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5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

And as always, Velib is the best way to get around most of the city.

Getting the Christmas Tree Home via Bike: 2018 Edition

Plus, it was a heck of a lot easier than holding a tree in the basket of the Velib bike where I couldn’t really see what was in front of me anyway.

Training, race sign-ups, getting crapped on, and new product odds and ends

I’ve got a triathlon bike, my commuter bike…and near unlimited access to the Velib bike rentals.

First look at Zwift, an ultra real graphics trainer app

Or, perhaps they’ll partner with the Parisian Velib bike share system and I can rock my Velib instead.

Week in Review–July 19th, 2014

7) 7 Years of Velib: This past weekend the Paris bike sharing system celebrated it’s 7-year birthday.

Power2Max NG ECO In-Depth Review

I must have gotten excited chasing Grandma on a bike-share Velib or something.

The Paris Color Run 2014 ‘Race’ Report

There were however a few Velib’s trying to swim upstream through the crowd occasionally.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

A short pedal away by Velib.

5 Random Things I Did This Past Weekend(ish)

While I almost daily ride the Velib (bike share) bike at night, it’s somewhat rare for me to get a workout in at night.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

Saturday we grabbed some Velib’s and hit up all sorts of places around town.

Paris Blog: An evening market cooking class

We attempted to Velib home (bike), but none of the Velib stations had any functional bikes, so it was back via Metro instead.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

Afterwards some of us biked homed via Velib.

Riding off French cheese and meat platters

Saturday we went out for a run up to the Bois (big central-park like park) and looped around it a few times before eventually taking the Velib (bike-share) home.

Eurobike Day 2: The Fun Stuff

So I figured it appropriate I’d take the last semi-functional Velib bike out front and bike the short 7 minutes home.

Week in Review–August 19th, 2013

3) How the NYC Citibike program rebalances bikes throughout the day: I often watch this same act occur in Paris with the Velib’s.

A weekend riding past the beach and swapping power meters

Even folks doing loops on Velib’s (a slightly expensive proposition if you stay a while).

A weekend in Paris: Chocolates, Cycling and Running

We got a day-pass for the Velib program, which is a bike-share program where we only paid about $2 for the full day.

2015 Paris Triathlon (draft-legal!) Race Report

Oh, and there was a Velib in there too! Woot!…

A long ride from Paris

Between those points, we had only either walked, or biked with Velibe (minus the short segment to return the bikes).

Photo of the day: The Riverside 100m dash

And just as we neared the marked finish line, a pair of cyclists on Velib’s (our big heavy bike-sharing program here) zoomed up it, with the winner raising his hands in victory as he crossed the line about a foot ahead of the other.

Week in Review–May 17th, 2015

5) London’s Boris Bike gets app that allows you to pay via app: Nice, would love to see pay via phone also come to the Paris Velib system as well (currently we can just search availability).

How to find & create awesome cycling routes in a smarter way

While there’s undoubtedly more cycling going on in Paris proper than outside, it’s more along the lines of bike-sharing (Velib) and commuter bikes.

The 2015 Swim/Bike/Run Gear I Use List

Though, I could also probably put the Paris Velib bike in this category too, I ride that more often actually.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

In warmer months we would have just found a Velib or taken the Metro, but it was pretty chilly that time of night and given we were soaked from sweat and rain the Autolib was a better choice.

Running into a Parade, Cycling in Circles, and Crushing Cardboard