Bicycling
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Bicycling Cycling Get lit (up) on your bike
Posted by Julia Thiel on 02.23.12 at 04:31 PM
- Image courtesy of the Get Lit campaign
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Bicycling Film Cycling The Man Who Lived on His Bike
Posted by Julia Thiel on 02.14.12 at 03:35 PM
He's been riding his bike over 120,000 km.
And he keeps going.
This film is dedicated to him.
Thus begins the brief voice-over (in French with subtitles) to Guillaume Blanchet's recent short film, The Man Who Lived on His Bike. The product of more than a year spent biking through Montreal, Blanchet's film is a creative imagining of what it might be like to literally live one's whole life on a bike: sleeping, showering, ironing clothes, frying an egg, washing dishes.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Bicycling Film Cycling Bicycle Dreams documentary premieres in Chicago
Posted by Julia Thiel on 02.13.12 at 09:50 AM
Monday, February 6, 2012
Bicycling Chicagoans Paranormal Cycling I can't believe people bike through blizzards
Posted by Joey Jachowski on 02.06.12 at 01:31 PM
- By Jos van Zetten/Wikimedia Commons
About a week later, I was browsing ads, looking for a part-time job, and stumbled upon a post from the Chicago Messenger Service looking for bike messengers. “Large downtown courier service adding to biker fleet,” the ad read, leaving out the “in the dead of winter” part. Although the weather has been nice the past couple of days, I doubt I would be up for delivering packages and letters at breakneck pace, when the weather could deteriorate at the change of a traffic signal.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Bicycling Cycling Heritage Bicycles opens this weekend
Posted by Julia Thiel on 01.26.12 at 03:09 PM
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Bicycling Lit & Lectures Cycling Books On Bicycles release party at Cole's
Posted by Julia Thiel on 12.07.11 at 12:37 PM
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Bicycling Transit Flotsam and Jetsam Cycling Rainy biking on the Lakefront Trail
Posted by Julia Thiel on 11.08.11 at 12:44 PM
Friday, October 14, 2011
Style Bicycling Cycling Does how cyclists dress affect how drivers treat them?
Posted by Heather Kenny on 10.14.11 at 07:39 AM
An article in Crain's Chicago Business posits the existence of the "Mary Poppins Effect," in which people who dress up a little when they ride their bikes, as opposed to wearing bike or athletic gear, experience better treatment from drivers. "It helps drivers realize bicyclists are people too," Dottie Brackett of Let's Go Ride a Bike is quoted as saying. Other items that may help include helmets and child trailers (even if they aren't being used to cart infants around).
Monday, October 10, 2011
Bicycling Cycling Photos of the Racketeers at Bike Fall
Posted by Julia Thiel on 10.10.11 at 02:42 PM
I stopped by the Hideout on the early side Saturday for the Bike Fall festival—too early, as it turned out. It was supposed to start either at 11 AM or noon, depending on which website you chose to believe, but at quarter to 1, things were still being set up and the crowd was pretty small. Eventually John Greenfield sang a few bike-related songs (with some pretty entertaining lyrics), and the Racketeers performed. Now a year old—they celebrated their birthday last week with an alleycat ride/scavenger hunt and party—they're a BMX dance troupe that performs at bike events like Critical Mass and this year's Tour de Fat. Other activities and demos were scheduled for later in the afternoon, with bands and a bike film festival in the evening, but I wasn't able to stick around for those. More Racketeers photos after the jump; all photos by me.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Bicycling Transit Environment Cycling Eco Open Streets on State Street
Posted by Julia Thiel on 10.03.11 at 02:24 PM
