Young Environmentalists Protest Anti_Bicycle Policy At Their High School

Here is a great article from Treehugger.com

The students are members of an environmental club at their high school that had raised $2,000 and wanted to use the funds to donate a bike rack to the school. However, they were told that the school did not want to promote cycling due to safety concerns, and thus the gift was rejected. Ironically enough, the rejection came on Earth Day.

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If they got'em ..Why can't we??

OH NO..Not Sheldon

I while back I wanted to learn to do a proper wheel truing. I was tired of bugging my friends (real bike mechanics) and I think they were tired of me bugging them too... So I asked the interweb in all its glory and where did it send me?? Yep.. to Sheldon Brown.

I'm sure everyone has a story like this or better like the time 10 years ago at interbike when I think I saw him walking down an isle, but couldn't decide if it would be in good practice to ask for his John Handcock..lol

Anyhow.. The man, the myth, the riding encyclopedia (I don't want to say walking encyclopedia) of everything bike is not with us anymore. May he RIP (Ride In Peace) and his wife Harriet have comfort.

Sheldon Brown 1944-2008

Slam i pho bi a:

Fear of car doors opening suddenly

I took this picture of a LA metro bus with my cell phone. I think its kinda funny. I think I want to make it into a shirt....
..any one else have any good cell phone pics?? (umm..bike related) I think I'm gonna make this a new "Post Label"

Students use legs to power supercomputer By: Sharon Gaudin IT

Guinness World Records. Google Inc. and a bike company have sponsored a contest called "Innovate or Die," with contestants having to use bike power and post a video of their submission on Google Inc. unit YouTube. The prize is US$5,000 for the team and a bike for each member.
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Questionable Quote

“If these nitwits don’t leave me alone, I’m going to go after the trail bike riders next.”

Former Madison, Wis., Mayor Paul Soglin, saying he was tiring of the hullaballoo over a comment he made on his blog that bicyclists who ventured onto streets during a recent snowstorm "should be taken out and shot," which quickly made its way across the Internet and drew hundreds of comments, ranging from impolite to profane, from winter bicyclists from as far away as the Yukon