BAC starts new year by wrapping up last year
After failing to meet a quorum last month, the Tucson Bicycle Advisory Committee started 2012 by revisiting everything they accomplished in 2011. The BAC had planned to recap their accomplishments…
City council wants stiffer texting law
The Tucson City Council requested city staff revise the proposed texting ban to make the penalties stiffer and return it to the council for approval within 30 days. At its…
UA Criterium could be the last on campus
This year’s University of Arizona Criterium could be the last. Graduate student and UA cycling club member Melanie Meyers Colavito said after this year, the course will likely be unusable. “It makes…
Photo: A complete touring setup
I love this photo. It was taken by the friend of a Tucson Velo reader and it shows his entire bike touring setup. For perspective, the bike is a 63-centimeter…
Cyclist killed by train remembered by cousin
The cyclist killed by a train at 6th Street and 9th Avenue last week spent his winters in Tucson and summers in Minnesota. His cousin Marv Vredenburg sent me an…
Bike jacking on Santa Cruz River Path
A Tucson cyclist was assaulted by several teens and had his bike stolen on the Santa Cruz bike path last week. Dean Gray wrote in an email that the bike…
Ordinary Bike Shop feeling pinch from construction
Business at Ordinary Bike Shop has been a little slower in the past few months because of construction which has limited access to the bike shop. Ordinary owner David Tang…
Cyclist killed by train in downtown Tucson had just left BICAS
A 53-year old cyclist was killed after being truck by a train after he left BICAS on Saturday. According to a Tucson Police Department press release, Carl Astrum was stuck…
Cyclist killed in crash had ‘significant’ amount of alcohol and marijuana in system
The cyclist killed in a crash on Grant Road had a significant amount of alcohol and marijuana in his system at the time of the crash a Tucson Police Department…
Toole/4th Ave underpass gets new bike markings
The city continues to retrofit the the Toole/Congress/Broadway/4th Avenue intersection to make the multimillion dollar underpass friendly to bicycles and pedestrians. Crews have been adding pavement markings, sharrows and bike…
The face of Tucson rickshaws
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on borderbeat.net and is published here with the permission of the producer, UA Journalism Senior, Tyler Kurbat. Wesley Weisheit is the face of Tucson…
Local racer makes first cut for US Olympic team
Local pro mountain bike racer, Chloe Woodruff, was one of nine cyclists selected for the USA Women’s Mountain Bike Long Team last week. Woodruff, who splits time between Tucson and…