Hey, thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the RSS feed. You can also subscribe to BikeHacks by email. Thanks for visiting!I don’t know about the rest of you, but I get tired of automobile companies dominating television commercials. It seems like at least half of the [...]

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News continues to come out of Portland, Oregon proving that it is unofficially “Bicycle City U.S.A.” I wrote an article a while back proclaiming such and now this comes from the local NBC news affiliate, kgw.com.
PORTLAND, Ore. – North Portland residents were experiencing what it’s like to function without vehicles for a day while [...]

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Unfortunately this is not a fake photo. It comes from CNN (full story here). Just a reminder to be careful out there . . .

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Where you park you bike can be important for a variety of reasons. This hard luck example is evidence that one should not lock up too close to the street. Delivery vans are notorious for invading sidewalk space and it’s pretty clear that this bike, parked just a foot or two away from [...]

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It was a sad day in NYC last week when Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal for the first ever congestion pricing plan in the U.S. was effectively “doored.” timesunion.com had this to say about the plan:
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wanted congestion pricing — that is, to impose tolls on cars and trucks entering Manhattan’s [...]

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Just over a month ago we posted an entry on a car that was pedal powered. Turns out the cops were not happy with the combustion free vehicle and ticketed the driver for safety reasons.
Michel de Broin, who created the bike car as a piece of art ended up the winner in [...]

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I like Canada. I like their bacon, their health care, and their mountains filled with snow most of all. Every time I go to Canada though the people want to talk about our government which is pretty depressing, but I digress.
Now I have even more reason to like Canada. An [...]

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