Reader Seth tipped me off to this great cycling comic, Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery. From the website, “Yehuda Moon lives on his bicycle, works at the Kickstand Cyclery, and dreams of a day when everyone does likewise.” I identify with the strip from March 17th (pictured above), as people always ask me why [...]
Photo credit: 1304bikes collective, via Flickr Ghost Bike installed in the location Nancy Antoine Leidy was struck and killed by a truck on April 23. http://wral.com/news/local/story/2782676/ http://www.newsobserver.com/news/crime_safety/story/1048288.html http://www.ghostbikes.org/ “Ghost Bikes are small and somber memorials for bicyclists who are killed or hit on the street. A bicycle is painted all white and locked to a [...]
From the BPAC website… Celebrate National Bike to Work Week (May 12-16) with the Durham Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission. On Wednesday, May 14, there will be a “Cyclists’ Social” at Tyler’s Taproom Restaurant in the American Tobacco complex, 324 Blackwell St. from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. with free food and giveaways for cyclists. [...]
The request… The results… Are we sure they’ve found it? Isn’t Duke University’s Campus Drive bike lane a contender?
Bull City Bicycles is a project I’ve been working on for close to a year now. Digging through archives for photographs and history on Durham’s cycling community, I stumbled upon H. Lee Waters. Waters was a studio photographer from Lexington, NC in the early part of the 20th century. During the Great Depression, he shuttered [...]
In French Revolutions, British comic author Tim Moore lays out the case why drug use will never cease to be a part of cycling: simply put, it’s been there from the beginning. To Moore, the history of the Tour de France is the history of drug use in cycling. And early on, that drug use [...]
Music: Indra, by Thievery Corporation
The design firm hired by the City of Durham to design a bicycle and pedestrian bridge over I-40 is hosting their second public meeting. Even though the bridge over I-40 is approximately only 200 linear feet of the overall four miles being added to the American Tobacco Trail in Phase E, the bridge is the [...]
After profiling Hampton Dellinger, a candidate for Lieutenant Governor, as a Bull City Biker, several readers encouraged me to contact Dan Besse. Besse is also a candidate for the second-in-command position, and he has a good reputation in certain bicycling circles for the work he’s done to extend Winston-Salem’s greenway system. I offered to profile [...]