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If this image is correct, using just solar power, it doesn’t look like it would take much o power the earth…food for thought…potentially.

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by Garrett

A section of one of DOB-C’s favorite bike path on the way to Jacob Riis beach is still inaccessible due to Nor’easter damage from last November. Hurricane Ida demolished 150-foot section of the Shore Parkway Greenway, and as of January this year, the damage still looks about the same as it did in its immediate aftermath. You can still ride around on the grass adjacent to the highway, but it is obviously not desirable or safe.

The NYC Parks Department says its engineers are working with several other agencies including the Department of Environmental Conservation, National Parks Service, Department of Transportation and Army Corps. of Engineers to “evaluate the long term methods of repairing the affected area.” Let’s hope it gets fixed before the next DOB-C beach ride in summer ’10.

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Charlie Simpson saw the news about the earthquake destroying Haiti and decided to take action. He told his parents he wanted to organize a bike ride around a local park to raise about £500 (around $800). £500 turned into
£172,612.97 (roughly $277,59.66) and Charlie now holds the record for the most money raised in a single day.

News Link
Charlie’s Haiti Site

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Hey Kids,

First off, Happy Belated New Year. I know we’ve been a bit under the radar during the colder months but we’re getting ready to gear up again for the 2010 riding season. On that note, DOB-C is looking for bloggers. We’re not trying to compete with the Huffington Post or anything but right now there is only one of us blogging and with a day job it can be a bit over-whelming to update as often as we’d like.

You don’t have to commit to multiple entries per week. In fact, the more people who are interested the less often you’ll have to update. We’re just looking for a few people who can do a couple of entries a month about anything bike-related, queer, or environmentally friendly.

We’re also just looking for anything bike-related. If you’ve got video or pictures or events that are happening around nyc and you’re cool with us putting it up on the site please feel free to contact us at dykesonbikecycles@gmail.com.

And, as always, please feel free to tell your friends about the group. We’re always looking for more members.

If you haven’t already friend our official dob-c group on facebook.

To start off our New Year. Here’s a video of Helen Mirren test driving Chevy’s Fuel cell car. Its a little sales-ish with the music but it’s Helen Mirren

Also if you’ve got tips on how to ride in cold weather please leave comments below. We’d love to hear about it.

Happy riding!

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A man in Wenzhou, China witnessed two motorcyclists grab a handbag from a woman and while they make there speedy escape he decides to take action.

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Hope everyone has a good holiday and good new year.

Our resolution?

Get more dykes on bicycles!

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“Boys and their toys” is term I’ve often heard throughout my life as a way to explain away the lack of access for girls to “cool” things like motorcycles, tools, and a general life catalog of geekery (see: my google reader). Love it or hate it, as a dyke these are things are written in my social genetics.  And even if they weren’t there never seems to be a sensible reason for girls not enjoying these things as much as boys.

With bike culture breaking through to the mainstream more and more (see Jared Leto’s awful music video here) I wonder where are the girls? Darlington Media is wondering the same thing. Biking is a big part of the European culture for teenagers but it seems Britain may be the anomaly. DM wanted to know why girls were riding bikes much less often than in other countries and how they could get them back on.

Beauty and the Bike, “is a cultural urban travel project that aims to help urban traffic planners, by looking at one such mobility culture – that of the teenage girl and young woman. The project manifests itself as a film, book and exhibition.

More info at the site.

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Brought to you by Plane Stupid an organization against airport expansion

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The photos below are not from a dystopic sci-fi film.  They are the very real conditions of some towns in China taken over by toxic chemicals.

Photographer Lu Guang (卢广) won the Humanist Photography grant from the W Eugene Smith Memorial Fund for his project entitled “Pollution in China.”

The rest of his photo documents things like sewage and trash flowing into nearby rivers in towns bordering these plants and the physical deformities that afflict children born in those towns.

China appears to be both one of the worse polluters and most forward thinking in attempting to curb global warming. I’m not sure how that’s possible but China’s a big country so I can’t imagine its easy to wrangle everyone into working towards greener practices.  We can’t even get a consensus about global warming actually happening in the U.S! But even if you don’t think its happening some of these pictures should be enough to prove its not healthy either.

MORE PHOTOS HERE

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Due to weather the Gears and Grub ride was moved to Octoboer 25th.  That’s this Sunday.

Weather should be sunny so if you’re free definitely check it out for some good eats and good company.

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