February 2024

Lawmaker wants to ensure California bridges stay toll-free for pedestrians, cyclists

From KTVU.com

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SAN FRANCISCO – A Bay Area lawmaker is proposing a new bill aimed at ensuring that bridges throughout the state remain toll-free for pedestrians and cyclists.

Assemblyman Phil Ting has introduced AB 2669 to guarantee that walking and biking across publicly owned California bridges, including the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, remains free of charge.

“We want to ensure that we have this right in perpetuity for cyclists and pedestrians to ensure that they can walk and bike across the bridge freely without being worried about paying a toll,” said Ting.

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CicLAvia 2024 Season Launch Party

From LAist.com

CicLAvia is kicking off its event schedule with a debut of their West Coast IPA affectionately named seek-la-VEE-ah. The party is presented in conjunction with the Night Market at Ivy Station, where there will be several food trucks, music, games, local vendors, and kid-friendly activities. This is a free event, no RSVP is required and all ages are welcome.

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How To Train Without Expensive Tech

Are you getting too obsessed with your cycling data? Fed up of constantly looking at your bike computer? You can still have fun and improve your cycling without using fitness data, smart watches, power meters and heart rate monitors. Conor explains how you can keep track of your training without data!

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Finish The Ride – Sunday, 7 April 2024

The event is located at the Autry Museum: Griffith Park, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027

It is recommended you arrive at least 30mins before your event starts to register and 15 minutes before your event starts if you are already pre-registered to pick up your bib.

 

Rollers (skateboards, rollerbladers, wheelchair athletes, etc) are welcome to register for the 12 or 20 Mile Ride lengths.

Note: All types of bicycles are welcome, including class I & II e-bikes – ridden in pedal-assist mode only

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Santa Barbara to Seek Grant Funding for Lower Eastside Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge

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City Council Unanimously Approves Plan to Apply for State Funding for $32 Million Bridge Across Highway 101

It may be a while until the project comes to fruition, but the Santa Barbara City Council gave unanimous approval on Tuesday to move forward with a grant application process that could help the city fund a $32.5 million bicycle and pedestrian bridge connecting the Lower Eastside neighborhood to the areas just across the freeway such as Dwight Murphy Park, the Santa Barbara Zoo, and the beach.

The project is part of the long-range Lower Eastside Connectivity plan that would include $8.2 million in street safety enhancements — which would be funded completely through the Solutions for Congested Corridors grant program — and the bridge itself, which would stretch from the Eastside near Canada and Pitos streets across Highway 101 to allow pedestrians to exit by Dwight Murphy Park. The project would still need to secure funding through state grants and go through multiple rounds of review.

Project Planner Chelsey Swanson presented the history behind the bridge project, and explained the funding method, which would allow the city to offer matching funds toward the project in order to make the application “more competitive.” The city could pay 20 percent, or $6.5 million, and potentially be approved during the next round of funding, or it could apply without any matching funds to “see how project scores,” Swanson said, and potentially “make the project more competitive for future grant opportunities.”

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Stop DESTROYING Your Bottom Bracket And Do This…

 

Does your bottom bracket need replacing? How can you make it last longer? Alex is here with some tips to keep your bottom bracket running smoothly (and quietly!), while also saving you money on maintenance costs!

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‘You Can 100% Focus on Cycling Now.’ Elisa Longo Borghini on the State of Women’s Cycling

From Velo.OutsideOnline.com

The Italian national road race champion joins the Bobby & Jens podcast this week.

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ot long ago, to be professional cyclists, most women had to simultaneously take on second careers.

Luckily, things have changed considerably in just a handful of years.

“It’s a bit a sign of the times,” says Italian national road race champion Elisa Longo Borghini on the latest episode of the Bobby & Jens podcast.

“Most of the time in the past, you had to have a second career, because you didn’t have minimum salary, maternity leave, and so on. So you had to create your own second chance if you couldn’t be the best in cycling.”

Thanks to those developments and guarantees for athletes in the top level of cycling, they can now focus solely on one job.

“Right now, with the minimum salary and everything being settled, you can 100 percent focus on cycling,” Longo Borghini says.

That’s had a direct impact on the quality of racing.

With the ever increasing quality of competition and professionalization of the sport, training now takes up most of the remaining time for female cyclists, as it does for men in the sport’s top levels.

“In between races we are always a bit busy,” Longo Borghini says.

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5 things I wish had known before getting my first road bike

From TomsGuide.com

By Jessica Downey

Here are five things to consider before buying your first road bike

Road bikes are pretty awesome — designed with lightweight frames, narrow tires, and aerodynamic features, they allow you to achieve higher speeds with less effort compared to other types of bikes. If you love indoor cycling on one of the best exercise bikes but you also like to adventure then it’s highly likely you’ll enjoy the freedom of riding a road bike.

From the nuances of bike sizing to the intricacies of maintenance, there are a few things I wish I had known before buying my first road bike. Thankfully, it’s been two years now since I switched over from a mountain bike to a road bike and although I’m still learning new things about road bikes and road cycling I’ve picked up some valuable tips along the way.

Here are five things I wish someone had briefed me on before buying my first road bike.

1) BIKE SIZE AND FIT

Getting a bike with the right frame size is paramount when buying a road bike, or any bike for that matter. While various components of a bike can be adjusted for a better fit you can still end up sitting uncomfortably on a bike if you begin with the wrong frame size. Road bikes aren’t overly cheap so you want to make sure you are investing in something that fits you right and that you can comfortably ride for many years to come.

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How To Shift Your Gears Correctly

What are gear ratios? Why is your gear shift not smooth? What is a bicycle cassette? These are all normal questions for a beginner cyclist, and getting your head around bicycle mechanics and gears can be confusing. Conor and Manon talk you through how to use and shift gears effectively.

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Ride an e-bike, it’ll change your perspective

From Medium.com

By Connor Hearld

*becoming more eco-conscious*

It sounds fake doesn’t it? Well, also backwards. Riding a bike is supposed to be a healthy move in the right direction. Doesn’t making the bike electric just make it a worse off bike you’d maybe ask yourself?

While I wouldn’t recommend an e-bike for your health needs, assuming you don’t plan on pedaling at all if you have a decent throttle. An e-bike for me has been a great way to stay outdoors. With less time than I used to have and more concern for my own health, I wonder if it’s time to put up my skateboard I used to ride to work and just stick solely to my e-bike.

The electric bike I decided to go with was a Pedal Electric Core 2.0. It’s quite expensive I know, but I figured with not using my vehicle, it makes up for it(I currently have a broken down Ford Focus, one of the worst vehicles in my experience thus far). Obviously it’s not a cost free decision. I still need to pay for the electricity charging my bike as well as the new maintenance that comes with maintaining a bike instead of a car(still need to fix the car).

Getting an e-bike has been a choice of “this will get me by reliably and quickly.” There are better options I’m sure, maybe even cheaper bikes. One of my worries when it comes to the cost of said bike is that you are risking a decent battery.

RadWagon 4 Electric Cargo Bike
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