Global

Sites Serving the Global Community

Which might just mean anything not in Wisconsin. If you can't find something in of our categories, try the list of links, or the rest of our links .

Further subdivided into sites focused on

 General

General

[see instead our list of portals

 Global_academic

Academic

Backcountry Biking in the Canadian Rockies
Guidebook to mountain biking in the Rocky Mountains.
[ this really belongs on our Books section. ]
canada
off-road;book

[Added Sat Oct 23 15:44:30 1999.]
Larry Lessard's Bicycle Research
Details, with good photos, of Larry Lessard's bicycle testing and research program at McGill University, in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Recently augmented with a variety of VR and conventional movies and animations. Plus a link to the world's finest list of links to bicycling-related WWW pages.
[Updated January 12, 1997.]
Cowell 152: Bicycle Transportation Engineering
Kevin Karplus, a computer engineer from UC Santa Cruz and frequent poster to rec.bicycles.soc, has put together this page describing his college course on bicycles as transportation. They're using Forester's Bicycle Transportation as the text, and the syllabus is available here in good detail.
[Added March 1, 1997.]
Center for Urban Transportation Studies
An interdisciplinary academic group at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Research summaries, course listings, and-- of course-- outlinks to other transportation-oriented sites-- are available here.
Infrastructure Technology Institute
"Supported by an $18 million six-year grant provided by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, the Infrastructure Technology Institute of Northwestern University is conducting a unified program of research and development, technology transfer, and education aimed at improving the technology and expertise available to address the problems of the nation's crumbling infrastructure." This is going to be of interest to the advocacy-oriented amongst us; no mountain biking pics.
Institute for Transport Studies
Based at Leeds University (in England), "... is one of the leading inter-disciplinary groups involved in teaching and research in transport studies, with a staff of over 40 and typically some 80 postgraduate students at any one time." Find here a description of the program, pages for the researchers, and links to similar pages elsewhere.
Non-Motorized Vehicles in Asia: Strategies for Management
A research paper, in hypertext, at the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology, by Michael Replogle, and first published in 1992.
[Updated February 15, 2001.]
NJ Transportation Information and Decision Engineering
"The primary objective of the New Jersey TIDE Center is to help make the Transportation Information and Decision Engineering industry viable and to help encourage the growth of this industry (and several supporting industries) in New Jersey. "
[Added March, 2002.]
Texas Transportation Institute
Located on the campus of Texas A&M, is "the largest university-based transportation research agency in the United States. These are the folks who bring us the TTI Congestion Study, which looks at automobile traffic congestion nationwide. Lots of information from the ongoing study is available here-- for example, they calculate the cost of congestion in Los Angeles at $8,000,000,000 a year, and $51,000,000,000 nationwide-- and in 48 of the 50 cities studies, it's getting worse. Also at this site are their publications catalog and online versions of several newsletters published by the institute on such compelling topics at metrication.
[Added December 17, 1996.]
Transportation Research Board
"The Transportation Research Board is a unit of the National Research Council, which serves the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. The Board's purposes are to stimulate research concerning the nature and performance of transportation systems, to disseminate the information produced by the research, and to encourage the application of appropriate research findings..." Expanding in scope shortly, a handy feature implemented now is the ability to search various bibliographic databases in the area of transportation research.
Victoria Transport Policy Institute
"The Victoria Transport Policy Institute is dedicated to innovative research and analysis. Our goal is to broaden the range of issues considered in transportation decision making and to develop practical tools for incorporating social and environmental values into transport planning and policy analysis." Todd Litman is the director, and this page largely serves as a place to read summaries of and optionally place orders for their publications and software.

