Bike blogs have been around almost as long as blogging itself, but the recent growth in bicycle usage here in the United States made me curious about just how widespread the phenomena was. A couple weeks back I started a little project of finding two blogs for every state in the Union. For most states that was relatively easy, especially because there is a definite blog clustering effect within various biking communities. Once one cyclist starts a blog it's common for at least a few more of their cycling friends and acquaintances to start bike blogs of their own. There were a few states that were tough, but I'll leave figuring those out as an exercise to the reader.
I didn't have a completely set criteria for the bike blogs I chose beyond only two per state, but I did favor those that update regularly when I could. I tried to mix in some famous (dare I say canonical) bike blogs that I read regularly, with a bunch of others that I hadn't come across before. I also wanted to get a good mix of mountain bikers, bike commuters, hipsters, advocates, roadies and randos- and I think I did fairly well in that regard. The cycling diversity that I found throughout the country was downright American and reinforced what a powerful and unlimited tool for fun, utility and community the bicycle is. Without further delay:
100 Bike Blogs - August 2008
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Bello Velo - Huntsville, AL Bike Scene Blog |
| Two Five Fix - Fixed Gears And Bike Culture in North Alabama | |
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Bicycles and Icicles - A Blog About Riding Bikes |
| Up In Alaska - Jill's Subarctic Journal | |
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Bruce's Bike Blog - Bike Commuting and Randonneuring in Tucson |
| Handlebar Sandwich - Mountain Biking in Flagstaff | |
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Operation Spidermonkey - Sarah's Littlerock Cycling Exploits |
| Spinnin' Jenny - Spinnin' Wheels And Yarns | |
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The Cycling Dude - LIVE! From SanTana, Near the Orange Crush! |
| San Francisco Bike Blog - Biking by the Bay | |
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UltraRob's Adventures - Rob Lucas ultracyclist |
| Big Wheel Building - GDR Pioneer Mike Curiak's Blog | |
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The Beat Bike Blog - Riding Bicycles in Hartford |
| Cycle Snack - Singles Speeder, Mountain Biker, Bike Commuter | |
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Delaware Bicycle News - Bicycling and Bicycle Advocacy in Delaware |
| Trailspinners Blog - Delaware MTB Club | |
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Seth's Cycling Blog - Seth Krieger's Bicycling Adventures |
| Miami Bike Scene - South Florida Fixies and Hipsters | |
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Bike Year - A Utility Cycling Experient |
| Atlanta Intown Cycling - Cycling around the in-town neighborhoods of Atlanta. | |
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Bike to Work to Live to Bike - Bike Commuting in Hawaii |
| Team LavaMen - Hawaiian Trans Alps Racers | |
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The Bike Nazi - Boise's Tireless Advocate for the Bike |
| Stu Cycling - Road Racing with Chris Stuart | |
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Urbana-Champaign Bicycle Commute - Everyday bicycling and more. |
| Chicago Bike Blog - Rapid Transit Cycleshop | |
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Ear to the Breeze - Cycling in southern Indiana and beyond. |
| Bicycling in Bloomington - Bike commuting and riding around Indiana University. | |
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Guitar Ted Productions - A bicycle and guitar oriented elixir. |
| Gravelo - County road riding in Boone, IA. | |
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Cycling Witchita - Cycling in the third worst U.S. city for cyclists. |
| Commuter Dude - Commuting and Randonneuring in America's Heartland | |
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Grayhawk Grinders - Powered by Desire in London, KY |
| Kentucky Bicycling - Todd Van Campen on average-guy commuter bicycling. | |
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Louisiana BMX - BMX posts, pictures and videos from Andrew and Ooti. |
| What I Saw Riding My Bike Around Today - A blog about bikes and cameras and riding about in New Orleans. | |
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Maine Velophile - A middle aged woman who rediscovered cycling in 2006. |
| Wheels' Bike Blog - Wheels on the bike race 'round and 'round... | |
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Big Daddy Mike's Blog - Recycling and riding bikes in and around DC, VA and MD. |
| The Practical Cyclist's Blog - Miscellanea from the author. | |
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Boston Biker - A community for cyclists in Boston. |
| Chic Cyclist - Promoting elegant transportation cycling. | |
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Danielle Musto Endurance Athlete & Coffee Enthusiast |
| Michigan Biking - Promoting safe and convenient bicycling in Metro Detroit. | |
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Minnesota Bicycle Commuter - Bicycling year round in Minnesota |
| mpls/doesbike - Minneapolis bike races, rides and events. | |
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Jon Rayeski - Industrial Designer and Mountain Biker |
| Herring Gas Cycling Team - the most successful racing team in the Gulf South | |
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417BikerGirl - mtb, xterra and adventure racer |
