See what new bike facilities are available in New York City, as reported by Streetsblog: Bike boxes are a reserved space just for cyclists at intersections. They are marked ahead of the car stop line and behind the crosswalk to improve cyclist visibility. Bike boxes allow cyclists to filter forward and get in front of […]
There’s a lot’s going on the world of cycling in this second week of 2008! Cute story in the SF Chron: Kids Bike Sex Change. It involves duct tape and scissors. Spray paint is much easier and faster. Reno, NV: Don’t let the cold keep you off your bike. Boston motorists blame bike lanes for […]
While reading the Wikipedia article about the Japanese language, I encountered this sentence about how Japanese pronounce the “R” sound: The ‘r’ of the Japanese language (technically a lateral apical postalveolar flap), is of particular interest, sounding to most English speakers to be something between an ‘l’ and a retroflex ‘r’ depending on its position […]
Monday night in San Luis Obispo: Monday Night Mountain Bike Ride, 6:30 p.m. – 9 p.m. 1422 Monterey Street, San Luis Obsispo, CA 93401. 805-543-1148 for details. Thursday in San Francisco: Bike Ed Day One from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. This is the “day 1” course for League of American Bicyclists’ Bike Ed Road […]
CycleDog tells me that cute kitten pictures are good for website traffic.
The United States spends almost one billion dollars every day on imported crude oil and petroleum products. I disabled the Energy Use widget shortly after the New Year — after seeing 10 digit values on the 2nd day I figured I had an arithmetic error of some kind in the code. I couldn’t imagine that […]