I have long fantasized about building some sort of bike-lane-painting contraption to mount on the back of my Xtracycle…merrily spraying new lanes wherever I ride. My fantasy is nothing new, of course — plenty of people have taken up the idea when they become frustrated with their city’s lack of bike infrastructure. In New York [...]
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Wimpy “Winter” Commute
Aloha from the downpour in Honolulu, my Bikey Commuters… Of course it is I, Mir.I.Am, with Diary of a Wimpy “Winter” Commuter hailing from my desk at work! Today’s commute was an ill-prepared twist of fate for yours truly, as the sunny “winter” weekend kept everyone in bikinis and barbeques during the day, and under [...]
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HBL Commuter 101 Class: Free-Dolla-I-Make-You-Holla!
Well Herro there, Bike Commuters! Just a quick bloggy-blog announcement on an awesome free class this year put on by Hawaii Bicycling League: Commuter Cycling 101! Know anyone who’s had their panties in a bunch, trying to get psyched up to ride your bike to work, school, or the grocery store, but low confidence on [...]
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Employer says you can’t ride to work?
I stumbled across the following in my daily bike newsfeed… presenting KC metro area motivational speaker and bicycle commuter Corinna West with a lengthy and well-researched essay entitled “How to overcome your employer bicycle commuting objections“. Such a thing has never happened to me, and I hope it never happens to you…but I can see [...]
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Great bike security article in this month’s “Outside”
You may have seen an Outside Magazine article about Lance Armstrong and the nefarious dealings of his organization LiveStrong floating around the bike webs recently, but in the same issue is a far more interesting bike article…something that is near and dear to our hearts as transportational cyclists. The article is called “Who Pinched My [...]
