Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society

Here’s an article from the Business of Fashion about Vancouver’s new Fashion Cycle.

Thanks to Karly for sending the link our way.

When you’re an eight-year-old boy, I suppose riding 80 blocks to the mall is just par for the mini-golf course.  <article>

Considering the typical quality of kids’ bikes (heavy steel behemoths, often just single-speed with coaster brakes), I think it’s worth putting money down that this kid will be in the Paris-Roubaix when he grows up.

Scott McKeen at the Edmonton Journal has written up a great article about tonight’s Ride of Silence.

For more info about tonight’s ride (Wednesday, May 20, at 7pm), click here.

Perhaps you’ve read the beginning of the story “The Falling Suitcase” by Robert Drinkwater in the new Cyclists’ Vehicle. To find the full short story, look under the file ‘projects’ in the section ‘Under the helmet’. Creative musings about and featuring the bicycle can be found in the section ‘Under the Helmet’. Do you have your own piece to submit? Email it to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Here, under the “Projects” folder on the EBC homepage, we have a new section called “Under the Helmet”. Poetry, artwork, non fiction and fiction, this section shows the muse’s bicycle best. If this spring finds you in a creative mood, please send us your expressions to post on this site! Enjoy!

The March/April 2008 issue of Momentum, the magazine for self-propelled people, is now available!

The January issue of Urban Velo, a sweet zine out of Pittsburgh, PA focusing on urban bike culture is now available for download.

The Janurary/February 2008 issue of Momentum magazine is now available!

Our Spring newsletter has been released.  Check it out here.  Don’t miss this issue’s profile of one our fantastic mechanics, Keith. You can browse through our archives on the newsletters page.

Interested in writing an article for the newsletter, want to share your favourite routes, or have your profile in the next issue?  .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

An anthropology group at the University of Alberta has made a 16 minute documentary about the bycicle community in Edmonton, which includes interviews of people at EBC.  The video is called “Bike Love”, and you can check it out on Google Video here.

Love bikes!

The winter 2006/2007 newsletter went out at the start of this month. You can find it here, as well as at various bike spots around town.

If you’re an EBC member, but you didn’t get a copy in your mailbox, please .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) your current mailing address.