When biking — or, particularly, driving — about our daily lives, we pass through many spaces that are meant only to be passed through on the way to someplace else. Stopping to watch for a while is often enlightening. The video below was taken by a volunteer bike counter at the intersection of a busy [...]
A lovely review
I’m not entirely sure when I became aware of the eloquent Lovely Bicycle blog, but I have admired it for some time. To my pleasure, its pseudonymous author (who turns out to be, as she says, a friend of a long-ago friend who I’ve fallen out of touch with; she’s also contributed some well-informed comments [...]
Unplanned time off
Well, after over 20 years of spending hours a day at a computer keyboard (albeit a more ergonomic one), it’s all finally caught up to me. This week, out of nowhere. Typing, or doing most anything, has become painful and I need to give my arms a rest for a bit. How long? I have [...]
Looking back at the year in bikes
In January, 2011, I made some predictions about what was in store for the year ahead in bikes. Now that those 12 months have gone by, I thought it would be interesting to look back and see what actually came to pass. Bike sharing I predicted that 2011 would be the year that “bike sharing [...]
Dinner and Bikes tour: Charming videos and a taste of what’s ahead
I’ve been continuing to book dates for the Dinner and Bikes tour this spring, and getting increasingly stoked about the places we’ll be visiting. A couple of weeks ago I posted about a few expected highlights. Since then, I’ve kept finding more reasons to be excited about the various cities we’re stopping in. Kevin Buchanan [...]
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