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A New Year, a new mindset, Jan 4th, 2010More to learn from Copenhagen on making a city bikeable for all
I have spent a lot of time in my professional life trying to sell Texans and Austinites on a vision of life that does not center around the car. Whether it was sharing cars, using a bike for everyday errands, or riding rail, I’ve [...]
Inspiration for the Copenhagenization the rest of the world
With the Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen remains very much in the news especially on the bike front. As a city with a dominate car culture until the 1970s, Copenhagen pulled back from the gasoline induced sprawl most of the Western world embraced and now has 37% of [...]
Thoughts on where we’ve been and where we are going ahead of tonight’s Bike Boulevard Open House
a href=”http://austinontwowheels.org/2009/12/02/your-voice-needed-at-upcoming-nueces-bike-boulevard-open-houses/” target=”_blank”>As Austin prepares to experiment with the concept of bicycle boulevards, it is important to remember where bicycle infrastructure has been and why bike boulevards are really important in the goal of creating a city where large [...]
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, we loaded up the car (rental car in our case) and headed to Lubbock to see the in-laws. During this trip, I began reading “$20 Per Gallon“, a book about how our world will change with the inevitable rise of oil and gasoline prices in the coming years. I’ll do a [...]
Wanting more cyclists on the road? Look to what women want, Nov 23rd, 2009A recent Scientific American article suggests that if we want to get serious about getting more people riding bikes for transportation we need to focus on the needs of one group in particular: women. The article quotes several reports that show cities and countries with high bicycle usage also have a near equal male/female usage [...]
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Friday Film Fun: Paint ball fireworks, Oct 30th, 2009Today’s film is in no way bicycle related other than it comes to me from All Hail the Black Market, a great generally bikish blog by Stevil Kinevil. Many may remember Stevil’s writings from How to Avoid the Bummer Life, the blog he wrote while employed by Swobo. He was let go/left Swobo in August, [...]
Friday Film Fun: Music Madness in “Performance” and “The Bike”, Aug 28th, 2009This Friday’s film fun is an intergenerational two-parter with first this roadie rap video called “Performance” by MC Spandex that’s been making the rounds of the Interweb.
Every generation has its MC Spandex, and I like to think that Eddy Merckx’s generation had Alex Marco singing this ditty, “The Bike” recently found by Bike Hugger. Fellow [...]
New petition seeks to ban cars from Iowa Farm to Market Roads, Aug 5th, 2009On Monday, we let you know about an online petition that is asking the Iowa legislature to ban bicycle on all Iowa farm to market roads. Not to be out done, a group calling itself the Coalition for the Safety of Citizens of Iowa put together a humorous counter petition, Stop sharing Iowa FM roads.
We [...]
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board pulls wine with naked nymph and bicycle
In another News of the Weird moment, the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board has banned the sale of Cycles Gladiator wine because the label has a drawing of a naked nymph riding a bicycle. The AP reports that:
The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board recently told [...]
Local politican consultant and bull shit artist humorist Harold Cook writes a news satire site, Letters from Texas, commenting mostly on happenings at the Capitol and City Hall. In his Sunday news round up, he poked fun at the road worthliness of the Smart Car and the interactions between drivers and cyclists:
Local man killed in [...]
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Dumbest Product of the Week: Goldfinger Edition, Aurumania Gold Bike, Mar 13th, 2009(Before we go any further, click here and start this YouTube video in the background to get you in the mood.)
I have to say I was mildly irritated with Marcus this week when he took what could have been a perfectly good Dumbest Product of the Week away from me with the $27,000 “The World’s Most Advanced [...]
It’s hard to believe, but Dumbest Product of the Week has entered its 25th edition, our silver anniversary so to speak. We’ve enjoyed skewering silly products these last seven months, and despite the seeming implosion of our economy, they just keep coming.
I’d like to thank one of our vigilant readers for sending me this week’s [...]
Dumbest Product of the Week- Velo Couture Strikes Back, Rapha Three Piece Cycling Suit by Timothy Everest, Feb 27th, 2009The fashion industry has inspired us to pen more than one Dumbest Product of the Week. When fashion and cycling converge as they often do with clothing maker Rapha, we have pay dirt.
Some of you may recall Rapha’s $750 Tweed Softshell as our 16th edition Dumbest Product winner. This softshell may be OK for slumming [...]
Dumbest Product of the Week is taking a one week hiatus. I had a product selected for this week, but just not the time.
We’ll be back with more fun next week. In the meantime, check out our archive of previous Dumbest Products for some golden oldies.
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Are dumb products simply foolish entries in the marketplace or are they part of an more sinister plot? In the past I’ve had my doubts, but I’d like to think all these folks are well meaning if misdirected souls.
Thanks to Bike Hacks for alerting me to this week’s nominee for Dumbest Product of the Week, The [...]
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