Encouragement, Education & Advocacy for Bicycling in the Real World
A few weeks ago I announced my intentions to survey the streets of Orlando to find the most efficient routes to get to and from Orlando’s downtown. My team of friends and I have had several survey rides and have seen lots of interesting conditions, and I want to update you on our progress.
As [...]
Sorry for the short notice, but this is this afternoon!
Get your bicycle and join in for a great ride around town. The Tour will be stopping at local, independently-owned restaurant/bars that choose to carry American-owned craft beers.
The Tour begins at 2 pm at The Virgin Olive (807 N. Orange Ave, just North of 50) where [...]
Everyone knows the Murphy laws ….. like “If anything can go wrong, it will.”
So what are the Murphy Laws of Cycling?
Here’s a couple I’ve come up with — maybe you have some of your own.
1.) “There is always a head-wind”
(a) the wind is always stronger than predicted
(b) In rare instances of no wind or [...]
Title says it all.
I’ve noticed a lot more traffic on the road just in the last few weeks.
from the Wall Street Journal.
While $3-a-gallon gasoline can be seen as a symbol of economic gains, it’s expected to spark some consumer protests and flashbacks of the overheated markets that led to $4 gasoline. Retail gasoline prices hit [...]
“It was determined, when doing the design of this construction project, that traffic volumes were just too high,” said spokeswoman Ashley Hungate. “There are too many lanes to cross safely to put the pedestrian signal in.”
While this quote comes to us from Indiana, it could just as well be from Florida. In Eric’s recent entry [...]
Someone that thought I would appreciate it gave me a bike last week. What do you think?
It’s not as old as it looks. Even though it has 28″ wheels and old- timey brakes, my bike was built in January 1977 in Nottingham, Egland although it looks as though it is from the ’30’s. It has [...]
If you, one day, had to appear before a jury of your motorist peers, do you think wearing a beard would help you? I don’t. I would shave it off.
Would you call Mighk as an expert witness to help you? I don’t think I would.
Mighk has a tougher row to hoe than most of us [...]
As Orlando increases its cycling ridership, I am starting a small project with some of my cycling friends, that may help other commuters and cyclists feel more comfortable in using their bicycle in the urban Orlando environment. We are calling it the No Excuse Zone, based on a project that our company did for Sydney [...]
We’ve often said that better public transportation is necessary to solve our traffic (in)justice problems. The fact that driving a car is necessary for some people to get to work, makes it incredibly difficult to revoke their privilege when they prove unworthy of it. Driving has become a de facto entitlement because there are so [...]
