Links of the Day: 14 April 2008 (Comments: 0)

“The toughest choice of the commuters should be what color shoes to wear on the walk to work, not which highway do I get on.” — Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels (from CommutrPageBlog)

From The Bike-O-Sphere

• Newport, R.I. ride (A Midnight Rider)
• LA: Bikeway, not highway (Bike Commute Tips Blog)
• Sitting In and Bowing Out: The Art of Pass/Fail Racing (BSNYC)
• In Portland, motorists are ‘Second-class citizens’ (BikePortland.org)
• Walk, Don’t Run: The Jump Bike (Carectomy)
• SealLine Urban Packpack : Preview (Commute By Bike)
• Slacker or Realist? (Commutr)
• The Cycle Chic Manifesto (Cycle Chic)
• Infernal Racket (Fat Cyclist)
• Of Pretty Blooms & Nauseating Boosters (Grant’s Prague Bike Blog)
• from madagascar (gwadzilla)
• Fixed again (MnBicycleCommuter)
• My last few days (no drive, just ride)
• Back on the road with the Bike of Doom (Bike of Doom)
• Win Rock ‘N’ Roll Extreme Chain Lube (UltraRob’s Adventures)
• Awful weather (Up In Alaska)
• GW’s Fixed Gear Disc Brake (Urban Velo)
• Will You Boycott the 2008 Olympics in Beijing? (Urban Velo)
• Lights out (Yehuda Moon cartoon)

In The News

• AFRICA: Bicycle ambulances are making a difference
• GRAND JUNCTION, CO: Bicycle trends include pink paint, no brakes, 29-inch wheels
• MOHAVE VALLEY, NV: Bicycle safety rodeo a success
• Rookies Racing to Raise Awareness and Funds for Peninsula Habitat for Humanity
• COVENTRY, UK: Rare mountain bike stolen in Nuneaton
• JAPAN: NPA backs new bikes for carrying two kids (Jason sez: I used to work for the Japanese newspaper that published this story)