 Global_commute

Commuting

See also our local commuting page
Bicycle Commuting Costs
One person's summary. Out of date, but instructive
costs
[Added: August 21, 2002. ]
The Bike Bus
An expermental idea. Cyclists ride as a group, closley bunched in pairs, taking just one lane which is our legal right and much safer than cycling individually. Just like a bus there is a scheduled start time and designated BikeBus stops along the route.
[Added February 15, 2001.]
Bike to Work Week
Madison's own Bike to Work Week web site is loaded with information for the commuting cyclist that is useful all year long.Now sited under the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin.
[Updated April 20, 2003.]
[Added April 24, 2000.]
Bike Coffee
Steven Scharf wants every good commuter to be able to enjoy coffee en route. You may know Steven as the author of our comprehensive folding bike page. He has brought the same level of detail to his evaluation of travelling coffee systems. Also some information about sex, health, and biking as they relate to coffee. We like his work even though he teases us Mac owners.
Paul Dorn's Bike Commuting Tips
Suggestions for successful bicycle commuting by a California cyclist, activist and writer.
[Added: May 1, 2001. ]
Pennsylvania Bicycle Driver's Manual
Helpful tips for riding anywhere, including 'non-standard intersections'.
Pennsylvania
commute;safety; tips;
[Added: December 18, 2001. ]
Safe, Legal, and Effective Cycling
This is put up by Bob Bayn at Utah State University, and features-- among other bicycling content of general, basic, informative nature-- two handy little fact sheets: Why bicycle riders should not ride on the wrong side of the road and Why bicycle riders should not ride on roadside sidewalk, which are suitable for printing and distributing to the folks you encounter doing just those two things, should you be that sort of person.
[Added March 13, 1998.]
Self-Propelled City
Ostensibly a commercial site, but I found not a single solicitation in my visit there (though there are ad banners)-- instead, a well-designed resource for the auto-free commuter-- information on gear (cycles, apparel, and lights, for example), the environment, and political stuff such as Critical Mass. Excellent!
[Added January 8, 1998.]
Traveling with Your Bicycle
Here's a page with information on travelling with you bike-- how to ship it or bring it on a plane or rail with you, how to cycle in and out of a vast array of airports, and so forth-- with anecdotal reports from people who have done just that at, for example, the various airports. Fronted by a big clickable map that lets you select your destination, the type of access you are interested in, or the shipping company you plan to use. Online submission of your experiences is supported, and you can register to hear about updates. An excellent idea and well-implemented. Bravo!
travel;excellent
[Updated August 2000.]
[Added March 5, 1997.]
Washington State Bicycle Commute Guide
Fifteen-page guide to bicycle commuting, funded by various Washington state agencies. Entirely graphical! See also these safety tips.
[Added January 8, 1998.]
[Updated February 2001.]

 Govt

Government Sites

American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials
AASHTO is the trade organization populated by the people we love to hate: the folks who design the facilities that we struggle to navigate with our road bikes (and on foot). It's not strictly a governmental group, so it's misplaced here. So sue me. Each week they publish the AASHTO Journal, which is online here, and also downloadable in Microsoft Word format. Also here is the bookstore, which is where you can order any of their roughly 100 print publications, such as the Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities (really, and for only $13.50) and Designing Railroad Crossings for Maximum Bicyclist Kill Rate (just kidding). And, their events list, where you can find out where to go to picket meetings and symposia on such "riveting" topics as Bridge and Structure Design. At the moment, their recommendations on ISTEA are online in a separate section-- it's not as scary as one might expect-- nowhere did I find the phrase "gut the enhancements program," for example, though-- no surprise-- they do see a need for more money just about everywhere.
[Added April 20, 1998.]
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (United States)
This site has gotten much bigger and better since my last look (for example, you can now find the complete WisDOT bicycle planning guidelines). There are about two dozen sections, including ones on Bicycles and Pedestrians, Safety, Land Use, Transit Use, Transportation History... Also, you can order lots of CD databases, and you might be pleased to hear that "there is no charge for any of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics product." You can order them right from the page. Also, a jumping-off place to other transportation-oriented sites.
Federal Highway Administration
A division of the US Department of Transportation. There are sections on Intelligent Transportation Systems (no, they don't mean bicycle commuting). An alert reader of the BCP finds that they have a Bike/Ped Program
[Updated May, 2001.]
[Updated January 1, 1998.]
Federal Transit Administration
"Searchable clearinghouse for FTA documents and information on issues of mass transit and public transportation. Includes Funding, Research/Technology, Planning/Policy, Safety/Security resources."
transit; funding; policy;
[Updated: August, 2002]
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Department of Transportation Planning
"The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the region, and plays an important role as the regional forum for transportation planning. MPOs prepare plans and programs that the federal government must approve in order for federal-aid transportation funds to flow to their regions. "

