Book Review: Ellee Thalheimer’s Cycling Sojourner
Bicycle touring’s popularity is on the rise in America. There are no firm statistics available (though Adventure Cycling Association is actively collecting data to help change that), but it’s clear...
View ArticleA New Guide to Portland’s Beer and Bikes
A guidebook to navigating Portland, OR’s craft beer world by bicycle seems like a painfully obvious thing. They are, after all, two of the city’s two best known features. Nonetheless, it took until...
View ArticleMichelle Cassel and Ryan McAfee’s Tour of America ByCycle
Michelle Cassell and Ryan McAfee are multimedia journalists-turned-adventurers exploring America by bike. As the journalism industry continued to falter in 2011 and the duo continued to struggle to...
View ArticleYolanda Davis-Overstreet: Sharing the Story of African American Cyclists
Yolanda Davis-Overstreet is the Director of the upcoming documentary RIDE: In Living Color. The film looks at African American cyclists through history from Major Taylor’s amazing achievements in...
View ArticleChicago’s Original Freak-Bike Club; Cooler Than You
Though far from mainstream, freak-bike gangs have become a fairly ubiquitous part of American bike culture. Black Label Bike Club, C.H.U.N.K. 666, Dead Baby, most major cities seem to have their own...
View ArticleRising From the Ashes, the Team Rwanda Documentary
Team Rwanda’s story is fascinating. Many of its founding members were young boys during their country’s horrific 1994 genocide. They’ve found redemption and success as professional cyclists competing...
View ArticleThe Mysterious Nelson Vails Documentary
Nelson Vails was the first African American cyclist to medal in the Olympics, making history when he won the Silver in the 1984 track sprint. Before his professional cycling career, he made his living...
View ArticleGraeme Obree’s Landspeed Record
Graeme Obree likely needs no introduction among cyclists who’ve been involved in the sport for any length of time. The Scotsman is famous for his world hour records and the unorthodox “superman”...
View ArticlePhotos from the Tour of Qatar Stage 6
Photo by Jeremy Cohen My parents recently moved to Doha, Qatar. They happened to arrive just before the start of the Tour of Qatar and were able to catch the final stage of the race this morning....
View ArticleJonathan Maus: Bike Advocacy, Journalism, and the Struggle for Balance
Jonathan Maus. Photo from flickr user scottrolfson. For those of you at all tuned into bike advocacy in the United States, Jonathan Maus needs no introduction. Founder, editor, publisher and primary...
View ArticleBuilding Bikes and Documenting Personal Struggles
I’ve been a fan of Ezra Caldwell’s work for about five years. The bikes he builds as Fast Boy Cycles are beautiful and always meticulously documented with well made photographs. When he was diagnosed...
View ArticleThom Parsons: Racing, Interviewing, and getting Boston onto Bikes
Arguably, Thom takes cycling as serious as it needs to be taken. Thom Parsons plays a lot of roles in the New England cycling world. The self-proclaimed dirtbag mountain biker is a former professional...
View ArticleSome Inspiration For Your Weekend Adventures
It’s Friday. It’s summertime. It’s time to plan some awesome bike adventures. These three videos showcase incredible trips that kickstart wanderlust and make me want to get out and explore. The Road...
View ArticleTom Donhou’s Experiments in Speed
Experiments in Speed is a mini documentary about going very, very fast. Tom Donhou, the frame builder behind Donhou Bicycles in Hackney, London, was inspired by the old land speed record attempts at...
View ArticleIs Detroit America’s Next Big Bike City?
The Dequindre Cut. Photo from livinthehighline.com. This week, the League of American Bicyclists released a new report unpacking a trove of bike-related data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2012...
View ArticleBill Schieken: Cyclocross Passion and the Art of SVENNESS
Photo by Sean O’Donnell. Cyclocross lends itself to obsession. Participants either love it and go all in or hate it vehemently. Rare is the middling cross racer with a lukewarm attitude. Bill Schieken...
View ArticleAaron Naparstek: the Evolution of an Advocate from Honku to StreetsBlog and...
Aaron and his son in the controversial Prospect Park bike lane. Photo from naparstek.com. In the past decade, New York City has seen a remarkable transformation from one of America’s worst bike cities...
View ArticleAaron Naparstek: the Evolution of an Advocate from Honku to StreetsBlog and...
Aaron and family. Photo by Clarence Eckerson via StreetFilms.org. In the past decade, New York City has seen a remarkable transformation from one of America’s worst bike cities to one of its most...
View ArticleThe Resourceful Cyclists of Havana, Cuba
Cuba’s bicycling culture was born in the economic crisis that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Severe oil and gas shortages gave rise to the use of bicycles as...
View ArticleSarai Snyder: Connecting the Pieces to Get More Women on Bikes
Photo by Michele Zebrowitz. Cycling in the United States has a pervasive gender gap. Solid numbers are hard to come by, but some studies suggest that there as many as two or three men riding for every...
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