Sam Ollinger | December 29, 2010
Nearly a year and a half ago, a (now former) staff writer, Josh Board, for the San Diego Reader wrote about wanting to attack the cyclists who chose to attend the monthly critical mass rides. In the article and subsequent comments, (which were pulled from the website – the link above is a cached version [...]
Sam Ollinger | December 27, 2010
A few weeks ago, two students from the University of Copenhagen made their way over to San Diego to study the city’s bicycle culture. These women, Sidsel Birk Hjuler and Anne Grethe Pabst, are working on their Masters degree with the thesis covering what a bicycle culture means and how a city can go about [...]
Sam Ollinger | December 13, 2010
San Diego’s Second Annual Tweed Ride was a phenomenal success drawing over 120 cyclists of all ages. They rode amongst smiles and waves from motorists on the streets. Local business owners, regional and city planners, bicycle advocates and the many cyclists who ride the region all showed up in their finest for a ride through [...]
Thomas Bahde | December 13, 2010
Next Sunday, December 19th, join the San Diego Bike Union for a tour of San Diego’s mid-town (or uptown, if you like) neighborhood holiday lights. Velo Cult Bike Shop is hosting a pre-ride social @ 6:00pm at which they will be debuting their new line of speciality coffees (and there will be cocoa for those [...]
Sam Ollinger | December 11, 2010
Brian Hedden made this fantastic video to show the world what San Diego’s bike kitchen, Bikes del Pueblo is doing for the local community. Bikes Del Pueblo from Brian Hedden on Vimeo. Previously on BikeSD.org: Bikes del Pueblo Keeps Mid-City Rolling
Sam Ollinger | December 10, 2010
Join us tomorrow at 2PM for the second annual tweed ride. We will meet at 2PM at 2220 Fern Street for a casual ride around town. More details are here. Here are photos from last years Tweed Ride.
Sam Ollinger | December 7, 2010
I attended the Uptown Planners Meeting earlier tonight to listen to how the Uptown Planners Board would vote on the issue of removing 137 parking spaces on India Street and Kettner Blvd in order to install bike lanes going northbound and southbound. Over a hundred people were in attendance to offer their support or opposition [...]
Sam Ollinger | December 6, 2010
The businesses along India and Kettner Streets are raising concerns that the removal of 130 on street parking spaces to make room for a bike lane will adversely affect businesses. In order to indicate how incredibly successful the creation of space for non-motorized transport will be for both businesses and the community, you are invited [...]
Will (Rider/Writer at Large) | December 6, 2010
I have an unnatural love of bike lanes of late. For most of my adult life, and a significant portion of teen years, a bike lane was a symbol of a frivolous structure. Structure where structure was not needed. Placement, where socially, I did not need to be placed. This was a perhaps an immature [...]
Sam Ollinger | December 1, 2010
Streetfilms posted a video reflecting on the dividends being gained from New York City’s investment into building more bike specific infrastructure. In the last three years, New York City has added over 200 miles of bike lanes. Just this simple paint lines on the road has brought in that most coveted group to ride more [...]
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