Their icon shows a cyclist and a bus, so we're assuming they share our vision.
tr-planning,funding
Metropolitan Washington, DC
[Added: December 2, 2002. ]
Minnesota ITS
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in Minnesota. ITS America fosters public/private/academic partnerships to increase the safety and efficiency of surface transportation through the application of advanced technologies. Mandated by the U.S. Congress in 1991 (ISTEA) and renewed in 1997 (TEA21), ITS America coordinates the development and deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems in the United States.
minnesota
[Added: August 21, 2002. ]
Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
This government-industry consortium-- seven agencies, twenty federal labs, and the three big auto makers-- is charged with tripling the fuel efficiency of mid-size cars, producing prototypes by 2004. That means, for example, an 80MPG Ford Taurus. Hosted at the Technology Administration-- that's a Department of Commerce agency-- website.
[Added April 20, 1998.]
President's Council on Sustainable Development
This link is not found, as April 2002. No surprise there.
Their vision statement is this:
Our vision is of a life sustaining Earth. We are committed to achievement of a dignified, peaceful, and equitable existence. A sustainable United States will have a growing economy that provides equitable opportunities for satisfying livelihoods and a safe, healthy, high quality of life for current and future generations. Our nation will protect its environment, its natural resource base, and the functions and viability of natural systems on which all life depends.
In other words, more bicycles! The site is only partly implemented- for example, the Resources section is empty- but there is some decent stuff here, such as the "phase one" report from the task force on energy and transportation (no, they don't mention bicycling-- duh!). At this writing, they are in "phase three," so the content is rather stale, but they are currently chartered to operate through the end of 1998, so perhaps they will add more content in the coming months.
[Added January 19, 1998.]
United States Department of Transportation
Okay, so they don't mention bicycles anywhere on the page. That's the challenge of bicycle advocacy, so they make the page of links.
[Updated January 1, 1998.]

 Forum

Forums, chat, etc

BikeForums.Com
Disscuss anything bike related, tons of topics and forums avalible.
[Added: February 13, 2002. ]
BikeTalk
News, links, a chat room, a survey and other bike stuff.
forum;news;
[Added: February 14, 2002. ]
Cycledelics Bike Chat
Come and register for this bicycling chat room with a cool late night moderator.
chat
[Added: August 26, 2002. ]
cycling.org
"The Global Cycling Network is an electronic information desk for cyclists." Formerly run by a volunteer and called VeloNet, it has been resited at and, more recently, integrated into, Cyber Cyclery, a commercial site. (Background on the events that lead to the move and the events that have followed are here). Hundreds of cycling-oriented mailing lists are run at this site, and there are also big lists of organizations, plus tens of small web pages for organizations without the will or means to site their own.
[Updated February 13, 1998.]
CyclingForums.com
A cycling related forum for racing cyclists.
discussion
forum
Submitted by: steve steven@cyclingforums.com
[Added: January 8, 2002. ]

 Global_health

Health

A Positive Light - Lance Armstrong's Tour de Force
He fought back from massive testicular cancer to be only the second American cyclist to win the grueling competition of the prestigious Tour de France.
[Added Sat Oct 23 15:44:30 1999.]
Bicycling on a Bad Knee
This good-looking page relates Kirk Schutte's experiences with biking after seriously injuring his knee-- for example, what equipment worked for him, and what didn't. He invites comments, so this may be a page that grows into Knee Problems Central over the ages. Pages like this are the web at its best.
[Updated August, 2001.]
Cycling Performance Tips
This site, authored by a physician/cyclist, provides a bunch of information about how to train for cycle sports: physiology, training schedules, and plenty of copy on nutrition. It also serves to promote the book he authored, Bicycling Fuel. He plans to keep updating it with additional information. I like it.
[Updated September, 2001.]

