Ride Boldly!

Winter is a good time to clean out the buckets of bike stuff and attend… swap meets!

Twin Cities Bike Swap Meet – February 14, at the National Sports Center. $5 admission to a really giant event. Tables $40 to sell.
TCBC Swap Meet – March 27, at the Hopkins VFW. Free entry, free to sell for [...]

The Associated Press reports a tale of helmet enforcement that to my mind misses a point.
A police officer in New Zealand nabbed a pair of cyclists out for a little night ride in the nude. The constable sent the duo home for helmets.
While nudity is a chargeable offense in the twon of Whangamata, the constable [...]

Yesterday, I linked to the track racing schedule for the Thursday night races at the Velodrome. I neglected to put out another big link – the link to track racing courses at the Velo!
There are four sessions offered this summer, plus one women’s-only course. The Velo says a few spaces are still available for May’s [...]

Busting 10 Bike Commuting Myths – from Alan Snel
Upcoming track racing schedule at the Minnesota Velodrome in Blaine. Always fun to attend!
Minnesota Bike Festival schedule for 2009, including the new Uptown Minneapolis Crit. They’re also looking for volunteer host housing for racers.
Ray LaHood, the US Secretary of Transportation, posts that “cyclists are important users of [...]

Edina is back to squawking about potential improvements for bicycles, this time on W. 70th. Some readers may realize I’ve piled onto Edina at least twice previously – in one case, for focusing on bike lanes as magical, and in another case for a distracted driver complaining about kids being kids, which they are wont [...]

MSNBC has a piece on North America’s ‘most bike friendly cities.’
Most of the cited cities appear to be League of American Bicyclists-recognized Bicycle Friendly Communities (BFCs), save, of course, the Canadian cities. The top-10 slideshow (at Forbes Traveler) does something I’ve wanted to see for ages: They rank Minneapolis ahead of Chicago.
Bicycling magazine constantly buys [...]