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Uplifting Advice: Check Your Seat Height

The League of American Bicyclists teach the ABC quickCheck as though it were a religion. And, to be honest, it’s a good routine. It provides a solid basic bike check that can be customized to be used on nearly every bicycle by every rider, preschool age and up.

Something that is never mentioned explicitly in the ABC [...]

July 13th, 2011 | Category: bicycle frames, bicycle maintenance, bicycle recreation, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, carbon fiber, education, health, league of american bicyclists, physiology, riding position, steel is real | Comments are closed

Bike Fit & Comfort

I see people, particularly novice cyclists and those returning to the sport after absence, obsess about bike seats all the time as a key to comfort. And I’m not going to debate the special joy of a good bike seat — I have been using the same brand and model for more than 10 years now, [...]

April 13th, 2011 | Category: bicycle frames, bicycle gear, bicycle recreation, bicycle retailing, bicyclists, bike education, health, physiology, riding position | Comments are closed

Study: Portland Bikeway Investments Projected to Save City $800 Million by 2040

I’ve discussed the challenges of using single-site studies as universal truths before (and I’ve seen a few being abused thusly), but there’s a really interesting study out of Portland, Oregon that suggests bikeway investment is a money-saver.

Thomas Gotschi, from the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, published “Costs and [...]

February 9th, 2011 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle bridges, bicycle facilities, bicycle routes, bicyclists, bike lanes, bike trails, complete streets, damn lies, encouragement, engineering, environmentalism, evaluation, federal funds, legislation, non-motorized transportation pilot program, oregon, physiology, roadway design, roadway use, safe routes to schools, science, statistics, transportation options, urban planning | Comments are closed

Survey: Kids Better At Using Computers Than Riding Bikes

Advocates for programs like Complete Streets and Safe Routes to Schools will tell you that the programs encourage healthy activity for children and can be a key tactic to combat childhood obesity. Now, a new survey reported by TechWorld suggests that children five years old and younger are acquiring computer skills at higher rates than they [...]

January 21st, 2011 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicyclists, biking with kids, children on bikes, common sense, complete streets, encouragement, physiology, safe routes to schools, statistics, transportation options, urban planning | Comments are closed

Bicycles & Women’s Rights

CNN is presently carrying a Mental Floss article on the role of the bicycle in promoting mobility for women – both physical [...]

May 21st, 2008 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle gear, bike education, fun, meta, physiology, politics | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Raise Your Seat!

Bicycle seat height is one of the most frequently misadjusted ‘fit’ features of a bicycle, and the easiest for the novice to fix. [...]

August 28th, 2007 | Category: bicycle frames, bicycle maintenance, bicycle safety, common sense, physiology, riding position, vehicular cycling | Comments are closed
 
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