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The Velorution Will Be Incentivized Wisconsin college gives away bikes to students who pledge not to drive		14 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:25 AM on 14 Feb 2008 Photo: iStockphoto Ripon College, a private liberal-arts school in Wisconsin, has launched a program to give new bikes to first-year students who pledge not to bring their cars to campus for the year. Prompted by concerns that the school might have to expand parking lots into green space if the growing student population keeps driving to (and parking at) sc ...
Topics: bikes, education, innovation, news, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Backin' the saddle again British supermarket expands bike-trailer program	Katharine Wroth	09 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Bike to store. Pick up free bike trailer. Fill trailer with groceries. Hitch it up and ride home. Return trailer within three days. That's the dreamy concept at the Waitrose supermarket chain in Jolly Olde Englande, where the free-trailer scheme is being tried out at a handful of stores. Says a department manager, 'There are 60 to 70 bikes outside the shop every lunchtime, so there's a definite market for it. If we can encourage just a few people to cycle rather tha ...
Topics: bikes, consumerism, green living, innovation, shopping, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Technology begets technology Battery technology continues to improve	biodiversivist	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This is my hybrid bike charging at a 7-11 while I ate some lunch. I was hauling a heavy load and had been tormenting another cyclist who had been trying to close a 10-foot gap with me for a couple of miles on Sand Point Way. I took my batteries to their limit of 4.6 amp-hours, so I had to pull out of the dogfight to refuel with 14 miles on the odometer. Yet-Ming Chiang (formerly a researcher at MIT) combined lithium ion technology with nanocarbon particles to ...
Topics: bikes, electric vehicles, energy, hybrids, tech (all these topics)

Pedal power Cyclists should be more involved as biking advocates	Alan Durning	26 Nov 2007	Gristmill
This essay is part of a series on bicycle neglect. ----- Blame me. It's my fault the Northwest does not treat bicycling with respect. How? Bear with me, and I'll explain. Cascadia is, as Washington state legislator Dick Nelson used to say, a 'motorhead democracy' -- a place where licensed drivers substantially outnumber registered voters and where car-head dominates transportation thought and debate. No matter how much good Bicycle Respect would do for our ...
Topics: placemaking, bikes (all these topics)

Bike culture Biking communities thrive in San Francisco and Santa Cruz	Adam Browning	07 Nov 2007	Gristmill
We moved offices earlier this year, and are now a little off the beaten track. To deal with the increased distance, and because I broke my colleague Gwen's foldable bike, I brought in a couple of bikes for the office: a pink Stumpjumper of '80s vintage at a garage sale in Lee Vining, and a more recently minted Hardrock bequeathed by good friend and noted environmental economist Michael Greenstone. This is all to say that I've been biking around San Francisco quite a ...
Topics: bikes, placemaking, Portland, San Francisco, urban planning (all these topics)

Even more of what 'bike friendly' looks like Danish picturebook, Portland video show how to respect bicyclists	Alan Durning	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
What bicycle-respecting streets, intersections, and neighborhoods look like is largely a mystery to most people, even those who cycle regularly. I've offered descriptions twice before. Since then, two wonderful new tools have been completed. StreetFilms.org, the awesome, New York-based outfit that makes movies about cycling, has posted a 30-minute ode to Portland's bikability (linked above). It makes Bicycle Respect visible. (Other, shorter StreetFilms works on P ...
Topics: bikes, Denmark, placemaking, Portland, urban planning (all these topics)

Wheels of fortune Bikeways pay for themselves	Alan Durning	19 Oct 2007	Gristmill
A decade ago, we wrote that the bicycle is one of the world's seven everyday wonders because it's so simple, effective, affordable, and pollution-free. To that list, we might have added 'enriching.' Bicycling for transportation pumps money into local economies. Bikes are wheels of fortune. (Thanks to Flickr photographer hanbyholems for the picture to the right.) If your community spends money building bikeways, you and your neighbors will cycle more. Your cycling wil ...
Topics: bikes, placemaking (all these topics)

All's well that ends sick My brush with medical reality, on a bike	Katharine Wroth	11 Oct 2007	Gristmill
My fella and I have been living a one-car life for the last year, and overall it's going pretty well. Helps that I'm a telecommuter, and helps that we have made the choice to live near a commuter rail and a small but semi-useful downtown. I also succeeded in finding a doctor and a dentist within (loosely defined) walking distance. Which worked really well, on a sunny day, when I was in good health. But this morning, I had to go see my doctor. And it's cold and rai ...
Topics: bikes, green living, health (all these topics)

