Tag: safety

The Natural Aristocracy of Two Wheels

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As I was about to turn south on 9W at Hillside, I could see there was a group heading my way from the light.  It was about to switch from red to green and the […]

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Bike Helmet Laws are Stupid

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A bicycle helmet might protect your head. But it doesn’t make you safer. This isn’t news to cyclists. We live the reality that no matter how perfectly we comport themselves, no matter how well we […]

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Clear Lenses for City Riding

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When I was in high school, a teacher commented that he thought there’d be fewer car crashes if there were no windshields on cars. At least that’s how I remember it. I believe the reasoning […]

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Too Much Damn Parking

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The headline on the Commercial Appeal was a great way to start my trip to Memphis. “Parking study finds too many spaces Downtown, still thousands more to be added.” To make it more poignant, I […]

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The Test That’s Never Graded Until You Fail.

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locked bike

Locking a bike up is existential dread. Testing out bike locks and writing about them induced a fair amount of paranoia. What do I know about locks? What if my bikes get stolen? What if […]

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Filing Fork Tips

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In the morning, I woke up and decided I wanted to ride my cyclocross bike on the rollers. So I swapped out the knobby sew-ups that dressed the frame for the slick clinchers of my […]

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If you want self-driving cars, prepare to be sacrificed

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Self-driving cars have trouble with cyclists. It isn’t just the infamous trackstand that flummoxed a Google car. It’s that the car designers haven’t been able to program the intelligence a human driver brings to interacting […]

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