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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are.

Ernest Hemingway

Archives

March 2010

• New Google Maps feature--Now with Tasty Bicycle Directions!

• Popupping: Safe Bike Rack

February 2010

• San Francisco Robbie

• Turn Signal Cycling Jacket

• There’s a first time for everything

• Chicks + Bikes = HOT

January 2010

• My Bike is also a Cupcake Wagon

• Playing Possum

• The Stinky Spoke

• The long route to Portage Bay Cafe

• Colonnade in the News Again

• Happy New Year!

December 2009

• Rollin’ through the Holidays

• Wow, that was Wet!

• Sunset Huckfest at the Colonnade

• Top 10 Things I Love About Riding in Near-Freezing Temps

• Beauty and the Bike

November 2009

• All This Rain…

• I Want Magic Eyes Too, Chuck!

• Le Tour Shop

• Anybody got a spare bike?

• Back on the Bike

• Dope

• Poster by The Skullz Press

• Real Conversations From the Bike Shop, Vol. 1

• Thriv Natural Performance Wear

October 2009

• One for Day of the Dead

• Traffic Justice Summit

• Cycles in Europa

• Doin’ the Metro Tango

• Ouch

• Velotopia Update

• Hey Lady, You Have a Giant Butte

• Should I stay, or should I go?

• Hither and Yon

September 2009

• Dear Douch Bag

• Greeting Stout Velotopians

• Another One of Those MOTO-Bikes.

• The Stranger: Biking The Ballard Bridge

• Team PBDH at BikeMS 2009

• Lance Armstrong’s Return to Cycling Posters

• The Next Bike

• Get Dirty

• Labor Day in Ketchum, Idaho

• NYC Helmets by fuseproject

• There’s an App for That - Test Rides

August 2009

• Greengear Bike Studio for Kids

• Performance…

• Bike Skills

• Dirtburger In Paradise

• I Got a Car So I Can Bike More.

• Craigs List: A Few Things From the Bike Shop.

• Motor-Bikes are Rad

• It Happened in Switzerland: Part II

• Leadville 100: Lance Knows How to Win a Bike Race

• It Happened in Switzerland: Part I

• It’s All About The Performance What?

• Check this GOOD piece on “B-Cycle Bike Share”

• Colonnade Posters for Sale

• I Know Zeb

• Biketype

• I Got This Rainbow-Colored Bike…

• Blind Trials Rider

July 2009

• Kranked Mountain Bike Movie Premier - Tonight!

• Tour de France Better Than Ever

• The Best Defense is a Good Offense

• Stoplight Sensors for Bikes

• This Pump Doesn’t Suck

• Oh Snap: RadioShack and Lance to Form New Cycling Team in 2010

• Road Rash Repair Kit

• They Hate Us For Our Freedom: Bicyclist Shot with Blow Gun on Ballard Bridge

• George Hincapie is the Bodhisattva of Professional Cycling

• Zip Ties, You Make the World Go Round.

• A wee bit o’ video from STP

• Cool Bike Shirts by Sonadei

• Seattle to Portland (again)

• The Stranger: Bikes & Guns

• Less Than Half a Second Keeps Lance Out of the Mellow Johnny!

• Race Report: Friday Night Track Races

• Armstrong & Hincapie Again!

• Livin’ la Vida Velo

• Trail Report - Tolt MacDonald

• While you were sleeping, a cyclist was killed on Aurora Ave.

• The Electric Commuter Begins

June 2009

• Fun Training Ride

• Squadra Ciclismo Cascina Spinasse!

• Riding with Lance… But He Wasn’t There

• So, you think you can ride?

• Zen and the art of not watching where you’re going

• Flying Wheels + Kielbasa = Happiness

• PSA: Mavic R-Sys Wheels

• Flying Wheels Summer Century

• Earworm Alert: Biking under the (musical) Influence

• Tapeworm Never Gets Old

• Kudos to West Seattle warriors

• Galbraith… Hell yeah

• Swine Before Pearls

• Twilight Criterium

• New Recruits: Robbie & Ken (and Johnathon)

• That’s a Wrap--We Survived Bike to Work Month

May 2009

• Bike Wise

• Bike MS is coming

• Dawn Patrol at Tapeworm

• Rockin’ the 24-Hour Race

• Bikewise: Report Crashes, Hazards, and Theft

• And POOF… Just Like That My TV is Gone

• Gearing up for the 24-Hour Race

• A great weekend for cycling

• Two Years, Car Free

• Velotopia Bikes to Work!

