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Small Business Saturday, Visit Your Favorite Bike Shop
If you are still scratching your head on that perfect holiday gift or stocking stuffers, consider dropping into your neighborhood bicycle shop on Small Business Saturday. Most shops will be open after Thanksgiving, on Black Friday and then again on Small Business Saturday, with special prices to help fill your list with exceptional gifts.
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Free Bikes 4 Kidz Giveaway Day, Needs Your Help
It’s the most wonderful time of the year and Free Bike 4 Kidz is still working on some of the 6,000 bikes donated this year to get ready for the Annual Bike Giveaway, December 6th and 7th. Over the next two weeks you can have fun and be a part of getting the remaining bikes…
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Safe Routes to School Works, How About Your Community?
It’s official: Safe Routes to School programs are proven to work and are effective at increasing rates of walking and bicycling to and from school. Has your community adopted a comprehensive plan? If not, please share this article with your city and county leaders. Future generations will thank you!
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Fat Bikes, A Fun Winter Activity
You’ve probably seen these in a bike shop, in a bike rack, or even hanging from the ceiling of a bar or restaurant and wondered what the heck? Known as “fat bikes,” rather than “fat tire” bikes, which was an early nickname for all mountain bikes. These bikes sport oversized balloon tires specially designed to…
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InterLock, a Hidden Bike Lock in Your Seatpost
Sometimes remembering to bring your bike lock is a pain and that is where the InterLock comes in. The Interlock is a very convenient lock because it is “hiding” in your seatpost and it is always on your bike.
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Bike Worm Ride Makes Its Debut in the Twin Cities
Last month about 100 book-lovers convened at the Minneapolis Downtown Central Library for a nontraditional literary gathering: a bicycle ride. The day marked the first ever Bikeworm ride, a new group ride presented by the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota.
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Unicycling May Be Easier to Learn With Lunicycle
Riding a unicycle is kind of like juggling or playing the bagpipes, in that it’s infamously hard to master. While some people might say that that’s the whole point in learning to do it, others just want to get riding one of these one-wheeled bicycle ASAP. If you’re among the second group, then you might…
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Local Bike Shops and Greg LeMond Sling Wrenches this Tuesday
If you have time come to Free Bikes 4 Kidz (FB4K’s) charity event for an evening of fun while volunteering to clean or wrench on some of the thousands of bikes donated, come check out the action. Twin City bike shops and race teams sling wrenches with Greg LeMond this coming Tuesday, November 11th, from…
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A Hotel in Japan Caters to Bicycling Tourists
International cyclists touring Japan and on the lookout for a hotel catering to two-wheelers can book a room at Hotel Bicycle. Located in Onomichi, Japan, the hotel and other businesses there are taking advantage of the areas growing popularity from bicycling tourists.
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Veloloop Triggers the Traffic Light Sensors for Bikes
If you’re a regular bicyclist you have no doubt experienced the following scenario: you’re on the road and the only vehicle going in your direction. At a controlled intersection with the light red you discover, no matter how you position your bike, it won’t change to green. What do you do?”
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