http://www.bikesalute.com/bike A thousand people holding their bike over their head Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:27:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.bikesalute.com/bike/2008/11/20/bicycle-federation-changes-its-name/ 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 http://www.bikesalute.com/bike/2008/11/09/sadie-hawkins-day-bike-race/ 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. http://www.bikesalute.com/bike/2008/11/03/halloween-critical-mass/ 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. http://www.bikesalute.com/bike/2008/10/27/in-a-world/ 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. http://www.bikesalute.com/bike/2008/10/27/689-to-go/ 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 ... http://www.bikesalute.com/bike/2008/09/22/midnight-marauders-ii-721-to-go/ 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. http://www.bikesalute.com/bike/2008/09/19/parking-day/ 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 ... http://www.bikesalute.com/bike/2008/09/19/the-pr-incident/ 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 ... http://www.bikesalute.com/bike/2008/09/18/all-in-one/ 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. http://www.bikesalute.com/bike/2008/09/10/similar-yet-different/