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Like to Bike? Thinking of buying a home?  Join us to tour great homes in Columbus' most scenic neighborhoods! We start at a local park, then trek out to visit 4-5 homes. Doing a home tour on a bike lets you see the neighborhood from an intimate perspective that you won't experience elsewhere! You don’t have to be looking for a house to join this event. It’s always fun to look, right? The Sellers are taking time to get their house prepared for us to see so a great way to repay them is to share photos of their home on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Maybe one of your friends IS looking? That way, it’s a win/win and we can keep having these events. Free advertising for Sellers…and you get to checkout some sweet cribs & get some exercise too. Here is a list of dates for future events. For up to date info regarding WheelTour events, stay tuned to  ColumbusWheeltours.com  or  "Like" Rare Breed on Facebook. Events start at 9 am. May 14th – Westerville May 28th – Victorian Vi...

Welcome to The Water Cycle Project The Water Cycle Project is a grass-roots organization in Central Ohio, dedicated to raising money to drill fresh-water wells for the impoverished communities of the world. In 2011, our goal is to raise $100,000 to drill wells in rural portions of Central and Southern India. To do this, we've arranged a series of long distance, multi-day bike trips. Please  join us for one of our cycling trips  around the Great State of Ohio, or simply  donate to our cause . Thanks for visiting our site, please don't hesitate to  contact us  if there's any way we can assist you. Website Meet and Greet details! FB event page Time Thursday, May 26 ·  7:00pm  -  8:30pm Location FCW Shop 897 West Broad St. Columbus, OH Created By Franklinton Cycleworks More Info The folks behind The Water Cycle Project are good friends of ours at FCW and will be giving a talk on their mission and the bike rides they've planned for this sum...

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Rather than imitate the city-bike aesthetic, Raleigh has chosen to give riders a coloring book with wheels. Urban cycling is a tribal sport in New York and London, but you have to admit: The most rakish of urban bikes have a little bit of Detroit in them. Messenger bikes are typically once-high-end performance machines hardened by rust, paint, grime, and hacksaws; bikes which are shells of their former selves but seem faster and meaner for it. Done in the messenger style, the Raleigh Rush Hour is an urban bike in blank form. Fresh white, wood, silver, and trimmed with thick leather on the seats and bars, this bike begs to be settled into and utterly dogged. If you've ridden this thing for more than a year without plastering it with stickers, petroleum grime, and a few hammer-headed dents, it will probably get stolen by someone who will. $800 from a local shop; find a dealer at Raleigh.com. More photos at www.fastcodesign.com

Hiles, Jeffrey A.  Listening to Bike Lanes.  September 1996. Chapter 5 Bicyclist Behavior 2 The Real: How Bicyclists Actually Behave (and how hard that is for some of us to accept) Effective Cycling program graduates are rare, even among serious cyclists. Less than 3,000 bicyclists have passed the Effective Cycling course (Clarke & Tracy, 1995, p. 67). Jerry Hopfengardner, chairman of the League of American Bicyclists’ Education Committee estimates that “only three thousandths of one percent of the cyclists in this country have received the training that the Effective Cycling program provides for safe and efficient bicycling” (McClun, 1995). But certified Effective Cyclists are not the only riders who are aware of, or who seriously adhere to, vehicular cycling principles. Repeatedly in his writings, Forester emphasizes that expert cyclists throughout the world have practiced the techniques he espouses since long before he put them in print. Cyclists have numerous sour...

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Washington Remains Top State for Bicycling for Fourth Year in a Row Low distribution of transportation funds for bicycling hurts many states. Washington, D.C.  -  May 23, 2011  -  Washington remains at the number one spot in the League's annual  Bicycle Friendly State (BFS) rankings , while many states suffer poor marks for low distribution of transportation funds towards bicycling projects and programs. Notably, Maine has steadily risen to the number two rank after being placed sixth in 2008 and third in 2009 and 2010. Additionally, the League announced its third round of Bicycle Friendly States designations with three new winning states, one upgrade and two renewals. The BFS rankings and awards are published every May during  Bike Month  to further encourage states to improve their bike-friendliness. The states are evaluated with a comprehensive annual questionnaire that is completed by state Department of Transportation bicycle coordinators. Ad...

Letter of the week May 17, 2011 In the pre-released RR43 that we/I nearly immediately recalled due to something I don't want to talk about, but no huge deal, no shame, no embarassment, no French faux pas, nothing like that....it was more of a loose lips thing....anyway, in that issue---which ought to be mailed by June 2 if Dave's and my meeting goes well today--there was an article about the troubles that come from having a guy accompany a woman as she shops for a bike. How the guys tend to interfere and tick off the salespeople, and how frustrating it can be when the guys, in general, are the mouth and filter for the perfectly adult and competent women. I believe all that stuff, because we've seen it here, and back when I worked Normal Retail I'd see it all the time, too. But what I wasn't accounting for in the RR43 piece, and which I shoulda known or realized, is that not all salespeople in bike shops are fine fair objective friendly robots. Some steer customers...