 Global_hpv

Human-Powered Vehicles

International Human-Powered Vehicle Association
Mostly, a big, well-organized collection of links to resources elsewhere on HPVs and recumbents.
[Updated June 5, 1997.]
Railbike International .
For the mechanically inclined, you can build your own using Dick Bentley's designs .
[Updated June 13, 2001.]
Recumbents.Com
A central repository for information on recumbents.
[Added June 5, 1997.]
Recumbents and Technomadics
Kathy Bilton's page on recumbents.
Rick's Innovative Cycles
Rick has a couple designs for recumbent trikes, and is offering them for you to build at home. What are you waiting for?
road,recumbent,designs,trike
[Added: December 20, 2001. ]
Velomobile
A velomobile is sort of a recumbent with a body. Looks like fun!
recumbent;other bike
[Added: March, 2003. ]

 Mess

Bike Messengers

The BCP salutes these bold adventurers in sustainable commerce.

Hideouswhitenoise [HWN logo]
This is an online 'zine published by bike messengers in Toronto, but with broad appeal-- at least to bike messengers elsewhere, and probably to anybody with a bicycle transportation advocacy jones. According to Guido BruidoClarke, who has a hand in it, "Hideousewhitenoise is a e-zine that promotes cycling, reports on urban bike racing and is fighting against the world domination of the automobile." We enjoyed the report on the 4th Annual Cycle Messenger World Championship, held this year in San Francisco. Did you know that 3500 cyclists participated in a Critical Mass ride there?
[Updated March 9, 1998.]
Messenger Memorial
A memorial to those members of the international bike messenger community who haved passed on. Names, eulogies, photos, stories.
messenger
San Francisco, CA:
Submitted by: America Meredith ahalenia@earthlink.net
[Added: February 11, 2001. ]
messengers.org
"Resources for bike messengers worldwide... painstakingly assembled herein every link related to bike messengering that I could find."
[Added March 9, 1998.]
Scram! Couriers
a Madison institution.
[Added Nov. 2001.]

Directories, Portals, Links

Show me a web site that doesn't have a list of links, and I'll show you a rare (and welcome?) exception to the rule. Everybody does it, in part because it's an easy way to add "content," and in part because it's really slick to be able to step from site to site, continent to continent, with just a click, and we just can't get over it. On the other hand, it's a bit... wierd to make it so easy for your readership to jump ship for greener virtual pastures. The exception to that principle is the List of Links: if your site consists solely of links to other sites, it's an unqualified success to present one that the reader chooses. No sense of rejection to spoil your day.

Lately, the web has seen the evolution from 'links' ( a list of links to other, related sites), to 'links to links', ( a list of links to other sites that have a links page), to 'portals'. The Portal is your one-stop home page for the topic of of your choice. Herewith, a list of some of these.

Anyway, these is them. Have fun, but remember this: click on one, and you've just navigated from a links list to a links list. Yes, even publishers of links lists can be rejected...

