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Download This Issue Free Online URBANURBANVELO.ORGVELO.ORG1 Get stickers, shirts, hats and printed zines @ www.UrbanVeloStore.com WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE STREAKS THROUGH LONDON 74$#074$#0 VELOVELO Bicycle Culture on the Skids Issue #8 • July 2008 CMWCCMWC PHOTOPHOTO GALLERYGALLERY MESSENGER WORLDS TORONTO BIKE SHARING IN PARIS • BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL - NYC • MAJOR TAYLOR HONORED BICYCLE THREADING 101—When isn’t lefty loosey? p72 • Download this issue free online URBANURBANVELO.ORGVELO.ORG1 Please, share this printed copy with a friend. Reuse before you recycle. -R7HIRLY4- #OMPLETECRANKSINSINGLESPEED MTNTRIPLE AND MTNTRIPLEFOR0UGSLEYS !RMSETSAVAILABLEIN LENGTHSAND COLORS )NTERCHANGEABLE SPIDERSIN COMMONSIZES )NTERCHANGEABLESPINDLES FORMM""S Tell them you saw it in Urban Velo! Get stickers, shirts, hats and printed zines @ www.UrbanVeloStore.com Issue #8 July 2008 Brad Quartuccio Jeff Guerrero Editor Publisher [email protected] [email protected] Co-conspirators: Kevin Dillard, José Vásquez Vallejos, Phillip Barron, Julian Birch, Roger Lootine, Henry Thompson, Billy Macrae, Dan Pugatch, Betty Jenewin, David Hoffman, Nicholas Hohman, Mary Megliola Franzen and Andy Singer SUBSCRIBE! ONE YEAR $18 SIX ISSUES USA mailing addresses only. We are not responsible for missing copies due to incorrect address or failure to give notice of a move. NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP PHONE EMAIL Mail check or money order to Urban Velo, PO Box 9040, Pittsburgh, PA 15224 or visit www.UrbanVeloStore.com 6 Issues Per Year • $18 • www.UrbanVeloStore.com Printed by Multiscope Digital - www.multiscopedigital.com URBANVELO.ORG 3 Please, share this printed copy with a friend. Reuse before you recycle. Get stickers, shirts, hats and printed zines @ www.UrbanVeloStore.com ContentsContents On the cover: Roughly two dozen riders came from Japan for the 2008 CMWC. See page 40 for coverage. Photo by BradURBAN QuartuccioVELO.ORG 4 Please, share this printed copy with a friend. Reuse before you recycle. Get stickers, shirts, hats and printed zines @ www.UrbanVeloStore.com 6 Editor’s Statement Brad Quartuccio 8 Publisher’s Statement Jeff Guerrero 10 I Love Riding in the City Readers from around the world share their tales of city cycling 30 A Special Place In Hell For Bike Thieves Phillip Barron A lost Canto from Dante’s The Divine Com- edy is rediscovered. 34 Sustainable Fuel Julian Birch Channeled properly, anger can be pure rock- et fuel. Use it wisely on your commute. 40 Gallery Brad Quartuccio Cycle Messenger World Championships 46 Residue Roger Lootine 48 World Naked Bike Ride, London 2008 Henry Thompson The World Naked Bike Ride streaks through London to promote cycling over oil use. 60 Bikes on Film Jeff Guerrero The Bicycle Film Festival kicks off its 2008 tour in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. 62 Fastest Man On A Bicycle Honored At Last Dan Pugatch Major Taylor was one of the greatest athletes of all time. Worchester, Massacu- setts honors him with a bronze statue. 64 Share… And Share Alike David Hoffman Examining Vélib, the successful French public bike sharing program. 68 One Car Mary Megliola Franzen Family living with less cars, more bikes. 72 Technical Gubbins Brad Quartuccio Bike threading explained, and a simple way to measure chain stretch. 78 No Exit Andy Singer Contents photo: Nicholas Hohman on the hardcourt in Pittsburgh, PA. Photo by Brad Quartuccio URBANVELO.ORG 5 Please, share this printed copy with a friend. Reuse before you recycle. Subscribe online @ www.UrbanVeloStore.com ’ Editors StatementBy Brad Quartuccio olor covers and more print copies than ever. While this along for the ride. And we can’t thank you enough. was always in the plan, actually having it come to fruition International contributors and content truly shines for Cis something else altogether. Far from being the freak issue #8, with two features hailing from the United Kingdom, of the week, bicycle culture is the cool kid on the block. Ado- content about bike-sharing in Paris, I Love Riding in the City lescent for sure, the urban culture is growing up. Already bike pieces from around the globe and a photo gallery from the friendly cities are reaping the benefits of such forethought, less Cycle Messenger World Championships in Toronto. This isn’t cutting edge locales are quickly playing catch up. The “scene” is to say that the stateside coverage isn’t important, but just maturing, with new faces offered a whole new array of places reflecting a sliver of the world cycle culture. We’re honored to plug into. When it comes down to us, people are reading to be a part. We want your words. Send your editorial contributions to [email protected] 6 URBANVELO.ORG Photo by Brad Quartuccio Please, share this printed copy with a friend. Reuse before you recycle. 