Archive for the 'Joie de vivre' Category
Cyclovia Tucson: it’s really happening!
Most of my readers know how excited I am about this. I even visited Bogota, Colombia last year to participate in and learn about their Ciclovia, which to this day is the largest and most impressive in the world. Here in Tucson, ours is just a fledgling operation, but it is going to [...]
Read More..>>Hermosillo velodrome
This photo is from the awesome El Grup blog post about their trip last weekend to ride the velodrome down in Hermosillo. They also did a road race.
Why don’t we get to have a velodrome?? Isn’t this supposed to be a gold-star biking city?
Hermosillo’s is 250 meters with a 44 degree [...]
Not on TV here
(Audio probably NSFW)
I am fascinated by the variety of efforts different countries take to encourage cycling. Some countries have national advertising campaigns to promote bicycling; Paris has its celebrated rental bikes; Bogota closes over a hundred miles of its streets every Sunday, and many other South American cities are doing so now as well. [...]
Read More..>>The only future that is ours is the one we make for ourselves
The comment in Danehy’s article (post below) that he would never ride a bike in the street or allow his children to do so because he’s too scared has really stuck in my craw. Mainly it’s the sense of superiority I detect in most of his writing (if you aren’t scared like me then [...]
Read More..>>Wild West Ride, 3 PM Tomorrow, starts at BICAS
Leave it BICAS to celebrate the rodeo (for you non-Tucsonans: when the rodeo is in town here, they actually close school — even the community college) by holding a Wild West Ride.
Tucsonbikelawyer has been utterly buried in briefing and court hearings for over a week (you may have noticed the silence on this website) but [...]
BICAS, El Grupo, the GABA Bike Swap, and what is great about all three
Thanks K for sending this around and Ricardo for producing it!
–EBR
The bikes are winning in Tucson and everywhere
For a look at how bikes are entering the popular cultural mind:
And a more local view:
Then one day a few years ago I started secretly following the CopenhagenCycleChic.com blog and marveling at how absolutely beautiful it is over there in Europe, and although I forgot for a moment, pining away for some Scandanavian or Mediterranean [...]
Bikes in the *Old* Pueblo
Check out this righteous post on Tucsonbikebeautiful.blogspot.com of historical photographs of bikes in the Old Pueblo! Whoa!
–EBR
Tuesday Night Bike Ride, tomorrow at 8 PM sharp! With Special Guest Star Lauren!
My friend J has been on a campaign to whip the TNBR back into its advertised 8 PM start time, so sometimes we leave right at 8 PM. Most people, of course, haven’t even arrived yet thanks to the fact the ride doesn’t usually leave for another 30 minutes or more.
So consider this advance [...]
Warming my frigid little heart
Last night I left my office late to have a wonderful dinner at my friends J & P’s house and along the way I encountered an entire extended family out for a bike ride here in the barrio. Their ages ranged from very young to old and all were on bikes of dubious repair [...]
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