Providence Bicycle Coalition (PBC)
For our first picture, I’ve uploaded a picture of a bike rack I saw while traveling in MN. There are a couple interesting racks I’ll snag pictures of around RI and post them once I get a chance. If you see an interesting bike rack, drop us an email with the image and we will get it posted on the site.
Keep an eye out for Bike-to-Work day pictures!
If you are anything like me, your life is busy and you hardly have time to proactively poll a blog looking for updates. PBC attempts to make this a little easier for you. Your first option is to point a browser at either one of our RSS feeds. The Post RSS will supply you with a feed of all the new blog posts. The Comments RSS will supply you with a feed of all the new blog comments. Alternatively, you can signup on our blogposts email list and receive an email summary each time new post is added. We’d also encourage you to take a look at our other email lists, you might just find another list that is of interest.
There is a new study underway at Rhode Island Hospital to collect data about people who
ride their bikes for fitness, fun, competition, commuting or delivery of goods and services.
The study is one of only a few to focus specifically on cycling injuries. Our goal is to help improve and promote cycling for health and transportation.
Information will be collected via an online confidential survey. Participants will be anonymous.
This study is being done in conjunction with the Brown University School of Medicine and is being led by Mark Greve, MD. Mark happens to be the new faculty sponsor of the Brown Cycling Club. I’d encourage everyone to take a few minutes and fill out the online survey.
From the NBW email list:
A memorial service will be held at 1:30 p.m. March 2,
at the First Unitarian Society in Newton, at 1326
Washington St. (across the street from Harris Cyclery)
West Newton.For those pedaling to the memorial service, there will
be a designated bicycle parking area. A police detail
will be on hand, but please bring your lock.Sheldon’s family has requested that memorial donations
be made to the causes and groups that he loved best -
Cycling Advocacy/Education and Community Theatre.As his influence was world wide, please consider any
of the following:MassBike
171 Milk Street
Suite 33
Boston. MA 02109
617-542-6755
http://www.massbike.orgRevels, Inc.
80 Mt. Auburn Street
Watertown, MA 02472
617-972-8300
Revels Inc.Or consider a gift in Sheldon’s name to your local
cycling advocacy or community theatre organization.
One of the country’s most knowledgeable and passionate cycling advocates, Sheldon Brown, passed away on Sunday.
A VeloNews article points readers to a memorial blog for Sheldon Brown where they are encouraging people to submit their stories and memories. I’d encourage anyone who knew Sheldon Brown to submit their comments to the blog.
Carlton Reid over at BikeBiz.com is reporting that there will be an Interbike East Coast Demo Day in 2008. The dates will be October 21st - 22nd and it will be held at Roger Williams Park.
The Interbike Outdoor Demo East event will be based on the Interbike Outdoor Demo held before Interbike, Las Vegas and will include product testing, National Bicycle Dealers Association (NBDA) seminars and networking events. The new event is aimed at servicing retailers who do not attend the West Coast event.
There was talk of hosting a consumer day around this event, but this appears to have been dropped. Still, it is a great boon for Providence that they are hosting this event.
Sram-Zipp/Orbea Clinic Coming to Providence Bicycle on Thursday January 10th at 7:00pm the SRAM/ORBEA / ZIPP WHEELS TECH CLINIC. We will have as our guests Butch Balzano from SRAM NEUTRAL SUPPORT, CJ Bradbury with ZIPP and Derrick Griggs of ORBEA USA. Butch will introduce Srams new RED GROUP for road bicycles and compare it to the current Force and Rival kits. He will showcase the time-trial bar end shifters and brake levers as well. Derrick will highlight Orbeas 2008 product line including the redesigned ORDU triathlon frameset. There will be discussion on materials, technology and design which, when combined, create the legendary Orbea ride. CJ will be on hand with ZIPPS 2008 products. He will explain their new CARBON BRIDGE technology and have cross sections of some rims so you can see what its all about. It will be a total bike geek night. Refreshments will be served. Contact Joe at 331-6610 or joe@providencebicycle.com for more info or to let us know you’re coming. See Ya.
This is an excerpt from the most recent RoadBikeRider.com newsletter
Interbike is considering an East Coast version of the popular
Outdoor Demo that’s held in conjunction with its annual cycling trade
show in Las Vegas. A big difference in the East may be a consumer day,
allowing enthusiasts to see and ride new 2009 bikes and equipment.
Interbike has set Oct. 16-18 for the East event, subject to a survey
sent to hundreds of eastern-U.S. bike shops and manufacturers. The
first two demo days, Thursday and Friday, would be trade only;
Saturday would be open to the public. The proposed venue is Roger
Williams Park near Providence, Rhode Island. According to Interbike,
“The East Coast Demo will have professional seminars, technical
clinics, networking opportunities — a lot of the core things we do at
the [Las Vegas] show, but in a much more loose and inexpensive way.”
How cool would that be to have an Interbike Outdoor Demo Day in our backyard? In the last few years, Providence seems to have put itself on the biking map. We hosted the Cyclocross Nationals for two years, there are efforts underway to host a Cyclocross World Cup race, and now this. Perhaps through hosting these type of bicycle events, people in the government and local businesses will begin to realize there is profit to be had through bicycles and we will start seeing some real change.
RIDOT is dedicating the latest section of the Blackstone Bikeway tomorrow. Full details are listed in our Blackstone River Bikeway dedication event posting. It would be great to see a contingent of bikes ride to the dedication. Thanks to everyone who alerted us to this upcoming event.
The right sidebar on the Bike Providence site has an area highlighting the Upcoming Events. This section lists titles of the next thirty days worth of events we know about. If you are interested in events farther into the future, take a look at the full events page. This page lists all the upcoming events and full descriptions of the events. If you know of a bicycle related event of interest to Providence area cyclists that isn’t listed, please contact us with details so we can add it to our events page.