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What if???

Posted Thu, 2010-03-04 10:29 by jtackett

Doing some thinking (my head still aches) and wondered what if I never became a bike commuter. Humm....

I would alternate between mass transit, and driving a car, because I would have never get rid of my car. While taking mass transit, I would be greeted every day by glum faces ready to begin the workday. I may as well be waiting for the second coming, if I’m waiting for MARTA, and certain buses would have the oppressive smell of sweat and urine mixed with equally oppressive heat.

Cyclist on Critical Mass struck by car

Posted Mon, 2010-03-01 22:53 by henrys

According to local Atlanta TV station 11Alive, a man stuck at an intersection drove his car (slowly) and struck a cyclist on the Critical Mass ride last Friday: video link. The man reportedly flashed a badge and claimed to be a police officer -- but he did not do any of the lawful things a police officer might have done to affect the ride.

Several details surprise me:

Introducing: Bike Sandy Springs

Posted Mon, 2010-02-22 10:39 by joe.seconder

If you live in Sandy Springs and want to help the city become Bike-Friendly, then please join our new Yahoo Group at: http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/BikeSandySprings/join

The first meeting will be Monday, March 1st at the Act 3 Playhouse at 7 p.m.,located in the back parking lot of Sandy Springs Plaza behind Trader Joe’s. The address is 6285 – R Roswell Rd., Sandy Springs, GA 30328.

I will not carjack you, Atlanta

Posted Tue, 2010-02-09 17:18 by Kyle

Either motorists or I need to wise up and be warier: one of us is gonna get carjacked or kidnapped.

Perhaps it is that I ride a bike; perhaps it is my boyish charm, or my lanky, gawky physique, but motorists love asking me directions; maybe it's because I am usually eating candy. They see me as non-threatening, though I am actually bad to the bone (that's right, ladies).

LA Freeway System For Cyclists

Posted Mon, 2010-02-08 12:26 by jtackett

Saw this and I thought I would share with you all. It is good to see what other cycling advocacy groups are doing as it gives us hope and ideas here in Atlanta.

7 Year Old Biker on a Mission

Posted Tue, 2010-01-26 12:03 by jtackett

Saw this story on Bikehacks.com and I just had to share it with you all. The basic story is that Charlie, a 7 year old boy, wanted to do something to raise money for the Haiti earthquake relief. So he decided to raise £500 by riding his bike five miles around his local park.

Well as of today, Charlie has raised over £150,000 (that's over 241,935 U.S. dollars.)

Amazing what a 7 year old on a bike can do.. And to think when I was 7, I was just happy with putting playing cards on the spokes for that "motorcycle effect."

Marketing cars by knocking bikes

Posted Mon, 2010-01-25 21:25 by Kyle

I saw a commercial tonight for Kia, specifically for the West Point, Ga., Sorento plant, in which a young, 1950s-era boy pedals down a country road on a sweet black bike. That's what riveted my attention: anything bikes. The boy continues riding, right into a Kia factory, across the floor amid the cars, as once again the narration boasts cars as "better ways to help people get around."

It surprised me for two reasons: I was unaware until this commercial that Kia originally manufactured bicycles (and steel tubing), then got into motor vehicles seven years later; and it directly touts cars as better transportation than bicycles, as Audi recently did.

lessons from a recovered bike theft

Posted Sat, 2010-01-23 23:54 by pedicabbers

Although I have had no training in my new found expertise, my experiences and inexperience in a "big" city have prompted me to write this blog entry. On Dec 14, 2009, while attending a ABC advocate meeting, I locked my bike to a rack behind Danemmans Coffee. There were 6 other bikes in the rack. Rebecca is very good at keeping meetings to 1 hour, so after 70 minutes we all walked out to our bikes. Rebecca noticed that in a hurry to lock her bike, she only locked her helmet to the rack and missed her frame/bike.

Should cyclists pay road tax?

Posted Wed, 2010-01-20 09:46 by jtackett

You may not be aware of a "experiment" that was recently done in Portland, OR, by a company called Webtrends.
Portland-based Webtrends wanted the public to tweet, e-mail, blog, post on Facebook or visit their website to share it. In the process, they would become part of a rapidly evolving social-networking experiment.

Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, vice president of marketing, said the mobile ad campaign had two goals: Show off Webtrends as a local company that employs hundreds in downtown Portland and give people a taste of its marketing-intelligence tools.