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Read our daily blog & visit our forums online @ www.UrbanVelo.org Publisher’s Statement By Jeff Guerrero We Takin’ Over, One City at a Time It started out in Europe many years ago. The Dutch in their urban planning. began laying cycle paths in the 1890’s. By the 1920’s Ger- With the dawning of the millennium came an increase many was forced to build extensive bike lanes to alleviate in environmental awareness, and a war that brought about a traffic jams caused by bikes. As the century wore on, auto- sharp increase in gas prices. Once again Americans began to mobiles became more popular but gas prices skyrocketed look for an alternative to high energy costs, and for many the across much of the continent. With an eye on the high cost answer came in the form of a 10-speed relic from the 70’s. of transportation and a practical outlook on life, cycling was Here in 2008, with gasoline eclipsing $4/gallon in the a natural solution to the transportation needs of places like U.S., bicycles are gaining acceptance at an unprecedented Copenhagen and Amsterdam. Cities all over Europe fol- rate. American cities are looking to their European coun- lowed suit, and soon hundreds of miles of bike lanes and terparts for inspiration, and governments are seeing the cycle paths crisscrossed major cities like London and Paris. value of well-designed bicycle infrastructure. What’s more, In the 1970’s American consumers got their first taste of politicians are recognizing cyclists as a worthwhile constitu- high gas prices, and the ubiquitous V8-powered automobile ency. Bike lanes are sprouting in traditionally conservative began losing market share to the 10-speed bicycle. Deft pol- cities with hopes that the two-wheeled voters will show iticking managed to revive the oil and automobile industries, their appreciation on Election Day. Even presidential hope- but for millions of Americans, the seed had been planted. ful Barack Obama has promised to support national cycling In high-rent cities like New York and San Francisco, many initiatives. people continued to choose bikes over cars, and some for- So look out Ford, GM, Dodge, Toyota, Cadillac… We ward-thinking cities recognized the importance of bicycles takin’ over, one city at a time. Urban Velo issue #8, July 2008. Dead tree print run: 2500 copies. Issue #7 online readership: 30,000+ 8 URBANVELO.ORG Photo by Jeff Guerrero Please, share this printed copy with a friend. Reuse before you recycle. Tell them you saw it in Urban Velo! Read our daily blog & visit our forums online @ www.UrbanVelo.org I L ve Riding in the City NAME: Henry Thompson LOCATION: UK and Yemen OCCUPATION: Environmental consultant Where do you live and what’s it like riding in your city? wind was no fun—maybe that’s why they have trains. I liked I live in East Oxford in the UK and work overseas. cycling in Tokyo in the mid 70’s. Cycling was for poor people Oxford and Cambridge are the two most bike-friendly cit- and kids—but on a hot summer night one could get the ies in the UK—almost like Netherlands. Lots of mothers breeze and just cruise round from Roppongi to Ueno to and multiple kids. Riding here is just part of life, the traffic is Minato, meet people on their bikes. London is fun but the stupid so nobody drives unless they have to. Bike theft is a air quality is dire. Missoula MT was fun for a while, but is hassle so people have pretty scrappy bikes. There’s been an that really a city? I haven’t dared ride a bike in Sana’a but increase in ‘London freestyle’ on road rules so people now people do—there’s a brave set of time trial folk.
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