• Bike To Work Day: The Audio Interview

• Bicycling’s Balancing Act: Risk vs. Reward

• Seattle, Let’s Ride Tomorrow

• Build an Electric Bike

• NYT: Nearly Car Free

• Wool is Smart!

• $1000 fine

• Something Happened on the Way to the Velodrome. (Or, How I Almost Killed My Best Friend…)

• Our own Dave Cole on King 5

• Fixie Trials Movie in Seattle?

• The First 100

April 2009

• ‘They’ will be ‘us’ Be Good to Angry Drivers.

• Sweet Jesus

• Finding A Better Espresso Stop

• Fat Cyclist Reports: Astana Banned From The Tour

• Same Old Story Again

• Puma I-Cycle

• Hincapie on Twitter

• A Ride with Big George

• Mountain Bike Racing!

• A Case Against Fixies

March 2009

• The Short-Lived Life of My First Fixie (Part 4of4)

• The Short-Lived Life of My First Fixie (Part 3of4)

• Welcome Johnathon

• LBS Love: Velo Bike Shop

• Chemtrails vs. Contrails

• The Short-Lived Life of My First Fixie (Part 2of4)

February 2009

• The Short-Lived Life of My First Fixie (Part 1of4)

• Artist Sought to Design On-Street Bicycle Parking

• Donor Bike Needed

• This Bike is a Pipe Bomb

• Rapha Rides The Tour of California

• Tour of California on Flickr

• Cyclist killed in Ballard

• Here We Go Again

January 2009

• Slog: Ballard Businesses STILL Fighting Burke-Gilman Trail

• Light Lane: The Bike Lane That Travels With You

• What it’s Like

• WTF?

December 2008

• Driving Blindly

• Commuting For All Seasons

• The Trek to Re-Energize America

November 2008

• Screwed - Flat Tires, Why I Hate Them. How to Prevent Them

• Tax Benefit for Bike Commuters?

• Around The World on a Penny Farthing

October 2008

• New Year, New Tour

• Early winter in Idaho

• Redemption

• A New Idea in Bike Lights

• Gothamist: New Bike Racks May Take Some Getting Used To

• It’s All Mental (unabridged version)

September 2008

• Come Ride with Second Ascent

• Nothing better than a biking picture

• Resist the Car - The Signs are Everywhere

• Hardcore Headlights Get You Hardcore Respect

• A free app for your 3G iPhone

• dz-nuts

• PLU’S Bike Co-op Gets Rolling

• More Commuters Pedaling to Work

• New Commuting Clothes

• A Bit of Good News

• Mountain Biker’s Glossary

• Good People

• Vanity Fair: Lance Rides Again

• Feel the Love

• Lance Rides Again?

• Colonnade Map Update (again)

• Very cool new bikes

• Colonnade Mountain Bike Park Grand Opening - Sat, Sep. 13th

• Freewheelin’ at the DNC

August 2008

• Fixless in Seattle

• Mountain Bike Racing Is Awesome

• This is Why I Ride a Bike (II)

• Terror

• Beijing Olympics: BMX

• Hot Pink and Ready to Roll

• Yakkay Bike Helmets!

• Idaho Backroads Five

• Mountain Bike Racing Sucks.

• Idaho Backroads Four

• Another Weekend Mountain Biking in the Northwest

• The Rapha Continental

• Idaho Backroads Three

• Idaho Backroads Two

• Idaho Backroads One

• Looks Like I’m Biking to CU Football Games

• BMX, Where it all Began

• This is Why I Ride a Bike.

July 2008

• Cool Recycled Bike Swag

• Inspiration from Lance

• Critical Mass You’re Dead To Me

• Conquering Vail pass

• Friday Night Velodrome

• Violence at Seattle Critical Mass

• City Racks Design Winners

• Look what I just found on Craigslist

• Cycle U Street Sprints

• Race the S.L.U.T.

• Spotted in Eastern Washington

• African Cyclists

• Hand-made Bikes and Beer

• Tuesday: Tour Hits The Alps

• Seattle Bike-In

• Seattle Bike Park Rocks!

• Cobra Takes a Bite Out of The Tour

• Ye Olde-Fashioned Head Tube Badges

• Brent Humphreys: Photographer

• STP: My First (Double) Century

• Know Your Limits

September 2007

• Midnight Racing

• New Bike Lanes in Seattle

July 2007

• It’s All In Your Head