Category: commuting
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Bike Shed Ideas?
My office is exploring the possibility of a free standing structure in the parking lot for bike parking. If you’ve been part of such a project, I’d love to hear from you (comment, email or facebook). This structure would want to hold six bikes, have cable locks, and a structure. Probably both the options for…
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Clear Thoughts on Share the Lane Signs
This concept, and flaws, need to be distinguished in drivers ed, and commonly reminded: A “Share The Road” sign may give the motorist behind the cyclist the wrong message that the motorist can choose to share, or not, since the implication is that the bigger car has bigger rights that supercedes the right of the…
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Xtracycle Tarp
Details of the tarp I use to cover my Xtracycle snap deck. corner showing innertube strap and D ring showing 8 straps
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Road Design has Social Justice Impact
Transportation as a civil rights issue. Don’t be the one jailed for crossing where there is no crosswalk, either.
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Carmageddon: Why cower, bite your nails and stay home?
#carmageddon as a hash-tag seems so strangely appropriate for something as mundane as a freeway closure. It doesn’t deserve any more hype than what Twitter could provide, the subject really exposes society’s relationship to inconvenience — something hardly worth celebrating to begin with. Carmageddon challenge[slate] Carmageddon coverage [slate] I think it’s great to see these…
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True Price of Gas (video)
It’s more than $5 or $8 a gallon. Worth a watch: http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org/articles/the-price-of-gas-4865
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Finally, a Pneumatic Bike Trailer Hitch!
I LOVE the pneumatic quick release as a mechanism for an axle level trailer hitch…and so does my wife. The dumb-ass vice-hitch that came with the kidarooz trailer was repeatedly failing. So I took inspiration from my BikeRev.com EcoShopper and crafted my own hitch. A pneumatic couple cost me about nine bucks and the 6″…
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