Sunday links 2005-12-04

Bike Love

• Bicyclists discover the joy of laundry.
• Kentucky court ruling: Bicyclists have right to road.
• Bicycling's BikeTown in Botswana.
• Fat Cyclist has Too Much Stuff. He also hates the cold. And he loves the cold.
• 2006 Tour de Georgia route announced.
• List your event on Velonews.com.
• CycleDog goes psychic.
• Cool Instructables. How to build bike stuff.
• Yet Another Bike Crash Video. One guy goes down and takes another 50 out with him.
• 2006 LiveStrong locations announced.

Off Topic

• Comment tool that I need to look at.
• Wildlife bridge in Colorado.

Bike blogs of note

• BikeNerd: Biking the world in small increments.
• Roger Kramer Cycling in St. Louis.
• Spokes 'n' Folks in Miami, Florida.
• Publicenergy.

Birthdays: Tyra Banks, Marisa Tomei, and Francisco Franco.

Tags: blogs list colorado cycling

The winner is...

Gwadzilla wins the bike music CD. I made a list of the 17 nominators and generated a random number from 1 to 17. Gwadzilla was lucky 7!

Prize winner picked later today

Just a quick note thanking everybody for the nominations. I'll close that out later this afternoon and pick a winner tonight. The bike blogging world is absolutely huge. It will be difficult picking a "best" because all of the nominees are so fantastic.

For the voting I'll be creating categories, and the voting will be run from a third-party site. Categories will probably be things like Best Overall, Road, MTB, lifestyle, style, photography, touring...

Gotta run!

Colorado State Patrol to cyclists: 'Never mind!'

Never mind for now, anyway. After bipartisan criticism from the Colorado legislature, protests from the large Colorado cycling community, and a petition drive by Bicycle Colorado, Colorado State Patrol chief Mark Trostel announced Friday to "study the issue" of his bike event ban until December 2006 "in the spirit of cooperation and problem solving."

Event organizers breathed a sigh of relief at this decision, but Bicycle Colorado executive director Dan Grunig said he's still not satisfied with the decision.

"Colorado needs to send a message that bicyclists are welcome not just next year but every year. Citizens who want to participate in these safe, healthy events should have the opportunity to do so. This State Patrol policy must be overturned quickly and permanently to avoid further damage to the state’s economy, charities, and reputation."

Complete details:

• Rocky Mountain News: Bike tour limit put on hold for 1 year.
• Summit Daily News: Colorado State Patrol delays race cap until 2007.
• VeloNews: Colorado patrol backpedals on 2500-rider cap.

Tags: colorado cycling

Cycling Dude sees visitor number 50,000

Drop by and offer your congraluations to Kiril. He's been doing this bike blog thing longer than most of the rest of us and he's a pretty nice guy.

Tags: blog

LIVESTRONG hiring production coordinator

This Denver job posting appeared on Craigslist.

LIVESTRONG Production Coordinator
o Develops, plans and implements local logistics, including:
o working with Route/Site Manager on development and permitting of event routes; selection, development and securing of major event sites;
o procurement and permitting of rest stops and grab-and-go stops;
o solicitation and securing of jurisdictional support;
o all other non-infrastructure-related components.
o Develops and drafts complete plans to satisfy the route and site parameters, including vehicle traffic and parking, and delivery and placement of supplies, structures and assets;
o Communicates, works with and supports local team in event city.
o Works with Recruitment Coordinator to coordinate the execution of volunteer efforts and event specifics.
o Work with Visio and other technology as adopted by the team;
o Outlines and orders the needed food, services, heavy equipment, vehicles, communication equipment, and expendables, specifically by;
o Working with Route/Site Manager and Purchasing to order items, supplies, vehicles, and equipment not used nationally;
o Working with Purchasing to interface with needed vendors; and
o Developing the on-event deployment plan of said items.
o Establishes relationships with local authorities and emergency personnel and educate them event plan and emergency response;
o Will travel to other LIVESTRONG event cities to assist with event execution.
o Performs other duties as assigned by Event Planning and Execution Manager.
o Takes direction from Route/Site Manager.
o Reports to Event Planning and Execution Manager.

Qualifications:
o Must have impeccable attention to detail.
o Must be able to adapt and overcome when faced with adversity.
o Must have previous event planning/production experience.

Event Cities include Austin, TX, Denver, CO, New England (Hartford, CT), Portland, OR, and Southern California (Orange County). Event travel is required. Position is home-office based within 50 miles of the event city.

Via Biking Bis. Tags: livestong denver job