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Advocacy

Fenders aren’t for Freds!

21 March 2010

Fall is upon us in San Antonio and the first cold front is creeping down from the North. This means our drought is going to end soon. The requirements of our bicycles to adapt to rainy conditions (or be relegated to the garage) is upon us. I am as spoiled as the next person who [...]

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KGS Bikes – Starting Over, from Fat to Fit

18 March 2010

I have heard the quote, “I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor, and rich is better”. My experience with cycling is, “I’ve been fit and I’ve been fat, and fit is better!” For better or for worse, I have had to start over riding a bicycle quite a few times since I am and forever [...]

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Bikes In Lane – New road sign to replace “Share the Road”

9 March 2010

I have been a cycling advocate for over 25 years, writing and preaching to all who will listen (and some that won’t!) about Claim your Lane! and Share the Road! I have never been a huge proponent of building more bike lanes because of the expense, the problems in maintenance and the associate collection of [...]

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Bike Lane Justice, from Velo Chic NYC

7 August 2009

I have written about some of the problems with bike lanes, including trash and cars occupying them. Check this blog post from my friend at Velo Chic NYC with some great pictures of bike lanes with trash, potholes, a car parking in the lane and the constabulatory issuing a ticket to a scofflaw.

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How safe is bicycling, really?

6 May 2009

I was checking out my friends at the eco velo blog and found this great post about the relative safety of cycling. Please read the whole article but here is the chart which I found most interesting: Following is a list compiled by Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (Design News, 10-4-93) comparing the fatal risk associated [...]

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From Austin to San Antonio to get Perfectly Fit

23 April 2009

I recently became friends with Eli Cohen who is the product expert at REI in downtown Austin. He is also part of Red Licorice Events, run by “Sweet and Twisted” Leilani Perry and Erin Truslow. I am a new sponsor for triathlons that the Red Licorice Events team produce and when Eli heard about my [...]

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There are bike lanes and there are bike lanes. World’s worst!

1 April 2009

Those who know me are familiar with my constant preaching to “Claim Your Lane” as I feel bike lanes are too expensive, too hard to maintain and too sparsely implemented to give them critical mass. I propose that people learn to use the roads we already have and use them effectively. This video explains my [...]

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Physician, heal thyself – get over road rage against cyclists! – video

24 March 2009

This video shows that cyclists need to be aware of things happening in front of them. A doctor thought he might teach these cyclists a lesson with a “brake check”. C’mon, doc! Embedded video from CNN Video Video courtesy, CNN. What do you think about this?

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Oregon pondering rolling stops for bikes

18 March 2009

I have always been a proponent of carefully rolling through stop signs after checking for oncoming traffic. This has been followed with a “statement of civil disobedience” because I felt that bicycles are fundamentally different than cars when it comes to intersections. When combining the facts that cyclists approach intersections more slowly, have better ability [...]

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