After reading a few articles announcing the closing the Alpenrose Velodrome, I rode out there to see what condition it’s in and take perhaps one last look before it disappears into Portland cycling history. Hopefully, an effort to save it will prevail, but right now the future of the velodrome does not look good. It would be a shame to lose this jewel. Bicycling magazine | Oregonian | Bike Portland
Bike racks of Davis, California
There are more bicycles than cars in Davis, it is said. It feels true. Some photos over the years.
Biking Los Angeles
In his 1973 essay ”Autopia,” the Dutch novelist Cees Nooteboom wrote that Los Angeles ”mixes images of vulgarity and vitality” and ”conveys the feeling that it stretches to all sides around you, but never looks down on you or presses you down, an open world that forms itself as a unity despite its fragmented appearance.” (NYTimes) I recently traveled to Los Angeles for the first time and found that my favorite way to explore this city, just as any city, was by bicycle. From the Bicycle Film Festival to Critical Mass to solo outings and museum visits, the city designed […]
Bull City Bicycles
March 7 – 28, 2008, the exhibit Bull City Bicycles gathers historic and contemporary photography of bicycles in Durham, North Carolina. A celebration of the aesthetic simplicity, utility, and joy of bicycles, this show documents Durham’s sense of place from two wheels. Durham has a culturally rich history, beginning with its role as an early hub of the post-Civil War tobacco industry. There later developed an adjacent (eventually annexed) locale that, according to W.E.B. DuBois was a rich example of a separate and thriving residential and business community run entirely by African-Americans — the Hayti community. Hayti’s fame and financial […]
Neighborhood bike clinic
Fixing bikes for the neighborhood block party. Early days of the Durham Bike Coop.
Xtracycle – who needs a car?
My new pickup truck is a bicycle. Xtracycle, an innovative cycling company, is making a cargo-bike adapter that turns any traditional bike into a long-tail hauling machine. I recently set up my old Specialized Hard Rock with their Free Radical kit. Great for hauling boxes, other bikes, and friends. I sold my car this spring after realizing that I had put gas in the tank a handful of times within the previous year. Then a friend reminded me of the Xtracycle — a bolt-on rear triangle that moves your rear-wheel back about 15 inches and supports their proprietary huge panniers. […]