Sam Ollinger | February 9, 2012
Only pictures can convey best how incredibly rich San Diego’s cycling history has been. I have a few thoughts on how it declined that I will address in a future post. I see a bicycling renaissance happening all over San Diego right now and it is only going to increase its momentum from this year [...]
Sam Ollinger | January 11, 2012
Before Southern California had bicycle advocacy organizations, the organization that advocated on behalf of cyclists and promoted cycling in the U.S. was the American Youth Hostels (AYH), now called Hostelling International. In 1940, San Diego County got its first youth hostel established in Oceanside, six years after the first American Youth Hostel was established in [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 20, 2011
This is part of a series of articles documenting San Diego’s long history with the bicycle. The materials contributing to this narrative comes from San Diego’s Hostelling-International branch, formerly called the American Youth Hostel —- In 1869, residents in San Diego learned about the velocipede (bicycle) and demanded that these devices be imported into San [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 13, 2011
The City Clerk just sent me a copy of Resolution No. 206342, the resolution that declared October 25th as “Bike Day” in San Diego, back in 1972. This was something I learned while going through HI-USA’s archives. The text reads as follows: Resolution No. 206342 – August 22, 1972 WHEREAS, the City Council of the [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 11, 2011
A few months ago I met Andy Hanshaw to learn more about him and his goals for the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition. During the course of our conversation he mentioned the original Bike the Bay Ride, a ride called the Five Cities Ride that at its height drew 10,000 cyclists before the ride got [...]
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