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Bicycle federation changes its name

Dubi — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:27:13 +0000

I became a member of the Chicago bike federation because they are good and because of some bike/local pride. The organization recently changed its name to active transportation alliance.

We changed our name to reflect our expanded mission to improve walking, bicycling and transit in the region. As the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, our work already reflected this approach. We moved into the new areas of walking and transit to help broaden our voice, gain new allies in reaching our overall goals, and effectively win Complete Streets for all.

I think it makes sense. My grievances over the name change are sentimental.

Sadie Hawkins Day Bike Race

Dubi — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:03:45 +0000

It was the first really cold day of the year and the Sadie Hawkins Day Bike Race was about to start.

Olive and her bike

Halloween Critical Mass

Dubi — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:42:30 +0000

The ride was fun. Lots of nice costumes besides the usual bumble bee and and slutty ear doctor costumes there were Sarah Palin,Joe sixpack,Joe plumber and bankers with cash. I went as Jonah.

Willy Chen and his bike.

In a world…

Dubi — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:38:33 +0000

This is the trailer for the animation that will include all of the bike salutes. I am yet to find the right music to go with it. Many thanks to Mariapaz for her help making this.

689 to go

Dubi — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:36:46 +0000

I have not updated the count in a while. Here is a photo from Sunday Parkways. The event was lots of fun and i hope it will happen again.

Dan Korn raising the bar(s) by lifting his tall bike.

Midnight Marauders II - 721 to go

Dubi — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:06:12 +0000

Rode again with the midnight marauders. it was fun as usual. In that ride I learned two new things. The first one that my camera can take cool photos like the one below. The second thing is: When two group of somewhat intoxicated people passes one another it takes just one scream from one party at the other and a frantic screaming and waving session ensues.

Kim Chapman doing a bike salute.

Parking Day.

Dubi — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:40:55 +0000

Happy Park(ing) day. I hope to see the various instillation here in town. Before I started bike salute I made another art project web site that deals with Traffic and photos.

The PR company incident.

Dubi — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:31:59 +0000

I am going to be vague in order to kill this Non-Story. I read a funny post on an interesting blog and made a comment about it.
Before I wrote the comment, I searched the name of one of the characters in the story, let’s call him KA. I did this research because the story seemed to unreal. The first result in the search was KA public relations which seemed to fit the blog post, so I included the full name of this PR company in the comment. I did it not knowing that there might be someone else who has similar name and works in marketing too.

I hope this is the end of the story about two companies with the same name that work in the same trade.

All in one

Dubi — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:58:29 +0000

The image below is a composite of all the bike salutes so far. I wrote a script in processing that accumulated the R,G and B values of each pixel than divided it by the number of images (267 so far).
The idea to do it came from seeing the work of a Jason Salavon
at a gallery last year.

The resulting image was very gray so I normalized the image in Photoshop.

Similar yet different.

Dubi — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:43:46 +0000

Photographer Chris Thomas is documenting the cycling scene in Kansas city, MO.

You can see his work on on his flickr page. I don’t know if it is him but everyone looks happy in his pictures.