Thomas Bahde | November 22, 2010
by Robert Leone of the Knickerbikers, San Diego’s bicycle touring club. If you’d like to read great flat tire repair advice, the place to start, as with so many bicycle maintenance and repair issues, is www.sheldonbrown.com (link goes directly to flat tire article). The clear-writing Mr. Brown details one type of flat that keeps on [...]
Thomas Bahde | October 22, 2010
by Robert Leone [Ed. note--for those reading on a feed reader or aggregator, this is an image-heavy article, best viewed by clicking through to the original post] The Usual Story The usual placement of bicycle parking facilities is pictured below. The ribbon rack is an effective design. It has the virtues of being relatively inexpensive, [...]
Thomas Bahde | October 13, 2010
Saturday, October 2 was a day of too many good things for San Diego cyclists. For air show buffs, the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition offered valet bike parking at the Miramar Air Show, while closer to central San Diego, the New Belgium Tour de Fat took over a corner of Balboa Park with its [...]
Sam Ollinger | September 12, 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. Leone has begun to shed some light on the previously inscrutable bicycle theft world. —- Many regular readers may recall my original article on bad bike locking techniques. Here’s a [...]
Sam Ollinger | August 29, 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 is a report on the Tour de Five Cities benefit that was organized by Jeff Motch, one of the owners of Blind Lady Ale House. ——- The Plan [...]
Sam Ollinger | May 25, 2010
…we have, biseekell, a web comic by fellow editor, Thom Bahde. To wet your appetite, here is one:
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. —- 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. [...]
Thomas Bahde | April 20, 2010
This post was written by Robert Leone of the Knickerbikers, San Diego’s Bicycle Touring Club. The San Diego Custom Bicycle Show 2010, ably organized by Ybarrola Bicycles is past – but it was a great April 9, 10 and 11 for bike stalking. The event, carefully organized by David Ybarrola (Ybarrola Bicycles and SelleLogica saddles), Chuck Schlesinger (Sadilah Bicycles), [...]
Sam Ollinger | April 1, 2010
I thought I’d note down the bike parking spaces for my own records, but then realized that others could also benefit from a bike parking map. I’ve created a map open for collaboration where I’d like for us all to track and note the bike parking spots that is specifically designated as a bike parking [...]
Sam Ollinger | March 25, 2010
We last wrote about how sad Kearny Villa Road was for San Diegan cyclists. Shortly afterward, the city did perform repairs on the hazardous cracks on the road as promised. One of our twitter followers @juanrcm regularly rides Kearny Villa Road. He informed us of the terrible job that the city had done in fixing [...]
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