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Highlights 8 cyclists for entire 98 miles, Carey rode 60 miles Andy, Adam, John (Happy Birthday), Tim, Bill, Taylor, Ray, Mitzy, Carey Mitzy rode her longest ride ever! Go Mitzy Started at Yellow Springs Community Center Little Miami Scenic Trail  Passed through Xenia, Spring Valley, Corwin, Morrow Lunch at Train Stop Inn (Maineville) Passed the  Peters Cartridge Company Ice Cream at The Corwin Peddler

The Outspoken Cyclist – 5/21/2011 by  Greg Priddy  on  2011-05-21 When you really want to know the facts about a subject, who you gonna call? How about a subject matter expert, someone with actual education and experience who can give you the straight-up, no-foolin’, real story? This week on the show we have two such experts, one in the area of health, fitness and wellness, and the other in the area of bicycle law. First up is Barbara Bushman, Ph.D., FACSM, who has just finished editing a new book for the American College of Sports Medicine entitled The Complete Guide to Fitness and Health. Listen as Dr. Bushman discusses her refreshingly comprehensive approach to eating, exercise and lifestyle with a focus on being functionally fit for life. And in the second half of the show, we talk with attorney Steve Magas, who practices law in Cincinnati, Ohio. Magas has been involved in over 200 bicycle-related cases during his nearly 30-year legal career. He’ll share his experien...

The Mundo Cargo Bicycle is an affordable and ecological way to meet your local mobility needs: • green and healthy mobility to the grocery store • kids transport to school, sport practice, stores • pedal-powered fitness hauling sporting or music equipment • clean delivery vehicle for bike entrepreneurs Running Errands, Getting Groceries : The Mundo Cargo Utility Bicycle rides like a regular bike and gives you the capacity to haul at least 6 large bags of groceries. You can then save money, conserve resources, stay healthy, change your mobility, transform your world (this is what it’s about right?) Replacing the mini-van : The unique steel chassis makes the Mundo the bike for taking your kid(s)* to places: kindergarten, school, soccer. It’s time to replace the mini-van, conveniently take your little one(s), groceries, gear or any cargo to the places you love. *depending on your family needs you can customize/ accessorize the Mundo  Cargo Bike  with the Peanut Shell seat (2 c...

Q&A: Meredith Joy of Yay Bikes! Thursday, May 19, 2011   08:00 AM By John Ross • Photo by Will Shilling Since gaining nonprofit status in January, Yay Bikes! has shifted into high gear in its mission to create more connected communities through pedal power. The local advocacy group has been awarded a grant to start a safety-for-cyclists initiative at Ohio State. In honor of National Bike Month, director Meredith Joy shared how she came to love life on two wheels. [continue reading at Alive]

Revelate Designs : "Bikes Turned Up to 11" Alaska-based Eric Parsons has a passion for adventure cycling, where you go off-road for days at a time and carry everything you need. This entails strapping lots of gear to your bike. In 2007, Parsons made our favorite type of transition, from user to creator: After years of experimenting with different setups for hauling multi-day loads, it was clear that a frame bag—tailored to fit within otherwise unused space—offered a highly functional way of carrying heavier items, such as foods, tools and water. With an industrial sewing machine in a basement apartment, Eric began producing burly frame bags for fat-tire snow bike riders, including those racing the Iditarod Trail Invitational in Alaska. Demand for the bags grew, and after a short three months Eric left his engineering day job behind and devoted himself to designing and sewing bags for others who shared his adventure biking drive and needed functional, lightweigh...

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Many of us here on NPR's Science Desk bike to work, and not just on Bike To Work Day. And like bike commuters everywhere, we delight in grumbling about the cars, trucks and buses that cut us off, drift into our lanes and honk at us. But we'll also, mind you, tut tut at the cheeky fellow bikers who swoosh recklessly through red lights, speed down sidewalks and block crosswalks. The tension between bikes and vehicles is evident on the streets of Washington, D.C., every day, and as bike-sharing programs allow more riders to take to city streets, more angry — and injurious — confrontations seem inevitable. Cycling is still a relatively dangerous activity, after all. There were 630 fatalities and 51,000 injuries from bike-motor vehicle traffic crashes in the U.S. in 2009, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. But who is really more likely to be at fault when bikes and vehicles collide? Read more ->

When the weather's good, Aaron Naparstek likes to pedal his two young kids to Hebrew school on a special Dutch-made bicycle. It has a big wooden box in the front where the kids ride. The ride takes Naparstek across Park Slope, Brooklyn, to Prospect Park West — and what might be the most controversial bike lane in America. Naparstek, who's also the founder of the website Streetsblog, supports the new lane. "The bike lane on Prospect Park West is introducing a lot of new people to the idea that it's possible to use a bike in New York City for transportation to run an errand," he says. "This is what 21st century New York City looks like." Prospect Park West looks like a grand 19th century boulevard — Brooklyn's answer to Central Park West. But where it used to have three lanes of car traffic, now it has two — plus a protected bike lane... Read on...