“We look like the Beverly Hillbillies,” said Cindy Lewis at one point. To drivers passing by we might have looked like gypsies, or a low budget circus on bikes.

When you get behind the wheel of a car you are arming yourself with a potentially lethal weapon. If you kill someone with that weapon, you should be held responsible. “I didn’t mean to do it,” just doesn’t cut it.

Working out the kinks in the Tide/bicycle relationship, riding vegan in the Pro Cycling Challenge, and more.

A healthy serving of fresh, local (mostly) cycling news.

Encouraging thoughts on Norfolk’s cycling future from the city council, along with city manager Frank Duke’s presentation on ‘Bikeability in Norfolk.’

Among downtown’s largest open spaces, Scope Plaza is perfect for bikes. And dogs.

Sitting is extremely dangerous, unless you’re sitting on a pedal-powered party machine (franchise available…). Plus more in today’s bike-powered If You Read the Paper.

Riding from Norfolk to North Carolina, the drivers make all the difference. Plus sea level rise, nookular power nose-dives and more in today’s If You Read the Paper.

9th Regional High School Dance Festival in Norfolk.

So go ahead, ride through the snow: Guys will respect you for your fortitude. Girls will love you for your courage. And your mother will think you’re nuts.

There are bike-friendly routes to be found in Norfolk. In fact, there’s a whole network that is passed by, unnoticed, by speeding motorists: parallel side streets and slower byways, where the speed limit doesn’t exceed 25mph, and the streets are bare of traffic-controlling yellow and white lines.

I’ve been a cyclist for years, worked as a bike messenger, even ridden a hundred-mile century. But I’ve never blended into a “paceline,” the fast-riding groups of would-be racers that cruise the streets in single-file, hunched over the handlebars and pedaling like locomotives.

Continued from Part 1 True to its reputation, the streets of Norfolk are no place to ride fast. We start and stop along Lafayette Avenue, avoiding potholes and broken glass, never getting much past 14 mph. Riding in a group has some advantages over riding solo. You can take a whole lane and the drivers [...]