Let's Promote Transportation Cycling! == Since Sliced Bread is a national call for fresh, common sense ideas. The winner receives a grand prize of $100,000...
This is my entry in the Since Sliced Bread idea contest. It would help if people could go their website and offer good reviews. SinceSlicedBread.com. Thanks....
At the last BMC Bike/ped meeting Bob Chauncey from the National Center for Bicycling and Walking gave a wonderful presentation on SAFETEA-LU. Some of the...
I live north of Dayton Ohio, South of Lima, Ohio willing to drive A little to learn more about fixing bikes. Anyone willing to teach me I'm willing to learn....
Howard, There are some good books on bicycle repair, and you can learn most of the basics from them. Also, the Park Tool website has a excellent repair ...
And the next round of tools should be a chain tool, the freewheel tool for your bike, and a crank puller. (you may need a chain whip, but once you have a...
... A vise to clamp the freewheel tool into (and of course something affixing the vise to a high-inertia object like, say, a planet) would also help. Jumping...
Hi, my name is Susan. I just joined this group mostly looking for some help. I was intrigued by the home page questioning why more people don't bike. For...
Here in Paris, the Fédération Française des Motards en Colère (the French Federation of Angry Motorcyclists) is negotiating a deal with the police chief...
Hi Susan, I've seen several different suggestions to your question over the past year, including these: Go to a park, and coast down a grassy hill, pushing...
For the life of me, I can't figure out why motorcyclists would want to drive in bike lanes. Reading some of the letters to the editor in my local paper, I've...
I would suggest getting in touch with a local bicycle club and presenting your situation to them. You can probably do this through an email just like you did...
September, Thank you, thank you, thank you! What great tips! I'm so excited to try. I will have to wait for a dry day here in rainy Oregon, but I will...
Some sort of knee, elbow, and hand protection might be a good idea. You will fall and probably don't recover as quickly from scrapes as when you were a kid. I...
... You live in Oregon, the bike-mecca, and you had to ask us? I didn't think you could throw a bike pump in oregon without hitting a cyclist! If you're near...
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Nov 9, 2005 10:09 pm
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You're welcome, Susan. Don't be afraid to try pushing along the street with your feet, either. It'll be easier than the grass anyway, and most people really...
I also can recommend one thing: practice changing your tube in your tire. I see hundreds of first time riders with nice bikes but cant can a tube. Tire...
... And when you learn how, teach me. I always take the tube out of the tire first. Sounds like a timesaving shortcut, if it works....
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Nov 10, 2005 7:14 am
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... Well now you know where I'm coming from... for the life of me, I can't figure out why bicyclists would want to ride in bike lanes... Unless... traffic is...
... In Victoria, BC, a bike lane got a motorcyclist doing just that killed. The deceased decided to pass a queue of traffic on Blanshard Street to get to the...
Actually here in Los Angeles where the car practically rules getting grazed by an automobile at 50 mph is pretty common. To get people out of their cars...
Anthony Despite the risk of starting another bike lane argument, I'll say merely this: The "build it and they will come" approach doesn't work. Nationally, ...
... What people say on surveys doesn't necessarily match what they do in real life. Most people have so much misinformation about cycling (what the laws are,...
I don't know how open Tony Jusay is to hearing and considering an alternative view to his, but here it goes... In a reply to my query about not understanding...
Hi Susan, Welcome to the group! Waiting for a dry day in Oregon? I'm originally from Oregon. Just get yourself rain pants with elastic at the ankles and a...
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Nov 14, 2005 1:13 am
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... To set the stage for determining whether a BL really is a kind of travel lane or is something else, let's review some definitions from the Manual on...
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_implies_causation_%28logical_fallacy%29 The study in the first link only shows a correlation. The title could ...
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