Category Archives: News
- Fox News – Living Green Expo
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- Fox News – Living Green Expo
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- WCCO News – Living Green Expo Teaser
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- WCCO News – Living Green Expo
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- A Credible Threat? Bikes Clipped in NYC
In preparation of President Obama’s visit to New York a couple weeks ago, the police with no friends in the scheduling department on the force pulled the duty of driving up and down Houston Street, cutting locks, and carting the bikes away. Why? It seems that some genius military strategist believes that bikes could be [...]
- National Public Radio Science Friday
meeting-the-nations-bioenergy-goals Listen here to learn more about electric bikes.
- Stupor Bowl Xlll
The time is upon us, here is a link with info on the event, get crazy in the race, or if you are not up to it, get crazier at the after party…. there is a cool video as well, see you there!
- Bike Meets Art Event
Varsity Bike & Transit will host a very special Bike Meets Art event with local artist Adam Turman on Friday, Oct. 16 from 4:30-7:30pm. Turman is doing a special, limited-edition “Pedal Less Oil” poster for the event. The event will include a meet-and-greet with Turman from 5:30-6:30 pm and he will showcase his other bicycle-inspired [...]
- Varsity Bike Sidewalk Space
After being in Dinkytown for 13 years, Varsity Bike has moved down the street three doors. As with all change there has been the expected changes, as well as the unintended ones. During our time in business we have always had bikes on the sidewalk, a public tool block (which is 12 basic bike tools [...]
- Varsity Bike & Transit Goes Greener
Varsity Bike & Transit has gone greener. We have purchased wind credits for our electrical consumption through X-Cel energy. Wind credits are a promise by the consumer to support financing wind power that goes into the national grid, which of course for now is more expensive to produce than conventional “brown” energy. Our power consumption [...]