so far. Getting into this new-fangled social media stuff ...
  1 week ago

• Big jump in Seattle bike commuting the past two years

  
  Biking Bis - Bicycle Touring and More — Authority: 475
  Seattle experienced a 15% increase in bike commuting in the past two years, based on a count conducted in September. Volunteers stationed at 30 locations around the city counted 2,609 bicyclists heading into the core downtown area the morning of Sept. 16. Many of those commuters were using bike lanes, routes and ...
  1 week ago

• An incentive to ride a bike or dangerous obstruction?

  
  Biking Bis - Bicycle Touring and More — Authority: 475
  Bruce Friedland A bicycling buddy saw this beer truck blocking a bike lane while he was visiting in New York recently and sent me the picture, entitling it, "An Incentive to Ride a Bike." Ill agree there have been times on a long, hot bike ride that the mirage of a truck carrying ice-cold beers dancing before my ...
  1 week ago

• Nice boondoggle

  
  CycleDog — Authority: 120
  From the League of American Bicyclists blog: December 11. League President Andy Clarke heads off to Copenhagen next week as an official observer to reinforce the need for national, state and local governments to include cycling as an integral part of a sustainable transport strategy – which Copenhagen ...
  2 weeks ago

• With cycling mainstreaming, bad press will get worse

  
  Quickrelease.tv — Authority: 106
  Famously, Oscar Wilde once said: “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”For many years, cyclists in the UK and the US have not been talked about. We’ve been an invisble minority. Ignorable. The foregone conclusion was that once the last die-hard cyclists shuffled off this mortal ...
  2 weeks ago

• Where to find bike commuters in Bellevue

  
  Biking Bis - Bicycle Touring and More — Authority: 475
  Where and when are you most likely to find bicycle riders in Bellevue, Washington? Its the I-90 bike trail in the Enatai neighborhood. According to the Pedestrian and Bicycle Count Report taken on Sept. 29, bicycle commuters come through there at the rate of 2 per minute between 4 and 6 p.m., and at about 1 per ...
  2 weeks ago

• Creating bicycling bliss in Copenhagen

  
  Biking Bis - Bicycle Touring and More — Authority: 475
  As the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen draws to a close, some journalists took advantage of a bike tour through the city on Thursday offered by the Cycling Embassy of Denmark. The description by one reporter at the Telegraph makes the city sound like bicycling heaven: "Despite the drizzle and cold, for ...
  2 weeks ago

• When the going gets tough, try multi-modal

  
  Take the Lane — Authority: 119
  I was grateful for the multi-modal transportation system today, when I had to get out of my nice, warm bed and trek downtown to the autobody guy to reclaim our car. It needed some crease-removal after a motorist in Toronto left us a gift without leaving a name so we could call and thank him/her. If you saw the news ...
  2 weeks ago

• Detecting bike riders at stop lights by video

  
  Biking Bis - Bicycle Touring and More — Authority: 475
  Does this annoyance sound familiar to you? You pedal your bicycle up to a traffic light and sit there waiting for it to change. If it uses a trigger mechanism installed in the blacktop, you could sit there a very long time -- maybe forever if youre riding an aluminum or carbon bike. Eventually you meekly roll over ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hugh Responds to Concerns About HB1250

  
  Carbon Trace — Authority: 126
  Members of the STAR Team of Ozark Greenways received the following e-mail yesterday (published here with permission) from Brent Hugh, executive director of the Missouri Bicycle Federation , regarding the HB 1250 . Hugh had originally alerted us to the bill. His message is in response to our inquiries and comments. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Does this pic shout ‘cycling is joyous’?

  
  Quickrelease.tv — Authority: 106
  This is my boy, Josh. He loves bikes, which is a distinct advantage in the Reid household. The pic was taken on a family bike tour a couple of years ago. I’ve entered it into a US bike advocacy competition, run by the Alliance of Biking and Walking. If you like the pic, please consider [...]‘’
  2 weeks ago

• Secure bicycle parking at Bellevues bike station

  
  Biking Bis - Bicycle Touring and More — Authority: 475
  Its always gratifying to learn that your hometown is making progress toward bicycle friendliness. Thats why I was happy to learn that Bellevue, Washington, has joined Seattle and Redmond by opening a bike station. Its housed inside Bellevues Commute Connection at the Transit Center on Sixth Street. That Commute ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bicycling: the best part of your day

  
  Take the Lane — Authority: 119
  I just saw the latest in the Nissan Sentra "best part of your day" ad campaign: the poor, blighted office worker caught in a giant hamster wheel of his life, freeing himself only when he climbs into his car to drive away from the office. First, if someones home, work and life are so monotonous that driving a car is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Changing how young women look at bicycling

  
  Biking Bis - Bicycle Touring and More — Authority: 475
  While researchers say that risk is a big issue that keeps women off bicycles on the road, a documentary comes to grip with another problem of perception -- its just not cool. Says one of the subjects in a UK documentary about young women on bikes:  "I thought it was just a little kids thing." A study published in ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Drivers Think

  
  Carbon Trace — Authority: 126
  Don’t you just love a headline that promises more than it can deliver? But what I’m about to do is something of a thought experiment in second-person voice. I’m imagining the following scenario based on my own experiences as a driver (for more on how drivers think, I suggest reading the How We Drive blog ...
  3 weeks ago

• What Is a Safe Passing Distance?

  
  Carbon Trace — Authority: 126
  I don’t know — in any absolute terms. I do know that I like the choices 23 Springfield drivers made today while I ran errands in the urban core. What follows is anecdotal and should not be considered the basis for any decision regarding House Bill 1250 to create a “3-foot law” in Missouri. I urge Carbon ...
  3 weeks ago

• I Want More Than Three Feet

  
  Carbon Trace — Authority: 126
  On my bicycle, riding through the streets of Springfield, Missouri, I am a legal vehicle in the road. If the road is sharable (wide enough for a car to pass a bicyclist safely in the lane), then I am obligated by law in this state to ride as far to the right as is safe to do. That doesn’t mean riding in the gutter. ...
  3 weeks ago

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