Bike Cafe
This domain was formerly listed in our magazine section, but has been re-done. It now bills itself as "the worldwide cycling resource". Add your own link! Heavy on the racing stuff at this time.
[Updated: March 17, 2003.]
[Updated: August 22, 2002.]
BikNet International Link
This is just one section of the big Taiwan-based BikNet service, but it's astounding in its magnitude. Highly recommended. Available in six languages, here, which page reports more than a million hits since 1995.
[Updated March 17, 1997.]
Bike Mojo
"A search directory built by bikers". Another directory of bicycle links. Some of them reviewed, and even rated.
[Added: January 17, 2001. ]
The Bike Path
"I only ride for the enjoyment."
[Added Dec. 3, 2000.]
Cycling - Top links
Yet another collection of useful bike links, perhaps more organized than our very own BCP.
-
portal
[Added: June 15, 2003. ]
Cycling Portal
A portal which guides you through the world of Cycling industry: bicycle,mountain bikes,trek bicycles,bicycle parts etc.
Their objective: The goal of Cycling Portal is to create a "One Stop Business Solution" for business professionals, buyers and sellers, operating in this specific market sector.
(maybe this should go under commercial?)
:
Submitted by: Cycling Portal info.cycling@tradeworlds.com
[Added: October 25, 2000. ]
The Cycling Source
"Cycling web directory, news, picture and video archives, classifieds, search engines and more."
Yet another site that wants to be your one source for biking, but takes forever to load.
:
Submitted by: Alan Reain nastyroadrash@hotmail.com
[Added: November 9, 2000. ]
Great Outdoor Recreation Page Bicyling Page
Mostly links to other sites, but structured very nicely. Here is the root of the page, which covers lots of outdoor activities and information. For example, this is a link to a page of information on Wisconsin; there is also the Adventurous Traveler Bookstore there, with this link to a section on bicyling books. This is a commercial service, but seems to fit in better here than elsewhere.
And the obligatory links page.
[Updated August 2, 2000]
Great Trails
Senior citizens who like to ride on bike trails describe their favorites.
trails
USA
[Added: April 28, 2003. ]
Interesting Bike and Transit WWW Pages
Kevin Karplus, familiar denizen of rec.bicycles.soc, has put together this well-annotated list of links with an emphasis on advocacy. Karplus is an interesting name for a bike advocate-- "everything you'd want from a car, plus..."
[Added March 1, 1997.]
Ken Kifer's Bike Pages
Wacky humor, safety instructions, touring accounts and advice, health information, advocacy, and articles on the cyclist lifestyle.
-
[Added: February 17, 2002. ]
Mn/DOT Library - Bicycles & Pedestrians
Another fine collection of links - brought to by the Minnesota DOT.
minnesota
[Added: July 18, 2001. ]
Pete's BikIndex
Links to, and email addresses for, lots of manufacturers of biking gear. Big. Biggest?
[Updated March 22, 1998.]
Sheldon Brown
Another comprehensive site, run by Sheldon Brown.
[Added February 25, 2001.]
Speedy's Bike-O-Rama
Hierachical links list from Andrew T. Brant.
[Added October 25, 1996.]
Rails-Trails Links
from the West Virginia Rails Trails organization. Includes links for general issues, and for specific trails.
trails;tour
[Added December, 2001]
Trails.com
For cyclists, on- and off-road trails, organized by state, etc. Also hiking, kayaking ....
This site has absorbed FatTire.com, among others.
road;off-road
[Added March 15, 2001]

 Global_museums

Museums

Bicycle Museum of America
(Most of ) The collection formerly housed in Chicago, now in the hands of a collector in Ohio.
classics,history,bikes,museum
New Bremen, OH;
[Added: December 26, 2001. ]
Pedaling History - The Burgwardt Bicycle Museum
This museum, located near Buffalo, New York, is dedicated to the history of the bicycle. Besides continuously running special programs at their home location, they contribute to travelling exhibits, and put up this page chock full of text, photos, and drawings. Quite good.
museum;history
buffalo, NY
[Added August, 2001]
WWW Bicycle Museum
Hosted at the Taiwan-based BikNet, this is an all-WWW thing. Of course, there is also a Chinese version. It seems to consist of hundreds of high-quality scans of line drawings of various bicycle components, all 20th century that I saw. Oh, for a faster link to really do it justice.

 News

News

Websites with a mishmash of bicycle-related information.
Bicycle Wire .com
Daily links and commentary to news about bicycle advocacy, touring, racing, art and more.
news
[Added October, 2001.]