| Dave Breslin - Missouri mtb racer | |
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Bill's Web Lodge - in pursuit of riding longer, faster, and stronger. |
| Practical Pedal - bicycle commuting for our environment, our bodies and our cities. | |
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EnduroSnob - Endurance Cycling, Single Speeds and Assorted Snobbery |
| MTB Omaha - news and info about the Omaha cycling community | |
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Bike Carson - Bicycle News, Culture, and Lifestyle in Carson City |
| Reno Rambler - a little wonder goes a long, long way | |
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University of New Hampshire Cycling - UNH Cycling Team News |
| Between 2 Wheels - explore. experience. evolve. | |
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Morristown Pedal Pushers - bikes and Morristown in the broadest and vaguest sense. |
| Metal Bike Commuter - Morris County, NJ bike commuter | |
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Bikeworks ABQ - a small, owner operated bike shop in Albuquerque |
| Duke City BMX - Albuquerque's BMX Track | |
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Bike Snob NYC - Systematically and mercilessly disassembling cycling culture. |
| Astoria Bike - About bikes and biking in New York City. | |
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Research Trailer Park - Life & randonneuring in the Tar Heel State |
| Arsbars Again - Charlotte cyclist Arleigh Jenkins | |
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Black Butte Adventures - biking the Effertz Black Butte Acres Ranch |
| Fargo-Moorhead Community Bicycle Workshop - building community by recycling bikes | |
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Bike Columbus - Bike Commuting in Columbus |
| My 2 Mile - Cycling all trips 2 miles or less. | |
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Cycle Dog - Oklahoma's all-weather bicyclist |
| Out Here In The Middle... - cycling and more with Jason Kearney | |
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Bike Portland - Covering the Portland, Oregon bike scene daily. |
| Bike Love Jones - The true adventures of a gal and her bike. | |
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The Blasphemous Bicycler - a never-ending brouhaha of nonsense and crap |
| Lockring Not Included fixed wheeling in Reading, PA. | |
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Bike To Brown - Bicycle Commuting at Brown University |
| Bike Providence - Providence Bicycle Coalition | |
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Dave Moulton's Bike Blog - An ex-framebuilder on history, bike tech, bicycle culture, and life in general |
| Bicycle Design - blogging bicycle evolution | |
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Cycle South Dakota - It's mostly bike related |
| Life Bikin' - Rock hard, ride free. | |
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Biking Commuting in East Tennessee - Meandering thoughts on commuter biking and recreational riding |
| Fix Memphis - A Compendium of Bicycle Tomfoolery | |
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Austin Texas Bike Stuff - rides for regular and irregular people |
| Chainsaw Panda Rides A Bike - megan in Austin | |
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Fat Cyclist - bike humorist extraordinaire Elden "Fatty" Nelson |
| Epic Riding. Epic Writing. - the mountain bike misadventures of Grizzly Adam | |
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Bike 29 Blog - ride big wheels |
| The Chronicles of Willapa... Montpelier geologist and bike mechanic | |
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On Cycling - Northern Virginia cycling experiences |
| Evil Genius Bike Blog - Where will my bike take me today? | |
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Cycling Spokane - Spokane bicycle thoughts and happenings |
| Kent's Bike Blog - carless Issaquah cycling legend | |
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Fiendracer - Before & After the Race. Ridin', 'Ritin', and 'Rithmatic |
| Bunny Racer - Go Go, Devil Bunnies | |
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1 World 2 Wheels - make the world a more bike friendly place |
| Ellis Cycles - Dave Wages' frame building blog | |
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Chipseal, Cobbles, and Pedals - The Story of a Cowgirl Cyclist |
| 30% Irish - Riding, fixing and building bikes in Laramie. |
Both of the blogs you chose from Minnesota are from Duluth. Seems like you should add one from the metropolitan center of Minnesota.
Jason! This is so great. Would you mind if I copied it on my bike blog (www.orlandosentinel.com/chaingang)? Will definitely credit you and give site your blog. There’s so many people here who are from other states that it would give them a little piece of home.
Mary Shanklin
Fair enough Sveden, your mpls/doesbike blog seems like a logical candidate so I’ve made the change.
Mary, thanks for stopping by. I’m glad you liked this post. As I mentioned in the email I sent to you I would prefer that anyone who wants to blog about this post excerpt part of my explanation and link back to this post for the full list rather than copying it as a whole.
amazing post jason.
Nice! Very cool resource. And thanks for the mention.
cool!
It’s early in the morning (for me), but did you miss out Louisiana, or is my brain just not awake enough to find it?
Wow, impressive. It must have taken a bit of work.
I’m really honored that you selected my blog to name among two in Oklahoma. Thank you! I’m also honored to be on the same list as the legend, Cycle Dog.
I appreciate it!
