biking

While many think a driver's license is an all-American birthright, young people have been gradually taking a pass on getting behind the wheel. And it's not just high gas prices to blame.

Summer music festivals offer a fun way to hear the country's best bands, but between tickets, travel, food and accommodations, they aren't cheap. So we asked directors and promoters of some of the summer's top events for their favorite penny-pinching tips for festival-goers.

The Energy Department said last week that the average American household will pay $700 more for gas in 2011, thanks to rising oil prices. And, we're only about 20% through the year so if prices keeping going up, we could wind up paying a lot more than the estimated $3,235. President Obama and the...

Sometimes truth so closely imitates fiction that you aren't sure what to believe. That's the case with Jeff Pedelty, purportedly one of the newest residents of a bike-friendly condo development in Boulder, Colo. aptly named "The Peleton." It's not enough that Mr. Pedel - ty (get it?) also seems...

AAA has never had a history of being bike-friendly. But this year, the organization debuted its own bicycle roadside assistance plan. Is the idea of AAA for bikes crazy? Though the organization, KFC-like, recently shed its full name embracing the automobile and now goes officially by its acronym,...

The feed store where I buy organic layer feed for my backyard chickens offers me a 10% "human-powered transport" discount if I pick up my order on my bicycle. As I bike around town happily (and slowly, chicken feed is heavy), I think, everyone should offer a discount like this!Evidently, my desires...

Why AAA decided to pick 2009 to debut bicycle roadside assistance in Oregon and parts of Idaho -- the home turf of green AAA alternative Better World Club -- is tough to divine. Was the Oregon/Idaho chapter seeing a reduction in memberships due to competition? Did the fast-growing population of...

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