Rocky Hillside

Links

Riders & Writers

• a year of bicycle commuting

  Several Denver cyclists write about their experiences.

• Bicycle Diaries

  Bicycles, books, and other things

• Bike Commute Tips

  Paul Dorn writes about making the streets livable and bikable. A companion to the resources on his Bike Commuting Tips site.

• Bikes as Transportation

  "I had this vague sense that I shouldn't be wearing my car to the grocery. It was close enough to walk, and I was often buying less than my backpack would carry." Notes on bicycle commuting and touring by a fellow with a Bakfiets, a trailer, and kids.

• Biking Bis

  News and comments about tours, touring, & racing. Good things not seen elsewhere.

• Carfree Family

  The Journal of One Family's Journey Toward Sustainability Sans Car

• Commute By Bike

  Many reviews, a DIY project or two, and some fun posts about biking.

• Cycle Jerks

  "We write a blog. We throw events. We make videos (sometimes). We are in Denver, CO."

• Cycle-licious

  A great, active blog.

• FatBoyBiking

  The struggles of a fat guy on his way to middle age and the classic battle of the bulge. Against him, the entire agricultural and food production system, American Midwestern attitudes towards food and eating and a lifetime of sloth and drunkenness. His only weapon, his bike.

• Freewheeling Spirit

  Formerly the authoritative site for Danish handball news, now an exhilarating cycling blog.

• gwadzilla

  Lots of photos of city cyclists, a few rants, and (once you learn to read his prose) interesting, encouraging, and charming thoughts.

• It's Just A Ride

  It's not.

• Kent's Bike Blog

  Kent Peterson is Commuting Program Director for the Bicycle Alliance of Washington. Useful, interesting, and fun (though his panniers look as if he didn't get enough cut and paste time in kindergarten.)

• KMAX TRAX

  Charming, thoughtful posts from a recovering opera singer (I think.)

• Martino's Bike Lane Diary

  Sharp-witted cycling advocacy and photos

• Nichomachus

  Thoughtful posts - columns, really - that often discuss cycling and living differently.

• NYTimes Spokes

  NYC city cycling

• Pedal, Coast, Pedal

  "[W]e finally met each other, married, and, by the way, in 2007, thirty-five years after we first met, decided to become bicycle riders. We don’t like to rush things." Two self-described "casual" bike riders report on what they experience as they bike - at a soft pace - around the trails of Nebraska and Iowa. Formerly Bicycle Riders Journal.

• Planetary Gears

  Jim, of . . . well some other places, is back.

• Sans Auto

  Well-written posts on healthy living, family, and how to live better.

• The World Awheel

  "Thoughts. On Bicycles."

• Today's Sermonette

  "I've been riding bikes for over 50 years. By my way of thinking, that makes me an expert on everything relating to bicycles. just ask me." And an expert on everything. I can identify.

• Urban Velo

  It's a magazine, newsletter, blog, and the mind boggles to think what else.

• Urban-Crawl

  A cyclo-centric exploration of alternatives to American car culture, as well as other musings of a cog in the machine.

• Urbana-Champaign Bicycle Commute

  Charming, "fresh" writing about biking in University of Illinois Land.

• Velorution

  Great links from a London bike shop specializing in folders and commuters, with an unnecessary Flash heading.

• Yehuda Moon

  Rick Smith's bikey comic.

Colorado

• Bicycle Colorado

  Wrapped up effort to get a "share the road" vanity automobile license plate. In February 2008, failed to raise the maximum fine for running over a cyclist while the driver was failing to yield. (Bicycle Colorado was pushing for $1,000. Radical.)

• Bike Denver

  After the revolution, doing good work. Thank god.

• Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac

  Published in Ft. Collins. "Your resolve to commute by bike is, indeed, the impetus for [Boneshaker:A Bicycling Almanac.] It is you who deserves weighty attention and significant accolades, not celebrity train wrecks and political hearsay, because you are not daunted easily. No, you keep pedaling quietly without recognition, and if you get recognized, it is most likely via a startling horn or outstretched finger. Imagine if we could harness or otherwise bottle your retenue and distribute it to the world’s leaders and workers and thinkers! Oh, the thought! "

• City of Denver's Bike Program

  You'll laugh; you'll cry; you'll use a sidewalk.

• Denver Critical Mass - MySpace
• Denver Critical Mass - YahooGroups

  Last Friday of the month. Meet at Civic Center Park at the Seal Fountain pool between 5:30 and 6:00 pm.

• Denver Cruiser Ride

  The Denver Cruisers meet at the The Ginn Mill at 2041 Larimer Street every wednesday at 6:30pm, until September 30th.

• Derailer Bicycle Collective

  A free, non-profit, collectively run community bicycle shop on the west side of Denver.

• Kickstand Magazine

  The world's first and only cruiser magazine has it's home right here in Denver. Aren't we the lucky ones!

• The Bike Depot

  A east side (Park Hill) non-profit bike place that encourages folks to build and fix their own bikes and gives them the tools and help to actually do it. Nice dedicated folks who seem to know what they are doing. (As befits a foundation-funded operation, the website description is opaque and baffling, but I've been there and it's a good place.)

Cycling Advocacy

• Bicycle Fixation

  A large collection of articles and links on cycling and sustainability.

• Bike Portland

  Useful, interesting posts from a city that actually is bike friendly.

• C.I.C.L.E.

  (Cyclists Inciting Change thru Live Exchange) dynamic site promoting cycling as a viable and sustainable transportation choice.

• Driven To Distraction

  The NYTimes series on irresponsible, multitasking drivers.

• StreetsBlog

  The blog of the New York Streets Renaissance - advocacy in action - and as everyone knows, it happens in NYC first.

• Time's Up!

  grassroots group that uses direct action and education to push for a sustainable NYC.

• WashCycle

  Washington Area Bicyclist Association

Writers

• Gezellig Girl

  Though it's about cooking and food, I love the writing - snappy and downright . . . rollicking. Read this.

• Malingering's World

  "The world as it exists." Well, sort of. Photos of Santa Monica with funny, snarky comments.

• Miscellanea WellingtonGrey.Net

  Acerbic "comics" and graphics

• Ultrabrown

  Sharp, thoughtful, snarky, and/or erudite posts about India here and there.

Tourists

• 3 speed touring in Japan

  Exploring the countryside of rural Niigata ken on a restored 1947 Humber.

• A Bikeable Feast

  "I want to learn about sustainable agriculture, as much as I possibly can. . . . I plan to hop on my bike and head north, following the growing season in a giant loop around the country, stopping to learn and work . . . I imagine this will take about a year, maybe longer."

• A Honeymoon to Remember

  "[They] built the bikes, sold the house, got married, quit a job," and are cycling around Asia.

• Douglas Whitehead

  Douglas Whitehead is cycling through Europe and Asia to India and writing about his travels in the Telegraph.

• reCycling the World

  David Byrne cycled around in the world in 1975. Now retired, he's doing it again. Why? "I can think of nothing better to do."

Bike Ogling

• Bikes For The Rest Of Us