 Global_safety

Safety

Motor vehicle accidents kill about forty thousand Americans each year, and maim tens of thousands more. After more than a decade of declines, the trends are now towards more deaths. Despite the fact that each vehicle mile travelled is somewhat safer these days, it's also the case that the average number of vehicle miles travelled by each person is on the rise-- dramatically so. And, despite public education efforts and stricter enforcement, the number of alcohol-related vehicle deaths is on the increase as well. Many recreational cyclists refuse to consider sharing roads with cars, and while it's great to see new trails popping up to accomodate them, many of us would like to see more people considering bicycles as a viable transportation option. Safer roads, safer cyclist and motorist behavior, and safe cycling equipment are in the interests of all of us.
American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety'Drowsy
The AAA are the same folks who are lobbying heavily to bully Congress into gutting those tiny segments of the Federal ISTEA transportation program that aren't converted directly into sprawl, arguing, for example, that Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality money should be turned into highway lanes. So, it's hard to take them too too seriously when they try to play nice guy, like they do with this program. They're smart: road rage is tarnishing the image of the happy, independent driver, and that's bad for their now 38-million-strong little club-- so one focus of the site is such tools as anti-road-rage public service announcements. Another program targets older drivers, another thorn in the side of those who want cars, concrete, and sprawl for all. A third little ugly for them is teenage drivers, so there is a little package of PSAs for them, too. You can hear 'em all on their RealAudio page, good for a hoot until the reality sets in: these folks have the money and the influence to sweep any little problem, such as, for example, the current and accelerating trend towards dramatically greater highway fatalities, right under the old rug.
[Added February 23, 1998.]
Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute
Information of bicycle helmet safety standards and the like. "The Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute has an excellent site. It has information on helmet fit, studies about helmet efficicacy, discussion about the pros and cons of mandatory helmets, ideas on how to promote helmet use. etc etc." ( Steve Meiers )
[Updated December, 2001.]
Bicycle Safety Information on DANEnet
DANEnet, the community network that hosts this page, is doing a pilot study with WisDOT called Community Safety on DANEnet. The goal is "to see how a community net... can be used by the public to get convenient access to all kinds of safety info, and also how the community net can be used to foster the online discussion of local safety issues. This link is to the Bicycle Safety subsection of the Traffic Information section of the prototype page, and has a number of interesting resources. Some of these are online incarnations of products of WisDOT's Office of Transportation Safety that were formerly available only in print; they've been adapted nicely to this medium.
[Added January 13, 1997.]
Cycling Accident Database
Home of the unique and famous bicycle accident archive, which features a facility for entering the details of your own bicycle accident, with the possibility of being selected as Chris' Pick of the Week. Now, you or I might prefer to avoid even thinking about our little mishaps, nor care to hear the details of those of net-strangers, but for those of us who live for such stuff: this is your page. Newly resited and reglitzed.
[Updated December 20, 1996.]
Cycling Safely
This page, part of a larger general cycling page based in Singapore, has a collection of common sense tips on cycling safely, well-written and organized.
[Added February 8, 1997.]
Drunken Riding
New York Times article (Feb 27, 2001) on riding while intoxicated. Believe it or not, its not good for you.
[Added December 18, 2001.]
Lexington Bicycle Safety Program, Inc.
"The Lexington Bicycle Safety Program is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting safer riding by cyclists. It organizes bicycle safety events, coordinates media campaigns promoting bicycle safety throughout Massachusetts, and produces a variety of educational materials for national distribution."
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Goddamned I'll be if I can find much about bicycles there, other than that bicyclist accounted for 2% of all traffic fatalities in 1993. Listed here so you can join me in carping to their webmaster via email about the omission of substantial information of bicyclist safety.
[Added January 13, 1997.]
Ped-Bike Safety Research at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
This outfit is the applied research facility of the Federal Highway Administration. This section is headed High Priority Area: Improving Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety, and features, besides descriptions of print reports that are available, an online version of Crash-Type Manual for Bicyclists, about which is said
The information provided in the following guide is the result of a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) research study that applied the basic National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) bicycle and pedestrian typologies to a sample of bicycle-and pedestrian-motor vehicle crashes from six States with the purpose of refining and updating the crash type distributions. Particular attention was given to roadway and locational factors in order to identify situations where engineering, educational, and/or regulatory countermeasures might be effectively implemented to reduce the frequency of the crashes.
Other than the table of contents, it's in PDF format. Oddly, I couldn't find a link to it on the site, but there it is...
[Added December 16, 1997.]
National Safe Kids Campaign Online
Why would this be here? Because, as pointed out at this site, "bicycles are associated with more childhood injuries than any other consumer product except the automobile." Check out the Bicycle Injury Fact Sheet here for lots of data in information about just how and why that's the case.
[Added May 3, 1998.]
Snell Memorial Foundation
"The Snell Memorial Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to research, education, testing and development of helmet safety standards. Since its founding in 1957, Snell has been a leader in the frontier of helmet safety in the United States and around the world." This page has lots of information about this organization and helmets in general, with a focus on bicycle helmets. And, finally an answer to the question "who is this Snell character, anyway?"
World Health Organization Helmet Initiative
"The World Health Organization Helmet Initiative is a worldwide effort to promote the use of motorcycle and bicycle helmets. This goal of this effort-- the prevention of bicycle and motorcycle injuries-- will be achieved through the group's collaborative efforts in the development of international standards for helmet construction and design, legislation to encourage the use of helmets, and education to promote helmet use." Includes a big page of stuff about the Snell Memorial Foundation.

