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Safety in numbers: if and when so, why?
I write here in response to an online article in the Grist blog, which addresses the concept of “safety in numbers” among cyclists and pedestrians. As is all too common, the article takes this phenomenon for granted, and ascribes it … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycle facilities, Bicycling, Reviews
Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, California, fish schooling, Jacobsen, Oakland, pedestrian, safety, safety in numbers, swarm warfare, traffic signal
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Support petition candidates in League of American Bicyclists election.
Three League of American Bicyclists members are petitioning to run as candidates for the Board of Directors. They have asked me to post their message, and here it is. I have signed their petition and I suggest that if you … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, candidates, election, League of American Bicyclists
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Such language!
The following are my comments on a post on P. M. Summer’s CycleDallas blog. I’d have liked to post my comments there, but they are longer than allowed by the software on Summer’s site. Quoting Robin Stallings, Executive Director of … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling, Bike lanes
Tagged advocacy, bicycle, Bicycling, bike lane, bike path, BikeTexas, bikeway, cycle track, cycle tracks, CycleDallas, Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action, legal, P. M. Summers, practicable, protected, Reed Bates, Robert Jay Lifton, Robin Stallings, safety, shared lane marking, sharrow, sidepath, sidepaths, SLM, Stallings, TBC, Texas Bicycle Coalition, thought-terminating cliché
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Fisher Explains Interbike Move
As announced rather abruptly to the retailers who attend the Interbike trade show, next year’s show is to be held in Anaheim, California in early August rather than Las Vegas in late September/early October as it has been for the … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, Bicycling, Cannondale, Fisher, Fisher Mountainbikes, Gary Fisher, Interbike, Las Vegas, Mountainbikes, Nevada, trade show, Trek
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Tipping point for electric bikes?
I have just returned home from the 2010 Interbike bicycle trade fair in Las Vegas. This was the year for electrically-assisted bicycles – over 40 booths displayed them. Here are some examples: The Nirve Lahaina electric bike is essentially just … Continue reading
Tom Revay: PeopleforBikes is an industry lobby
[I publish tom Revay’s comments here with his permission. My own comments here are in italics, like this one — John Allen] On June 10, 2010, someone posted on the BostonAreaCycling e-mail list: There is a new pro-bike website organized … Continue reading
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What’s Good for Trek is Good for the Country?
There is a long history of “Astroturf” self-promotion campaigns by industry masquerading as grassroots popular movements. In the title of this post, I paraphrase a line you may recall. Actually, what the president of General Motors said wasn’t quite “what’s … Continue reading
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They come out of the woodwork
The summer heat has abated and the weather has been nice lately. As I returned from a bike club ride on the Labor Day Monday holiday, the Minuteman Rail Trail was in heavy use. I rode slowly and cautiously, among … Continue reading
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Managing frontage-road conflicts
Octavia Boulevard in San Francisco was reconstructed with frontage roads in 2003, as described here. Construction of such boulevards has been very rare in the USA since the 1920s. The intent with Octavia Boulevard was to reclaim a neighborhood which … Continue reading
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Bicycle touring and the unexpected
Bicycle touring is a great way to break out of daily routine, and beyond that, into the unexpected. That’s one reason I like it. My son Jacob, age 19, and I took on a little 2-day bicycle tour Thursday and … Continue reading
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