Links

Links

Riders & Writers

• 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-licious

  A great, active blog.

• Do Right Fear Not

  Some bike stuff. Some other stuff.

• 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.

• for the love of bikes

  Lovely bike things, lovingly discussed and photographed.

• 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.)

• Martino's Bike Lane Diary

  Sharp-witted cycling advocacy and photos

• NYTimes Spokes

  NYC city cycling

• Planetary Gears

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

• Sans Auto

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

• 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

  Positive trajectory in doubt, trending back to ass-kiss mode. Too bad.

• 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.

• Cycle Analyst

  The most experienced mechanics in town and the most complete collection of tools and parts in the West. No place like it.

• 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.

• Denver Local

  Adventures in Local Living
  Biking, Walking, and Public Transit in Denver, Colorado

• 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.)

• Track Shack

  Friendly, competent, and cool.

Cycling Advocacy

• Bicycle Fixation

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

• Bike Portland

  To inform and inspire. And it does.

• 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.

Tourists

• 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. They finished their tour in May 2010.

• crazyguyonabike

  THE place for cycle tourists. If you are planning, dreaming, or riding a tour . . . .

• 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."

• The Touring Store

  The best, most knowledgeable, compulsive person to talk to about panniers and racks is Wayne. Has any business, internet or brick and mortar, ever know so much and been so helpful about this stuff? His prices are great, too.

Bike Ogling

• Bikes For The Rest Of Us
• Rides A Bike

  Movie stars and their self-propelled vehicles.

Japan

• Finding Fukuoka

  Fukuoka, Japan.

• More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Interesting photos and descriptions of Japan. No bikes.

• TravelJapanBlog

  No cycling here but a collection of glimpses of Asia, mainly Japan -- from baseball beer girls to beaches.

Bike Tech

• Mike Sherman's Gear Calculator

  Calculates gearing in several useful ways and provides extra info like required deraileur capacity.

• Zinn's Fit Calculator

  Lennard's Zinn's bike fit calculator. The link goes to the Road version.

Gardening

• Front Ranger Gardener

  Gardening in Denver from the staff Horticulturist with the Colorado State University Extension office in Denver. Good stuff.