 Global_tech

Technical

Proposed Algorithms for Rating the ``Difficulty'' of Climbs
Equations, table of numbers, good geeky stuff.
[Added March, 2002.]
Braze Your Own Bicycle Frame
Joshua Putnam has collected much of the information you would need to build your own steel bicycle frame. No more whining about the unavailability of touring/commuting bikes: now you have no excuse not to build your own.
[Updated November 11, 2001.]
[Added February 17, 1998.]
Chain-suck in a NUTSHELL
Chain-suck : Its causes and mechanisms, how to avoid and resolve it.
[Added: April 23, 2001. ]
Exploratorium's Science of Cycling
San Francisco's Exploratorium is probably the nation's premier science education institution-- its hand-on museum has attracted accolades from all who have had the opportunity to visit, and has served as a model for dozens of more modest efforts around the globe. They've also got a web site that serves to extend their outreach to anybody with a modem and a computer. This resource is their second effort in the area of sport science (the first was the award-winning Science of Hockey); it "takes you behind the scenes to learn about the sport from the perspective of top athletes, bicycle makers, and scientists." It features RealVideo interviews with such personalities as four-time Cross-Country World Championship Medalist Ruthie Matthes, custom frame builder Paolo Salviogne, and Exploratorium physicist Paul Doherty. Other features are sections on bicycling history and culture, with many archival images and video, various JavaScript calculators that allow you to compute, for example, braking distances and energy consumption, video footage of stunt rider Libor Karas, and music by the group Bicycle (who tour exclusively via human-powered vehicles).
[Added August 15, 1997. Submitted by Jim Spadaccini.]
Framebuilders
A mailing list for bicycle frame building, pro or amateur, an outgrowth of my frame building pages.
list;frame;tech
[Added February 2002.]
Institute of Transportation Engineers on the Web
This international organization of 13,000 traffic engineering professionals now has a web site, with resources such as job and event listings and "action alerts," though that means something a little bit different to them than it might to a bicycle advocate. They have ten "councils" that address various areas of transportation engineering, but nothing specifically on bicycling or even multi-modalism. Transportation demand management and transit are two of the ten, though. They also have a web-accessable "technical request service" that is something like the reference desk at the public library.
[Updated March 6, 1997.]
Magpie's Nest
Home page of a guy at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland, useful for the sections on Brompton folding bicycles, Aerobikes recumbent bicycles, and some other stuff, mostly related to recumbent bicycles. He says that if you want a test ride, you should stop by.
[Updated March 6, 1997.]
Mini-FAQ on Bicycle Lights
Discussion of bike light technology and design considerations. It's more comprehensive than it is mini. A really useful resource. Last updated in 1995, which still makes it newer than some of our lame content.
[Updated November 18, 1998.]
Moulton Bicycle Club
Moulton bicycles are small-wheeled bikes with a "rubber suspension" and a fanatical following. There's good info on the entire product line here, with pictures, and information on the Moulton Bicycle Club.
[Updated March 6, 1997.]
Rick's Innovative Cycles
Rick has a couple designs for recumbent trikes, and is offering them for you to build at home. What are you waiting for?
road,recumbent,designs,trike
[Added: December 20, 2001. ]
Spoke Length Formula & Wheel Lacing Info
"This Web site covers the formula for calculating spoke length based on the measurements of the hub and rim dimensions. It is for experienced wheel builders that are looking for the spoke formula. It is not for people that are just beginning to lace wheels and are looking for the directions on how to do that. There are lots of other sites and books that cover lacing technique." Provides information in a set of about a dozen pages that I personally have always had to go to a bike shop to get in the past.
[Added November 18, 1998.]
Weight Weenies
A comprehensive list of actual mountain bike component weights. For gear-heads everyhwhere.
parts,accessories
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[Added: January 29, 2001. ]

 Global_touring

Touring

This section of links describes some of the 'how-to' of bike touring.

