BICAS: Tucson’s buried treasure
Editor’s note: This feature story was written by University of Arizona Journalism student Nick Scala. Every half hour a train rumbles through the railroad crossing at Sixth Street and Ninth…
Arizona drops two spots in LAB’s bike-friendly list
According to the League of American Bicyclists, Arizona is less bike friendly than last year. Arizona dropped from the seventh to ninth most bicycle-friendly state. The LAB evaluates states based…
Tucson park offers BMX riders a home
Editor’s note: This post was written by University of Arizona student, Tyler Kurbat. Nothing is concrete here but that’s how they prefer it. Less than half a mile south of…
Link roundup: May 20
Post any interesting links you find in the comment section. Arizona Daily Star: With dedication, BMX park is one step closer to reality Traffic Signal Timing @ Arizona Bike Law…
Photos from the Ride of Silence
Pam, a Tucson Velo reader sent these photo from tonight’s Ride of Silence. Pam submitted several more photos, which I put in the reader-submitted gallery. Check them out. Thanks for…
Bike messengers of Los Angeles
I was out for a walk last night and I ran into the group of bike messengers blowing off a little steam after a day of riding around downtown L.A.
WAMO awarded warehouse lease, BICAS secure for 5 years
I wrote a piece a while back about BICAS and WAMO teaming up to take over the lease of the Citizen Transfer warehouse, which houses BICAS and dozens of artists.…
Business offers mobile repair, rentals and summer storage
Fliers have been popping up on bikes all over the University of Arizona advertising a bicycle storage service for the summer. The service is offered by Velo to Go, which…
Abandoned bikes end up on auction block
Joyce Childers, a program manager for the University of Arizona’s Parking and Transportation Department, has a message for UA students. “Take your bicycles home with you,” Childers said. “We really…
Link roundup: May 4
Post any interesting links in the comment section. Cyclist’s blog trains eye on El Tour seen from space Swap Meet: Tucson Style Iowa bicycle group puts up share the road…
Google Earth using satellite image from day of El Tour de Tucson
The satellite image currently being used by Google Earth was taken on Nov. 21, 2009, which happens to be the same day as El Tour de Tucson. Jeff, a TucsonVelo.com…
BICAS warehouse may get new leaseholder
BICAS board members may soon be writing their rent checks to someone new. The Arizona Department of Transportation owns the Citizen’s Transfer warehouse which houses BICAS and dozens of local…