Tucson Velo

Editor’s note: See the most recent post about the issue here.  If a county proposal goes forward, the Starr Pass trail in the photo above could be paved with a shared use path. The county is proposing paving one of two routes through Tucson Mountain park to connect to the the Loop on the west [...]

In case you were convinced the tacks that appeared in the shoulder on Mt Lemmon Highway two weeks ago, were deliberately placed there, more piles were discovered on Thursday and Friday. This was the message on Sabino Cycle’s page on Friday: There’s been more tacks put out on Catalina highway. Friends found three separate piles [...]

More than 15,000 people participated in Sunday’s Cyclovia Tucson (more photos) making it the highest attended Cyclovia ever. The total marks a 50 percent increase from the 10,000 people who attended the first event earlier this month. Kylie Walzak, the event’s organizer, said the new route likely played a part in the increase. “It seemed [...]

Welcome to Tucson’s Bike Fest. The month of April is devoted to bicycling with events taking place almost daily, this year organizers are making some major changes. Gone is the focus on biking to work. Instead organizers are focusing on total bike trips. Emily Yetman, the founder of Living Street Alliance, the group organizing Bike [...]

View Stolen Bikes on UA Campus in a full screen map. Zoom in for a more detailed view of the map showing the stolen bikes from 2007 to 1013 Bicycle thefts on the University of Arizona campus have increased by almost sixty percent compared to the same period last year. According to an analysis of [...]

For more than seven years, a little store front in Bisbee has housed one of the most diverse collections of rare bicycle collections in the country Each weekend Ken Wallace has opened the doors to his shop, the Bisbee Bicycle Brothel, to let others tour is vast collection of bikes, frames and parts. Wallace has [...]

It appears the driver accused of hitting and harassing cyclists on the Jamis-Hagens Berman cycling team has begun to defend himself in an online guitar forum. The post, which appears to have been removed, was created at 8:43 a.m. by the user Skatterbrane, the name of the business Rodney Kinkade Jr. owns. In the post, [...]

That’s the question I am hoping to answer in the coming week. Anecdotally it seems like more bikes are being stolen in Tucson as of late. It also appears the thieves are being more brazen by stealing more unique bikes and stealing them in broad daylight. Two stolen Xtracycles, one of which is very unique [...]

Update: See the photo of Rodney Kinkade Jr. below.  Editor’s note: Check out Tyler Wren’s first-person account.  One cyclist with the Jamis-Hagnes Berman cycling team was sent to the hospital and several others were injured during an assault by a Tucson motorist on Friday morning around 11 a.m., according to a team rider. The professional cycling [...]

A new piece of legislation aimed at reducing cyclist harassment is working it’s way through the Arizona Legislature. House Bill 2528, which is sponsored by District 25 Republican Justin Olson makes it a misdemeanor to harass a cyclist if they fall or stumble. The bill reads: Section 1.  Title 13, chapter 29, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended [...]

The Mexican Mercurio cargo bike you see above was reported stolen on March 27 by Leif Abrell. He filed a police report, posted to Facebook and filled out a stolen bike form on Tucson Velo. That same day, the Tucson Police Department apparently found the bike abandoned in a parking lot, yet Abrell did not [...]

Apologies for the extremely late notice on this streetcar “design charrette” happening all this week. Like me, you may be asking yourself what the heck is a design charrette? According to Wikipedia: “The word charrette may refer to any collaborative session in which a group of designers drafts a solution to a design problem. While the structure of a [...]