Boulder, Platinum Paradise
Boulder Creek Trail at Broadway, one of many off road bike paths. What a great visit to Boulder this week! The city has been on my list, yours too? I wanted to observe this advanced sub-species of Homo Sapiens that's…
Cycling for Charity: Richard DeBernardis
Richard DeBernardis started riding, not like you or I might — he got on his bike and kept on going. Alaska to Mexico one year, the perimeter of the US another, then the edge of Japan. These rides placed him…
Mike Mckisson, TucsonVelo.com
Mike Mckisson teaches an entrepreneurial journalism class at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He practices what he preaches, too; check out his blog TucsonVelo. In one recent post Mike outlines the low stress routes around his city. Tucson gets…
Tucson Bike Party
Cyclovia Tucson t-shirt There's no spell checking this post; it's a word to be spoken more so than printed. Ciclovia, CicLAvia, Cyclovia, take your pick; it started in Bogota, Columbia where on Sundays they close the streets to cars, leaving…
Callous Bike Lane
Across the street from Newport Harbor High School A transportation engineer's dilemma turns into a bike lane compromise. You don't want to piss off nearby homeowners; they want to park their cars on the street, but you still have to…
Suja Lowenthal, Transforming a Built-Out City
It’s the difference between being a defeatist about how you see your city and being eternally optimistic about what your role can beSuja Lowenthal Mark Bixby invited me to lunch, "I'm meeting Suja downtown at Congregation, come along?" We felt…