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Yes. A bill signed by Gov. Jared Polis in May prohibits Coloradans from stopping, standing or parking in a designated bike lane.
Racing resumes on Tuesday, May 12 on the oldest velodrome in the United States.
The May 14 event includes morning pancakes by City Hall and a happy hour in Old Oakland with bites, beer, children’s storytime, and lots of free bike parking.
Pray to get ahead or to keep your head. Bicycle helmets have really taken off recently. In the months leading up to Japan’s stricter cycling violation penalties, I noticed many more people around me wearing them, and after the laws went into effect, they even started selling out in a lot of stores. That’s great […]
## Injured cyclist gets $512,000 from Oakland in pothole settlement
The Town has paid tens of millions of dollars in settlements over the last 10 years due to poor road maintenance.
Luckily there’s an easy way to tell if you’re dealing with a legitimate law enforcement officer or a con artist. Bike riding has been largely unregulated in Japan for several decades, but big changes came at the start of this month with the introduction of the blue ticket (“aoikippu” in Japanese) system. This new legal […]
There’s a major gray area in Japan’s new blue ticket cycling violation system. Bicycles are often a great way to thoroughly explore Japan’s local communities, providing more range than you’d get walking, more flexibility than taking the train, and less complexity to deal with than renting a car. However, bike-riding has gotten more complicated in […]
On an unassuming stretch of Main Street in the small town of Elizabeth sits a doorway into cycling’s wonderfully peculiar past. Behind it waits a collection of vintage bicycles so varied and charming that it’s hard not to grin as you walk in the door.
Paul’s Vintage Bicycle Museum isn’t slick or high-tech and that’s precisely the point. Instead, it feels like stepping into a lovingly curated…
Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at info@reasonstobecheerful.world and we just might feature it here. Curbing cars Back in 2022, RTBC Contributing Editor Peter Yeung reported on Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s war on cars. According to a...
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Every once in a while, YouTube's algorithm delivers something completely unexpected. A gem you've never searched for and never would have guessed existed.
Today, that gem was bicycle gymnastics. Not the events I usually watch — extreme tag or competitive axe-chopping — but something equally athletic and far more surreal. — Read the rest
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The city transportation department will seek at least $75 million in state, federal, and county funds to make 73rd Ave., West Grand Ave., and Hegenberger Rd. safer.
New Yorkers gathered at a bench in Central Park to remember Russian dissident Alexei Navalny on the anniversary of his death.
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Theoretically a belt drive makes for a great upgrade to a bicycle, as it replaces the heavier, noisy and relatively maintenance-heavy roller chain with a zero-maintenance, whisper-quiet and extremely reliable …read more
## Expansion of Oakland’s East Bay Greenway to break ground later this year
Three more miles of protected cycle tracks will make biking from Fruitvale to Lake Merritt and Downtown safer.
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