Cyclists hit by turning trucks is a repeating news story which highlights the most serious deficiency in our system — education of cyclists. Sometimes these crashes are caused by the truck driver passing a cyclist prior to turning right, but very often they are caused by the cyclist passing the truck on the right....
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Join hundreds of parents and their children on the annual night bike ride through illuminated neighborhoods of Winter Park and Casselberry. Ride begins at Winter Park Dr. and SR 436 with a full escort by the Seminole Sheriffs Office. Please bring a gift for a child and receive one in return, courtesy of Central...
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Want a dose of bike culture? Come to Orlando Critical Mass this Friday. If you’ve thought it would be fun to join but had some trepidation about how traffic interacts with the group, this is the perfect day to check it out. In fact, here’s an idea: do your black Friday Christmas shopping on...
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I’ll follow up Eric’s post with something I worked on over a year ago. I suppose sociopaths are always going to be a segment of any population. The problem is, we are missing numerous opportunities to reform them, or get them off the roads and out of circulation before they kill. The following table...
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Let’s have a warm welcome for two new residents of State prison facilities. They are in prison because of their crazy driving.
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I’m reading Tom Vanderbilt’s “Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)” (probably the longest subtitle I’ve ever see on a book…). Anybody who spends any amount of time in traffic (um, that’s pretty much everybody) would find the book fascinating. He spends some time talking about driving...
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A while back, Keri wrote a descriptive article about having fun in the dark with lights. One of the things that I was thinking about was side reflection, and how most of our lighting is aimed forwards and backwards. While no one would argue the merits of “been seen” lights on the front and back,...
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“Bike with us, don’t be afraid” “Bike commuting was, for me, not just a commuting mode. It was part of a way of life that I entered into in the first half of the 1990s, and which I maintain to this day.” — Dino Alberto E. Subingsubing Maki-BIKE ka!: A bike commuter’s tale is...
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I love cycling in Mount Dora. It’s a wonderful, sleepy town with shady, quiet streets and rolling hills. It’s a great destination for a day ride because the downtown offers a number of nice places to have coffee, pastries or brunch. In fact, the easiest part of cycling to Mount Dora is cycling IN...
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Warning: I’m cranky. The pink line on the photo above is the course taken by a bike rider this morning. He rode the wrong way on Virginia (I’m not sure how far), then crossed into the Brian’s parking lot, wiggled through the parked cars—intermittently with one, or no, hands on the handlebars—swooped across Orange...
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