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

From The Guardian: Police attempts to outlaw the monthly Critical Mass cycle ride through the streets of London unless its route was notified in advance were blocked by the law lords today. The House of Lords allowed a challenge by cyclist Des Kay to a court of appeal ruling that the Metropolitan police...

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

I received a link recently from lonerider, who directs us to the blog Rock’N'Bike, which looks at the history of bicycles in music: Enjoy!

You can find more photos from Albany’s Critical Masquerade here and

This is from today’s entry by Bike Snob NYC: The New York Times also points out that in particular the number of cyclists crossing the Williamsburg Bridge has quadrupled from 2000 to 2008. This particular statistic is an excellent example of how important semantics are when it comes to interpreting...

If you’re an iPhone user and you like mapping out your rides, you may want to check out iMapMyRide. It’s linked to MapMyRide and uses the GPS feature on the iPhone.

This was on the Albany Bicycle Coalition mailing list today: I wanted to update you on the progress of the Friends of the Rail Trail group I’ve been helping to get organized. Jack Madden and I have been working with the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy (MHLC) to get a Friends Group started. So at...

I drove to Shaftsbury, VT, today to visit one of the houses in which poet Robert Frost lived. It was in this house — known as the Stone House — that he wrote “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Just as most of the classic Xmas albums were recorded in the summer, this quintessential...

This came a couple days ago from Amy in Albany: Anyone have any suggestions for how to safely teach my son to bike in traffic in Albany? He’s 8, and when we’re not on residential suburban streets (we live in Delmar) we’ve always had him ride on the sidewalk, which usually means we have...