Bikes

On Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011 Cheryl Rehmann has a message painted on her back by Matthew Wellstein before the start of the annual ride naked bike ride in Philadelphia.

National

Participants In Philly's Naked Bike Ride Will Have to Cover Up ... Their Faces

7:00am June 26, 2021

by Sharon Pruitt-Young

A cherished city institution is adapting to keep the love of cycling going strong. Naked cycling, that is — Philadelphia's annual Naked Bike Ride is asking participants to mask up for safety.

Uber is withdrawing its Jump electric bike rentals from Atlanta and San Diego.

National

Uber To Pull Jump Bikes From Atlanta And San Diego

7:18pm September 13, 2019

by Peter Talbot

Shareable bikes and electric scooters have continued to create issues for cities, prompting some to implement bans and regulations.

Zakary Pashak started Detroit Bikes when he moved to Detroit in 2011, at a time when the city was reeling.

For One U.S. Bike-Maker, Tariffs Are A Mixed Bag

5:52pm May 18, 2019

by Yuki Noguchi

Detroit Bikes, a rare domestic maker of bicycles, could see business increase as a result of increased U.S. tariffs on Chinese bikes. But imported parts it relies on are also subject to higher taxes.

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A man rides a Mobike bicycle past the CCTV Headquarters building in Beijing.

World News

The Startup That's Helping Bring Bikes Back To China's Streets

8:14am November 11, 2017

MoBike, China's first bike-share company, is worth $3 billion. "I personally like riding bicycles," says the company's 35-year-old president Hu Weiwei. "I was thinking, 'How can I bring bikes back?'"

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Anthony Rowe, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, wants bikes to feed information to nearby cars to avoid collisions. His bike is fitted with an array of precise instruments and a battery hidden in the water bottle.

National

Bikes May Have To Talk To Self-Driving Cars For Safety's Sake

12:31pm July 24, 2017

by Margaret J. Krauss

Autonomous vehicles have gotten pretty good at detecting other cars and pedestrians. But "seeing" bikes and predicting what they'll do is still a challenge. The answer may lie in bikes themselves.

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Transportation

Winston-Salem Debuts New Bike Share Program

4:59pm May 26, 2017

by Bethany Chafin

Winston-Salem residents now have a new way to move around town.

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Human Interest

How Being A Bike Mechanic Is About Piecing Problems Together: Chris Von Isenburg

11:40am April 11, 2017

by Mia Marshall

Radio Camper Mia Marshall talks with Chris Von Isenburg about what it is like to own Mock Orange Bikes. They discuss the shop's new location, as well as what Chris likes being a bike mechanic.

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National

Cyclists Took 28 Million Bike-Share Trips In The U.S. In 2016, Group Says

3:54pm March 09, 2017

by Bill Chappell

Ridership for U.S. bike-share programs was 10 times higher last year than it was in 2011 and, so far, only one traffic fatality is believed to have resulted from bike-share use.

A pedestrian stops to look at an automated real-time bike counter on Market Street in San Francisco.

Your Workout Data Might Be Helping Cities Build Safer Streets

8:31am May 07, 2016

by Zhai Yun Tan

As more people bike, cities are working on ways to keep them safe alongside cars. Now, transportation planners are turning to data from apps that cyclists and runners use to track themselves.

Kurt Searvogel on the road, early in his year-long cycling feat.

Sports

1 Year, More Than 75,000 Miles: Cyclist Breaks 76-Year-Old Record

2:53pm January 09, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

It's been an eventful 365 days for Kurt Searvogel. He got in two crashes, got married, had a heart scare — and averaged more than 200 miles of biking a day, topping a 75,065-mile record set in 1939.