Sam Ollinger | August 30, 2010
Homeless Kids Start Bike Delivery Business – Thanks to BikeSD reader, Drew, for sending in this story, an inspirational one as any. The company is called Speedy Sanchez and the courier service is based in downtown San Diego.
In a little over a month New Belgium’s Tour de Fat will be making its way to San [...]
Sam Ollinger | August 23, 2010
Everybody’s favorite watering hole, Blind Lady Ale House, will be screening the movie, Riding Bikes with the Dutch. The director, Michael Wolfgang Bauch, will be present. There is a Townie ride prior to the screening. More details are available here.
On a related note, Jeff Motch, owner of Blind Lady Ale House, noted that $1,000 [...]
Sam Ollinger | August 14, 2010
Blind Lady Ale House is hosting a fundraiser for the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition.
The ride starts 9 AM from Adams Avenue Bikes to the Silver Strand loop and ends at Blind Lady Ale House – The distance is about 30+ miles.
This is a free event. 15% of the days food and drink sales [...]
Sam Ollinger | August 8, 2010
This year, Ben Sollee is kicking off his second Ditch the Van Tour in San Diego. The cellist and band members will begin the tour by playing at the Sushi Performance and Visual Art Center on August 18th, starting at 8PM. More details are available at this facebook page.
The Ditch the Van Tour is about [...]
Sam Ollinger | July 21, 2010
San Diego City’s most bicycle friendly city Councilmember, Todd Gloria of District Three, has agreed to join the SDBikeCommuter members for a Downtownies bicycle ride through his district this Sunday, July, 25th. He will be joined by Anthony Bernal, District 3 Council Representative.
To date, Gloria has kept his campaign promise to be the most accessible [...]
biccontrol | July 4, 2010
This is gonna be a blast! Here’s a chronological list of the events:
-4:30pm: Bike ride to The Che meets at the Big Fountain at Balboa Park.
-5:30pm: Vegan dinner cooked by the amazing and talented Che chefs and you if you’d like to volunteer!
-6:00pm: Screening of UCSD Alumni Kareem Shehab’s Death Pedal 2 during dinner [...]
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 7, 2010
As reported previously, San Diego’s inaugural naked bike ride has already run into legal woes. The organizers of the Naked Bike Ride have stated that:
The San Diego Naked Bicycle Ride is filing a petition with the federal court requesting exemption from the San Diego Nudity Ordinance. We will announce the judge’s decision at the beginning [...]
Sam Ollinger | June 2, 2010
San Diego’s first Naked Bike Ride is scheduled for June 12, 2010. But the organizer, Sarah Bush, is already in the hot seat with the City,
The organizer of a June 12 naked bike ride protest is heading to federal court on a mission to overturn San Diego’s anti-nudity ordinance, saying it doesn’t protect her right [...]
Sam Ollinger | May 26, 2010
From the press release:
Women and girls on bicycles are so ubiquitous today that it is hard to imagine a time when they were discouraged from riding, not just in the United States, but all over the world. Men on bicycles were a fairly common sight by the mid-1880s, but women were considered too fragile, [...]
