WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP: For more than a year and a half, Bicycling In Greensboro, Inc. (BIG) has been petitioning the Greensboro Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (GUAMPO) to establish...
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2011/01/urgent-call-to-action-on-pedestrian.html
It appears a fair few people have made a New Year's Resolution to commute by bike. On Monday evening I saw four people on bikes commuting after 6:15PM (Sunset was 5:16PM). Except for one guy on O...
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-years-resolution.html
That's the failure level among people taking the GMAC Insurance multiple choice drivers test . Twenty questions and you need to miss more than six to fail. The test is actually quite simple. Ans...
Yesterday on my way to work I was accelerating off a start when I heard a loud "pang" (like a ping but more discordant) and the steering got a bit wobbly followed by some squeaking sounds I have ...
Found this link through Bikebiz.com. It's a advertiser financed book on bike commuting. It's about 50% ads, 50% content but a quick look at the content indicates it is reasonable sound advice in...
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2010/05/bike-to-work-manual.html
A Bicycle Commuter's ramblings about cycling and "green" tech in Greensboro, NC
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2010/05/greensboro-ride-of-silence-2010.html
This was the weather radar two hours after I arrived at work. The yellows and reds were directly overhead when I was cruising through Greensboro this morning. Nothing like waterproof panniers to...
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2010/05/bike-to-work-week-nothing-like.html
From Commuting Scenes Next week is Bike to Work Week across much of the nation as well as here in Greensboro. The dates and locations for the GSO refueling stations are listed at the Bicycl...
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2010/05/next-week-bike-to-work-week.html
According to this article in the News and Record, NC DOT is planning on surveying motorists on how they use Triad area roads. The problem is, motorists aren't the only road users. What about tra...
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2010/05/nc-dot-doesnt-seem-to-get-it.html
Mikael from The Copenhagen Bicycle Culture Blog has got it right. So many times road DOTs design roads with only motorists in mind. They treat pedestrians and bicyclists as invaders who are le...
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2010/05/put-onus-on-risk-bringers.html
Here's an editorial from the Baltimore Sun about sharing the road. Maryland just passed a three foot passing statute and some are up in arms about how it will delay them. This piece, while occas...
So to start off the month, an article from the NY Times about stopping at red lights. On Yer Bike!
I had it. As a citizen of this democracy it's my duty to participate in it. That said, I have a few complaints on how it's handled here in Guilford County. The Courthouse in Greensboro is just a ...
Girl's got skills! On Yer Bike!
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2010/04/shes-channeling-elwood-blues.html
Bicycling in Greensboro now has a revised website thanks to the tireless work of Jeff Sovich. The revisions include a modified logo and some streamlining and reorganization. On Yer Bike!
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2010/04/revised-big-website.html
On Yer Bike!
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2010/04/score-utility-bike-1-automobile-0.html
This year's ride will start again at the VF Jeanswear parking lot on N Elm St near the intersection with E Lindsay St at 6:00PM on May 19, 2010. Please arrive a little early to complete the leg...
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2010/04/greensboro-ride-of-silence-2010.html
The British really know how to do a PSA. Wear your seatbelt.
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2010/02/nothing-to-do-with-cycling.html
I mean look at all the Blue Ribbons he's earned! On Yer Bike!
Ever wonder what Spike Bike rode? On Yer Bike!
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2010/01/spike-bike-rides-again.html
The stretch of rail to trail conversion that I have previously referred to as the Battleground Rail Trail will officially be called the Atlantic and Yadkin Trail. Also, the existing trail to the ...
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2010/01/brt-now-atlantic-and-yadkin.html
Focus Driven is an advocacy group that is attempting to raise awareness to the lethality of distracted driving. The US Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, is promoting the group on the Fede...
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2010/01/more-on-distracted-driving.html
Wonder of wonders! The NC Legislature took the hint from the US Department of Transportation and they have instituted a Texting while Driving ban . (The News and Record has bizarre priorities--th...
http://gsocycle.blogspot.com/2009/12/texting-while-driving-iv.html