Posted by admin on 10/23/07 in Bicycle Culture, Positive Spin
Anchorage Daily News: Bicycles built for 40-year marriage
The Turnagain Arm cruise was just one more in a quest that has led them to bike beautiful sites in nearly every state. The couple were seeking relief from winter when they traveled in 1992 to Hilton Head Island off the coast of South Carolina. In addition [...]
Posted by admin on 10/20/07 in Positive Spin
The Age: On yer bike: it’s a message worth recycling
Erin Sievwright, a long-time bike enthusiast who often chooses track suit pants over Lycra shorts, sometimes wonders if she is the most unfashionable cyclist on the road. The 26-year-old, whose love affair with cycling started as a teenager, says she only recently traded in her trainers [...]
Posted by admin on 10/9/07 in Positive Spin
The Age: Around the world in 13 years
He was hit by a car in Colorado, attacked by a crocodile in Australia, detained as a suspected spy in Egypt and survived illness and periods of despair. Now British adventurer Jason Lewis has finally come home, after completing a 13-year, 74,000-kilometre human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
The [...]
Posted by admin on 10/9/07 in Positive Spin
AM New York: Music star pushes cycling lifestyle
Envisioning a city where bicycle traffic gets priority over automobiles, singer David Byrne, a longtime city bike commuter, hosted a program Saturday that explored ways to make New York’s streets more like those of bike-friendly Copenhagen. About 35 percent of the workforce in the Danish capital commutes [...]