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A month ago Bossman gave me an Ovation Award which I turned into $300 worth of Target gift cards. I've been hemming and hawing over how to use those cards -- a self-cleaning catbox, a small HDTV plus DVD/VCR for the craft room, yet another iPod -- for[...]

Edmund King, 50, is President of the Automobile Association. He was formerly the executive director of the RAC Foundation. Earlier in his career he worked in the Californian motor industry and was a campaigns coordinator for the British Road Federation.[...]

At Interbike 2009, one thing definite that I noticed was the abundance of carbon frames. As I walked the convention, speaking to different manufacturers (big or small companies) it seemed that they all had at least one carbon frame – road or mountain.[...]

So it looks like the city is finally doing something about the curb cut—for bikes—on southbound side of the Ballard Bridge. Eli Sanders described riding over the Ballard Bridge and using the old curb cut in a feature published back in April of 2005: This[...]

From Bikes in the Fast Lane - The French government have started a massive TV campaign to prevent further road deaths. 20 TV ads, each with a specific topic, will be shown over the next few weeks. The slogan? "Accidents Never Happen By Accident". ... [...]

A classic red SyCip bike named "Mr. Bob". Credit SyCip Bicycles via flickr From a Dahon M&, 956 -- that commutes on Brooklyn, New York's waterfront Greenway -- to a used Strida 5.0 -- which can be seen riding the road and bus in Seoul, South Korea --[...]

Interesting piece in the Toronto Globe Mail by Sarah Boesveld asking whether cyclists think twice about getting on their bikes after they have been drinking. This is a topic of discussion in Toronto after a cyclist died last week when he was run over[...]