Well, we made it to Sea Otter and the first thing we did was to hit up the Redline booth. Our good friend Tim Rutledge showed us some new products amongst them was the new Redline 925:

Check out this new Batavus Lightning:

We’ll have video with details coming soon. You can also rate those bikes at [...]

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The advocacy group I’m working with is offering some awesome bike education. I was a pretty experienced commuter when I took the class and I still learned a lot of useful techniques. I highly recommend the class!!!! I know the two instructors personally and they are top-notch!
The Long Beach Cyclists, Bikestation and [...]

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Ok, here’s my confession: I read women’s magazines — Cosmo, Glamour, Jane, Lucky, etc. What can I say? I’m a print junkie and a librarian…magazines are all over the place in both my home and my office!
So, the other day, I was flipping through the May 2008 issue of Marie Claire magazine, [...]

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It seems that our own Jack “Ghost Rider” Sweeney is making the ‘media rounds’. Jack was recently interviewed by the St. Petersburg Times (Click here to read the article).

Also, he had the pleasure of being interviewed for the University of South Florida Oracle, the daily student newspaper for the USF community. Check out that [...]

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Alan Barnard is back again with another Guest Article…

I recently transitioned from a mix of telecommuting and car commuting, to multi-modal commuting using bike, bus, and train. In the process we eliminated a car and we’ll cut our annual automobile mileage by approximately 75%.
I’m fortunate that my monthly transit pass is valid on city commuter [...]

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I found a great at Entrepreneur.com about incentive programs that companies can take to lessen their carbon foot print.
Biking to and from the office is also gaining popularity: “We give out a bicycle to everyone who has worked at the company for at least one year,” says Bryan Simpson of New Belgium Beer in Fort [...]

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Great series of videos on Mike Beaumont, who rode 18,000 miles in 200 days! How’s that for a long commute.

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The Sea Otter Festival is this week. RL, Jeremy and I are heading over there to cover the event. We learned a couple of things last year. First, having a bike to cover the entire festival really helps. Sea Otter is so big that walking really SUCKS. Second, it rains, and it rains a lot. [...]

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Shane Stock of OSO Bike riding his Coaster Brake Bike.

If you were a kid during the seventies, you may remember the old Schwinn Stingrays–they had banana seats, and thick tires in the back for skidding. My friends and I used to ride those bikes around all summer and we were pretty hard on them. [...]

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Today we’ve got a special commuter profile to share with you…Chris Follmer of Planet Bike. Chris has graciously allowed us to share his commuting stories and photos with you:

How long have you been a bike commuter?
I have been commuting year-round for the last 3 years now: 2 years in a small town in southwest [...]

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