Decades ago our public road space was usurped by a wealthy minority. Thus began the Motor Age Occupation of our streets. It started with invasion and resistance, but in time, the majority was made to believe that streets were for cars and all others intrude at their own peril. Citizens were made to believe...
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Do you love your cargo bike? Has it changed your life? Your family? Your town? Join me in producing an authentic crowdsourced document of a cultural revolution in progress. I’m seeking submissions from cargo bike folk all over the world to combine in the form of a feature length documentary. Send me your video,...
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I’ve spent the past two decades trying to figure out how make bicycling work better for people. Perhaps instead I should have been trying to figure out how to make our communities work better. As John Wooden implied, when it comes to cycling, I’m a know-it-all, but when it comes to what really counts... I’ve...
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Friday, June 24, 2011: I leave work a little early to get home and let my dogs out. Itʼs hotter than heck, with high humidity and a forecast of scattered thunderstorms. I jump on my bike at 5:10 PM to head to Critical Mass, which puts me on the road in peak Friday afternoon...
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Terrific video by ronconcocacola. Sent by John Ciccarelli. I’ve been following the bike-v-car wars surrounding the rapid implementation of segregated bike lanes (or cycletracks, or whatever they’re calling them) in NYC. I haven’t commented on it much. While I don’t think bicycle rat runs are the solution to the larger traffic culture problems, I...
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So I open my Google News this morning and this headline catches my eye. Matt Reed: It’s time to let cyclists join traffic on Pineda Causeway I don’t think I have ever read anything like this in a newspaper before. Lacking a reasonable alternate route over the Indian River Lagoon, they risk tickets by...
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Enjoy the video of yesterday's Mayor's Bike To Work Day, led by Orlando's Buddy Dyer from Infusion Tea in College Park, through downtown, to City Hall.
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Seriously! I didn’t intend to have a mindset change or get this involved.  All I wanted to do was ride my bicycle back and forth to work to save on fuel costs and ride for fun. My Beginning Flashback to my start, My Own Ignorance for those that may need the history.  This was...
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Join Bike/Walk Central Florida and be a part of history! Take an hour out of your Friday morning, May 6, to be part of Orlando’s first, and maybe only videotaped bicycle flash mob. We’re trying to get 1,000 cyclists – in plain street clothes, no spandex, to ride four blocks with us (any old...
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Dear Senator Simmons, I live in your district and I wanted to let you know what I thought about a particular budget issue. The newspapers are full of things that are proposed to be cut, but they never say much about what will stay pretty much intact. Today I discovered that while the House...
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