Bicycling Beginnings- The Penny-Farthing
Remember, the roads in the late 1800’s were not the smooth bike paths we have to ride on now, but that didn’t stop people from…
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Bicycling Beginnings- 1868-1870
You’re living in France between 1868 and 1870. I know you aren’t actually, but pretend with me for a moment. In this imagined scenario, you’re…
Review: Showers Pass Storm Jacket
Correction: an earlier version of this article identified the Storm jacket as the Classic, and misquoted it’s price as $289. Perhaps the ultimate commuter rain…
Bicycling Beginnings- Who put on the pedals?
Continuing to delve into the history of biking means continuing to fall into possible theories, but not many verifiable facts. So, as with most of…
Reviewed: Showers Pass Crosspoint Waterproof Socks
Comfy, sturdy, and all-around good at keeping water off. When you first get your hands on a pair of Showers Pass Crosspoint Waterproof Socks, you…
Why Helmets Are Bike Shares Achilles Heel
What Cities Can Do to Keep Their Riders Safe Bike shares are here in a big way. Worldwide there are now over 650 cities with…
Bicycling Beginnings- Thank you, Karl von Drais
Last week, almost nothing I wrote was verifiable. With the entire column taken up by rebuked theories, in retrospect I probably could have skipped that…
Bicycling Beginnings- The Initial Design
Bikes haven’t been around for all that long when considering how long humans have occupied the Earth. In the grand scheme of things, most people spent…
Tucson Hop Shop: For Beer and Bikes
Two Wheels and Yummy Beers Give us the Feels Think about some of the truly great combinations in the world. The kinds of duos that…
Baltimore to Launch New Bike Share Program
Charm City BikeShare to Feature Largest E-Assist Fleet in North America Baltimore is set to join a list of some 700+ cities worldwide that offer…
Electric Bike Guy: Olympic Aspirations Live
Once every four (two) years, the world tunes in to see athletes from all sorts of obscure sports enjoy their blips in the spotlight. For…
VIDEO: Animated Maps Make Bike-Share Trips Hypnotizing
Bike sharing systems, that offer fleets of bikes that can be rented from various stations around a city (for a small fee), have exploded. In 2004,…
To Be Car Crash-Proof, We Would All Be Very Ugly
Scientists have modeled what a car-crash proof person would have to look like. It’s awful. Meet Graham. Graham is specifically designed to be able to…
Training Table Recipes with Allen Lim
Tasty Recipes to Fuel your Ride. When exercise physiologist Dr. Allen Lim, founder of Skratch Labs and co-author of the Feed Zone Cookbook series – …
These are the Olympics of terrifying, body-maiming bike crashes
By Hannah Withiam Wouldn’t you know it: yet another Rio Olympic venue is under fire for dangerous terrain that received inadequate attention. “I’m surprised someone…