Author Archives: Richard Masoner
THIS is bike advocacy
Thank you to Grist for this wonderful “How to ride your bike in traffic” video from Seattle.
H/T to Shayne.
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Another cyclist killed in San Jose
A hit and run driver killed a cyclist Monday afternoon on the Taylor Street overpass over Highway 87. This is the third cyclist fatality in the Bay Area’s largest city in a week. View Larger Map I’ll promote a comment left earlier this morning by San Jose resident Mark Saurwald. Saurwald has previously brought up read more »
Defensive cycling?
You all know I’m a big believer in making conditions safer for cyclists through a variety of measures that include safer facilities, education, law enforcement and prosecution to ensure safer driving by motorists. The fact remains, however, that the only behavior you can control is your own. Defensive driving, which is driving to anticipate the read more »
Moscow Russia Bike Share
Moscow, Russia have piloted their own bike share program after intense lobbying by local bicycle advocates. 300 red bikes (Hear that, Dan Maes?) at 30 docking stations around central Moscow are provided by Homeport Bikesharing Solutions of Prague in the Czech Republic, which also operates the bike share program. This “СитиБайк” (phonetically “City Bike”) program read more »
The System on bike shaming
“YOU’RE NOT DOING IT RIGHT!”
I might have been that guy a time or two. You can see the whole comic and read more discussion on this at The System, where Jimmy the Murderdog compares bike mechanics with dentists.
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What’s the opposite of “begrime”?
Could it be this? Capital Bikeshare is doing more than moving people around on red bikes. It’s also helping sell houses and apartments and draw people to businesses. The bike-sharing system, which has more than 175 docking stations across the District, Arlington and Alexandria, has become the latest tool to spur development and attract young read more »
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The amazing flying electric bicycle
Who needs a bike lane when you can just hop over traffic? A trio of Czech companies collaborated to create the “F-Bike” flying electric fat tire bicycle. The design team from Duratec (a custom frame builder), Technodat (which provided the 3D modeling tools) and Evektor Aircraft began working together about a year ago to design read more »
Guide dog saves handler from scofflaw driver
Guide Dogs for the Blind, an organization which pairs people with trained dogs, has a training facility in San Rafael, California. A pair of instructors walked on the sidewalk with O’Neil, a Labrador Retriever, when the dog noticed something coming from behind them. You can see O’Neil turn his head at 4 seconds in this read more »
SF Muni live bus map
Go here and watch the pretty moving icons representing the location of various buses in San Francisco.
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Road rager on a Raleigh in Sunnyvale
Wrong way rider takes umbrage at suggestion to ride on the right side of the road. I was asked to not reveal identities, so I’ll just share this Just Riding Along story without names to protect the identity of the innocent (and the guilty). Friday before last I was commuting home the slightly-scenic route, and read more »
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