Questions to consider: While motoring*, have you ever tried to scrupulously observe the speed limit, anywhere in the US, any time in, say, the past 8 years? What happened? (Bonus question: Was ...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2010/06/lawnorder-ethical-principles-and.html
So I went to the Columbia, MD, Bike-t0-Work day yesterday. As I've said before , my feelings at these affairs are mixed at best. This year was about the same as last year, although there were mo...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2010/05/btw-day-again.html
Ed Tufte is one of the original thinkers of the Information Age. See his website here . I will presume that most readers have at least a passing acquaintance with his books, perhaps fewer with hi...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2010/05/tufte-would-be-proud.html
The city of Austin, Texas (my old burg) has decided to right the wrongs of the emperor governor of its state and has enacted a three-foot vehicle clearance law to bicyclists and pedestrians. You...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/12/austins-vulnerable-law.html
A name that I became familiar with only after reading David Byrne's Bicycle Diaries over the Thanksgiving holiday (a complete review is on its way) was that of Jan Gehl, a Danish urban planner w...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/12/jan-gehl-planner-extraordinaire.html
..and when I say, "Plan B", I'm not talking about not riding! Today it's about 20 degrees (F.) out, but clear. A good day for cycling, if you dress right . However, flatting a tire in really cold...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/12/plan-b-for-cold-weather.html
Seen in Houston. I swear to God that I didn't touch the thing; it was just right where I found it. I have to admit, it's a little hard to imagine the circumstance that would allow a cyclist to...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/11/objet-trouve.html
I didn't really start out intending to have an Extreme Cyclist Holiday in Houston. I just meant to take my folder along and get some riding in, instead of spending all my time in a car, worrying ...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/11/extreme-cyclist-holiday.html
A weather wuss is what I am. When the rain is coming down solidly, I still go for the car. Look at that map. We're socked in from Tropical Storm Ida. I still just can't find the motivation to go...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/11/weather-wuss.html
No, it's not really writer's block, I've just been, ah, busy. We're in busy season at Nemetschek, meeting our design deadlines for the next great version of Vectorworks, and I've had my head down...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/11/blighters-rock.html
I've been in some tough deadlines at work, so no posts late October. I've been enjoying riding in the cool autumn weather, enjoying the color, the wet leaf debris on the shoulder not so much, but...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/11/patch-kit-zen.html
The new tagline above is from Iris Murdoch. I saw over at Urban Simplicity an article about her that incorporated the quote. I'd been using the H.G. Wells "no longer despair" quote for a while,...
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Article 1: Slate, which I haven't read since the end of the election season. (I don't miss my addiction to political online writing much!) Anyway, they published a quite good article by Christop...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/10/two-interesting-articles-in-surprising.html
Rick Perry, the governor of the State of Texas, is a lying tyrant and should be impeached. There might be people who think that statement is just a wee bit strong. But you know, I just don't kn...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/10/impeach-rick-perry.html
Bike fitting, buying and finding and adjusting a bike to work well with your body, your flexibility, your strength, and your needs, is an important topic. Today I've put together a post that cov...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/10/bike-fitting.html
The renowned cult author, Robert Pirsig, wrote an article for Esquire magazine in 1977 about cruise sailing wherein he observed that people who had spent years and lots of money preparing for o...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/10/across-chasm.html
I was going to call this post "Vehicular Jiu-Jitsu", but technically Jiu-Jitsu implies using the weight (and momentum) of your opponent against him, and in terms of weight and momentum, the cars...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/10/juking-cars.html
Mikael Colville-Andersen (that's him at right) is a film-maker and the blog author over at Copenhagenize and Copenhagen Cycle Chic . I heard him speak at the Washington DC Planning Commission l...
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First: Mileage at the end of September: 2892 miles. Only 344 miles for the month, but not really too bad considering the fact I was out for a whole week working /touring in Switzerland and Germa...
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I was in Europe on business this past week, Sunday through Friday, and spent my time in Basel and Berlin, which are both serious cycling cities. There were crowds of cyclists out, as the weather ...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/09/euro-envy-in-basel-and-berlin.html
Here's the "Yikebike", a Kiwi-designed transportation device that is going to get a lot of press as the successor to the Segway. In some ways, it's a worthy successor. Here's the remarkably well-...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/09/its-bike-only-because-it-has-two-wheels.html
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." —Benjamin Franklin "Bacon is proof that God loves us... well, a whole lot more than He loves pigs." —Robert Anderson This past...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/09/proof-of-gods-love-and-sense-of-humor.html
This morning (monday) on my way in to work, I didn't have a particularly good set of legs (it's amazing how, when you exercise every day, you find days where you are just "sub-par", and you learn...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/09/rolling-stop.html
I was having a Saturday-morning kaffeeklatsch conversation with some ex-pats from overseas (there are a bunch of them who live out in Maryland suburbia, who work with NASA, in the diplomatic corp...
http://practicalcyclist.blogspot.com/2009/09/hazards-2-interchanges.html
On Tuesday of this week, it was time for my annual physical exam. I don't know how you feel about "the checkup", but for the last few years, it's something I really look forward to. To put thing...
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