Archive for the 'Tuesday night ride' Category
Obama ride
Though the Tuesday Night Bike Ride does not have an expressed political agenda or ideology other than maybe getting more people out of cars and on bikes, it was pretty apparent last night that most riders were elated about Obama’s win. Before and during the ride people were shouting, “Obaaammaaa!!!,” and the culmination of the [...]
Read More..>>“You’re not going to see a whole lot of spandex on this ride”
So declared local bike hero and aficionado Nick Jett to the Arizona Daily Star yesterday, advertising the Tuesday Night Community Bike Ride. The discussion popped up somewhat improbably in an article about training for El Tour. Most Tuesday Night Bike Riders would probably not consider it the best workout, but Jett made the [...]
Read More..>>Seattle critical mass disaster
It’s reported all over but the best first-hand account I’ve seen is here at Checksum Arcanius. The short story is that during a critical mass ride a driver was blocked by the ride and ended up running over a cyclist and into several others before he was stopped by the riders who assaulted him, [...]
Read More..>>Enjoy this ride through a town in Holland . . . and then join us tonight!
Tuesday Night Community Bike Ride tonight! Watch the above video for some great inspiration, but beware — you may find yourself looking into the price of plane tickets to Amsterdam.
Bike ride tonight, 8 PM (or a little after . . . .) at the Flagpole at Old Main. Go to Park Ave and [...]
Road rager wants to know: You mean I have to stay in jail for a whole week?
Cyclist on car hood
The whole of bike-blog internetdom is awash in this story about a road raging motorist who first attacked a cyclist (after the cyclist told him to slow down) and then, when the cyclist stood in front of his car to get the plate, drove into him and thence down the road with [...]
Read More..>>Varo’s tall bike
Here are two pictures my friend Sarah H. from BICAS sent me of Varo on his tall bike last night. As you might imagine, he’s always a big hit with the spectators.
Varo has lots of cool bikes that he makes himself, including a side-by-side two-seater. I’ll try to get a picture of that [...]
Read More..>>Tuesday Night Community Bike Ride visits two ghost bikes
Last night’s Tuesday Night Bike Ride visited two ghost bikes. The first was for Andria Ligas, a 19 year-old Flinn scholar at the U of A who was killed when she was struck from behind by a driver who then fled the scene. Her ghost bike can be found on Euclid just north of [...]
Read More..>>One-year anniversary of the Tuesday Night Community Bike Ride tonight!
Depending how you look at it. It might have been last weekend, too.
If you’ve never been on this ride you really need to do it. Hundreds of people show up and as my friend Deana puts it, it is “like a cocktail party on wheels, except you have to drink the cocktails [...]