Bikin' Cities try to help bikers	David Roberts	09 Oct 2007	Gristmill
USA Today says a few American cities are finally, at long last, taking steps to make life easier for bicyclists. This is heartening, I suppose, as far as it goes, but the measures under discussion -- mainly bike lanes and some bike-sharing programs -- are pretty wan. We've got a long, long way to go before biking is a mainstream alternative.
Topics: bikes, placemaking (all these topics)

Safe streets Not pedaling can kill you	Alan Durning	09 Oct 2007	Gristmill
My youngest son had a bike wreck this summer: a driver cut him off on a steep downhill. Peter managed to avoid the car by tumbling over the curb, but the fall inflicted some nasty road rash. It also inspired me to dig into the question of bicycle safety more rigorously than before: Is it safe for Peter to be biking so much? Here's what I learned: Biking is safer than it used to be. It's safer than you might think. It does incur the risk of collision, but its other he ...
Topics: placemaking, bikes (all these topics)

Velib' liberates Paris A Parisian tries out the city's new rent-a-bike program	Jon Rynn	05 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from my sister, Margie Rynn, who has lived in Paris for seven years. ----- It took me awhile to be willing to try Velib', the new rent-a-bike program now available all over the streets of Paris.I love the idea: anyone can pick up a bike at any metro station or anywhere there's a 'borne' (stand) of bikes, ride around for half an hour, and then leave it at any Velib' stand. That first half hour is free, and not only that, the bikes themsel ...
Topics: bikes, France, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

I had a dream Seattle in 2020	biodiversivist	05 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The year was 2020 and Seattle had become the bicycle capital of the world. Visitors lined the streets to learn how we did it. Thanks to global warming, clothing had gone out of style, but thanks to genetic engineering we could alter our skin pigmentation to be any color we wanted. Racism had become a thing of the past and mustaches were popular again.
Topics: bikes, placemaking, Seattle (all these topics)

Russian roulette Expect bicycle deaths in Seattle to climb	biodiversivist	30 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Not good. I happened upon this accident scene a few days ago. Apparently, a right turning truck hit a young bicyclist, killing him instantly. He had been in Seattle for only a few weeks and was the same age as my daughter, who rides a bike on a distant college campus. The sight truly unsettled me and made my bike trip through the heart of downtown more nerve racking than usual. I want to use this tragedy to send a message to our amiable yet bumbling local ...
Topics: bikes, placemaking, Seattle (all these topics)

Sweet 15 Cycling group Critical Mass celebrates 15th anniversary, keeps on pedaling		27 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 11:34 AM on 27 Sep 2007 The cycling group Critical Mass turns 15 years old this month! It all began in San Francisco in September 1992 as a bunch of bike commuters getting together for a ride, and quickly turned into a global cycling phenomenon with chapters in most major cities worldwide, as well as many smaller locales. The last Friday of every month, cyclists gather for a ride, often snarling traffic ...
Topics: bikes, brilliance, news (all these topics)

American Pi New electric bike spiffy but spendy		26 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:14 PM on 26 Sep 2007 The Pi electric bicycle from Electrobike is engineered with cradle-to-cradle design, assembled in California almost entirely from local components, can go 25 miles in motor-only mode before being plugged in, has a recyclable battery, and produces zero emissions, natch. Intrigued? It can soon be yours for a mere $7,500! source:� Los Angeles Times From the Archives You Really Can't Have Too ...
Topics: bikes, green living, news (all these topics)

Folds-mobile Business travel, Bike Friday, and the Spokane airport	Alan Durning	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Confession: I have long coveted a Bike Friday. What cyclist wouldn't? A folding bike that fits in a suitcase -- and the suitcase becomes a bike trailer! Pedal to the airport or train station, take your luggage out of your trailer, fold your bike into the trailer, check your luggage (including your bike), and at trip's end, reverse the process. Ingenious! So I danced a jig when a founder of the Eugene, Ore.-based company offered to let me try the new Tikit model this ...
Topics: bikes, innovation, placemaking, travel (all these topics)

