To encourage more people to bike, ask women what they want. And make it safe for kids to ride their bikes to school. These approaches would dramatically increase the utilization of cycling as a mainstream activity. According to an article in the October Scientific American, women are an “indicator species” for bike-friendly cities. Those of [...]
From the category archives:
Cycling
Finally, a beautiful day and time to ride. I even managed to record a short video: [youtube]CUQoE7aLbis[/youtube] Here’s a link to a GPS tracked map of the route I traveled…from my iPhone, courtesy of RunKeeper.
I’ve already blogged ad nauseum about this over at myDedham.org and it is time to move on. But I thought this screen shot was quite cool. It shows the data collected from my GPS watch I was wearing as I recorded my bike ride to work last Thursday. The satellite photo shows a red line [...]
Over at my local blog, WestwoodBlog, I wrote a short photo narrative about how I used my bike and trailer to pick up produce at our Community Supported Agricuture (CSA) farm this weekend and then made a side trip to the grocery store. It’s part of my effort to promote more bike and walk-friendly activity [...]
I could not resist taking a photo of half my garage this weekend as I realized we are seriously into cycling and running and taking our kids along. Our latest addition to this collection is the blue dual baby jogger in the back which allows all 5 of us to go out at the same [...]
There were two things I meant to write about last week; I managed to cover the first in talking about my church’s Community Harvest Dinner along with many links to local resources for eating local. Then, on Friday night, I saw that PBS NOW ran a piece on the same topic! For more info on [...]