Putting the charm back in Charm City, Baltimore is becoming more bike friendly. Having lived and loved in Baltimore from 1999 to 2001, I can attest that the city is a good biking town that isn’t very bike friendly. I lived and commuted by bike and without a car there for the first 6 months.…
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The New York Times reports on this. Seems useful for a place like NYC, where many people don’t bike because they have nowhere to keep a bike. We’ll see if it works. I always feel it’s best to let another try these things out first, to work out the kinks.
And his lovely wife, Amy. You may know Pete Jordan as author of Dishwasher (and infamous Dave Letterman no-show). I went up to their bike store in the North of Amsterdam to meet them, drop off a copy of my book, and get an Egyptian bike bell put on my bike. Peter wasn’t in. But…
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Approaching a bike parking barge of the River IJ (pronounced “eye”) The entrance to the bike parking.Mural on the bike parking barge.The lighting on this bike path going over a canal and under train tracks is so nice. And it could so easily be so ugly. What could be a scary place, is actually quite…
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Check this out.
I’m in Amsterdam, trying to remember to take some pictures. There are so many sights that seem unremarkable to people who live here. But I’ve been gone for a while so things like this stand out. These pictures are from parts of town you won’t see on postcards. Here’s an average Dutch street with an…
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I arrived in Amsterdam today. I’m staying on a houseboat where I used to live. Being on the water is good for the soul. I’ve been away for more than a year, which is the longest I’ve ever been away. I was very happy to find my lovely Batavus Barcelona waiting for me. A little…
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Sydney, city of beachesand beach cricketand the view from our friend’s apartment. We were warned that when it comes to bikes, Sydney is no Melbourne. “Bollocks,” exlaimed P. Lynn Miller of CTA fame (Chainlink Transit Authority). Or he said something like that in an accent that perhaps could only come from an Australian immigrant originally…
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Actually, we never made it to Brisbane. We were visiting friends in the suburb of Sandgate. But Bike Sandgate has less of a ring to it than Bike Brisbane. Our friends are nice eco-friendly people with a chicken coop in the backyard. Amazingly, this was second place we stayed with a chicken coop. My wife…
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Things picked up a bit in Melbourne, bike wise. I couldn’t score free bikes (actually I probably could have, but hadn’t yet thought of my Australian bike connection), and renting bikes is crazy expensive. $50 per day. It costs more to rent bikes than rent a car. What’s up with that? But we wanted bikes.…
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