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This was in The Independent this weekend: James Daley: ‘Another cyclist raced up alongside me and started hurling abuse’

The New York Times has an article today about bike fitting: Ouch, My Knee! Is There a Bike Fitter in the House?

The League of American Bicyclists released it’s list of Bike Friendly States. New York is #34.

Those crafty kids in Oregon slipped the Bicycle Commuter Benefits Act into Bush’s awful awful $700 billion bad debt buy out. In short, your employer can give you $20/month, tax free, for biking to work. More from Commute By Bike, among others.

The official Long Bike Back Blog was updated this morning. They made it to Boston. Because, you know, they are awesome. This write up talks about their trip through Eastern New York, with pictures of them riding through Albany (and I’m in one!). I’m glad to hear that they made it safely.

This came from NYBC’s Jennifer Clunie today: Dear Cyclists, NYBC has received a number of calls and inquiries re: the LONG BIKE Back event tomorrow (Saturday, September 27th). Like trusty mail carriers, Pearson & Pete have ridden through heavy rain, fierce winds, blistering sun, and treacherous...

Buncha fun rides this Saturday, September 27th. On Saturday, September 27 at 9:30 AM, Save the Pine Bush is sponsoring a bicycle ride from the Civil War Monument in Washington Park to the Pine Bush Discovery Center on Route 155, north of Washington Avenue Extension. Once at the Discovery Center, we...

While I’m here, I’ll post this bit: How do the Open Source software movement, bicycle sub-culture, guerilla gardening, and the Burning Man Festival fit together? Author and Critical Mass co-founder Chris Carlsson connects these dots as he profiles the social networks that are cooperating...

Over on Dinosaurs and Robots, they have a post about velocars. The fuel rationing … is not a 1970’s fuel crisis, but the restrictions that were in place during the German occupation of France during World War II. As the aforementioned (and excellent) Microcar Museum notes, “It was the...

Here’s the latest on the potential new rail-trails. This is from Ken von Geldern via the Albany Bicycling Coalition mailing list: Great news… On Monday night, the Albany County Legislature approved measures to purchase the Hudson-Heldelberg Railroad bed from Albany to Voorheesville, and fund...