UtilityCycling.org Will Be At Interbike

Posted on 22. Sep, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

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, with [...]

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World Carfree Day – Tuesday, September 22

Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 22, is World Carfree Day!

World Carfree Day is part of the World Carfree Network, which is a great online source for information on how to revitalize cities and towns in such a way as to be less car-centric.  The World Carfree Network refers to the carfree movement broadly in reference to the [...]

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(PARK)ing Day 2009

Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

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 by [...]

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Mobile Bike Businesses

Posted on 16. Sep, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

I was inspired to learn more about mobile bike businesses after reading two recent posts on BikePortland.org about a mobile coffee shop and a mobile beer and pizza pub.  (Header image found here).
So what exactly is a mobile bike business?  It seems to me that a mobile bike business has a different kind of flair [...]

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More on Bike Parking

Posted on 10. Sep, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

I’ve been inspired to think about bicycle parking lately in part because of the new bicycle parking facility in my home-state of Arizona, in part because school is back in session, which means there is a huge influx of new riders by the university and crowded bike parking, and in part because it isn’t something [...]

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Bicycle Mapping

Posted on 28. Aug, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

We are all map-users.  Whether or not we recognize this fact (or like it, for that matter), is a whole different story.  Maps are made for accomplishing a wide range of tasks from navigation to defining boundaries to measuring bits of information to showing elevation and  much, much more.  Maps are literally visual representations of [...]

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Globe Cycle

Posted on 25. Aug, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

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 a [...]

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Community Building

Posted on 20. Aug, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

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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Cycling Services

Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

The next major category of utility cycling that we would like to examine is cycling services.  In our first post, we identified a number of different services that can easily be done via bicycle.  Among them:

Retail and Commercial Services
Emergency and Patrol Services
Land Services

For the time being, we have separated out the category of bicycle delivery [...]

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