Where: Ringwood Avenue, Menlo Park, California. When: This morning. Who: The guy riding the bicycle in front of me. What: He almost got creamed by a left turning car. Why: Because the ditz on a bike completely blew through a stop sign at the all-way stop. The left turning car driver very clearly had the read more
Birota — the Bicycle Constellation. Visible from the Northern and Southern Hemisphere year round, though more prominent during warmer months in all locations.
Way back in 2010, Mario Cipollini decried the lack of ‘machismo’ in modern cycling. I ran across some old Tour de France photos from 1928 that proves his point, in a way.
Rin’ is a female pop group that mixes modern popular music styles with traditional Japanese instruments like the shakuhachi (a flute) or the koto (a very traditional Japanese harp).
Maybe you remember Joshua West. He was the young man who was killed nearly a year ago in Los Gatos, California when Kevin Derr accelerated his Chevy Blazer to 50 MPH at a busy, narrow intersection, drove up on a curb, and ran into West, who was stopped on the side of the road with read more
MapQuest’s bike routing API uses OpenStreetMap data to preferentially route cyclists on bike facilities. It works well when the data is complete and connected, but fails completely when the data isn’t there. This tutorial shows how you can help complete the data.
