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Name Shift

January 12, 2012 /

Many of you may not have noticed the recent change to the name of my blog, but a few of you may have and it’s for those few that I feel a need to explain.

Part of my goal for the blog and website is to grow it. Into what, I’m not sure yet. I personally want a bike jersey and maybe water bottles with the blog name and logo (something else I’m working on) for advertising. I would also like to be in a position to present the blog to bike tour companies for possible sponsoring of trips in return for covering the trip on this blog. Additionally, I would like to have more of a connection with other bike blogs as well as be a general source of bike info.

For any of that to occur I need to have a name that is tied exclusively to my blog and website. In checking recently I found another blog with the same name as mine, For the Love of Bikes. When I picked the name, For the Love of Bikes, I didn’t find anything else with that name – so I claimed it, because I liked it and proceeded with building this blog and website.

It appears the other blog with that name started the same year, 2009. I don’t know which started first, it doesn’t matter. I don’t want to proceed with For the Love of Bikes only to have the other blog challenge my right to use the name and I don’t want to challenge her.

To go forward this site and blog need its own name. All for the Love of Bikes is not used anywhere else: SO I’M CLAIMING IT NOW.

All for the Love of Bikesâ„¢ is now the official name of the blog. Not a big deal or change, but I wanted to explain. Maybe no one has even noticed, if so just move on to the next post. Winking smile

I’ve come up with these “logos” so far; one I created, the others I paid a whopping $5 total for at Fiverr. This logo thing is in its infancy, and as you can probably tell I don’t have a clue about any of this. I have no background/knowledge/experience in doing any of this – blog/website included – but for better or worse it hasn’t stopped me.

Here’s what I have so far, what do you think – any of them any good or should I throw another $5 at Fiverr and get 5 more?

 

logo1-jpgDutch bike logo 1-1logo3-jpglogo4-jpglogo2-jpg

AR Bonnie fiverr logo 8

OKC Launches Bike-Share

January 11, 2012 /

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Kudos to Oklahoma City for using federal grant money to purchase 95 bikes for use in a bike-share program called “Spokies” set to launch this spring.

As part of Project 180, OKC also recently added bike lanes downtown so the bike-share program will just add to their utilization.

The bikes will be located at 6 stations downtown. Kiosks will be used to check out bikes with options for short-term or longer term use. There will be a charge to use the bikes, the cost hasn’t been determined yet.

I’m excited to see this offered in OKC and know I’ll be one of what I hope and expect will be many people to use it.

Tidying Up

January 9, 2012 /

I decided to actually do it instead of just talk, or make that write, about it. Truthfully I did both, I mentioned in a post last year that I wanted to make changes to the blog and have been working on them since last month. I’m slow, but persistent.

That describes me on the bike too, come to think of it.

I’ve been cleaning things up here and also making a few changes to the Facebook page. I’m probably not done. Once I start to tinker and change things up it’s hard for me to stop. Hard to start, hard to stop. Not to be redundant, but that also fits me on the bike: sometimes it’s hard to get dressed and go but once I’m riding I’m rarely ready to stop when I need to. Are you like that?

Here are a couple of new logos:

Dutch bike logo 1 

 

 

AR Bonnie fiverr logo 8

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