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Bike Shop Advertising
Via Biller’s Bikes: Found at Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop in Texas. Even has bullet holes!
Baltimore’s Eco-Friendly Holiday Guide
A bit from the Baltimore Office of Sustainability and TreeBaltimore
Transportation
◊ Consider chipping in with others to get a friend or loved one a new bicycle as a present! You can also get cheaper, used bikes from Velocipede Bike Project or Craigslist.
The whole thing here: https://www.baltimorecity.gov/Portals/0/agencies/tree%20baltimore/public%20downloads/ecoholidayguide.pdf
Your Black Friday Alternative: Station North Black Friday Art Market
[Something to bike to:]
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From Baltimore Brew:
Others may be marching you off to the mall on Friday (no kidding!) to start your holiday shopping, but why do that when you can go to Baltimore’s Station North and check out unique gifts made by local artists and crafters and hear crazy banjo music live, instead of soul-killing holiday Muzak?
The Station North Black Friday Art Market is what they’re calling this art and craft bazaar, one of the Station North “Final Fridays” events. It starts at 3 p.m., Nov. 25.
Held at the North Avenue Market, at 16 W. North Ave., the market promises prints, paintings, photographs, crafts, jewelry, books, and more from Station North artists, members of Charm City Craft Mafia and the Baltimore Etsy Street Team. Load of Fun, at 120 W. North Ave., will host its own art & craft market featuring the work of Load of Fun artists.
Local folk artists Her Fantastic Cats will serenade shoppers in the North Avenue Market, starting at 5 p.m.. Then at 8 p.m., you can clock out on the shopping and head over to the Windup Space as they host Femi the DriFish & the Out of Water eXperience, Wendel Patrick, and DJ Dubble 8.
(The first 150 people to arrive will receive a Sta-Note, worth $2 at any participating Station North business. You can find more details on StationNorth.org or RSVP to the event and invite your friends to join you on Facebook.)
Top 10 Destinations for Holiday Lights
[Of course there is no better way to see this then by bike, as traffic is a mess.]
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Via Yahoo travel:
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10. Baltimore, MD
When it comes to Christmastime magic, it seems that “34th Streets” across the country are a bona fide breeding ground for just that. Just look to Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood each holiday season, where for more than 60 years, a charming block of row houses on 34th street has been transformed into what’s been dubbed “Christmas Street” and the “Miracle on 34th Street.” Residents come together in a labor of love to bedeck their properties with a holiday hodgepodge of larger-than-life snow globes, flashing angels, musical trains, and blinking lights galore – a handful of the homes will even allow visitors inside to peek into their indoor Christmas wonderlands, as well (November 26–January 1; free; www.christmasstreet.com).
Try and coordinate your visit with the colorful “Parade of Lighted Boats,” an event where more than 50 vessels festooned with holiday lights illustrate Baltimore’s nautical and Christmas spirit on December 3 (free; www.fpyc.net). Plus, new for 2011, the harbor-front Power Plant building will shine with holiday lights, lasers, and 3D effects during early evening hourly show times (now–December 31; free; www.itsawaterfrontlife.org).
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Details of Baltimore’s bikesharing deal
From Beyond DC
Baltimore is planning to launch its bikesharing system next summer, and is moving forward ironing out the details.
According to The Bike-sharing Blog, Baltimore is shooting for a 30-station, 250-bike system focused around downtown and Fells Point. They are planning on calling the system Charm City Bikeshare, to compliment the branding of the Charm City Circulator bus system.
Earlier today the city announced that they have officially selected Bcycle to build and operate the system. Bcycle operates Denver’s extensive bikesharing network, as well as smaller networks in nine other US cities. They are the primary US competitor to Bixi, which operates four networks in the US, including Capital Bikeshare.
It’s unfortunate that Baltimore and DC will be using different systems, and therefore won’t be able to cross-honor memberships. Nonetheless, bikesharing has proven to be an effective and affordable form of urban transportation, so it’s exciting to see more and more cities taking it up.
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A few odds and ends on the city’s transportation pecking order
B’ Spokes: Seriously guys, learn to feel comfortable riding in the street (it is safer) or at least slow down while on the sidewalk. To start; join one of the rides posted in the "Looking for local riders" and talk to your fellow cyclists.
Second point, I’m not the only one who feels that cars do not stop when making a right-on-red yet the police wounder why so many pedestrians cross mid-block… well if cars do not stop when making a right-on-red then crossing mid-block IS the safest place to cross. We really need to get cars. cyclists and pedestrians to start following the rules, and it has to applied across the board, with a strong focus on motorist as there are so many of them and in essence they bully other users into illegal behavior.
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By Jacqueline Watts – The Baltimore Guide
There is a transportation pecking order here in the city.
Cyclists in the city complain that motorists cut them off in traffic and drive with a general disregard for bicyclists’ safety.
Of course, not all motorists are that way, the cyclists are quick to say, while implying that most are.
So the City of Baltimore has marked off bicycle lanes on just about every street in the city to make riding safer for cyclists.
And still the cyclists ride on the sidewalk. Of course I am quick to write that not all cyclists ride on the sidewalk. It just seems like most cyclists do.
Just about all of us who walk any distance in the city have tales of close escapes as cyclists whiz by.
Joe Manfre did not get a close escape–he got a broken leg, and surgery, and is in for a good long stint of rehab.
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More on traffic. Can we all agree that motorists and cyclists should obey traffic signals? According to the State of Maryland they should, but apparently most of them missed the memo. In the last week I have nearly been run down at Conkling and Eastern, Broadway and Fleet, and Fort and Lawrence—each time while walking with the signal. A friend often has to dodge traffic–four-wheeled and two-wheeled–at Ann and Aliceanna.
You can make a right turn on red, but you are supposed to stop first. And while you are stopped, you’re supposed to look at the crosswalks around you, not at your iPhone. It’s a law, not a serving suggestion.
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Pump Track – promotional video
Baltimore is looking into installing one (or more???) of these:
Baltimore bikeshare program revived, 300-bike network possible by next fall
Exclusive agreement with Denver-based B-cycle calls for no public subsidies.
Spooky Ride Baltimore 2011 [video]
Spooky Ride Baltimore 2011 from Marc Hartley on Vimeo.
[From the link:]
A fun ride around Baltimore to some spooky landmarks and through a handful of questionable streets haha! Ride was pushed back a week dwindling some of the numbers, but still a great group. Awesome to see the little guy keep up not to mention lead the group on his BMX.
Camera – GoPro HeroHD…helmet mount this time.
Music – Statosphere by Digitalism