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From Tuesday’s Albany Times Union: Albany wants to jump on cycling Consultant sought to develop master plan for bike lanes, routes By TIM O’BRIEN, Staff writer First published: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 ALBANY — With high gas prices and a constant fight for parking spaces, Albany...

This is from today’s Albany Times Union: Disabled man’s mobility taken in street theft Custom three-wheeler was Jeff Elsbree’s sole means of transport By PAUL GRONDAHL, Staff writer First published: Friday, September 5, 2008 ALBANY — Stolen bikes are commonplace, but when someone...

My family and I were riding our Xtracycles back from a Hair of the Dog show at Ten Broeck Mansion last night when we came upon Loren Grugan from the Albany Rickshaw Co. He’s been mentioned on RocBike here and here. We found him at Washington Park with three passengers — a woman and two [...

The Albany Times Union ran a commentary piece this morning on bike trails: Bike trails idea needs steering By MARLENE KENNEDY, Executive Business Editor First published: Friday, August 22, 2008 Long ago and far away, a bicycle was my main mode of transportation. I was in college, subletting a friend’s...

From the Albany Business Journal: The owner of the new Albany Rickshaw Co. has teamed up with the Lark Street Business Improvement District to promote his pedicab business. Loren Grugan, a 17-year Albany Police Officer, formed his rickshaw company in July and hopes to expand it from one pedicab to...

The fine folks at EcoVelo just let me know about their site. Here’s their description: Utilizing bicycles for transportation to reduce our impact on the environment. Welcome to EcoVelo. This site is the public expression of our personal commitment to reduce our impact on the environment by employing...

Turns out that the kind of bicycle camping we just did at Five Rivers is known as an S24O, which is geekese for a “Sub-24-hour Overnight.” The fine folks at Rivendell Bicycle Works have a few things to say (and sell) regarding bicycle camping: Camping vs. Touring: Bike Camping. How it’s...

Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times Moving Targets By JAN HOFFMAN Published: August 8, 2008 IT seemed like a good idea at the time. Save gas money, be environmentally correct, lose weight — just by biking to work. And so after two decades, Dan Cooley, 41, saddled up a silver 21-speed Raleigh in April...

We had our first bike camping adventure this weekend, and it was great! We decided to start easy, with a family camping event at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center in nearby Delmar, New York. Here’s a bit of history about Five Rivers, which started out as a Civilian Conservation Corps ...

Here are more photos of the Cranes on our Xtracycles. These were taken by my mom on Washington Ave in Albany in front of El Mariachi.