Archive for November, 2008
Sun Tran responds
I don’t know what any of it means, but Sun Tran responded today to my complaint, which I made over email, last week. Here’s what their spokesperson said:
Dear Mr. Ryberg,
I am writing to you in response to your e-mail regarding the unpleasant experience you had with the Route 8 bus while traveling on Broadway [...]
The death of GM and our future as “a civilized nation”
I’ve spent most of my adult life wishing that General Motors, who brought us the Hummer, would die and go away. Now it appears that day may be upon us, absent a massive bailout paid for by you and me. I’m not very happy about subsidizing their decision to build Hummers while the [...]
Read More..>>Worksman Cycles to be featured on NPR tomorrow, November 15
It’s going to be in the second hour of Weekend Edition. Worksman Cycles is an all-American bicycle manufacturing company that focuses on industrial bikes. Their cruiser-style “Paperboy” bikes are classics. I have one and it is built like a tank. Weighs just less than your average mid-sized tank, too.
But it looks [...]
Bike Swap Tomorrow!
Just a reminder that the GABA bike swap meet is tomorrow. Say hello to TBL while you are making the rounds…and buy my bicycles to help fund my big tour!!!
-lauren
Ain’t that the truth
If you click on the comic it should enlarge in your screen. I wish I could figure out how to make the picture link to the site. It’s from the excellent Yehuda Moon bike-comic at http://www.yehudamoon.com.
–Erik Ryberg
A thought
I was riding with my friend A today when somebody honked at us to move over in a short stretch of road that had construction cones in it. This guy just had to squeeze by us rather than wait for us to get through the brief section of the road that was being repaired. [...]
Read More..>>Regional transportation planners want bicyclists’ input
I am just going to paste the entirety of a message I got from Gabe Thum, rather than try to explain it myself. The gist is that local transportation planners want you to come to a meeting on December 9th and tell them what you want to see in thirty years. Personally, I [...]
Read More..>>Portland Pt. II
Do they do this in Tucson, paint a yellow strip in front of the bike racks so people don’t park there? I’ve been meaning to get down to Fourth Ave. to look there but I’ve been so busy I haven’t had a chance.
Having an opening like this to get into the street might make [...]
All Bikes of Rye, Arizona
Every time I am in the neighborhood, which isn’t very often, I stop off at All Bikes in Rye, Arizona. Rye is sort of near Payson. Not many people live there. The town has a cafe/bar and a bike shop . . . of sorts.
I’d never been there when they were open [...]
Sun Tran again
I was riding my bike down Broadway today at about 2:20 PM when a Sun Tran bus cut me off and scared the hell out of me on the hill descending from downtown, heading east. At the point where the bike route moves across the turning lane the bus roared ahead of me and [...]
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