Trucks have huge blind spots. Truck drivers cannot see little things in their huge blind spots. Large vehicles off-track when turning, so they will appear to be going straight and often swing wide before making a right turn. Cyclists hit by turning trucks is a repeating news story which highlights the most serious deficiency in...
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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...
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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:...
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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 expands the...
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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. Inmate Number x50493 Everything I mention here is a matter of public record, so Keri doesn’t have to worry about being sued and I can drop using the word “alleged.” Case 1: On October 11,...
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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...
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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 an excellent...
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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...
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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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