Author: jedreynolds
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Car-free with Four Kids! (Shareable.net)
This is an inspiring article about a family that decided to go car-free in 1994. Amazing to think that the average american spends $8,000/year on- and 84 minutes a day in their car. via Shareable: Car-free with Four Kids!.
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Pollution v. Exercise: Cycle Commuting a Net Plus
This is actually two really intuitive truths: the more you exercise the longer you live, (even if there’s car exhaust in front of you)–yet the more people commute on bicycle–the LESS CAR EXHAUST! Duh! City Cycling Seems to Have More Upsides Than Down: MedlinePlus.
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Looking forward to upgrading my #bike saddle rack
I just got an Ibera rack with lower mounting bars. Hopefully I’ll notice improved handling with a slightly lower center of gravity. I also mounted extra waterbottle clips on my both my bikes, some pretty metal water bottles to go with them.
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First 20 mile ride
Beautiful morning, not too windy, not too hot. Went thru Squalicum, thru the BTC parking lot to get to Marine Drive, passed a pack of retirees on my way to Ferndale Road, cross the Nooksack and down Hovander to Smith to Aldrich to Northwest, across the overpass and down Maplewood. I’m guessing it was about…
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Cycloculture: Joseph Ahearne and the Bikes He Builds
Cycloculture: Joseph Ahearne and the Bikes He Builds.
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US: Last in Public Transportation (Huffington)
Seventy years of letting big auto and big oil shape public policy about public transportation has left our very language about paying for civic transportation crippled. We have the best government money can buy. Let’s vote with our dollar differently if we can. John Robbins: What Ever Happened to Public Transportation?.
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NW gasoline use UP (Sightline Institute)
Pretty self explanatory. Shifting Gears: Despite struggling economy, NW gasoline use ticks up — Sightline Institute.
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Bike that turns into shopping cart!
This is very clever. Sent to you by Jed via Google Reader: Bike that turns into shopping cart! via Bike Forums – Living Car Free by donrhummy on 7/1/10 No longer will you have to leave your bike outside! http://gizmodo.com/5577209/the-bicyc…-shopping-cart http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/07/0…e-into-a-cart/ Things you can do from here: Subscribe to Bike Forums – Living Car Free…
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Craig Calfee builds bicycles
Craig Calfee is a modern bicycle pioneer. I learned a bit about him when I was looking into bamboo bicycles.
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