7 MIND BLOWING BIKE PREDICTIONS FOR 2014 THAT WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD

Published January 3, 2014 / by Richard Masoner / 5 Comments on 7 MIND BLOWING BIKE PREDICTIONS FOR 2014 THAT WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD

Made you look! That headline is partly a joke, partly an experiment, and partly a commentary on this trend of stupidly hyperbolic click bait. It started with a joke and experiment by Calgary Herald reporter and bike blogger Tom Babin, who tweeted two different headlines for the same story on winter cycling in Calgary. The […]

Social media and bike trail conditions?

Published January 3, 2014 / by Richard Masoner / 5 Comments on Social media and bike trail conditions?

Yesterday, I linked to Elisa Poteat’s request for bike path traffic reports. I call upon all traffic reporters in major cities in the U.S. and U.K. to make a New Year’s resolution to report conditions for cyclists. We know that that we need to increase the number of bike commuters and diversify the crowd that […]

Sharing the road with horses

Published January 2, 2014 / by Richard Masoner / 3 Comments on Sharing the road with horses

I hope you all had a great New Year. While riding on New Years Day, I encountered a group of equestrians who celebrated the Year of the Horse with a horseback ride on public roads. Their route included the most heavily traveled stroad in my city. Orange County cycling attorney David Huntsman points out that […]

Get going with Baby Ruth

Published January 1, 2014 / by Richard Masoner / Leave a Comment

You can pedal 15 1/3 miles on the food energy contained in one delicious 5c bar of BABY RUTH. The original energy bar rich with dextrose (made from corn sugar). Note “N.R.G” (pronounced “energy” on the boy’s shirt. H/T to bike riding urban entomologist Kevin Ulrich.

Transportation directors named for NYC, Chicago

Published December 31, 2013 / by Richard Masoner / 1 Comment on Transportation directors named for NYC, Chicago

New transportation directors have been named for America’s largest city and America’s Second City. Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio named Polly Trottenberg to replace Janette Sadik-Khan as New York City’s Transportation Commissioner. Trottenberg, who currently serves as Under Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation, said she is “committed to expanding the use of […]

New Year Strava Art from Santa Cruz California

Published December 31, 2013 / by Richard Masoner / 1 Comment on New Year Strava Art from Santa Cruz California

For the new year I tried my hand at creating some Strava art. Strava art or GPS drawing uses a city as a gigantic Etch-A-Sketch, with a GPS device that tracks your movements as the stylus. For my first attempt, I rode my bike between Mission Street and Escalona Drive in Santa Cruz to spell […]

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