Posted by Chapin on Aug 31 2010
Tags: Art, Art Hop, Bicycle, Burlington, Vermont
Yes, it’s true. With Burlington’s bike culture growing, each year there is a bigger bike scene at the Art Hop. For the past two years, the bike scene has centered around JDK on Maple Street. This year the scene heads south to Select Design (180 Flynn Avenue) for “Crank“. It’s a great show featuring new [...]
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Posted by Chapin on Aug 22 2010
Tags: August First, Bicycling, Bread, Burlington
By day Christine Hill is the new Americorps member at Bike Recycle Vermont helping youth rehabilitate donated bicycles for low-income Vermonters. By night, she’s the fabulous roving bread lady for August First. Three to four evenings a week Christine loads a work bike with 30 to 40 loaves of bread before pedaling around a different [...]
Posted by David Jacobowitz on Aug 16 2010
Nice to see all the Local Motion members out at Auer’s yesterday for the GMBC picnic. I was riding slowly after Saturday’s Point-to-Point ride.
Posted by Chapin on Aug 12 2010
Tags: Pledge, Sustainability
George Plumb is a visionary who doesn’t sit still. He was chair the the Board of the VT Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition in the mid 1990′s when the organization made the leap to hire its first employee. Now he’s urging Vermonters to sign a pledge that will encourage people to live lighter on the planet [...]
Posted by Chapin on Aug 11 2010
Tags: Bicycle Tourism, History, The Lost Cyclist
Author David Herlihy spun a riveting story about Frank Lenz‘s attempted 1892 bicycle trip around the world at Fletcher Free Library tonight. 80 cyclists packed the Fletcher Room to hear about this Pittsburgh man’s attempt to pedal his “safety bicycle” 20,000 miles across some of the most remote areas of the world over a century [...]
