Our country is at a crossroads. We have a choice: Greater wealth for a few or opportunity for many.

This month, 100,000 Americans will train for nonviolent direct action. You can be part of this exciting process.

In Bozeman, the Montana Organizing Project and Moveon.org are offering a training session with community members on Saturday, April 21. This direct action training can be applied to any sort of social change - the environmental movement, Occupy Wall Street, civil rights, etc.

The local training will be offered at the Gallatin Labor Temple at 422 East Mendenhall, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Free lunch provided.

Lean more and register at http://the99spring.com/about/

This Spring, we Rise!

Red Bull went to the trouble of e-mailing The Fix to ask if we'd put up this video so I did it. Maybe they'll give us some free cases to give away at an Alleycat. Personally I prefer coffee but whatever.

Oh the North American Hand Built Show. How you make me drool.


http://singletrackworld.com/2012/03/nahbs-north-american-hand-built-show/

This is a well filmed and edited video with some bad ass tricks. Many are just super technical grinds, but some notables are:
wall ride over double stair                  2:50
540 down double stair (must see!)     4:18


More BMX Videos

Take that, little ol' lady from Pasadena.

Snob (and friends) made this awhile ago.  It's funny and deserves to be seen by the like-minded folks who peruse this here blogular space.  

I win!

New Danny Macaskill video which is more biographic than outright crazy, but it's still pretty rad. Enjoy.

The fixie freestylers and trials superstars have got nothin' on these guys.

A little bird told me about an alleycat bicycle race tonight.  

5:15pm at Bogert Park (bring yer; bike lights)

This is a rad video of people riding a cool pump track in the middle of winter. The backflip-attempt section in the end is quite entertaining. Enjoy.


Pumping It Out - Through the Winter from Liam Mullany on Vimeo.

Hank and Jordanna are riding their Long Haul Truckers in Asia.  Hank is rocking a Bike Kitchen shirt the whole way.  His mustache is better, and less ironic than yours.  

http://mekongbybike.blogspot.com/

Dear Montana Friend of Cycling, Walking, Trails and Transit:

Federal support for cycling, walking, trails, and transit is under the most severe threat in 20 years. Congress is scheduled to act next week on legislation that would eliminate or severely curtail investment in bike, pedestrian, trail, and transit programs. We need to let our Congressional delegation know how much Montanans care about these programs – and we need to do it in the next six days!

Click below to sign on to an urgent letter -- included below -- to Senators Baucus and Tester and Representative Rehberg. Please sign this letter ASAP and by no later than 10 am on Monday, February 13.

http://www.adventurecycling.org/montanaactionalert/

Please share this widely with your Montana friends and neighbors. We would like to get as many Montanans as possible to sign and state their strong support for biking, walking, transit and trails.

Again, here is the link – please sign by February 13 and share this widely.

http://www.adventurecycling.org/montanaactionalert/

If you have questions, email info@adventurecycling.org. Thank you!

Sincerely,
Ginny Sullivan
Adventure Cycling Association

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Stay Rad, Cyclists.  Sign on with your support!

Putting Adventure Cycling on the Map from Quality Bicycle Products on Vimeo.


This video is rad and so if the Adventure Cycling Association. I wish they were in Bozeman and not Missoula.

And with all the warm weather we are going to be getting in the next ten days we might as well go for a ride: 

Group Ride, Sunday 2/12/12, @ 4pm

Meet at Heebs 

We'll be riding road, trail and dirt roads (mostly trail system) so bring an appropriate bike.

dish vid is incomprehensible

it made my brain broke an now allz i can do is drool for a living.

it may also be the best street section of all time? I'll have to watch it a couple of hundred times and get back to ya.


Nathan Williams 'This Is United' Full Video Part HD from Channel 4Down on Vimeo.

January 10, 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information:
Lori Ryan, Public Information, MDT, (406) 444-6821

Informational meeting to discuss Rouse Avenue Reconstruction projects in Bozeman, MT – Gallatin County

Bozeman - The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) is conducting an informational meeting to discuss a proposal to reconstruct approximately 2.03 miles of Rouse Avenue/Bridger Drive from Main Street (Reference Marker 0.0) to Story Mill Road (Reference Marker 2.03) in Bozeman, Gallatin County, to meet current MDT urban roadway standards while adding capacity. The meeting will start with an open house at 6:30 p.m. followed by a brief presentation at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at the Bozeman Senior Center, 807 N Tracy, in Bozeman.

Community participation is a very important part of the process, and the public is encouraged to attend. Opinion, comments and concerns may also be submitted in writing at the meeting, by mail to Jeff Ebert, District Administrator, at MDT’s Butte district office at PO Box 3068; Butte, MT 59702-3068, or online at

http://www.mdt.mt.gov/mdt/comment_form.shtml

Please indicate comments are for project CN 4805 and submit by February 27, 2012.

Proposed work includes reconstruction and widening throughout the corridor; intersection improvements with turn lanes; addition of bike lanes, sidewalks, and a two-way left turn lane (TWLTL) throughout much of the corridor to improve safety and level-of-service (LOS); side-street improvements at intersections to accommodate turning movements; and storm drainage improvements. The corridor is proposed to be reconstructed in two segments: Main Street to Oak Street and Oak Street to Story Mill Road. The purpose of the projects is to improve vehicular level of service and enhance bike and pedestrian travel within the Rouse Avenue corridor.

The target ready date to acquire right-of-way and complete design is December 2012. The actual start of construction will be dependent on the availability of funds.

New right-of way and relocation of utilities will be required. MDT staff will contact all affected landowners prior to doing survey work on their land. Staff will again contact landowners prior to construction regarding property acquisition and temporary construction permits.

MDT attempts to provide accommodations for any known disability that may interfere with a person’s participation in any service, program or activity of our department. If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in this meeting, please call Paul Grant at (406) 444-9415 at least two days before the meeting. For the hearing impaired, the TTY number is (406) 444-7696 or 1-800-335-7592, or call Montana Relay at 711. Alternative accessible formats of this information will be provided upon request.

Erik the Mule surfs the RecycleCycle across the finish line at the 2011 Mulecross.  Photo from "Team Muleterro - To Infinity and Beyond".

This video is scary as hell.

I know this is a cycling themed blog, but many of us also love to shred some snow when we're not out hammering on our bikes.

After watching this clip go back and compare 00:12 to 00:50. Yeah... that's why people die from trauma in avalanches.


Puckerface avalanche from Jamie Culp on Vimeo.

This video is a funny way to waste 4 minutes of your life.

This vid is full of tricks that only a handful of people can do. It's all street without a single flair (backflip 180) and with only two tailwhips (on a cool feature so they're excused). Props to the Shadow crew for keeping it real. Enjoy


The Shadow Conspiracy - Best of 2011 from Shadow Conspiracy on Vimeo.

Drew Bezanson is an animal. He's one of those people who rides their bike so fast that it is scary for other people to watch. Especially, when he's headed toward a ramp! Enjoy, because some of the clips in this video will raise your heart rate.


Drew Bezanson from Justen Soule on Vimeo.