Sam Ollinger | June 2, 2010
Hoppas, owner of Aloha Bicycle Courier, contacted us a while back to inform us of his new project: a documentary on long term bicycle messengers. I conducted an email interview to find out more about his new endeavor.
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Sam Ollinger | May 11, 2010
Alta Planning & Design, a sustainable transportation planning and design firm, recently opened an office in San Diego. They are working on bicycle and pedestrian plans for San Diego and other local cities to assist them in becoming more friendly toward non-motorized forms of transportation.
Next week, the city of San Diego is hosting [...]
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 [...]
Sam Ollinger | February 8, 2010
Shortly after Bike San Diego was launched we did a profile of one of the co-founders of San Diego’s only bicycle delivery service. Since the profile was run when our site was still in its infancy, we thought we’d run an update on Manivela Food Delivery to introduce some of our newer readers to Manivela.
Trevor [...]
Will (Rider/Writer at Large) | December 10, 2009
Hello, my name is William. You could label me the average person, and you’d be right. In fact, as extremes go, it’s accurate to say that a person such as myself is the bland chicken soup of cycling. The avoiding-chicken-soup of cycling. The anti-extremism of cycling. Just someone who [...]
Sam Ollinger | December 3, 2009
http://velocult.com/
Sky Boyer, the owner of Velo Cult, is a visionary in San Diego when it comes to the growing bicycle scene. His bicycle store specializes in steel bikes and ensuring that every rider gets the right bike for themselves. BikeSD had the opportunity to ask Sky a few questions about him self, his philosophy and [...]
Thomas Bahde | October 28, 2009
On a ride through University Heights a few weeks ago, I noticed what looked like two delivery bikes parked outside a small pizza restaurant on Park Boulevard right under the neighborhood sign. I made a mental note to investigate further, and when I finally emailed the owner of Pizza Gourmet Express to ask for an [...]
Thomas Bahde | October 13, 2009
As part of our ongoing project to profile bicycle businesses in San Diego, this week we have an interview with Kenton of Aloha Bicycle Courier, San Diego’s only dedicated bicycle courier service*.
BikeSD: According to your website, you’ve been around since 2000. What made you want to start a bicycle courier business in San Diego?
Aloha: I [...]
Sam Ollinger | September 21, 2009
You may have noticed the link to Ride the City on our side bar. But what is Ride the City?
Ride the city is a “website that helps you find the safest bike routes in cities.
Like MapQuest, Google Maps, and other mapping applications, Ride the City finds the shortest distance between two points, with a [...]
Thomas Bahde | September 14, 2009
On a sunny Saturday morning, the City Heights Farmer’s Market is bustling with activity. If not one of the largest farmer’s markets in San Diego, it is probably one of the most utilized and most appreciated by the neighborhood’s residents. At one corner of the market, every Saturday morning, San Diego’s only bike kitchen, Bikes [...]
