Bicycle Culture

Cycle: Seven Evening and Casual Rides During May

By Jason Franz Wed., Apr. 24 2013 at 8:00 AM
Categories: Bicycle Culture

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LOOPS State - State Bicycle Co.
As we roll into May, the competitive spirit begins to drift from our legs similar to the perfect midday temps across the Valley. A new state road racing champion has been crowned, and close to every knobbie-tired gnar wrangler pushed their endurance limits at the Whiskey Off Road. It's time to chill.

A bevy of casual rides are popping up around town, most taking advantage of the ideal evening temps and longer daylight hours. But if you still feel like getting your race on, don't despair, as there are still a few races out there.

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- Cycle: Underground Crit Brings Aggressive Group Riding to North Phoenix
- Cycle: Short Track at Papago is the Valley's Go-To Summer Race Series for Everyone

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Grab Your Blankets and Radios and Bike to the Movies in Tempe

By Heather Hoch Wed., Apr. 3 2013 at 10:00 AM
Categories: Bicycle Culture, Film

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Courtesy of Ryan Guzy of Tempe Bicycle Action Group
A small bunch of the bikers that showed up for Cycle-In Cinema Tuesday night.
Go catch a free bike-themed feature presentation this week at Mitchell Park during the Cycle-In Cinema screenings. Breaking Away, the 1979 classic about putting the sneaker to the pedal and getting super aero, is up for review tonight with Beijing Bicycle playing Thursday night.

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- Cycle: April Is Bike Month in Metro Phoenix
- 10 Films We Can't Wait to See at the Phoenix Film Festival

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Cycle: April Is Bike Month in Metro Phoenix

By Jason Franz Wed., Mar. 27 2013 at 8:30 AM
Categories: Bicycle Culture

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Perimeter Cycling/El Tour de Mesa
Check out Arizona getting the jump on the rest of the country. Beginning April 1, many municipalities throughout the Valley will be celebrating Bike Month, 30 days earlier than most of the other 49 states.

Granted, most Valley denizens will spend May seeking shelter in swimming pools or in air-conditioned holes as triple digits veer our way, so enjoying our greatest weather month while on two wheels is pretty fantastic. And with a plethora of rides, races, clinics and movies offered across the region for our enjoyment, the month of April won't last long enough, as far as we here at Cycle are concerned.

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- Cycle: A West Side Classic to Estrella
- Cycle: 5 Reasons Why This Weekend's Paris-Roubaix Is the Best Cycling Race of the Year
- Tempe's Bike Saviours Finds a New Home


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Tempe's Bike Saviours Finds a New Home

By Claire Lawton Wed., Mar. 20 2013 at 10:59 AM
Categories: Bicycle Culture

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https://www.facebook.com/bikesaviours
Tempe cycling fans can take a big sigh of relief -- Bike Saviours has found a (fitting) home across the street from bicycle-friendly bar Boulders on Broadway at 1930 S Roosevelt St.

According to collective member (and Jackalope Ranch contributor) Heather Hoch, the Saviours haven't set an opening date but will move at the end of this month and open the doors as soon as possible.

"We're excited to have our very own space for the first time since we opened seven years ago," writes Hoch. "We have a lot of big ideas, and the move was just the kick in the butt we all needed to get things rolling in a serious way."

See also:
- Tempe's Bike Saviours Forced to Move; Collective Looks for New Location
- Cycle: 10 Reasons to Love Cycling in Phoenix
- Tempe's YOBS (Ye Olde Bike Saviours) Closes Tonight


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Tempe's Bike Saviours Forced to Move; Collective Looks for New Location

By Claire Lawton Mon., Mar. 18 2013 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Bicycle Culture, News

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http://www.bikesaviours.org/
Come April 5, the cycling fiends at Bike Saviours will need to find a new home.

The Tempe-based nonprofit bicycle collective was founded in 2007, and currently calls a spot behind Sunset Clothing Exchange, 601 University Drive in Tempe, home. But according to collective member (and Jackalope Ranch contributor) Heather Hoch, the Saviours were notified last week by landlords that they'd need to find somewhere else to operate by the end of the month.

See also:
- Cycle: 10 Reasons to Love Cycling in Phoenix
- Tempe's YOBS (Ye Olde Bike Saviours) Closes Tonight

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Cycle: March Forth with a Renewed Bike, Spring Rides, and a Movie

By Jason Franz Wed., Feb. 27 2013 at 8:00 AM
Categories: Bicycle Culture

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Pedal Born Pictures/NICA
March typically is the time when Valley cyclists decide the rubber truly needs to hit the road. The freak graupel and semi-regular showers are a more or less a thing of the past until the summer monsoon blows back into town, the mornings are a little less chilly, and the riding is free to commence.

