Check out this FREE comprehensive guide to bicycle touring. I haven’t glanced at it yet, but it looks pretty good from reviews and comments. Let us know what you think, well oiled bike tourists out there in LB!
Hey, New bike Tourists!
Wanted: Higher Standards for kid items
A few years ago I discovered that I fit into most “outdoor” kids clothing. I would rummage through the racks at REI, Big 5 and Sports Chalet. Back than, I was the lady in the kids section that you were jealous of. Not because I had kids and was looking for cute zip-0ff pants for my toddler, but because I was paying half as much as you did in the adult section!
It was a good life until….
The dream came to an end. I realized that the kids section wasn’t holding a torch to the high quality and well fitted adult section. Now, when I walk into the store (head hung low) I head straight for the good stuff in the adult section. Why don’t they make the kids selection as amazing as adult clothes so that I can go back to paying second hand price for new stuff!
Leave it up to bikeportland.org to relate my story to bikes.
“He’s not careening down the side of a mountain — he is getting around by bike in Portland like many other civilized citizens do.”
BikeTalk, on radio station KPFK-FM, December 29th
BikeTalk can be heard any time by scrolling through the KPFK Pacifica Radio Audio Archives of recent, previously-aired programs and clicking BikeTalk.
Tune in Tuesday evening, December 29, 11pm, for the first live broadcast of BikeTalk on KPFK, 90.7 FM. Bike culture, politics, technology, sport and friendliness. BikeTalk has been a weekly internet show for several months already, and Tuesday evening will be its first on-air broadcast.
BikeTalk celebrates bike rides, bicycle collectives, activists, artists, commuters, enthusiasts, professional cyclists, inventors and repairers, and, of course, the bicycle itself as an alternative human-powered mode of transportation. Hosted by Nick Richert and guests, including Jim C of Orange 20 Bikes, Steve Bowers, and Jim Bledsoe and Eric Potter of Bicycle Kitchen.
The first live broadcast is Tuesday evening, December 29, 11pm. You can hear BikeTalk live every Saturday, 10am-Noon, at www.killradio.org. And you can download all nineteen previously recorded shows at www.kpfk.org. Click Programs at the top of the page, then click Audio Archives, and scroll for BikeTalk. Or click List of Programs, All Programs in the left margin to find the BikeTalk general description and contact information. Click on Program Highlights this week to see the announcement and details about the December 29th broadcast.
Rental Bike
I bet it functions 10 times better than the hybrid Raleigh I rented in Portland.
Check out the story behind this bike. Thank Ecovelo!
What did you carry on your rack today?
bmckeever, October 22nd 2009 |
Hey Long Beach! Want to be bike-friendly? Get one of these!
A reader (thanks Scott) forwarded this great post from BikePortland.org.
It’s basically a party on a bike!
If you’re in the San Francisco area…
You must check out this place. Warm Planet Bikes.
Warm Planet Bikes offers great amenities for bicycle commuters such as retail and repairs…and I’m sure they could tell you how to get wherever you want to go since they’re located at a Caltrain Station.
Warm Planet Bikes offer a variety of folding bikes for sale (Bike Friday and Dahon just to name a couple) and multiple accessories for commuters. They even have awesome hours! They’re open from 7 a.m. to 8:05 p.m., and if your train is late, give them a call and they’ll wait for you, sounds like great service to me.
Best of all? Parking is FREE. Yes, FREE. WPB relies on purchases to fund their parking, so get a light, some gloves, an inner tube or whatever and that will keep up the FREE parking and great service.
Warm Planet Bikes
311 Townsend St. @ 4th
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 974-6440
warmplanet@warmplanetbikes.com
April 2009 Bike Inspection Day At CSULB
Hi All!
We seem to be liked at CSULB. In fact, who wouldn’t like cycling advocacy volunteers giving away free stuff AND free bike inspections? I would like me too. Thanks Students and faculty for another wonderful turn out today; our discussions were lively, educational and political (just what LB Cyclists like) In case any of you were wondering…our next FREE Bike Inspection Days will be on April 21 and May 13 in front of the Bookstore on the grass. (11am to 2pm)
Feel free to contact any of us that were there today: Myself, Shawn, ‘Big’ Josh, Kevin, Allison, and Travis through lbcyclists@gmail.com
Thanks again!
Bernadette
Salsa Stem Recall
Salsa Cycles is working with the Consumer Products Safety Commission on a recall of the CroMoto S.U.L. stem. Please see the attached letter from Salsa General Manager Jason Boucher and the press release from the CPSC.
Salsa is committed to designing and manufacturing high quality, safe bicycle products. We are extremely disappointed that this situation occurred. We are cooperating fully with the CPSC to remedy this situation.
Deals Around Town (February 2009)
With all of the press bicycles are getting lately, it seems like bike shops should be cashing in on the free advertising. What deals are to be found locally?
Let’s check it out:
Jones has reduced jerseys, shoes, and a few bikes
Bikestation Long Beach is having a relocation sale.
Everything in the store is reduced up to 20%
Jax has closeouts on bikes and parts
LBFG has HED 3 wheels
Know of some other great deals around town? Let us know!
