I didn’t expect to see this — a Chicago area Realtor took some clients on a bike ride for property showings. I’ve written quite a bit about ditching my car for my bicycle in my day to day duties as a Realtor. This weekend I really had the chance to flex my “Green street cred”. […]
I’m seeing a lot of shiny new bikes on Caltrain lately. Murph’s using new bikes as a pickup line. Remember the hullabaloo about Chicago’s new bike-friendly traffic laws? Police have issued 233 citations on the new law between March 12 and May 31. Coping with $5 gasoline. Slashdot mentions bikes! Montreal’s public bike system looks […]
Compare and contrast: Comic character Yehuda Moon on the left, real life bike builder Josh Muir on the right. Yehuda Moon is the bike nerd creation of Rick Smith in Cleveland, Ohio. Josh Muir builds lovely bicycles under the “Frances Cycles” brand in Santa Cruz, California. His shop is right around the corner from the […]
The city of Santa Cruz is studying the possibility of enhancing King Street as a bicycle route and an alternative over Mission Street. King Street is a residential collector running approximately parallel to Mission Street from near High Street in the north/east to Swift Street at the south/west. View Larger Map King has a 25 […]
This is off-topic, but I’m a railfan. Here’s a nice advertisement from CSX Rail. “What can a car that gets 50 miles to the gallon do for the environment? Not nearly as much as the car that’s carrying it. Our trains can carry a ton of freight 423 miles on one gallon of fuel.”
Seen at the Santa Cruz Bike Church. I’ve also finally uploaded some of my photos from last week’s Wildcat to Flickr. Click here for the photos.