Biking in Baltimore
If you bike long enough you might be able to charge you cell phone while traveling to work. Motorola showed off a docking station that uses an old school dynomo to charge a phone.
https://aving.net/usa/news/default.asp?mode=read&c_num=33918&C_Code=01&SP_Num=53
The bike and charger are targeted at people who need communications but are not connected to the electric grid.
Thanks to Mayor Sheila Dixon and Deputy Director of Transportation, Mr.
Jamie Kendrick, our Traffic Calming Task Force has been appointed and will
convene its first meeting on Wednesday, February 21, 2007. For information
and updates, please contact jamie.kendrick@baltimorecity.gov
Continue reading “Support Baltimore”
Thank you for bringing your Aquarium bike experience to our attention.
The National Aquarium in Baltimore appreciates your conservation views
and is seeking to improve our operations to improve our support of the
bicycling community.
After careful review, the Aquarium is taking a boarder approach about
how bicycles can fit into our long term plans. In the short term we have
decided to add at least one new bike rack to our premises. We are
seeking a location that will be more intuitive than the current 2 bike
racks that we currently have. We will also place on our website
information that would inform visitors about these rack and locations.
Continue reading “The Aquarium responds with support for cycling!”
Click here for the Aquarium’s response.
Should businesses be allowed to illegally remove bikes just because they don
Continue reading “Support public bike parking at the National Aquarium in Baltimore”
The Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Committee will not meet in December so that its members and their loved ones can fully participate in the Joys of the Season (TM).
The next MBAC meeting will be the 3rd Tuesday in January. Any pressing business before then can be conducted by email or phone.
Happy Solstice.
Engadget is running a piece on a half-ski, half-track mountain bike.
https://www.engadget.com/2006/12/17/the-ktrak-half-ski-half-track-mountain-bike/
The new bike will let people ride over sand and snow.
Velocipede Bike Project is looking for volunteers to help build bikes this Sunday 12/10. They have lots of donated used bikes and parts they just need people to help build them up to a working bike that may end up as someone
Continue reading “Help give the gift of love this holiday season”
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Have you ever wondered what it would look like to have a lot of people commuting by bike? Take a look at this YouTube video.
From the Daily Record:
As if his plan to turn an industrial waterfront in Southwest Baltimore into a "second downtown" was not grand enough, developer Patrick Turner thinks a new velodrome would be the perfect capstone to that project.
If Turner has his way, however, Baltimore will get one. He wants to build a velodrome as part of the massive project he is planning on the shores of the Middle Branch, a finger of the Patapsco River just two miles south of the Inner Harbor. A velodrome is an arena with banked tracks made specifically for bicycle racing, best known for its function in Olympic contests. Amateurs can ride public tracks for recreational purposes, but relatively few such arenas exist in the United States.