Tag: Biking - Page 13
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More Bike News: David Suzuki on Bike Lanes, The Guardian On Toronto's War on Bikes
David Suzuki weighs in on bike lanes in Huffington Post Canada: Most arguments against bike lanes are absurd. Consider this: We have wide roads everywhere to accommodate cars, most of which carry only one person. On
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When an 81 Year Old Driver Kills An 84 Year Old Cyclist, Why Do They Blame The Victim?
The Toronto media went insane last month when a cyclist hit a pedestrian and injured her; (see The War On Bikes In Toronto Just Got A Poster Child) Suddenly everyone was calling for licensing of bikes, mandatory insurance and testing.
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Bike Sharing: Saves Lives, Cuts Carbon Emissions
It's no longer big news when a European city gets a new bike share program, unless they do it bigger, better, or with a technical innovation that hasn't been seen before. It is newsworthy,
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Free "Tour de Fashion" Designer Bikes Coming to New York Fashion Week
The Fashion Center is outfitting New York City with "Tour de Fashion," a fleet of thirty bicycles customized by the city's top designers just in time for Fashion Week.
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Drivers Beware! Park in the Bike Lane in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Your Car May Get Crushed By a Tank
Screenshot from YouTube. Though bad driver behavior in Vilnius, Lithuania, hasn't quite reached Moscow-like levels yet, Mayor Arturas Zuokas had gotten sick and tired of cars parking illegally in the capital's bike lanes. While other city officials
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Copenhagenizing Has Another Name: The Slow Bike Movement
We have talked about "Copenhagenizing", Mikael Colville-Anderson's term for learning to ride bikes like they do in Copenhagen, in street clothes, at a comfortable pace, usually without a helmet. Andrew Sullivan points us to the
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Cycling Across Scandinavia: Making Design Choices For A Sustainable City
What can Canadian cyclists say about Gothenburg? If Gothenburg had a Canadian city doppelgänger it
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Brompton Dock Is A Different Kind of Bikeshare System
TreeHuggers will be familiar with bikeshare programs like the Vélib or the Bixi, where durable city bikes are borrowed from and returned to docking stations. These systems are not without their problems, including often not
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Sneak Peek! Designing The Utility Bike of The Future (Video)
A lot of fancy futuristic bicycle designs have garnered TreeHugger posts. We all want to know what the future will bring in terms of cooler features and entirely novel forms. You'll notice, though, that most of those future-oriented bicycle ideas sport
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World Naked Bike Ride in NYC Protests Car Culture and Body Shame (Photos)
Sunday was a big day in New York City. It was the first day of legalized gay marriage, so there was plenty of celebrating going on in the streets. And to add to things, a horde of scantily clad, even naked cyclists
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10 Firefighters Cycle From LA to NYC to Honor 9-11 Victims and Raise Money for Charity
On Sunday, a team of ten firefighters pulled out of a fire station in downtown Los Angeles, but not in a fire engine, and not in response to an emergency call. They were all on bicycles, and at the
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Cycling Across Scandinavia: Après Moi, Le Déluge
Leaving Copenhagen hurts. And it is not just because we're abandoning the most livable big city I
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Bike Nation to Ford Nation: "We Just Want To Share"
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was elected on a platform of "Respect For Taxpayers", but that hasn't stopped him from spending $400,000 of taxpayers money to rip up bike lanes that are purported to be slowing traffic. Last night,
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Cycling Across Scandinavia: You Don't Have To Be A Starchitect Ambulance Chaser To Be Impressed
In our search for some kind of Grand Tour enlightenment, the first lesson we learn is that in
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A New "Lost Generation" Cycles Across Scandinavia To Understand North America
Toronto, a city rated as one of the most livable in the world by The
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Hiplok: A Wearable Bike Lock That's Not Just For Tattooed Hipsters
The weight of a bike lock is inversely proportional to the weight of your bike, and directly proportional to the cost. They are also a pain to store on the bike, and I often sling my heavy duty cable lock across my shoulders; No
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'Carmageddon' Puts Bikes Front And Center In L.A.
It's a rare event, and hard to resist for any cyclist or skater - a 10-mile stretch of I-405 in Southern California from Highway 10 to Highway 101 is going to be closed this weekend for 53 hours in order for construction crews to widen the roadway and
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Unbelievable Mongolia Unicycle Tour is "Half as Difficult as Biking" (Slideshow)
If you ever shied away from the challenge of a long distance bike trip, well here's a trip that really isn't for the faint of heart -- or the unskilled.