Give me a sign Bike routes need names	Alan Durning	20 Sep 2007	Gristmill
I recently bicycled from Seattle to Bellevue, Washington, across Lake Washington on the I-90 floating bridge. This trip is not complicated. Once you're on the wide, well-shielded bike lane, you'd think that getting to Bellevue would be assured. You'd be wrong. First, you have to get across Mercer Island. On the island, the bike route leaves the freeway and vanishes into a labyrinth of branching paths. They're beautiful bikeways, no doubt: wide, separated from traffic, ...
Topics: bikes, placemaking (all these topics)

China to hold no-car day Residents in over 100 Chinese cities urged to walk, bike, or use public transit this Saturday	Adam Browning	17 Sep 2007	Gristmill
China, once famed as a bicycling nation, tries to put the genie back in the bottle.
Topics: bikes, cars, China, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Wheeling and Dealing U.S. Transportation Secretary blames bikes for decay of roads and bridges		14 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 2:15 PM on 14 Sep 2007 When one rides a bicycle, one is able to transport oneself from place to place -- thus, one might call a bicycle "transportation." But not if one is U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters. Despite the fact that 10 percent of all U.S. trips to work, school, and store happen on bike or foot, Peters said in August that bike paths "are really not transpor ...
Topics: bikes, Department of Transportation, green living, news, placemaking, politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Nerd on nerd communiqu� The real deal on hybrid bike technology	biodiversivist	05 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Got an email yesterday from fellow hybrid bike enthusiast, Larry Blakely. He built a front-wheel drive version of my bike -- and just for kicks, a solar charger to go with it: Things have come together. A Crystalyte 408 front hub motor, a 36-72 volt 40 amp controller, and 6 intact DeWalt batteries (2S3P) get me to town to do errands and return home on about 60% of the battery capacity. A big tip of my helmet to biodiversivist for showing how well this combo works! ...
Topics: bikes, electric vehicles, hybrids, innovation, placemaking, tech (all these topics)

China and the long-distance runner Will bikes or cars win?	Jon Rynn	22 Aug 2007	Gristmill
China has an environmental problem. No, I'm not talking about weathering huge dust storms, opening one coal power plant a week, surpassing the U.S. as the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, or flooding ecosystems with huge dam projects. I'm talking about something serious: If pollution does not get better in Beijing in time for the 2008 Olympics, the long-distance track events may be canceled. According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, 'China's new middle cl ...
Topics: bikes, cars, China, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Move Thyself: Flying objects edition Watch out for that flaming bag of McNuggets	Todd Hymas Samkara	13 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I'm so spoiled now that I live in bike-path-licious Boulder, Colorado. I hardly have to interact with cars anymore when cycling to most points in the city. But just a few weeks ago, before I moved here, I was out there with all the other Colorado cyclists in traffic getting assaulted. Sure, most assaults are verbal and harmless-ish, but then there are the ones that aren't. This article from today's Los Angeles Times leads with a list of one guy's experience in ...
Topics: bikes, cars, placemaking (all these topics)

McHenry thinks bikes, unlike sexual harassment, voter fraud, and war with Iran, are worth condemning Congress' dimmest bulb laughs at bikes	David Roberts	10 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The energy bill just passed by the House contains a provision that would offer a $20 monthly tax rebate to bicycle commuters. When Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) found out, he took to the floor of the House to deliver this speech (via Streetsblog): A major component of the Democrats' energy legislation and the Democrats' answer to our energy crisis is, hold on, wait one minute, wait one minute, it is promoting the use of the bicycle. Oh, I cannot make this s ...
Topics: bikes, dumbassery, energy, politics (all these topics)

Frogs love bikes Paris bike rental scheme takes off	David Roberts	09 Aug 2007	Gristmill
But wait, I thought bikes were impractical! Taxi drivers and other critics said that it would never work, but three weeks after Paris was sprinkled with 10,000 self-service bicycles, the scheme is proving a triumph and a new pedalling army appears to be taming the city's famously fierce traffic. Bertrand Delano�, the city's mayor, and his green-minded administration are jubilant at the gusto with which Parisians and visitors have taken to the heavy grey cycles th ...
Topics: bikes, France, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Word Gets Around New bike, parking policies leave polluting vehicles in the dust		09 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Word Gets Around New bike, parking policies leave polluting vehicles in the dust Now for some wheely good news (sorry, it had to be done): officials around the globe are moving forward on innovative eco-transportation schemes. Last week, the city council of Reykjavik, Iceland, enacted a rule that gives free parking to those who drive fuel-efficient vehicles. In Ontario, Cana ...
Topics: bikes, Canada, cars, energy, France, Iceland, innovation, news, placemaking (all these topics)

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