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Ramble to the Rayback Collective in Boulder
Take a Scenic Tour of Boulder by Foot, and Earn Your Beer. Boulderites take great pride in making their neighborhoods their own. Exploring them on…
Knee Pain? Start Walking!
What Seems Counterintuitive Actually Works! It started as a mild ache in the front of Sarah’s knee. Though barely noticeable at first, the pain got…
BikeDenver Launches Bicycle Ambassador Program
Learn the Many Ways You can Strengthen Your Community on Two Wheels. BikeDenver wants to transform bicycling in Denver. Their new local bicycle ambassador program…
Glow in the Dark Bike Lanes Come to America
Texas A&M Brings the U.S. It’s First Luminescent Bike Lane In College Station, Texas, the intersection of Ross and Bizzell streets is a busy one….
Coincidence? Or Not…
Musings from the saddle, random and otherwise I am not a mathematically-minded person. One look at my checkbook register will confirm that. But lately I’ve…
Art Interruptions Enliven Greenway
Art Interruptions, an annual temporary art program created by the Office of Arts & Culture in partnership with the Seattle Department of Transportation, is offering…
Bicycling Beginnings- Annie Londonderry
It wasn’t long after the advent of the bicycle that people began to see how far they could take it. One of the most notable…
Bicycling Beginnings- United States vs. Europe
At the beginning of the 20th century, people’s affinity for biking had more to do with location than anything else. In Europe, popularity and safety…
Bicycling Beginnings- Women Begin to Ride
Where young men were the primary riders of the Penny-Farthing, after bikes became safer with the development of the Safety Bike, women took over. Lacking…
Bicycling Beginnings- The Safety Bicycle
It seems people of the late 1800s were less than thrilled with having their heads smashed into the ground on a regular basis. The Penny-Farthing,…
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…
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…
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…
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…