Posts Tagged ‘biking for transportation’

Thoughts on where we’ve been and where we are going ahead of tonight’s Bike Boulevard Open House
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 numbers of [...]

On Monday, we discussed how a community’s bike -friendliness and level of transportation cycling is tied to how well they address the needs and concerns of women. Essentially if you aren’t closing in on gender equity in cycling use, you are never going to make the strides toward real growth in biking as a viable [...]

Eurobike is wrapping up and Interbike, the North American bicycle trade show, will be starting up in the next few weeks. In the past, this has been the place where bicycle companies big and small try to wow dealers and industry writers with the lightest, most aero on everything from bikes to wheels to shoes. [...]

Every few years, someone does a study to tell us that the well meaning things we do to save the environment actually are hastening its destruction. Sustain Lane recently reported on such a study being done by Karl T. Ulrich, a professor at the Wharton School of the Business at the University of Pennsylvania showing that [...]

Filmmaker Jay Savsani recently produced this short documentary on transportation bike culture in Amsterdam, a city where over 40% of traffic moves by bicycle. One of women interviewed in this film mentioned that when she moved to Amsterdam, she thought it was old fashioned that everyone rode bikes, but now she can’t image otherwise. There is [...]

I’m never one to do today what can be put off until tomorrow, especially when it comes to shopping for gifts during the holidays. Just look how late I waited to pick out a Christmas Tree.
To help those who are like minded, I’ve put together a brief list of gifts I would think any utility [...]

And little of this is coming from the bike industry
Being the consumer driven society we are in America, television commercials often seem to be the cutting edge on the latest trends in the national conscience (One can argue they book end trends based on the number of super-duty pickup truck ads I still see.) We [...]

I just found this great video below of a cyclist buzzing by a ridiculously long line of cars waiting to fill up at a gas station in Atlanta. 
So, I don’t know what is more comical, that people would see no other option other than wait in line for hours to feed their metal and rubber [...]

Yesterday, I wrote an article about utility cycling trends at this year’s Interbike, the annual North American bike industry trade show.
While my thoughts are from a distance as I have to work a day job and can’t fly off to Vegas this week, I enjoyed reading the recent post from ChicagoBikeBlog who is actually there [...]

Thoughts on Interbike and transportation cycling
The granddaddy North American bike industry trade show, Interbike, kicked off this week, and aside from the the show girls in mini skirts and midriffs, it’s always fun to see new product roll outs and trends in the bike industry.

In the past, there has been relatively little in the way [...]