Some of you kind folks have sent concerned emails over the holidays about the Amazon listing for my book, Everyday Bicycling. Thank you. Here’s the background. A spate of one star reviews of the book started to crop up over the weekend (along with a smattering of some 2 through 5 star ones), and their [...]
Down to the wire on the Disaster issue (and a look inside)
Illustration for Disaster! by Katura Reynolds – Now is the time to back the Disaster! issue of Taking the Lane. Thank you! – Does it make any sense to hone in on bicycling as a way to forestall, prepare for, manage, and ultimately survive emergent situations large and small, personal and civic? I believe so. [...]
A peek at the new Bikenomics book
Everyday Bicycling may be barely out the gate, but I’ve already been hard at work for some time on the next book. The writing process has not been pretty (albeit it’s been easier the second time around). But the cover is freaking gorgeous. I can’t stop looking at it. I swear it makes the words [...]
Everyday Bicycling book trailer
Here’s what we did today. Now Everyday Bicycling has its own 46 second movie. The sun came out and everything! Everyday Bicycling: How to Ride a Bike for Transportation (Whatever Your Lifestyle) from Cantankerous Titles on Vimeo.
Learning to ride: Joining the Street Riders
This is the third post of three outtakes from Volume 8 of the quarterly Taking the Lane series, Childhood. (Read the first one here and the second one here). This story is by Brigette Brown. Sweat drips down my forehead, tears of exasperation well up in my eyes. I struggle under the hot afternoon sun. [...]
Everyday Bicycling
Bikenomics
Bikes in Space
Disaster!
#8: Childhood