Apparently Obama was riding along a Martha’s Vineyard trail with no helmet, and the bare-headed ride was caught by a photographer. Not a very good example to set… No-helmet Obama Let’s hope no one hits a pothole. While Sasha Obama (yellow shirt) and another girl have enough sense to wear helmets, it appears President Barack Obama [...]
I got a call last week from my mom who wanted advice about bikes. Be still my beating heart! My folks, riding bikes! Over the weekend, I received this cell phone pic… a new Trek Pure (lime green) for my mom and Trek Navigator for my dad. They’ve already ridden around the neighborhood several times [...]
Now that Google’s done mapping and photographing all the important streets in the world, they’re turning their attention to the auto-free zones. Now Google Maps is expanding to biking and hiking trails. A Google employee on a tricycle rides around to snap the same wide-area views. “Much of the world is inaccessible to the car,” [...]
In preparation for the 2009 Bull Moon Ride, Durham Habitat for Humanity is hosting a potluck dinner and a chance to view a classic cycling film. Roxanne Hall and Peter Anlyan send out this note to the Durham cycling community… Breaking Away (IMDB page at link) Oscar winner for Best writing, Best actress and Best [...]
No, not the penile Tour de France, the penal Tour de France. Nearly 200 inmates in French prisons will participate this year in the inaugural bicycle tour of the French countryside, designed and run only for prison inmates. The 194 inmates, escorted by 124 prison guards and sports instructors, will set off from Lille and [...]
The uncomfortable truth about the everyday meeting place for automobiles and bicycles is that we both share the same width of road, despite a significant discrepancy in power, weight, and protection from the environment. The very same feat of civil engineering that makes road biking so pleasant (smooth pavement) facilitates distracted drivers continuing the culturally [...]
Who knows, “protect and serve” might mean changing your tire the next time you flat. h/t to Dale McKeel who pointed this out on the durhambikeandped listserv.
Standing Start, a 12-minute documentary short-film on track bicycle racing, uses narration adapted from Homer’s The Odyssey to frame the significance of training, pursuit, and competition. Like Douglas Gordon’s Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait, this riveting film from the Scottish Documentary Institute looks at the some of life’s larger questions through an intimate and aesthetic [...]
Like the good folks over at the Independent, I too have recently been reading Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody, a collection of arguments and vignettes on the power of the Internet. The salient point that the Indy picked up on is how, by abolishing the high costs of printing, publishing, and distributing information, the Internet [...]