Nothing rings in the spring riding season better than a fresh set of upgrades. But if a refreshed rig is not incentive enough to get you spinning, there are a few rides and events out there this March to give you the urge to turn a blissful pedal.

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- Cycle's Tour de Spring Training. Stage 1: The East Side.
- Cycle: Spring Training
- Cycle's Tour de Spring Training Stage 2: The West Side

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Cycle: February Brings Rides, Races, and Post-ride Hangouts to Metro Phoenix

By Jason Franz Tue., Jan. 29 2013 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Bicycle Culture

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Strada Racing Club
Ah, Mother Nature, she can be such a fickle lady.

No Arizona cyclist wants to spend their riding hours indoors, either spinning miles on a trainer or lounging lazily on the couch. So when the calendar turned to 2013 and the temperatures turned bitter cold, only to grow amazingly warm before bring torrential rains, excuse us cyclists when we became a bit schizophrenic.

Good weather or not, February is now upon us and brings with it a packed schedule of bike events. The breaking-in period of all those holiday gifts is over. It's time to turn some pedals in anger ... or joy.

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- Cycle: High School Girls Get Chance to Ride with National Champ in Tucson
- Cycle: Underground Crit Brings Aggressive Group Riding to North Phoenix
- Cycle: 5 Great Arizona Rides

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Beer + Bikes + Bow Ties Brings Boozy, Sporty, Fashionable Workshops to Tempe's Handlebar in January

By Claire Lawton Tue., Jan. 15 2013 at 7:00 AM
Categories: Bicycle Culture, Events, Fashion

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https://www.facebook.com/handlebaraz
Heads up fashionable bike and beer fans, Phoenix-based bow tie company Dapper+Dash is teaming up with The Bicycle Cellar and The Handlebar on Tempe's Mill Avenue on January 26.

Beers + Bikes + Bow Ties will include three workshops on the three topics with special deals on, you guessed it, all three things.

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- New Bike-Friendly Beer Garden Coming to Tempe
- Cycle: Maricopa County Tables Plans for Downtown Bicycle Cellar
- Dapper+Dash Opens Urban Outfitters Pop-Up Shop


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Cycle: High School Girls Get Chance to Ride with National Champ in Tucson

By Jason Franz Wed., Jan. 9 2013 at 7:00 AM
Categories: Bicycle Culture

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Sho-Air/Cannondale
Sho-Air/Cannondale's seven-time national champion Pua Mata
Are you or do you know a young female mountain bike nut who's looking for a chance of a lifetime? The good folks from the newly formed Arizona High School Cycling League along with the Sho-Air/ Cannondale pro mountain bike team are joining forces to send three high school girls to race in next month's 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo with seven-time US national champion Pua Mata.

The three winners along with Mata will comprise an official 4-person Sho-Air/Cannondale team for the 14th edition of this fabled endurance race held in the Sonoran Desert just north of Tucson. The winners will also get a pre-race skills, nutrition and race prep clinic from Mata, on-site event accommodations for the race, and a whole bunch of swag from the team and the Arizona High School Cycling League.

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- Cycle: Arizona's Teen Mountain Bikers to Wreak Havoc in New High School League
- Cycle: A Survivor's Guide to Biking in Arizona's Extreme Weather
- Cycle: Get Dirty at McDowell Mountain Regional Park


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Cycle: Strava Challenges You to Build Your Base

By Jason Franz Wed., Jan. 2 2013 at 8:00 AM
Categories: Bicycle Culture

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photo by Jason Franz
Winter base training can make for some long lonely miles, so Strava is helping to encourage the challenge.
Ah Strava, why must you tempt us so? We at Cycle are on the record of having conflicted feelings about the web-based cycling and running workout training log. It's so easy to get addicted to improving efforts to best a personal record or gun for a top KOM ranking, yet these impulses can also corrupt the very essence of enjoying that training time or even the pure bliss of an easy bike ride or light jog.

Perhaps that's why we are willing to give the Strava Challenges a pass. We readily signed up for last week's Rapha Festive 500, a challenge to ride 500 kilometers between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, and used it as a brilliant excuse to escape the in-laws for a few hours each day. Now for the New Year Strava is throwing out the Base Mile Blast, a simple challenge to ride or run as many miles as possible over the course of January.

See Also:
- Cycle: Strava Keeps Track of Your Stats, But is It Ruining the Joy of a Good Ride?
- Cycle: Spring Training
- Cycle: 10 Reasons to Love Cycling in Phoenix


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bicycling in Phoenix, Strava
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