While teaching a recent Alternative Transportation course for the Florida Safety Council, one student looked at my treadless bike tires and commented that I could be cited for “bald tires.”  I explained that tread is not nearly as important for a bicycle tire as for a motor vehicle tire.  You probably can’t hydroplane a...
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I’m very curious to know how our readers react to this video—the problem, the proposed solution and the way it is presented. Note your impressions as you watch. What are they in the beginning? Do they change as the video progresses? After you watch the video, read this article in News from Amsterdam. Please...
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I’ve mentioned before how London and Portland have pretty much the same laws and pretty much the same problems with those laws, but now Bob Mionske has taken note and has written an article about it. It should give you a think or two about how people from different places approach the same problem.
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I’ve been waiting for this shoe to drop. The SAFE people, from Delray Beach, fresh off their successful win of bike lanes on A1A, now are upset that some people won’t use what they worked so hard to make happen. You can read what they, and the FBA did here. They are talking up...
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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...
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I’m taking a short break from being a beach bum to bring you more great video from Dan & Brian: Brian read a sillyass article in the Orange County (CA) Register and answered it with video! I want to be like him when I grow up. Riding at night is easy. It’s not scary....
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I’ve been reading the book Permaculture by David Holmgren on and off for a while, and one of the concepts that has stuck with me is “The problem is the solution.”  For some reason that popped into my head this morning while biking in to work, as well as the problem of right hooks...
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Yesterday afternoon was gorgeous-cool and sunny; the wind had even calmed somewhat. I finished work early and headed out for a spin on my road bike.  (So I wasn’t actually commuting at the time-but these type situations happen much more frequently to me when I am.) After riding around Tuskawilla, I headed back west...
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Cyclists hit by turning trucks is a repeating news story which highlights the most serious deficiency in our system — education of cyclists. Sometimes these crashes are caused by the truck driver passing a cyclist prior to turning right, but very often they are caused by the cyclist passing the truck on the right....
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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...
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