Come hear a leading expert in bikeability research at the next Davis Bike Club members and friends social, Monday, May 13 at 7pm. Dr. Kari Watkins joined the UC Davis faculty in 2022 after over a decade at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on trying to understand how to make cities more bike-friendly and transit… Read More »May 13 guest speaker: Kari Watkins, bike safety and infrastructure
We are celebrating 20 years of May Is Bike Month and this year promises to be the biggest May yet! We encourage all DBC members to sign up, log a ride and win prizes! It’s super easy and fun. Join us at Loopalooza on May 5th and log miles during the Mileage Madness week, May… Read More »May Is Bike Month is here!
Have you ridden by a huge pothole or other road hazard and wondering how to report it to the for repair? Here is a handy link from Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates that shows how to report hazardous road conditions to the appropriate city or county agency (Davis, Yolo, Solano, etc.) Some you can even report… Read More »Report Hazardous Road Conditions
Rides often organize into a paceline to save considerable effort when you are in the draft of the rider in front of you. The lead in a paceline will use 30% more power than the rider behind to maintain a given speed. Usually the faster / longer version of the club rides will ride in… Read More »Paceline Riding Tips
Come hear a local attorney discuss insurance and collisions at the next Davis Bike Club members and friends social, Monday, April 8 at 7pm. Know what to expect when you’re involved in a collision on your bike. Discover how liability for collisions works in California, when your own insurance may offer coverage, and how an… Read More »Attorney Frank Crum to speak at April 8 Davis Bike Club members and friends social
Our dear friend, riding companion and many time club tour organizer Bruce Dewey passed away on March 20 at the age of 86, due to complications from an injury sustained while cycling in February. Bruce and and his wife Marilyn moved to Davis in 2002 upon his retirement from the position of Professor and Assistant… Read More »Bruce Dewey
For the past 14 years the cities of Davis and Sangju, Republic of Korea have had a successful ‘sister-city program’ primarily focused on middle and high school student exchanges. Since Davis and Sangju share designations as ‘bike capitals’ for their countries, the sister city program is now proposing to expand the exchange opportunities to… Read More »Trip to Sangju, Korea planned for October 2024
Prompted by Thomas De Gendt’s mysterious crash during Stage 5 of the UAE Tour in Abu Dhabi, Rene Herse Cycles added a blog post, discussing the potential factors involved in using hookless rim design, tire size selection, supple tire sidewalls, and using them under high temperature conditions (Abu Dhabi) Thy conclude hookless rims and tires… Read More »Hookless Rims and Tire Failures
A good friend and a founder of the Davis Bike Club has passed away at the age of 95½ years old. Helen and her husband Lee, along with two close friends, opened B&L Bike Shop in 1964 in Woodland and then in Davis. They purchased Foy’s Bike Shop in Woodland in 1984. Founding the Davis… Read More »Helen Pool
One Man’s Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle You are invited to join Stories on Stage Davis on February 10, 2024, featuring a reading from Scott Alumbaugh’s book On the Pony Express Trail: One Man’s Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle. Scott Alumbaugh is a long time… Read More »On The Pony Express Trail