See also our local touring section, and the Event Sites/Tours list for pages that describe specific touring events (of which there seem to be more every day). See also our list of supported tours.

Bicycle Touring
Subtitled "the online resource to recreational cycling," which is a pretty big scope, this page offers a variety of information for the bicycle tourist-- a big calendar of multi-day and local tours (editors Chris and Jan Marsh seem to be based in Texas), tour reports, links, news, and so forth.
[Added August 16, 1997.]
Jan Boonstra's Cycling Pages
He's been cycle touring since 1962, and has now cycled in 28 countries. This page has reports and photos from some of those trips, with an emphasis on Asia. Also, a nice links list with a focus on cycle touring pages. Slick.
[Added March 15, 1997.]
CycleAtlas
CycleAtlas is a free, open-source software cycling diary based on a road atlas. It permits to create and store planimetry, profile and route time table of rides.
tour,software
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Submitted by: maner maner@users.sf.net
[Added: April 13, 2003. ]
Impressions from bicycle travels.
Visual stories from America and Asia (fully-automatic slide shows).
[Added April 2001.]
Do It Yourself Bicycle Tours and Vacations
Information on how to plan, prepare and carry out your own independent bike tour of popular areas like France, Western Ireland, Costa Rica, Colorado, Utah etc with detailed itineraries and loads of tips on how to do it on your own without joining a commercial tour, focuses mainly on road bike touring overnighting at budget hotels.
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[Added: October 25, 2000. ]
Murphy's Bicycling Page
Mostly pictures of bike trails in and around Dayton, OH. But especially interesting are his designs for a homemade trailer.
road,tour,trailer
Dayton, OH
[Added: December 20, 2001. ]
Travel Guide to Africa by Bicycle
Hosted at the International Bicycle Federation web page, this is a comprehensive resource for anybody considering a bicycle trip in Africa, or for anybody who is casting about for an international destination but who thought that a bike trip to Africa would be a Bad Idea. Besides information of a general nature, there is specific information on 27 (!) African countries (no, that's not all of them-- at least Egypt, Liberia, and Libya, are missing). Each is decorated with relevant links, and there is a big section of links of general interest to the potential African bicycle tourist. An outstanding and probably unique resource.
[Updated March 6, 1997.]
Travel to the Horizon
"Large collection of bicycle travel related information: travelogues, bicycle travel info, general travel info, organised tours, books, maps and guides and touring equipment. Online: since 1995".
This site has evolved into a quite comprehensive resource on travelling by bicycle, all searchable by location. A project of Raph de Rooiji, who is located in Delft, THe Netherlands.
[Updated October 12, 1997.]
Tandem Club of America
Despite the name, it's billed as an international club for tandem enthusiasts. The newsletter is online here, and a big list of events for tandem riders is here, too. Most, but not all, of the events are in the US.
[Updated February 28, 2001.]
[Added April 20, 1998.]
Twisting Spokes
a site designed for touring cyclists. Have your tour followed on line, or follow others.
[Added: April 23, 2001. ]
Velotravels
We are a brand new cycling web site that offers users an opportunity to post rides, stories, and pictures. We also offer forums and a database listing for clubs, shops, and outfitters.
Submitted by: Brad Sacks brad@velotravels.com
[Updated: July 3, 2000 ]
The Warm Showers List
Information about people who will put up cyclists passing through their area in exchange for a promise to put up cyclists passing through their own area.
[Updated April 3, 1999.]

Utility

This section is dedicated to imaginative and practical uses of bicycles (and variations thereof).
Bike-Canoe
Pictures (with some description) of bike-with-trail-for-can oe setup.
trailer
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[Added: April 28, 2003. ]
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