Cycling
Friday, April 26, 2013
Cycling Politics News Critical Mass takes a stand against Mayor Rahm's school closings
Posted by Ben Joravsky on 04.26.13 at 06:41 AM
- Richard A. Chapman/Sun-Times
- Mayor Rahm and fellow politicians watch bikers ride by.
Especially during Mayor Daley's era.
As we all know, Mayor Daley himself was a biking enthusiast who endorsed the overall biking cause.
He added bike lanes and bike racks and sponsored bike-to-work ceremonies at which many biking enthusiasts genuflected to him as though he were the Sun King.
As a result, I created the following truism about bicyclers and politics in Chicago. Here goes . . .
Give a biking enthusiast a bike path, and he's your vote in the next election. Give him a bike path and a bike rack and he's your vote for life!
I have had so many arguments with bike riders through the years who have told me that they're voting for the man. That's why I'm happy to report that the monthly bike gathering Critical Mass will be taking a strong stand today against Mayor Emanuel's proposed school closings!
Friday, April 19, 2013
Cycling News Antitheft device the BikeSpike finds funding through Kickstarter
Posted by Julia Thiel on 04.19.13 at 11:28 AM
Local entrepreneur and cyclist Clay Neigher has had five bikes stolen. One was when he was in college in Boston in 2002; he'd bought the bike recently and says it wasn't valuable but had a flashy paint job and a rubber-ducky horn that he'd added. It was locked to the porch of his apartment and one morning he woke up to find that the bike had disappeared, along with most of the porch. "My landlord and I shared a moment, both equally pissed for different reasons," he says.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Cycling Things I Love Two Wheels News It goes both ways: the Dearborn bike lane gives Rahm bragging rights and cyclists a protected ride
Posted by Kevin Warwick on 12.19.12 at 06:44 PM
- Andrea Bauer
- Red bike means stop
Sure, cyclists, pedestrians, and motorists are going to need a bit to acclimate to the protected, bidirectional lane that opened this past Friday on Dearborn Avenue. It can be a peculiar, discombobulating thing riding south when all of the auto traffic on the one-way avenue is flowing north—though, let's be real, most cyclists have undoubtedly saved a few minutes of their lives by cutting the wrong way down a side street. And with the bike-specific traffic lights and left-turn indicators painted on the pavement, urban cyclists are much more visible than previously. Not a bad thing in the least—just a very different thing.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Cycling DUH! Two Wheels News Making your bike imitate a horse, a necessary measure
Posted by Kevin Warwick on 12.05.12 at 06:00 PM
- Rimshot/Wikimedia Commons
- Here's a hint: It doesn't "neigh"
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Cycling Two Wheels News To the burbs! Touring Barrington for the upcoming Chicagoland Bike Map
Posted by Kevin Warwick on 11.28.12 at 06:00 PM
- Kevin Warwick
- Nice place to start a family
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Cycling Two Wheels Keep up with the Lakefront Trail on Twitter
Posted by Kevin Warwick on 11.14.12 at 06:00 PM
- Vxla / Wikimedia Commons
- Free and clear
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Cycling Transportation How not to get hit by trucks
Posted by Julia Thiel on 11.01.12 at 05:43 PM
- commuteorlando.com
So, just to summarize (though the article is worth reading, and not very long): stay away from the right side of trucks if at all possible, and don't assume a driver who's just pulled up to a light that you're stopped at has seen you. If that happens, I think it might be safer to try to go through the red light, as long as there's no traffic coming, than stay where you are. Sometimes an illegal move is safer than a legal one. (This is my own opinion, not advice from the Commute Orlando piece.)
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Boom! Cycling Two Wheels Becoming Elliott, E.T. not included
Posted by Kevin Warwick on 10.31.12 at 06:00 PM
• Red American Apparel hoodie (check)
• Gray discarded milk crate (check)
• Ragged white blanket (check)
• Savvy bike posse (check)
• Keen ability to outwit the Man (check)
• Anxious, stumpy brown alien (still looking)
• Power of flight (when I find the alien)
Happy Halloween.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Cycling Transportation Two Wheels A conversation with Steven Vance, developer of the Chicago Bike Map app
Posted by Kevin Warwick on 10.17.12 at 06:00 PM
Vance spoke with me on the phone last week about the app and his plans for its upcoming versions:
Friday, October 12, 2012
Crime Cycling News The return of the stolen bicycle
Posted by Julia Thiel on 10.12.12 at 06:32 PM
