Hi everyone,
I just wanted to introduce myself, and hopefully provide some awesome
bike inspiration. I just moved here from Portland, Oregon to start
grad school, and actually came here by bike tour over the summer. I
spent a brief stint as an intern at Bikeportland.org, which today is
fe
Does the city collect bike-use data? I've known of cities that conduct
more extensive bike and pedestrian surveys at the same time as the
Census ACS, so that the data can be compared on fairly equal terms.
--dan
On 29 Sep, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Matthew Berigan wrote:
Bikies,
Actually, IS the
I agree, it's exceedingly valuable to let drivers know that bicyclists
are not only allowed, but supposed to be in lanes marked with
sharrows. I've found it's a great boost in my confidence as well, and
I don't ride as erratically in the lane as I do in unmarked ones.
As far as road markers
Hmm, I've heard of some really tacky incidents on popular bike trails
before ( http://bikeportland.org/2009/04/21/vandals-spread-hundreds-of-tacks-on-springwater-corridor-trail/
)...but an egging is really beyond me. A scare like that could
easily cause someone to lose control and crash, not
One topic that doesn't get a lot of attention in bike-light-world is the fact
that lenses and reflectors matter just as much as battery and bulb technology.
The reflectors and (plastic) lenses on even the cheap B&M incandescent
generator lights project a trapezoid onto the ground without blastin
