Once again, at about the same time each year,  I get wiser and much more handsome.  Yep, you guessed it, my birthday arrives.  This year I will do something I have always wanted to do.  Ride the Silver Comet Trail in Georgia. Saturday Morning at about 8am,  I will begin my pursuit to cover 38...
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Yesterday I had a lunch date at Paxia, on Edgewater Drive and Winter Park Street. As I was riding up Edgewater from my office, I spotted a woman riding ahead of me. She was riding in the empty parking spaces to the right of the bike lane, coming out to skim the parked cars,...
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It rained on me on the ride home yesterday. I saw one cyclist riding in the rain other than myself.  He was dressed in “roadie attire” on a bike with no fenders.  He was pretty wet with the “dirt stripe” up the back of his jersey …. not enjoying the moment.  But I was quite...
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Please join us for our next FREE bicycle clinic Wednesday, May 27, at 6 pm! We will discuss fixing a flat tire and basic bicycle maintenance to keep your bike riding smoothly for miles to come! Refreshments will be served, and clinic participants will receive a discount the night of the clinic! For...
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This cyclist is riding on a 25mph road next to a narrow lane that just went though a pinch point—making it even narrower. He’s staying dutifully to the right of a white fog line where the pavement width varies from a foot and a half to a few inches. Pinned to the edge of...
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I’m back from Dallas and have much to share about that. In the meantime, I want to point you to an excellent post by John Allen. Categorizing Vehicles and Users: Mr. Allen lists all the different types of human-powered vehicles, motorized vehicles and animal-powered vehicles and shows how the overlap in operating characterisitcs makes segregating...
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BFF 2009 407fixedgear’s own Jenny K is handling the organization of both events. If you’re interested in helping her out (both in organization and sponsorships), drop her an email. (jen@bicyclefilmfestival.com) For more information about the festival: http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/
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the sidewalk. From the San Francisco Chronicle More bicycle crashes on Golden Gate Bridge As cycling across the Golden Gate Bridge has grown in popularity, so have the perils. There were a record 34 accidents involving bicycles on and around the tourist-packed span last year, 19 of which resulted in trips to the hospital, according to the Golden...
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Colorado cyclists await the governor’s signature on a re-write of some of their bicycle traffic laws. The rewrite does not eliminate the FTR law, it simply makes the wording more accessible to the less-literate among us. The reworded law has provoked this response from the Boulder County Sheriff: “It will be very difficult or impossible to...
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