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April 29, 2013 Statement by League of American Bicyclists: When U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced his departure, the bicycling community asked the White House to appoint a successor with a clear commitment to multi-modal solutions to local transportation challenges. Mayor Anthony Foxx clearly checks those boxes. Under his leadership, Charlotte has invested in light [...]

Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx was recently nominated to be the new United States Secretary of Transportation By JOHN SCHWARTZ New York Times May 13, 2013 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dan Mauney keeps misplacing his car. Mr. Mauney, 42, lives in an apartment tower in this city’s Uptown neighborhood, a pedestrian-friendly quarter with new office buildings, sparkling [...]

The only thing cyclists like more than cycling is categorizing ourselves. Credit: Bikeyface  

LA’s smart advertising campaign is cool. Why not make it better? Lose the (vague, confusing and useless) “share the road” bit (ugh), clarify why a cyclist may need to take the lane, slap on a DelDOT logo and here’s what we could have in Delaware for billboards and bus ads:       What do [...]

I saw this on the Alliance for Biking and Walking‘s Facebook page. It had about 100 likes and I decided to steal it:

Photo credit: Vespertine   I was wow’d by the vendors at the National Women’s Bike Forum displaying a wide variety of apparel for women. No black spandex there! Instead there were stylish safety “vests” in shocking pink, orange or green with reflective edging, and sparkles. There were bike helmets that looked like hats, or that [...]

Are you tired of working to support expensive cars? Are you worried about that next payment? Are you worried about the future of your health and gaining weight? Keep those fears at a distance. Get rich with your bike! http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/04/18/get-rich-with-bikes/

This doesn’t have much to-do with cycling transportation, but its fun to learn about how your bike is made. Its never been something I wondered about. Yet after watching this video I want to know more.

From Grant Petersen’s ”Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike“: By Grant Petersen One of the problems with becoming a serious bike rider is that you stop going for short rides because somewhere along the line it sinks in – falsely – that a ride you don’t have to suit up for doesn’t [...]

From Grant Petersen’s ”Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike“: By Grant Petersen A firm attachment to the pedals was helpful in the early days of bike racing, when all bikes had fixed gears (no freewheel, no coasting) and the gears were low by today’s standards. Then, once the racers got up to [...]

From Grant Petersen’s ”Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike“: By Grant Petersen Underwear isn’t even a topic among bike riders, because most serious American riders don’t wear it – they wear bike shorts instead. I say, wear underwear – even if it’s cotton. That goes against a powerful rumor mill that considers [...]

2012 Look Back: This article was originally published on April 3, 2012.  It was the most viewed Bike Delaware article of 2012. Source: convoy.tumblr.com via Randi on Pinterest

By DAVID DERBYSHIRE 15 June 2007 Daily Mail When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his favourite fishing haunt without adult supervision. Fast forward to [...]

Featured in UK’s Cycling Weekly – By Chris Sidwells — This is a British magazine, and although this is a list of things that changed cycling as a whole, we kick off with something that changed cycling in this country, and probably changed it forever. Cycling was already on the way up in the UK. [...]

It needed 66.67% (2/3rds) to pass.  But it got 66.53%. A measure to double Alameda County‘s transportation sales tax to a full 1 cent and use the proceeds to fund a variety of transportation improvements, including over $600 million dollars dedicated to walking and bicycling,  came agonizingly close to passage, but ultimately failed at the [...]

Featured in the Wilmington News Journal – A man rides his bike in the rains from Hurricane Sandy on A Street at North Walnut Monday morning. Lewes residents ride their bikes to get a first-hand look at Hurricane Sandy as they roll through the flooded street on Savannah Road. If this doesn’t prove the importance [...]

By Michael Jackson, Director of Bicycle Access, MDOT – This is to ask assistance from Bike Delaware, and Bike Maryland, and from our Eastern Shore representative from MBPAC, as well as Cecil County residents to review and offer comments to the draft Cecil County Bicycle Master Plan. Due to the proximity of Cecil County to [...]

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By Tony Pezone, Former President of Sussex Cyclists: “In the entire 9 years that I was President of Sussex Cyclists, we were at odds (with a few exceptions) with DelDOT; in that time we achieved very little in facilities (until the new Indian River Inlet bridge with wide bike lanes). Several years ago I wrote [...]

Cross-posted from Neuvation Cycling… The only good news is that the front wheel escaped pretty much unscathed.  I suppose I could post this photo on squirrel infested roads but somehow don’t think they would notice.  [More ...]   Poster’s note:  I had the exact same thing happen in 1988, with 36 spoke wheels. Others have [...]

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By CHRISTOPHER B. LEINBERGER Published in the New York Times May 25, 2012 Until the 1990s, exclusive suburban homes that were accessible only by car cost more, per square foot, than other kinds of American housing. Now, however, these suburbs have become overbuilt, and housing values have fallen. Today, the most valuable real estate lies [...]

Andy Barrows, chair of the Sussex Cyclists Club Jersey Committee, has announced that the new design has been selected.  Based on input from club members, Andy and her team have worked with Primal Custom Apparel to design a Jersey that reflects our unique position in Southern Delaware. The Jersey incorporates the “Blue Heron” symbol of [...]

“I am glad they made it here safely. It was a safety risk,”  – School’s Principal mLive, WALKER, MI -– Sabrena Hall and more than 60 other Kenowa Hills High School seniors are upset that a bike ride to school this morning got them suspended on the last day of school, and banned from the [...]

Special feature from Sightline Daily – By Christine Grant – Traveling the world’s great bicycle cities, I fell in love with cycling. The ease, safety, convenience… (dreamy sigh) But as my six-month love affair came to an end, I began to realize the reason for my infatuation: cities like those in Denmark and Holland simply [...]

  Our good friends at the Wilmington Bicycle Advisory Committee have launched a preliminary webpage with the City of Wilmington. To quote Chairman Mike Leventry, “Our webpage is REALLY BASIC – but now exists at: www.bikewilmington.org. It is a work in progress.” The Wilmington Bicycle Advisory Committee (WBAC) was created by the Mayor James M. [...]

Neighboring NJ is picking up speed, one municipality and county at a time – Mobilizing the Region — It was a banner week last week for sustainable transportation advocates in New Jersey.  Both Essex and Mercer Counties approved Complete Streets policies joining Monmouth County to become the second and third counties in New Jersey to adopt [...]

  We’re the Better World Club, and we will soon be offering one of the first bike insurance policies in the United States. We provide the only nationwide roadside assistance for bicycles. We also donate money to environmental cleanup and advocacy, and support the development of alternative transit (most recently, we’ve been involved in the [...]