Tag Archives: cycling

A Big Weekend for the Bicycle in Pittsburgh

May 19, 2011 – 10:05 PM

Pittsburgh has been gaining quite a bit of attention from other places for our bicycle friendly community. This is due in large part to the hard work of the folks at BikePgh and the people in Pittsburgh who ride their bikes and want to make this a better place for all bike riders. Even if you don’t have a bike or like to ride a bike (the more

Tags BIKE, bike pgh, bike to work day, bikepgh, cycling, pedal pittsburgh, pittsburgh, Southside Works | Comment (1)

PGH Trivia outdoors

The Hills Are Alive…

January 26, 2011 – 8:30 PM

Image via Wikipedia not with the sound of music, but with the sound of cyclists and Rick Sebak brought some video cameras along. Tonight (Wednesday, January 26) and I am sure many other times because these things do get repeated – Rick Sebak’s show Its Pittsburgh takes a look at The Dirty Dozen. The Dirty Dozen is an “unofficial” bicycle more

Tags bikes, Canton Avenue, cycling, its pittsburgh, OTB, Rick Sebak | Comment (0)

outdoors

Bringing Bicycles to the Big Screen

December 14, 2010 – 11:34 PM

Image by lemonad via Flickr On Monday, December 20 – you can catch the Pittsburgh premier of Life Cycles – a feature length documentary about bicycles. I will admit that I am not an avid cyclist – but I am in full support of bicycling in Pittsburgh. While I have become a pro at pedaling a bike to nowhere (thanks to spinning class) I haven’t more

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Links Worth A Look

Links Worth a Look – October 8th

October 8, 2010 – 12:00 PM

Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look: Interview with Thick Bikes – Thick Bikes is one of those places in Pittsburgh that I have seen and thought there must be an interesting place but didn't know much about. Thanks to Brett at OnlyinPGH for this nice interview – I didn't know that they also did bike repairs. MECHA more

Tags bikes, byham, Byham Theater, cycling, lego, only_in_pgh, photos, psamp, radical-reels, troy polamalu, Venture Outdoors | Comments (2)

Links Worth A Look

Links Worth a Look – May 12th

May 12, 2010 – 1:00 PM

Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look: Confessions of a not so serious biker : Venture Outdoors – Nice write up with lots of great photos of the Venture Outdoors trip to New York City for the 5 Boro Bike Tour. Meet the Juice Box Cafe – new spot for smoothies, wraps and salads in Shadyside – This is nice article from Pop City more

Tags 5-boro-bike-tour, bikes, copeland, cycling, juice-box-cafe, penn ave, photos, popcity, Shadyside, shopPGH, T-shirts, tweek, tweek-clothing, Venture Outdoors | Comment (0)

Organizations/Clubs kids 'burgh outdoors

May 30, 2009 – Free Family Bike Fun and the Major Taylor Cycling Club

May 27, 2009 – 6:54 AM

Image via Wikipedia Saturday, May 30 is Beyond Bikes Day – a family friendly bicycle celenbration for beginners – I wan’t to make sure to point out that this is beginner friendly – I know we have posted lots of bike information but I am a bike begginner myself and I know that it can be intimidating. Beyond Bikes Day is organized by Venture more

Tags beyond bikes day, bikes, cycling, Free, Madison Square Garden, major taylor, major taylor cycling club, Underground Railroad Bicycle Route, Venture Outdoors | Comments (3)

food & drink outdoors

Bike the Beer

May 13, 2009 – 8:39 AM

Image by 顔なし via Flickr Speaking of bikes, it is time for another favoirte annual bike ride – Friday, May 15 is the East End Brewing’s Annual Pedal Pale Ale Keg Ride. THE RIDE: To help spread the word about what it means to operate an environmentally sustainable brewery (more on that here), for the past few years, we’ve been delivering the the more

Tags beer, cycling, East End Brewing, keg ride, pedal pale ale, pedal pale ale le keg ride | Comments (4)