Posts from June, 2008

On “Today at the Pump” MSNBC reported from the Pinellas Trail about the upsurge in bike commuters nationwide. Houston (which must track these things) has seen a 33% increase in bike commuters! They show full bike racks in West Palm. I was there last weekend and not only were the racks full, there were bikes [...]

RoadBikeRider, a terrific weekly e-newsletter published by Ed Pavelka and others who once worked for/with Bicycling magazine in Emmaus, Pa., promises an occasional dispatch from newbie commuter Gary Kirkland of Gainesville, Fla. This is for all the commuters out there who are slowly moving out of the gutter one inch at a time….
SLOW GUY
“Take [...]

Today is my Dad’s birthday. And I have given him a lot of thought today during my ride in to work, so let me start by asking everyone to say Happy Birthday to my Dad.
It’s funny when you start remembering back many, many years. I was remembering my Dad on the bike this [...]

Calculating the savings of commuter biking
Or should I say the gains? I started commuting to work several days per week on my bike. I ride from Oviedo to Baldwin Park. One-half my ride is road and then I hit the Seminole and Cady Way trail. Nice ride, best of both worlds. My bag is [...]

An informative article in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette offers examples of how bike commuters overcome scary arterial roads, long distances and even hills by devising hybrid commute solutions.
League Cycling Instructor, Tom Ezell, avoids a narrow 2-lane highway with aggressive drivers by driving part way and riding the rest.
“So what I do is drive down to [...]

Google Alerts brings me a daily barrage of articles on bike commuting. I’d like to say I read them all, but I don’t have time. I skim for interesting headlines and uniques stories, and I look for patterns. This year’s pattern is obvious—as I’ve written before, it’s gas prices.
Here are some recent headlines and quotes:
Pedal [...]