Carrying Your Stuff: Bicycle Bags and Racks

Posted on 15. Apr, 2010 by Stacey Moses.

How to efficiently and comfortably transport workday necessities is an essential question for bicycle commuting converts.  Many options exist for getting your cargo to the office, and it is important to consider your distance, your load and your style when selecting your type of bag and bicycle attachments.  For the commuter that can avoid transporting [...]

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Analysis of Google’s Bike-There Feature: Part I

Posted on 06. Apr, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

It’s been nearly a month since Google made their game-changing announcement about the addition of a “Bike There” option to Google Maps.  Since that time, there have been numerous reviews and assessments about the utility of the new application – some positive, but also many that point out the limitations of Google’s new tool.  Many [...]

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Making the Switch to Sport Cycling

Posted on 01. Apr, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

In the last few months, we have been building a strong base of information about all aspects of utility cycling – from emergency and patrol bicycle services, to mail delivery by bike, to bike advertising, to bike mapping, and beyond.  We have worked hard to define utility cycling, in order to make it more appealing [...]

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Bike Advertising

Posted on 19. Mar, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

Keeping in the theme of retail and commercial services by bike, which we recently posted about, today’s post is dedicated to bike advertising.  With the spring and summer months creeping up, many business/bicycle-minded folks might be inspired to think about using bicycles for advertising businesses or services in the coming months.  Hopefully this post can [...]

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Are Google Maps’ Bicycling Directions a Game Changer?

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Josh Lipton.

Last night Google made a “game changing” announcement at the national bike summit in Washington DC.  The long awaited “Bike There” option has been added to their options for route types.  The dropdown next to Google Maps “Get Directions” button now has “Bicycling” as the fourth option following “By car”, “By public transit” and”Walking”.

We are [...]

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Retail & Commercial Services by Bike

Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

Bicycles are an excellent way to do business.  Whether you are advertising your business by bike (aka bikevertising), transporting customers around town in a pedicab, moving your business or vending station around town by bike, picking up trash by bike, or any other range of services, bicycles provide a unique, cost-effective, and eye-catching way to [...]

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Bike Weddings

Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

When we set out to define utility cycling, we did not list every single type of utility cycling activity we could think of at the time.  Fortunately, the concept of utility cycling is quite vast, so we found ourselves creating general categories and subcategories of the practice, which if you have been following this site, [...]

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Bicycle Land Services

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

It’s been quite some time since we wrote about cycling services here at Utility Cycling.org.  When we set out to define utility cycling, we came up with three subcategories related to the topic of cycling services, including retail and commercial services, emergency and patrol services, and land services.  We did a four-part series in late [...]

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Bike Sharing Systems

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

Bicycle sharing systems have been appearing in more and more cities around the world in the last few years.  According to the Bike Sharing Blog, there were approximately 160 or so bike sharing systems globally at the end of 2009, which is up nearly 74% from 92 bike sharing systems at the end of 2008.  [...]

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