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Month: September, 2007

October Critical Mass — 5:35 on the 4th

One week from today, Critical Mass Durham continues. Just to get you warmed up… Thanks to Tino for originally spotting the video. Meet at Major, the bronze bull in the CCB plaza (can we come up with a better name for the CCB plaza since CCB isn’t any longer the owner of the tall building?) [...]

Strong Bad’s bike theft prevention tips

upgrades in progress

Pardon the mess until the work is complete. Thanks for your patience.

Durham Police sponsor Bike Rodeo

Saturday, Oct. 13 at the Teer House, the Durham Police Department will host a Bike Rodeo. From 10AM to noon, kids ages 6 through 13 can practice their skills navigating an obstacle course and learn more about bicycle safety. To ride, kids need to bring their own bike and be accompanied by a parent or [...]

Cycling and advocacy in Boston

Below is a well-produced video highlighting some of the immediate dangers of cycling in Boston, recommending simple starter solutions.

Hallowheels — a new alleycat in Raleigh

The folks over at 1304 Bikes (Raleigh’s counterpart to the Durham Bike Co-op) are organizing a new alleycat. And it looks like it will have a Halloween theme. See below for more details, and email Chris if you can help out. hey everyone! as some of you may know, I’m setting up another alleycat race [...]

Traffic congestion getting worse for Triangle

The Texas Transportation Institute‘s (TTI) statisticians have confirmed what common sense and simple observation have told most of us already — that traffic congestion in the Triangle gets worse every year. What their mathematically blessed reports add to our collective understanding is that congestion in the Triangle is worse than it is in other similarly-sized [...]

the politics of fear

Robo-Stith tries to drum up fear in Durham. Thoughtful analysis on Stith’s campaign here and here.

Critical success!

Thanks to the 80+ beautiful people who turned out tonight, Durham’s first Critical Mass in years was a success. I don’t know how it was throughout the pack, but in the back, it was calm, courteous, and yet powerful. Thanks to all of you for making it happen. If any of you have photos or [...]

The Outspokin’ Cyclist: Don’t fret, downtown getting bike racks

Phillip Barron The Herald Sun Durham Rising brought a lot of people downtown on Saturday — 12,000 by some estimates. A surprising (yes, even to me) number of those folks were cyclists. So, if you walked around downtown at all that day, you surely had to step around some of their bikes. There wasn’t a [...]