MUP: Multi Use Path. Chicagoist on sharing the road and sharing the trails: Riding to work Wednesday morning this Chicagoist staffer and avid cyclist was doored ever-so-slightly by a trucker. While tending to the minor scrapes incurred from the sudden braking and subsequent tumble, the trucker proceeded to yell at us about how we shouldn’t […]
My morning commute reading this week is The Bourne Sanction by Eric van Lustbader. I was kind of a fan of Robert Ludlum and the first couple of Jason Bourne books. Sanction is kind of meh — there’s a power struggle between the U.S. military and the CIA that only Bourne can defuse and an […]
April in Sweden posted on Six reasons the world needs more women on bikes, mentioning some of the reasons women don’t bike to work as much as men. April mentions that only about 30% of bike commuters in Portland (Oregon, presumably) are female; in San Francisco, it’s currently about 27%. Why the gender split? Natalie […]
Pedalpalooza 2009 runs Thursday (tomorrow!) June 11 to Saturday June 27.
I watched the cool cats waiting around in San Jose last night for the Tuesday night SJFixed ride to start. Their trackstands, backwards riding and bar spins reminded me of this old film of bike tricks shot by Thomas Edison back in 1899. They’ve got the whole repertoire of modern bike ballet over 100 years […]
We report, you decide. Don Broderick is a writer for FOX News in New York City. He was upset because cyclist Brian Dooda traveling at the 25 mph speed limit through Central Park was impeding his way. So Broderick reportedly cut Dooda off, Dooda responded with some words, and Broderick responded by deliberately ramming into […]