Everyone that I work with knows that I ride my bicycle to work. By now they don’t even give a second look when I walk in the building in spandex (for the most part). A recent comment made me stop and consider what folks must be thinking. For the second time in a month someone
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Tired of riding outside in the cold or alone on the rollers in your basement? It’s time for the next installment of RIVeloSprints! Come join us on February 1st @ 6:30pm for some fun on rollers. RI VeloSprints is an indoor bicycle roller racing tournament. Two cyclists climb aboard bicycles securely mounted to rollers and
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Wicked Local Natick, is reporting that a Natick man, Colin D’Aguiar, involved in a bicycle SUV accident on January 16th died from complications recently. As usual the press reports that the man was riding his bike when he was struck by a Ford SUV. It’s amazing how many vehicles suddenly turn on cyclists and run
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Our very own Dick Durishin in an article today on Daily Peloton. In it, Dick discusses his plans to host the return of the US Open of Cycling in Rhode Island. He has a date with the UCI and USACycling for 2010 and a planned course, here in Rhode Island, that takes in the dramatic
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An article in today’s Projo lists eight new projects RIDOT announced will be funded with Federal stimulus money. From an advocacy point of view, I think it’s important for our group to stay on top of lists like these, review areas RIDOT is working in, and see if there are any infrastructure improvements that can
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RIDOT and PVD city planning have scheduled the follow-up meeting for street designs emerging from the teardown of “old” I-195. Changes to the earlier design (based on earlier public feedback) will be presented, including new alternatives for the Wickenden/Point/Benefit/South Main/South Water clusterf#*k interchange. Your participation is crucial to ensuring livable streets in Fox Point and
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We don’t post a lot of commuter tips on this blog, perhaps it would be good communal goal to do so in 2010! Here’s a start… I was heading for home on Friday, when I picked up a piece of glass in my rear tire. I was on a tight schedule and was heading for
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Tired of riding outside in the cold or alone on the rollers in your basement? Come join us for an evening of RIVeloSprints! RI VeloSprints is an indoor bicycle roller racing tournament. Two cyclists climb aboard bicycles securely mounted to rollers and pedal as hard as they can for 500 meters. There will be nightly,
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One of our readers reported the following to a traffic engineer at DPW over the weekend: I wanted to bring a situation to your attention that the City needs to fix asap, as it’s quite dangerous along River Road for bicyclists, runners, and walkers. Yesterday I was bike riding with my son through Blackstone Park,
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I had to run an errand in Riverside yesterday so I decided to use the bike path. Previous attempts to use the path have been difficult because of the snow cover we have had this winter. The recent warmer temperatures have had a clearing effect; and even though the above picture shows one of the
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