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Category Archives: Activism
Cycling Poster Contest Sends 5th Grader to Bike Summit
Tweet For the last three years, Saris Cycling Group has held a bicycling themed poster contest during National Bike Month. This years contest had over 500 elementary schools from 27 different states participating. Students were challenged to make posters that illustrate the theme, “Bikes Make Life Better”. After more than 2,600 votes were cast from [...]
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Bikes Not Bombs & Montague
Tweet We did our “spring cleaning” at the Montague headquarters a little early this year. In the process of organizing, we gathered up a truckload of bikes, frames, and components to donate to a wonderful organization here in Boston called Bikes Not Bombs. Located in Jamaica Plain, just south of Boston proper, Bikes Not Bombs [...]
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Bike Safety Lessons from the UK
Tweet Recent News It’s flashed across all the major media this week, especially in the UK. Olympic medalist and Tour de France winner Bradley “Wiggo” Wiggins was struck by a van. Then, not 15 hours later, in a separate incident, Olympic team trainer, Shane Sutton was involved in an accident with a automobile. Both men [...]
Also posted in Bike Racing, Commute, Events Tagged bike accident prevention, bike commute, bike safety, Sutton, The Times UK, UK, Wiggins, Wiggo 2 Comments
Bike Commute: Tuscon Style
Tweet There’s an infrastructure first in Tuscon now, a bicycle crosswalk, or ‘crossbike’. Tuscon Velo recently explored this new piece of bike safety engineering. Of course we’ve all probably seen, at one point or another, a cyclist using the crosswalk to cross the road along with pedestrian traffic, but just about everywhere this is frowned [...]
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Bike to Vote?
Tweet In the U.S., today is election day. Whatever one’s political leanings, the governing structure of the U.S. is based on participation, so we go out and vote. We biked to vote today, how about you? Unless you vote by absentee ballot, you’ll probably find yourself headed off to a neighboring school, fire station, or [...]
The New Commute: New York After Sandy
Tweet In case you’re tuning in from another part of the world, Hurricane Sandy made it’s way up the east coast and threw everything she had against New York and New Jersey at the beginning of this week. We’re seeing the greatest natural disaster New York has faced in generations, maybe ever. And out of [...]
Also posted in Commute, Environment, Lifestyle Tagged biking, flooded subways, flooding, hurricane Sandy, new york, walking 1 Comment
Bike Commuting: Incentives
Tweet A definition: incentive – comes from Middle English, from Late Latin incentivum, from neuter of incentivus stimulating, from Latin, setting the tune, from incentus, past participle of incinere to play (a tune), from in- + canere to sing – as defined by my dictionary. Bike Biz, a cycling industry publication recently served up this article on companies providing incentives for employees to cycle to work. “New [...]
Also posted in Commute, Lifestyle Tagged bike commuting, health, UK, workplace cycling incentives 1 Comment
Get on the Bandwagon
Tweet Has your state gotten on the bandwagon? Or perhaps better worded as bike-wagon? As our part of the east coast starts to pick up the pieces left by Hurricane Sandy, we have found the thoughts of sunny days returning and beautiful bike rides to be a sustaining source of optimism. The above link goes [...]
Also posted in Commute, Lifestyle Tagged bike commuting, bike commuting statistics, Massachusetts bike commuting Leave a comment
Commuting: Protecting Your Bike
Tweet We’ve started talking about bicycle commuting. One of the prime concerns, especially for new commuters is keeping your bike secure while you’re at work. More companies are making it a priority to have secure and covered bike parking, in fact in Cambridge, MA – where Montague Bikes is based – there are excellent company [...]
Also posted in Commute, Lifestyle, Maintenance Tagged bike theft, Fold it Up. Take it Inside., London, recovering stolen bikes 2 Comments
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