Cycling Banned in America?! - Black Hawk

What we normally know to bring health and physical fitness - cycling - was banned for "health and safety" reasons in Black Hawk, Colorado.

The benefits of cycling seem to be unimportant for the officials of Black Hawk and thus they decided that car traffic is a priority as it brings clients in the local casinos. Profits for a handful of casino owners and loss for thousands of clients who come to gamble are priced higher than fresh air, true health and the well being of sport lovers.

Sadly while the gambling industry creates and concentrates wealth in the hands of few people it also feeds a terrible addiction which often causes despair, divorce, insanity and ultimately poverty. In the long run there's no way this will bring any good...

This is a call to all cyclists and/or bloggers who want to support the movement: I suggest you gather in huge numbers and organize Critical Mass in Black Hawk on 30 July 2010 and prove once again that We Are Traffic!!!

You may want to rehearse flooding the streets with bicycles in Black Hawk before 30 July. I'm sure you want it to be perfect! ;-)

Pro-cycling groups are getting ready to challenge the even bigger danger here than cycling - the precedent of such a ban on bikes. Gist.org

I'm with the cyclists! Are you?

Related articles

• Black Hawk Bicycle Ban: Casino City Not Backing Down, Has Issued Eight Citations So Far (huffingtonpost.com)
• Colorado village of 100 people bans bikes (americablog.com)
• Black Hawk in Colorado bans cyclists (guardian.co.uk)
• Colo. casino city bans riding bikes through town (sfgate.com)
• Kill the bicycle ban before it grows (bjsmith.wordpress.com)
  

Are You a Fat Cyclist?

Coz if you are, fat that is, you're not the only one.

I myself gain and consequently struggle to loose about 2 kilos (4.4 lbs) per week so I feel fat pretty often. :-) That's because I like to indulge myself with pork - as you can see in the MTB video "And Mustard Please..."

What you can do for loosing weight is what the Fat Cyclist did for himself:

I had known I needed to lose weight, but hadn’t really done much about it. As I pushed my bike up the road, I realized I had not tried one very successful diet tactic: humiliation. I resolved to start a blog, embarrassing myself by proclaiming my weight on a daily basis, no matter how bad I was doing.

I urge you to read Fatty's blog here and start getting in shape. You can also bring your contribution to the fight against cancer by riding 100 Miles of Nowhere.





My mountain bike downhill video where I get fat...


Enjoy the bike satire!

Critical Mass - Cycling in The City

It was about time I participated in Critical Mass.

So what's there to be seen in such a bicycling event? Pretty much actually:

• lots of bikes - trial bikes, old school bikes, downhill bikes, BMX bikes - you name it!
  
• lots of bikers - some timid, some show offs, some silent, some outspoken
• lots of drivers along the way - some angry and stupid, some intrigued, some jealous, some sympathetic
• one or two police cars escorting the cyclists - that's impressive really!
• pedestrians scratching their heads or blinking fast in amazement
• and much more (like in teleshopping ads)
  

It's simply a joyful experience and I encourage you all to burn fat not fuel!

Wear your helmets while cycling!

How To Train for Anaerobic Endurance

Picture taken from here

Read an interesting article about endurance anaerobic training for cycling here.

Contest: Ten Reasons To Ride a Bike

More and more people are turning towards cost-effective means of transportation these days. They go for smaller vehicles, using the bus, sharing the cars when taking trips and, of course, riding the bike. The bicycle proved to be a very versatile piece of equipment serving both commuters and sportsmen and I honestly hope it will become mainstream in the future.
So what's this all about? It's about riding the bike and telling us why it's worthwhile to do so.
We would like to start a contest which will go by the following guidelines:

• write ten reasons for riding the bike (in English)

• try to be original, funny and interesting

• don't make your points too long nor too short

• don't copy and paste from other web sources

• make sure your spelling, grammar and punctuation are correct

• you can add a bike story to your ten reasons for being a bike addict

• you are allowed to send max. two pictures (made by you or your friends) to accompany your writing

• we will post each set of reasons along with your link for your blog, Twitter account, Facebook profile, etc

• we won't post texts including offensive language

• we will award the best ten reasons based on the number and consistency of comments (submitted by different users, anonymous excluded) - more interesting comments, more chances of being number one

• winner will receive a bike jersey from here, which will be delivered worldwide free of charge

• submit your ten reasons at this email address and write in the subject field "Ten reasons to ride a bike - your first and last name"

• at the end of email please insert just one link to your personal page, not business (be it blog, Twitter account, etc)

• starting date: Today 25 August 2009

• deadline: 4 September 2009

• we will take the liberty not to post emails which don't comply to the rules above

Tips:

• show this to your friends and ask them to comment on your ten reasons
• you may come up with ten original reasons without being a serious biker - you don't even have to own a bike - we will still give you the prize if your post will gain comments
• if you don't have a Blogger account, you can easily create one - you will have the possibility of setting your own blog on the best blogging platform offered by Google
  

View all contest posts by clicking on the first entry in the tag list - "10 reasons to ride a bike". You can find the tag list on the right sidebar of this blog - scroll down and you will see it below the Networked Blogs widget.

Success!