Taking off the training wheels

One never forgets one's first experience on two wheels. Bikescape reconnects with the feeling.

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That's my brother (left) and me on the red schwinn with the solid rubber tires.

Bikeboom is a great website for los angelenos with an open source calendar. (Anyone can post events)

The bike kitchen is the web site for the folks who'll teach you how to tune your bike.

Chris Carlsson will be leading his bike tour about San Francisco ecological history.

The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition will be having is winterfest, among other events. (check the calendar!)

The San Francisco Bicycle Ballet

This is just an experiment to see how video works on bikescape. Let me know how it works!

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Bikescape didn't make it to the SFBB show last week because of birthday conflicts but here's a three second clip of the bikerinas doing a move knnown as the"daisy."

See you all next week with a new podcast about first bike rides...

-jw

Commuting together: The Genentech bike club

Why ride alone when you can ride together? Bikescape joins the Genentech Bike Club as they splash through the rainy streets fifteen miles from San Francisco to their suburban office park. We talk of many things: food, dress, and cycle commuter accommodations in the corporate world.

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We also visit Nelson Nygaard and Associates and talk to Adam Millard-Ball about planning for better transportation

The Cranksgiving Alley Cat ride is happening in New York where this film by Lucas Brunell was filmed.

Don't Miss the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition's Winter Fest

Bridging the gap

This week Bikescape looks for a way across the San Francisco Bay by bike. We look at the BART train and the Bay Bridge Bike Shuttle and take a peek into future possibilities.

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BART's bike rules

Here's an old movie about the construction of the Bay Bridge

Here's a link to the Bay Bridge bike shuttle

Let's keep an eye on the Rincon Hill Plan and make sure room is left for a bicycle approach to the Bridge

The Transbay Terminal is due for a makeover

Come see the Bike Ballet! Friday, Nov. 11, 7PM - Midnight; Dogpatch Saloon, 2496 Third (@22nd Street)*

Chris Carlsson will be leading a bike tour of San Francisco Labor History (scroll down)

Both the London and New York Halloween Critical Masses went off without a hitch. Check them out at Bikeblog

Riding with Pedal Express

Bikescape leaves the urban jungle of San Francisco and crosses the Bay to the leafy college town of Berkeley. We visit the Berkeley Center for Appropriate Transportation and go for a ride with Pedal Express.

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BCAT seems to not have a web site but the CAT in Eugene does.

Some of the bikes used by Pedal Express

Workbikes

Missing Link Bicycle Cooperative and Inkworks Press (where I work) like Ped Ex are members of NOBAWC and are Alameda County Certified Green Businesses.

We made a delivery at Southerland Bike Shop Aids

Busted flat in the big apple

In the face of the NYPD's opposition, New York's critical Mass rides still. We talk to Michael Green and Jym Dyer about the current state of the ride.

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Music from Wendy Mae Chambers on the car horn organ

The Rinky Dink Sound System song by David Rovics

Send your money to Times Up! to help defray legal costs

Mr.Bike

We talk to Dave Glowacz, aka Mr. Bike, author of Urban Bikers' Tips and Tricks about biking in the city. He also fill us in on what's happening in his home town of Chicago.

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Dave also works as the education coordinator ant the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation.

Bike Summer is for wimps! Chicago is the "City of Broad Shoulders" and the home of Bike Winter.

The Governator vetoes two big bike bills in California. Find out what to do here.

Last Chance to check out the Bicycle Film Fest in San Francisco! Catch it in Tokyo next.

Mona's Mural

In the spirit of Art Mobs Mona Caron takes us for an audio tour of her 340 foot long mural adorning San Francisco's Duboce St. Bikeway.



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An article from the San Francisco Chronicle about the opening.

The Bicycle Film Festival

Still We Speak defends your your rights!

Some say Leonardo da Vinci invented the bicycle.

San Francisco's Courier Disaster Response Team

How can bicyclists help out in a disaster? We find out when Bikescape talks with Serenity Enriquez who started the Bike Courier Disaster Response Team.

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Serenity was awarded Local Hero Status by the San Francisco Bay Guardian

NERT

broken links repaired and a new one

Radio4all moved to a new server and changed the links to the podcasts and I had to repair the feed. I'm sorry if you get new downloads of shows you've already heard...

And speaking of links, here's one to a great blog run kindred spirit Michael Green out of NY. The blog is called bikeblog and its got a lot of first hand accounts and photos of the vibrant and exciting NY bike scene.