Posts from December, 2008

From home to the beach and back. Click the image for the mapmyride route.
While visiting my parents over Christmas, I joined them for several bike rides on Gulf Breeze (a spit of land between Pensacola Bay and Pensacola Beach). Much of this peninsula is essentially a sand bar with a busy US Highway running through [...]

When I moved to the Orlando area a couple years back, the thought of riding my bike to work was seriously entertained.  Being a recreational bike rider, I was hesitant to give commuting a go.  My first dilemma was the fact that the sidewalks ended at a certain point and I would be forced to [...]

Coexist sign concept by Wayne Pein
Christmas came early in Winter Park, Eatonville and Maitland. Earlier this month, the trustees of the Winter Park Health Foundation agreed to fund the next phase of the Civility on the Road initiative. This grant will support the research phase of the initiative—focus group testing of attitudes and successful social [...]

Seems not all Portland, OR cyclists blindly subscribe to the government line on bike lane door zones.  Some safety-conscious cyclists have made the point rather clearly and shared it with their fellow cyclists exactly where and when they need to see it (what social marketers call an “interrupt”).

I think the graphic could be a bit [...]

Sunday Dec 21, a co-worker and I were riding south on Semoran Blvd. (436) towards Lee Vista to Goldenrod.  We had been traveling in the bike lane until Lake Margaret.  Traffic was light for about 1030am.  Due to the headwind, our conversation was difficult to hear so I took the lane and rode side by [...]

In the illustration on the right, there are 2 cyclists approaching the back of a queue of traffic. The red cyclist intends to pass the queue on the right. The green cyclist intends to wait behind the queue and go through the intersection in the line of traffic.
Both cyclists need to watch for potential conflicts. [...]

From The Orlando Sentinel:
Both the bus and bicycle rider were westbound on Orange, crossing Ridgewood, when the accident occurred. Witnesses told police the bicyclist passed the bus which then passed him before he collided with the right side of the bus. He was thrown from bicycle and was run over by the [...]

A while back, we all talked about what could be done to get more people involved in using their bicycles.  While we had lots of interesting discussion on infrastructure ideas, gasoline prices affecting ridership, and such, I felt we were missing something.
Doing a little further reading, I found several cities who had instituted a Bicycle [...]

Sanibel Island has a complete network of side paths. Side paths (with new, fancy names) have become the fantasy of mode-share-obsessed bike advocates. I got a week-long taste of them in a microcosm environment.
My first reaction was, “this is going to suck.” My first response was to use the road, since side paths are something [...]