Archive for October, 2009
BICAS Party at the Hut this Saturday! Tom Walbank! Fire! Beer!
You can also support BICAS and buy raffle tickets by using the link below. I will fill out your raffle ticket(s) for you and submit them for the drawing, and let you know if you win.
–Erik Ryberg
Read More..>>Win this bike! Help BICAS!
BICAS, Tucson’s amazingly cool bike co-op, is celebrating its twentieth birthday party this weekend and among the many things going on that day they are raffling off this brand-new Mercurio Cargo bike, formerly available only in Mexico.
All you have to do to win this beauty is to buy a raffle ticket for six bucks (or [...]
Read More..>>Two injured in Oro Valley after elderly driver hits them in the bike lane
This is all I know. It is from an e-mail from Mindy Blake to Jean Gorman:
Cyclist hit in OV
8:45 a.m. fri.
Happened at Calle Buena Vista south of Calle Concordia. An 85 year old woman hit two bicyclists who were in the bike [...]
BB’s Vholdr bike-cam
In case you missed this in the comments section, check out the bike videos reader BB makes.
Commutes from be bah on Vimeo.
BB uses this camera to make these videos. More on the Vholdr camera equipment here.
Cool, eh?
–Erik Ryberg
20,000 people attend Budapest Critical Mass “Fashion ride”
So says Copenhagen Cycle Chic.
This Critical Mass had a less agro attitude than ours tend to — they stopped at lights, for example. I can hardly imagine what 20,000 riders must look like, but I’d sure like to see it some day.
Our own Tuesday Night Bike Ride had 215 riders this week, or about [...]
Tucson Dep’t of Transportation’s Platinum Fourth Avenue solution: get off and walk
In response to my concerns about bike safety on the Broadway approach to Fourth Avenue, TDOT Director Jim Glock says: get off and walk.
Concerns about bike accessibility at 4th ave underpass
Recent improvements to the 4th Avenue underpass are another example of how the city is making it easier to get around town. But some say [...]