Hi everyone! Thanks for checking in with this sadly neglected blog. It’ll be up and running again soon; for now, it’s high time to post a quick update about a few different professional goings-on: Zines Taking the Lane #6: Lines on the Map went off to print this week! That means it’s important to fully […]
Tag Archives: Bicycling
Jobs and the Transportation Bill
Posted onThe news of the moment is that federal transportation money is in a tough spot, and Congress is currently batting around various transportation bills. One of them will eventually pass, and it is pretty much guaranteed to include lots of money for new freeways, new regulations that allow heavier trucks, a mandate to drill for […]
Bike-Sexuality -- a call for submissions
Posted onUpdate: BikeSexuality exists! You can buy a copy here. “Bike-sexual” panel from TTL5(click to make bigger) The seed of this idea started while the submissions for Our Bodies, Our Bikes were rolling in. The first several entries were also the most frankly sexual, and their writers, even the ones who chose to remain anonymous, ended […]
What's right under our nose
Posted onWhen 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 […]
Looking back at the year in bikes
Posted onIn 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 a...
Posted onI’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 […]
Hey bike industry, we aren't Barbie doll...
Posted onAn excellent post on the excellent blog Sociological Images today pointed out a number of spot-on examples of ways companies assume that men are their standard market, but label products marketed to women as such. For example, you can often choose between a small t-shirt or a women’s small t-shirt; at my long-ago high school, […]
Bikes and the candidates, round one: Oba...
Posted onIn the last Presidential election, looking for bicycling connections with any of the candidates led only to that photo of Mr. Obama riding with one of his daughters on city streets, helmeted, earnest, and a little dorky, especially in comparison with then-current President Bush, who liked to lycra up and go for adrenaline-producing mountain bike […]
How not to lock your bike
Posted onI have half a draft of a write-up filed away somewhere with directions for locking your bike well. But there’s honestly no single right way to do it, and no truly secure way to do it … and just writing about how it’s done bores me to tears. Reading it probably wouldn’t delight you much […]
What do conservatives want (from bicycli...
Posted onEarlier this week I attempted to make “the conservative case for bicycle transportation.” Before writing it I spent some time thinking about political discourse in the U.S. and trying to put myself in conservative shoes. And responses have been mixed — completely all over the map, actually. Two people wrote comments in right off the […]
Heading down South on the Dinner and Bik...
Posted onLast fall’s Dinner & Bikes tour went so well that the three of us decided to do it again this year. This spring we’ll be headed South – from Kansas to Texas to Georgia and back again, with many stops in between. We have an emerging schedule and plan on our new tour site. Our […]
The conservative case for bicycling
Posted onBicycle transportation is a truly bipartisan issue, or should be. Back in 1971, it was Republican politicians in Oregon who passed our landmark “Bicycle Bill” which is partly responsible for funding the infrastructure that has allowed bike culture to flourish in Corvallis, Eugene, Portland, and around the state. Today’s the bicycle caucus in Congress is […]
People reclaiming the streets and other ...
Posted onThere’s a lot of bad news in the world right now, so I’ve been trying to think instead for a day or two about the news in the past year that’s been most inspiring and hopeful. The best of it has involved people around the world stepping up and making public spaces their own, joyously […]
Why bicycle transportation will save Por...
Posted onPortland is undergoing a process to create something called the Portland Plan, a guiding document aimed towards achieving an ambitious list of environmental, educational, and economic goals by 2035. I wrote the letter below the jump as testimony to the importance of bicycle transportation in achieving the plan’s economic goals. It’s not exactly smooth reading […]