Archive for the 'imminent death of car-based culture' Category

And the winner is . . .

Posted by Erik on October 12th, 2009 filed in Joie de vivre, imminent death of car-based culture

. . . Lori A of www.throughhikers.blogspot.com, pictured below at last year’s SF Critical Mass Ride, which she happened to stumble into during an epic bike tour of west coast brew pubs.

Congratulations Lori! And thank you to everyone who bought tickets and helped us out. BICAS made lots of money and [...]

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BICAS’s “joyous bicycle dungeon” in the news for its refugee assistance

Posted by Erik on October 6th, 2009 filed in Joie de vivre, imminent death of car-based culture

BICAS got front-page, above-the-fold billing yesterday in the AZ Daily Star for its work to get bicycles — and the knowledge to keep them running — to Tucson’s refugee population. The project is organized by Lutheran Social Services‘ Refugee and Immigration Program, and BICAS was happy to help.
From the article:
Free bikes a big deal [...]

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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 [...]

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Car-free in Motor City

Posted by Erik on July 6th, 2009 filed in Joie de vivre, imminent death of car-based culture, opportunity knocks

Ignacio sent me this op-ed piece from the NYT about biking in our poster-child for post-technological collapse, Detroit.
ONE night a little over a year ago, crossing Woodward Avenue, I crashed my bicycle. As I flew head over heels across Detroit’s main boulevard, I thought, well, in any other town, I’d be hitting a car right [...]

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Hmmm check this out

Posted by Erik on May 27th, 2009 filed in Cool bikes, imminent death of car-based culture, opportunity knocks

Evidently I can win one of these things if somebody clicks on the above link.
But I’m not posting this because I might win a pretty new longtail. I actually think these might be cool.
There’s a link for “Become a Madsen Dealer” too. Anyone?
–Erik Ryberg

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“People enjoying themselves while actually creating things that function”

Posted by Erik on May 13th, 2009 filed in Joie de vivre, imminent death of car-based culture, opportunity knocks

Some good press for bike co-ops. There seem to be a lot of different “business” models for bike co-ops, from the membership-model described in the article to the BICAS model, which is just a community tools center with employees to help you do whatever it is needs doing, along with huge bins of cheap [...]

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Vauban, Germany: pioneer car-free community

Posted by Erik on May 11th, 2009 filed in Joie de vivre, imminent death of car-based culture, opportunity knocks

To maintain the New Urbanism theme for a moment . . .
From the NYT:

Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars.
Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the [...]

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“A sure sign of the apocalypse” — Americans are driving less, and bike-hostile cities showing housing declines

Posted by Erik on May 11th, 2009 filed in imminent death of car-based culture

So says Esquire magazine and statistician Nate Silver. I read Silver’s blog FiveThirtyEight.com obsessively during the elections and the Minnesota recounts. Finally he is homing in on something useful: America’s driving habits.
Conclusion: The apocalypse is coming. Americans are driving less. And, ahem, are you listening, Tucson City Council? [...]

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That’s what I’m talking about

Three-minute contest winner on bicycles (sort of).

And equal time for opposing views, from the wonderful city of Scottsdale:

–Erik Ryberg

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Not our city, not our mayor

(Map of locations of public bicycles in London)
Actually, I have no major complaints with Mayor Walkup, although I wish he would take local bicyclist’s concerns about law enforcement in this town a little more to heart.
But check out the sorts of things that come out of London’s mayor’s mouth!

I pledged to deliver a cycling revolution [...]

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