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Month: January, 2008

Group bike ride part of Duke’s Focus the Nation festivities

Focus the Nation is a national effort calling for greater action, education, and awareness of global warming. From their website… Focus the Nation will culminate January 31st, 2008 in simultaneous educational symposia held across the country. Our intent is to move America beyond fatalism to a determination to face up to this civilizational challenge, the [...]

Local “Bike Man” makes national news, again

Lewis Days, Durham’s “Bike Man,” has been profiled by the Herald Sun (see bottom of this post), Bicycling magazine, and now ABC World News. Dec. 21, 2007 Lewis H. Days, 74, is a hero to kids in his Durham, N.C., neighborhood, and one boy gave him a nick name that stuck — Bike Man. “If [...]

Durham’s unique bike racks — the first in a series

Frank Hyman won’t let Columbia, SC show up Durham. So, when I posted a photo of a bad ass bike rack I saw down there, he wrote in to remind me of the Biker Bar. In his own words… (edit: this at 101 E. Geer St) photo courtesy of Frank Hyman Called “The Biker Bar”, [...]

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NC DOT vs the people of Durham

UPDATE: I later wrote a Herald Sun Op-Ed on this issue.  Other Durham bloggers have weighed in on the Alston Avenue widening project problem — Gary, Kevin, Barry, and Michael — and they have each noted very good reasons why NC DOT’s steamroller needs to be stopped. I’ll add one more: accountability in governance. On [...]

The Outspokin’ Cyclist: Durham man to pedal for peace across Israel

Phillip Barron The Herald Sun When Martin Luther King said that true peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice, he had in mind the idea that lasting, real peace is possible only when we actively take responsibility for it. Marv Axelrod is tired of hearing promises of peace [...]

Amtrak bike train?

Larry Lagarde over at RideThisBike.com is in the initial stages of discussing a Bike Train with Amtrak, and he’s surveying the country for feasible locations. He says – Last summer, Canada’s ViaRail ran a pilot Bike Train with space for 56 unboxed, fully assembled bikes from Toronto to Niagara Falls. The service was such a [...]

bad ass bike rack

Bike rack in a shopping plaza parking lot, Columbia, SC.

ATT ride on Durham Bull Pen

Durham Bull Pen, a new Durham blog, has up a photo essay of a January bike ride down the American Tobacco Trail. Take a look.

Al Gore, stay where you are

In his December column for The Guardian, George Monbiot reminds us that Al Gore represented the United States at the Kyoto Protocol talks — you know, the major international summit on governments’ responsibilities to address global warming. The ones before Bali. The first ones that failed to reach any hard goals – The European Union [...]