On this week’s GCN Racing News Show, Dan runs through his HOT takes in cycling for 2025. 🌶️ After last year’s success rate of… 1 out of 8, he’s feeling confident with 7 bold new predictions. Will Juan Ayuso conquer the Giro? Can Wout van Aert claim a cobbled monument? And will Tadej Pogacar somehow get even better? Tune in to find out!
From CalBike.org
This was a year of ups and downs, of big wins for safer streets and big setbacks for funding to build safer streets. Like almost every year, 2024 was a time of contradictions and mixed messages for bicycle advocates in California and beyond. So it’s time to celebrate the good and make fun of the bad. Here’s CalBike’s rundown of the best and worst of 2024.
Three bills. Eight years of campaigning. And, in 2024 — Complete Streets success! We applaud Senator Scott Wiener for standing behind and reintroducing his legislation to require Caltrans to build infrastructure for people walking, biking, and taking transit on state-controlled roadways. CalBike stuck with it, too, tirelessly campaigning for Caltrans to live up to its own policies around Complete Streets.
BRAWLEY — For more than 20 years, the Las Chabelas family has banded together with the community to gift bicycles to children in need each holiday season. What started as a small initiative by restaurant owner, Carlos Weir, has gathered support and grown into a local fundraiser that changes lives for children in the Imperial Valley.
On Saturday, Dec. 22, Brawley’s longtime family-owned restaurant, Las Chabelas, held its annual Children’s Christmas Bicycle Fundraiser Drive to distribute 159 bicycles to Imperial Valley children who have never owned their own bike. Fundraising for these bicycles begins in November through December by means of tri-tip plates, community donations and generous partners like Brawley’s Elks Lodge, all leading up to this special day.
Walking through the back patio of Las Chabelas, there was a magnificent array of bicycles in different colors and sizes, with training wheels or no training wheels, to suit children’s different needs. Children lined up waiting to take their turn to pick out a bicycle and head to the photo wall to get their picture taken on their first bike.
Photo by Amber Faust on Unsplash
We’re at Bassano del Grappa—Italy’s hidden gem and new hotspot for cyclists! Alex & Hank are staying at the Bassano Club House—a café, bike shop, workshop, and vibrant hub for all things cycling. They’ve been equipped with beautiful Basso bikes (locally made, of course), go for a few rides, and get a taste of what the perfect cycling holiday looks like!
From PasadenaNow.com
BY RACHEL YOUNG
After months of waiting, bicyclists this afternoon will hear newly revised city plans to make bike riding in Pasadena safer after the original proposal was rejected by a City Council committee.
The updated City Bicycle Plan will be delivered publicly during the Municipal Services Committee meeting at 4:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at Pasadena City Hall, 100 North Garfield Avenue, Room S249.
During its July 9 meeting the Municipal Services Committee declined to accept the city staff’s plans and directed development of a more ambitious Bicycle Transportation Plan.
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From BikingInLA.com
Hard to believe, I know.
It’s been ten long years since a friend suggested holding a fund drive to help pay for this site, allowing me to turn pro.
It started as a joke, but quickly turned into an important source of funding, as people like you surprised me by opening their hearts and wallets to us.
And by us, I mean me and my four-legged assistant down there at the bottom.
It’s been ten years of good news and bad, happy and, yes, sad. Because I always try tell you the truth about what’s happening on our streets, to the best of my ability, so you know what’s going on out there.
Could Tadej Pogačar win the Tour de France on any bike? We’re asking the question because Colnago just unveiled a radical new aero bike, and it might make the fastest rider in the peloton, even faster! Plus, we’ve got updates on WorldTour groupsets, Tom Pidcock’s big transfer, and FSA’s sleek new carbon cranks.
From LA.streetsblog.org
By Joe Linton
San Fernando’s Pacoima Wash walk/bike path is open – and the city installed more modular curb-protection along downtown L.A.’s Main Street parking-protected bike lanes.
In June, Streetsblog shared pictures of the city of San Fernando’s then nearly completed bike/walk path along the Pacoima Wash. The city officially opened the new path in late October. The facility extends 1.4 mile from Fourth Street/Bradley Avenue to Cindy Montañez Natural Park at 8th Street.
From KGET.com
by: Justin White
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The 17 News studio has been accepting donations of toys for our annual 17 Days of Christmas Toy Drive for children between the ages of 5 to 18.
The toys will be donated to the Open Door Network and the Boys and Girls Club of Kern County.
Of course, all donations are special and make Christmas wishes come true, but there’s a man who donates to our Toy Drive every single year, and this year was no exception.
Gary Guinn has been spreading holiday cheer in our town for well over 30 years. It didn’t start with him, and it didn’t start with toys, but it grew into such.
“Started out with turkeys…for years my father did it before me,” said Guinn. “One day I was unloading the turkeys with him and he told me, ‘Son, these little kids don’t get anything. Let’s get them some tricycles next year’.”
Photo by Joe Zlomek on Unsplash
After 40mm performance road tyres proved remarkably popular, Ollie and Conor had to scour the market in order to finally get hold of a set. While Ollie gives us the theory about their performance, Conor put them to the test. But what actually happens when the rubber hits the road?
