Tag: Ride Your Bike - Page 2
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Bike Helmet With Built In Headset Lets You Ride And Talk At Same Time
TreeHugger often shows disturbing photographs from Copenhagen and Amsterdam showing people on bikes, without helmets, with KIDS riding double without helmets, while talking on cellphones. Fortunately this state of affairs no
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Ending The War on the Car: How Cyclists Might Talk To Conservatives and Drivers
The phrase "war on the car" was common in Toronto, Canada whenever a bike lane was installed or new dedicated streetcar lanes proposed. The war quieted down for a while, until the new Mayor rode the meme to victory over
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Why Not Aim For Zero Deaths of Cyclists and Pedestrians?
James Schwartz of The Urban Country asks why the streets are so dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians, and why we put up with it. He demands zero tolerance, and assembles some grim statistics and articles from
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Elegant Bike Storage Shelf From Knife & Saw
Images credit: Knife and Saw Designboom shows this bike shelf from Chris Brigham, a graphic designer gone 3D and now making furniture under the name Knife and Saw. . Living in San Francisco and visiting friends in New York, he "noticed that there is a
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Cyclist Memorials: The Andrew Project
For a number of weeks the walls, hoardings, abandoned windows and parking receipt machines of Toronto have been covered with enigmatic posters of a young man, labelled "Andrew." It turns out they are a kind of transatlantic
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Battle of the Bike Lanes in the New York Times
The New York Times hosts an interesting five-way debate on the Bike Lanes of New York, the upcoming Scorsese sequel where cyclists with heavy chains duke it out with drivers with tire
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Vail Cyclist Hit-and-Run Gets Even More Surreal
The rich are different from you and me when it comes to having "accidents." Martin Erzinger beat a felony rap for almost killing a cyclist because it might
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Mikael of Copenhagenize on Why We Should NOT Wear Bike Helmets
Mikael Colville-Anderson is as entertaining in video as he is at Copenhagenize.com. He explains in this TED talk why he thinks bicycle helmets promote a culture of fear, that pedestrians and drivers have far higher rates of head injuries but nobody
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Bruce McCall on Bike Lanes, Horse Lanes and Baby Carriage Lanes
Bruce McCall lives in New York City and evidently drives everywhere. His volley in the War on the Car was in the Sunday New York Times and although he may be the funniest thing to come out of Canada
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How To End The War On The Car: Recognize It Is A Win-Win Situation
In Toronto, the new Mayor thinks roads belong to trucks and cars, and thinks bike lanes slow them down. He calls bike lanes and streetcars a "war on the car." In fact, there is some evidence of exactly the opposite; in many cases, a person on a bike
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More Tips For Riding Your Bike All Winter
Major riding tips include riding more slowly, anticipating
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Which Came First, The Bike Or The Bike Lane? (Video)
When Richard Masoner of Cyclelicious asked "What came first, the bikes, or the bike lanes? Do bike facilities encourage people to bike? Or are they a response to increased demand after there are more bikes on the road?"
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A Picture Is Worth: Snow Removal In Copenhagen
We have not had much snow here in much of North America yet, but in Europe they have been socked with it; Copenhagen has had 18 inches so far. But where we don't get our bike lanes ploughed first (that would be
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New Study Shows Urban Cycling Is Faster Than Driving
For all those politicians who think that roads are for cars, here are some interesting data from Lyon, France: bikes are faster. According to MIT's Technology Review (via Grist) the Lyon bike sharing programme collects information
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Volt, Schmolt; Get a Bike Instead
An interesting thread of posts on Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish includes a great quote from a reader about why electric cars are not as good a choice as a bike:
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Rich Vail Fund Manager Hits Cyclist And Runs, Gets Off Because Charges Might "Jeopardize His Job"
The rich are different from you and me; they get to hit and run, almost killing a cyclist, but get off without serious charges because it is hard to be money manager for Smith Barney if you have a record. District Attorney Mark Hurlbert is not charging
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Get Around Gridlock And Over Broken Infrastructure With The Hanebrick Electric Bike
This might be the perfect vehicle for the next two years: The Hanebrink off-road electric bike. Political gridlock may well lead to road gridlock as transit and trains get cut. But this thing can get around anybody and over almost any kind of broken
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The Trials and Tribulations of a 320-Mile Bike Trip Raising Climate Awareness (Slideshow)
There is a certain safety in being an environmental activist behind the screen of a computer: When I decided to bike 320 miles in five days from Eureka, California to San Francisco as part of Brita Climate Ride, I