As possibly the earliest American Bikeblog (Jan. 2003), and being beat to the punch only by a British Blogm by a mere 1 month, I am extremely honored that you chose me to help represent California.
Your list has done us all a great service!
And yes, Jacque, as one who has devoted some effort to putting together the most comprehensive list of resources found in the sidebar of probably “took a bit of work.”
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! ;-D
I will be doing a post, exerpting your explanation, and will then add a link you post to the blogroll under the title you use for your post so it will be the 1st link in the list. ;-D
Heather, you’re right. I’ll have to track those Louisiana ones down and add them.
Jacque, I’ve been working on this project off and on for a couple weeks.
Kiril, thanks for the kind words and linking to me on your blog too!
Jason, no problem!
How come our blog (WordPress) didn’t make it on this list for Georgia? http://www.mtobikes.com
Carl, for this particular project I limited myself to two bike blogs per state and I didn’t actually come across your blog during my limited research of Georgia. Lots of worthy bike blogs didn’t make this list, but you and others are certainly welcome to link to your bike blogs here in the comments.
If you do a post about Indian bike ride blogs, please don’t forget our site. Thanks.
Jason, you’ve taken it to the next level. Killer post.
On a whole ‘nother subject, what’s going on with your consecutive days riding streak?
Pat, today will be 115 days in a row once I get a ride in. As of yesterday I’ve ridden 1962.4 km during the streak for an average of 17 km (slightly more than 10 miles) a day.
As the writer of Cycling in Wichita, I wanted to write and thank you for honoring my not-quite-two-month-old blog by placing it on your list. I’ll be pleased to send people your way, and I’m looking forward to visiting these blogs you’ve linked to here.
Hey, thanks for adding my site. I didn’t know I was relevant enough to make a list!!
Good stuff, now I have like 199 other sites to peruse.
Very impressive list … and thanks for the link!
Good list. Here is one more for Texas. http://www.Texbiker.net
Rick
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What an awesome list (helps I am on there!) Thanks for all the great links.
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Very cool list, thanks for including me. There are a lot of great bicycle blogs in Minnesota, so I’m honored to be picked.
Awesome list! Even if ya did slight me…
(*Cough*DC*Cough*)
Thanks, Arleigh. And thanks for all the quality work you’ve done over at Blue Collar Mountain Biking.
Doug, you’re welcome and thanks for being one of my winter snow biking inspirations.
Thanks Ray! I contemplated throwing DC in there (and your blog of course), but decided to stick with a nice round 100 this time around.
Jason – Awesome job; I especially like the state bicycling pics! I’m wondering, are you planning on doing a blogroll or centralized RSS feed listing for the blogs?
Thanks Cyclonecross. I think you’re the first person that specifically commented on the signs. They took a while to put together because I was trying to make color (and occasionally design) choices based on the corresponding state flags. I had a first pass and then I went back through and tried to make sure nobody ended up with a ridiculous color scheme- at one point my Ohio sign had what looked like a clown bike!
As to your question, I have a few ideas related to taking things a little further with gathering and publicizing all these bike blogs, but no specific plans to do anything yet.
Hey thanks for link.
Tom from Tennessee
Cool. If only the real Senate rode their bikes this much…
Wow, you put those flags together yourself? Those are very cool! Nice work!
And thanks for the mention!
This is Jamie, from Bike Commuting in Columbus. Thanks for the link, and great job with the list!
Jill, thanks for stopping by- your blog is one of my favorites! I will definitely be drawing on you for inspiration to keep riding once the snow starts flying here in Spokane.
Jamie, you’re welcome. I’m glad I came across your blog.
Thanks for choosing the Snack to represent CT. While I don’t fancy myself as a hipster, nor a roadie, I do have a few of the other styles covered! I will link your site to mine and probably do a post about the honor, as well.
Thanks again
Mark
Thanks for this great resource. I’m always interested in exploring what others are doing and this gives us a mother lode to mine.
Hello from CT and the BeatBikeBlog, good to see so many good sites representing our bicycling brothers and sisters! Keep up the good work everyone, can’t wait to check out all of your sites!
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Great post! I amount honored that my blog was one of the two chosen to represent South Carolina.
Great Post. I think you should do a world bike blog index, 2 from each country…there’s a challenge.
drk
http://www.bikesTHATfold.com – All About Folding bikes.
Thanks for the shout! Keep up the good work!
DrK, something like your suggestion has crossed my mind actually, but you’re right about it being pretty challenging.
Love your Blog!!! Thank you for the link to http://www.dukecitybmx.org! I will post a link from our blog to yours, great general bike lover stuff! Keep it Going! Ride Hard!
Rather late to the ball — I tend to write more than I surf. Thanks for adding me to your rather interesting list of bike blogs. It’s an honor and I hope you enjoy it.
Happy riding –Beth