More than a dozen employees of Mike’s Bikes, the largest independent bicycle retailer on the West Coast, loaded a shipping container Monday with more than 450 bicycles bound for Africa as part of an ongoing campaign to bring a permanent sustainable transportation solution to the troubled continent.
This is the third time the San Rafael-based company, which has eight shops in the Bay Area including downtown San Rafael and Sausalito, has collected used bicycles from its customers to send overseas to Ghana, Botswana and Namibia.
The effort is more than a donation – the company also … Details & Pictures
A Wellington man fined for cycling nude on a country road has had his conviction and sentence quashed, but the High Court is warning people not to take it as an indication they can do the same.
Nick Lowe was cycling nude on Akatarawa Rd near Upper Hutt last March when a woman stopped and called police to report what she considered to be offensive behaviour.
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Every year you pay USA Cycling $30 for a collegiate cycling license ($60 if you purchase a Road or Mountain Bike license, as well), your club pays a $50 renewal fee, and you pay to promote a race through USA Cycling, as well. So where does this money go? What do we do with it? First and foremost, every USA Cycling staff member is issued a company Porsche and a Learjet on his or her first day.
Obviously this isn’t the case, but there are always running assumptions that USA Cycling is a for-profit company, when in fact, it is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, and it is an extremely efficient one. To be as transparent as possible, we have broken down exactly where your license money goes in the world of collegiate cycling. You can find a similar breakdown of other USA Cycling financials on the last page of our 2008 Annual Report (the 2009 Report will be released soon).
To find out exactly how Collegiate Cycling license fees are spent, read more here.