Woo hoo! It’s Florida Springtime! We have some fun stuff in the works. Bike Buses to VegFest and Climate Action Day Events On October 24, Florida Bicycle Association is teaming up with Central Florida VegFest to run “Bike Buses” from around Orlando to the festival at Loch Haven Park. Rusted Chain Bike Collective will...
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Come on, baby! Come on! You can make it!
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My mom sent me an interesting OpEd from the New York Times this weekend: Bicyclists vs. Pedestrians: An Armistice by Robert Sullivan The essay is full of potential discussion topics, but this is the tidbit that grabbed me:
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Nearly one-in-five U.S. drivers have read or sent a text message while behind the wheel even though nearly all of the respondents in an AAA survey released on Friday considered it unacceptable. And, in another survey commissioned by Ford Motor Company, 93 percent of 1,000 licensed drivers surveyed support a nationwide ban on texting...
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Bad News (a few months ago); Tra-la-la, I ride my bike to work, really into the audio book I’m reading. Ka-dunk, ka-dunk. Flat tire. Luckily I’m at OBT and Lee right by the BP. Ooops! I’ve left my phone at home today. Call Eric (son) six million times from the store phone until he...
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“How stupid can you be?!” Yeah I did. I lost my composure and yelled at Mr. Head-up-his-@$$ as he stopped at the stop sign NEXT TO ME, 3/4 in the oncoming lane. Lucky for him the car on our left was not turning right. I don’t think...
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When you are riding in the morning and evening, your shadow points to the other travelers who might have trouble seeing you in the glare of the rising or setting sun. —A tip from LCI Bob Bayn, Cache Valley, UT Today was the last day of summer, though you’d never know it by the...
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This is Winston Rd. It’s not a collector or a through street. It has five speed humps in 4/10 of a mile. Why? Because some motorists would use it as a secondary cut-through to escape the speed humps on their primary cut-through. And because the people who live on the side streets in this...
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Dr. Mills’ film is playing at the 2009 Global PEace Film Festival. If you haven’t seen it yet, you’ve got two more chances this month! This personal narrative documentary uses the director’s bicycle ride to work as a vehicle to explore fear and global warming. The film was shot over a period of two...
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Jesse and Angie Ross and their two daughters are a one-car family. In January, they traded their SUV for an SUB. The family rides bikes to the store, church and for family fun. Jesse’s vehicle is a Madsen Bucket bike. I asked him how he chose the Madsen. “We were looking at the Xtracycle...
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