Sam Ollinger | August 22, 2010
Local residents and cyclists, Katie Mayfield and Jay Porter, got married this morning at Velo Cult Bike Shop.
The event was quite possibly San Diego’s first successful traffic calming event as all drivers driving by, stopped to stare. It was well attended by family, friends and the local community.
In talking to Mayfield, I learned that the [...]
Sam Ollinger | August 8, 2010
The San Diego Bike Discount Program has now been in effect for a few months and slowly spreading via word of mouth through the local community. Over 30 locally owned businesses have signed up. These businesses range from restaurants to coffee and tea shops, to shoe stores and a local Chiropractic Center.
The discounts are offered [...]
Sam Ollinger | July 1, 2010
This post was written by Robert Leone of the Knickerbikers, San Diego’s Bicycle Touring Club and board member at the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition. This post was originally published on Bicycle Fixation: an online magazine celebrating bicycles and bicyclists.
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My local advocacy group, the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition (SDCBC), occasionally operates free [...]
Sam Ollinger | June 24, 2010
National City is creating a Bicycle Master Plan that will guide the development of bicycle facilities and programs in the city over the next 20 years.
The city is organizing a 3.5 mile bike ride to provide input on biking in National City and to help them identify locations where bicycle facilities are most needed.
Sam Ollinger | June 8, 2010
A Cardiff resident, Marty Benson, made a video of a trip he made to Stone Brewery. Here is what inspired the video:
Transportation and simple living are two of my favorite soapboxes. With this project, I want to dispel the notion that bikes are difficult, dangerous, impractical, etc. So I rode my bike, with an empty [...]
Sam Ollinger | May 24, 2010
A BikeSD.org reader, Travis N. sent in the submission below. It is advice worth heeding. Thank you Travis for sending this in. Glad you weren’t hurt any worse. Ride safe.
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What was the rush? That’s the question I have been asking myself several times since a nasty spill while riding to work last week. In an [...]
Sam Ollinger | April 29, 2010
Although the posts here have slowed down considerably, a lot has been happening behind the scenes here in San Diego.
Since I last posted about the ciclovía movement happening around the world (most recently in Tucson, AZ), a small group of enthusiastic and forward thinking San Diegans have come together to figure out how to give [...]
aj | April 21, 2010
By Andrew Woolley
Andrew Woolley is a San Diego resident and long-time bicyclist. This is the first of a four-part series about the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition.
Earlier this year I sat down with Kathy Keehan, executive director of the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition (SDCBC), at the Coalition office in East Village. She was gracious [...]
Thomas Bahde | April 14, 2010
My wife and I have a policy about not reading the comments on Internet news stories. This might sound a little strange coming from the co-editor of a blog, but I think most of our readers will agree that the comments section of any online news source does tend to, at the very least, raise [...]
Sam Ollinger | April 8, 2010
I had the opportunity to meet with Christa Clark-Jones recently. She and I had a long conversation relating to bicycle advocacy and the gradual shift in the U.S. from an environment that is more auto-centric to people-centric. As a graduate of University of California, Davis, Christa had much to say on Davis being a bike [...]
