Community Building

UtilityCycling.org Will Be At Interbike

Posted on 22. Sep, 2009 by Melanie Colavito.

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It’s that time of the year. Time to break out the comfy walking shoes and the sparkly dancing shoes. Time to prepare for the neon-soaked, glitz-infested streets of Las Vegas. Time to brace oneself for the extreme sensory overload that is Interbike. UtilityCycling.org will be attending Interbike, which is North America’s largest bicycle trade show, [...]

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(PARK)ing Day 2009

Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by Melanie Colavito.

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Today is (PARK)ing Day! For those who are not familiar with it, (PARK)ing Day is a movement to reclaim and transform public spaces – such as parking spots – into temporary public parks. (PARK)ing Day occurs once a once a year for one whole day, and it is a global movement. It was originally started [...]

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Globe Cycle

Posted on 25. Aug, 2009 by Melanie Colavito.

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File this one under cycling for a cause. James Bowthorpe is riding around the globe to raise money for Parkinson’s research. James is from London and is a volunteer at a Parkinson’s Disease research clinic based at King’s College London in the Institute of Psychiatry. James originally volunteered at the clinic to get experience in [...]

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Posted on 20. Aug, 2009 by Melanie Colavito.

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At UtilityCyling.org, we think that the potential for using your bike is quite vast. Of course, you can use a bike for transportation, you can use a bike to make deliveries, you can use a bike to provide a wide variety of services. All of the aforementioned types of uses are relatively straightforward and tangible [...]

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Defining Utility Cycling

Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by Melanie Colavito.

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Welcome to Utility Cycling.org. The main purpose of this site is to bring clarity to and elaborate upon the concept of utility cycling. To that end, it is important to begin by developing a working definition of the concept. In order to do this, we will use personal experience coupled with Internet research to write [...]

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Utility Cycling coming soon!

Posted on 24. Mar, 2009 by Josh Lipton.

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The planets are getting closer to aligning for the official launch of UtilityCycling.org. I figured I should put up this post for those of you who happen to stumble across the start of our new community. We hope to be up and running, generating blog posts and more around May or June. To start out [...]