Hi everyone! I’ll get back to regular posting here one of these days, but for now I am dabbling in the old-fashioned art of “analog blogging.” This arcane art can take many forms; in the next week it will involve appearing in various venues and either having conversations or delivering remarks, respectively. The first event [...]
California!
We came to California chasing the dream and ended up in West Oakland. Actually, we come down here a couple times a year to visit friends, table at big book and zine events, and generally enjoy a working vacation away from the distractions of home. In a few days we’ll get on the train again [...]
Bicycle progress report: Trails in Houston, parking in Nevada City
New bike funding in Houston will soon provide a better transportation connection along this bayou. While on tour for the last three years, we’ve had the pleasure of visiting many communities that are in the middle of big changes for bicycling. It’s a heady time right now. A lot of the people we met in [...]
On tour: Lack of infrastructure can’t stop cyclists in Mobile, Alabama
Mobilians on Bikes on a group ride. (Photos by Ben Brenner) There’s a chicken and egg question I keep coming back to — which comes first, the bike infrastructure or the bike riders? There doesn’t seem to be any single answer except the frustrating non-simple one that you need both at once and that they [...]
Bike infrastructure — how not to do it
I’m not entirely sure where I took this photo — Atlanta, maybe? [Thanks to the first commenter below for discovering that this was taken in Athens, Georgia] But it strikes me as a fine counter-example for bike infrastructurists to heed. I’ll leave it to y’all in the comments to provide a thorough critique, but I [...]
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