A few weeks back we had the pleasure of hosting Laura and Aaron Beese for a few nights. They wrote us through warmshowers.org looking for free lodging. Mostly I was interested in seeing their cool bike. I mean, their bio is a little too earnest and has a too few many mentions of the All…
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This is the coolest thing ever! If I lived somewhere with hills. I’ve always sort of dreamed of a sort of ski lift for bikes. I had no idea my dreams have been realized for over a decade, in Trondheim. Here’s the official PR:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtB8DX70ihM Here’s the renegade action shots:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j1PgmMbug8
Nothing like a little body-on-car contact to remind you you’re alive. So a little before midnight I’m biking on 59th, crossing Madison. I’m one lane from the left. There’s a black stretch limo to my right (never where you want to be at an intersection, but there’s a lot of traffic). The limo starts turning…
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7095134.stm Bike sex man placed on probationA man caught trying to have sex with his bicycle has been sentenced to three years on probation. Robert Stewart, 51, admitted a sexually aggravated breach of the peace by conducting himself in a disorderly manner and simulating sex. Sheriff Colin Miller also placed Stewart on the Sex Offenders…
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I like both bikes and venison. My friend sent me this picture from a while back. Now *that’s* a bike carry.
I’m sick of reading about how cool Portland, Oregon is. But here’s yet another story… New York TimesNovember 5, 2007In Portland, Cultivating a Culture of Two WheelsBy WILLIAM YARDLEY PORTLAND, Ore. — Susan Peithman did not have a job lined up when she moved here in September to pursue a career in “nonmotorized transportation.” No…
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A mildly interesting discussion in the comments on the NYT Freakonomics blog. I like the statistical point that it makes more sense to compare trip to trip and not mile to mile, since people who bike likely have shorter commutes. I also like the point that it would save more lives if people wore helmets…
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Instead of just complaining, I thought I’d actually be constructive and show what we want (that’s the royal we, of course). [Before you go on, take a quick and wild guess as to how many north/south traffic lanes there are spanning the width of Manhattan at 57th St.] As it stands now, every time I…
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We went to see David Byrne talk about bikes. At Town Hall and part of the New Yorker Festival. It was nice. Certainly a preaching-to-the-choir kind of event. But I enjoyed it. What I liked: That 1,200 people would pay $25 to see David Byrne talk about bikes. Jan Gehl’s spiel about biking in Copenhagen.…
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I received a comment from an editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette telling about this article“The Limberness of the Fixed Gear Mind” (they left out the the hyphen, not me) by Jeff Guerrero, publisher of Urban Velo, a Pittsburgh-based cycling magazine and daily Web site. It’s a great read, probably the best single summary of fixed-gear…
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