Empowering The Bicycle Traveler

Advocacy/Awareness

The Rights and Duties of Cyclists

90 percent of the Bike Hermit's trips around town are made by bicycle. He doesn't care if you ride your bike or not. He is not out to change the world or to save the environment. He just enjoys riding his bike and he truly thinks it's just as quick and infinitely more convenient than Read More

From Adventure Cycling we received this email today: Dear Member Club or Shop- I’m writing today to invite you to help Adventure Cycling Association spread the word about our 3rd annual Build It. Bike It. Be a Part of It. fundraising campaign for the U.S. Bicycle Route System (USBRS). The campaign kicked off May 1 Read More

Intersection

This is a picture from Google Maps of an intersection I deal with on my bicycle almost daily . The two left lanes are left turn only and the next lane is for through traffic. The far right lane is right turn only. Here's another view coming up to the intersection in my car as Read More

I caught up with Craig Calfee before the waste encountered the air handling device on the second morning of NAHBS 2012 in Sacramento. One of the pioneers of the use of bamboo for bicycle frames Mr. Calfee uses bamboo sourced in Africa and the tubes are joined by laying up sheets made of local tree Read More

UGRR

" ....mixing with people is wonderfully appropriate. So are visits to foreign lands........mainly learning of the humours of those peoples and of their manners, and knocking off our corners by rubbing our brains against other people's." -  Montaigne Traveling by bicycle puts one literally at the ground level. We are subject to all of nature's Read More