Why I Ride
Why I Ride
Why I Ride
New Orleans was great. Still very fucked-up, mind you. But a wonderful city. Good biking. Great food. An easy city to strike up a conversation with strangers. I was charmed. Too bad the city was destroyed and nobody seems to care. It’s two years later, for Christ’s sake, and it looks like the storm hit…
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I’m back, with stories and pictures… In a few days. I’m getting a new computer as my old one is telling me in no uncertain terms that it’s tired of life. Meanwhile read what Zora says: New Orleans is a fabulous place to ride a bike. The fact that I’m mentioning this before the food…
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I’m off to New Orleans for a wedding. We got a heads-up about a place to rent bikes. So we should be tooling around in style. I’ll be the one wearing a green top hat, if I can find one. For a little preview on biking in the city, see Dan Baum’s excellent New Yorker…
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I was in London very briefly this week to meet my brother. London isn’t my favorite city. I’ve always thought I should like it more. I love big cities. And they speak English. And very nicely. But the food sucks. The women are kinda ugly on average. And the weather sucks. (I flew Air India……
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This is from a friend of mine: From: Colleen McGuire [mailto:cmcguire@cyclegreece.gr]Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:08 AMSubject: hiring for adventure travel greece …I am looking for a personal assistant to help me with CycleGreece www.cyclegreece.gr and a new company we are building for active and soft adventure in Greece. Perhaps you know someone who is…
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I was down in the Yucatan, Mexico, and discovered that tricycles were the most common form of taxi and transport in villiages and small towns. The sad part is they’ll probably eventually all get replaced with loud motorized vehicles as they get more money. There was even the occasional bike path next to some major…
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Great photo blog journalism of bikes and one intersection in Amsterdam at http://www.awfulgood.com/doa-archives/000185.php.
The French have great city bikes. Not too many of them here. They use lot’s of uniquely (well, not for them) sized parts and are a bitch to work on here in the U.S. A shame. Here’s a typically beautiful mixte. I’ve never seen a three speed with a derailleur. It’s great, because three speeds…
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I was Toronto over the weekend. Kind of underwhelmed by the city, but it’s a bike friendly town. A lot of bikes. It’s pretty far North. But to be honest, not really much further North than Boston or Chicago. There are a fair number of bike paths. And bike racks everywhere! The same kind they…
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