DIY Bike Trailer

Riding your bike is all well and good, until you have to carry home more than 2 bags of groceries at a time. Toby from the DIY cyclist website Bike Hacks has assembled a pretty keen towing package for your wheels. Click here to read DIY Bike Trailer.

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Secure Bike Storage on a Massive Scale

Click here to see a video & read how the Japanese have solved their bike storage problems.

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Bikers Give Thumbs Up for Good Drivers

Sharing the road … drivers vs bikers …. it can be a volatile mix. Let’s build an environment of civility and positive reinforcement from the bicycle seat. Use the “Thumbs Up”
1. When a driver gives you a nice wide pass.
2. When a driver stops at a Stop Sign and waits for you to get through [...]

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DIY Hi-Low Beam Bike Headlights from Hardware Store Parts

It’s getting darker sooner, and that means more and more bicycle enthusiasts are spending their rides in little-to-no light. Try whipping up a pair of these hi-low beam headlights to keep the world around you bright at night.
Biking at night can be a dangerous thing. These headlights can switch on their own hi-beams to give [...]

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Bicycling around the Finger Lakes

Click here to read about Allan Drew’s circumnavigation of the Finger Lakes after age 60.
For guidebooks to circling the Finger lakes, check our Cyclotour Guide Books, particularly the Finger Lakes Bicyclist’s Tour Guide.

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Future Liberty Water Gap Trail

Bike from the Statue of Liberty to the Delaware Water Gap? This may be possible some day. Click here to read about the Liberty Water Gap Trail.

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Attaching a Garmin nüvi to Bike Handlebars

Click here to read Attaching a Garmin nüvi to Bike Handlebars

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Albany gears up for more bike routes

Ashe Reardon, WRGB, link to original post
Albany is gearing up to expand bicycle routes throughout the city. Close to 100 people turned out Oct 27, 2009 for a meeting to discuss the City of Albany Bicycle Master Plan.
The plan calls for work over the next year to improve Albany’s bicycle access. Infrastructure work will get [...]

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Perils For Pedestrians

A series of half hour video programs called “Perils For Pedestrians” that originated in California are now available on blip.tv. The programs cover issues of interest to pedestrians and bikers such as walkability, trail surface issues, and bicycle advocacy.
Episode 143 contains an interview about trails in Mayville NY, is now available at http://blip.tv/file/2757558
Other episodes can [...]

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Trek Lime Bike Wins People’s Design Award

Trek won the design award with an automatic shifting bike designed to attract more people to biking. Click here to read more.

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