Phillip Barron The Herald Sun September 22, 2005 DURHAM — This July, my nephew visited from Canada. Matt, 15, is a skilled athlete – a hockey star, a track phenom, a confident snowboarder – and like most teenagers, difficult to impress. As often as he’s heard me talk about mountain biking, though, I realized this summer that he’d never ridden singletrack. I took him for a spin around the trails at Lake Crabtree County Park, and by the fifth mile he was hooked. I could see it in his face. He confessed later on that he’d never experienced anything like […]
Column: Bike Against Bad Air to back tougher clean air rule
Phillip Barron The Herald Sun September 8th, 2005 DURHAM — As if North Carolina didn’t already have a hard enough time combating air pollution, a new federal ruling may allow neighboring, upwind states to off-load soot and other particulate pollutants on the Tar Heel State. In July, Attorney General Roy Cooper filed a lawsuit in federal court and a petition with the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider portions of the agency’s Clean Air Interstate Rule. “While we generally support EPA’s new standards to clean our air,” Cooper explained, “we fear that loopholes in this Rule will give power plants in […]
Column: Funky formal cruiser ride first of many fun outings
Phillip Barron The Herald Sun September 1st, 2005 CARRBORO — Apart from the iPod powered boombox blasting acid jazz from the back of Matthew Lee’s bike, last Tuesday night’s cruiser ride around Carrboro and Chapel Hill was a display of retro-technology over high-technology. It was not your typical group bike ride. Lee, of Carrboro, who organized the ride says, “cruiser rides are something that have been going on [for a while now ] in cities around the country that have a strong bike culture.” He had a hunch that the time may be right for the Triangle. I’d say that […]