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Author: John

  • Every US Road Accident Casualty Mapped

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    Transport data mapping experts ITO World have taken the official data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – and produced this amazing map using OpenStreetMap.  Each dot represents a life on the road.

  • Dicyclet

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    This is just an interesting idea putting wheels parallel rather than in a line.  I wonder how it rides? The wheel is one of the most basic inventions in history. Fabels thought it was an interesting idea to use the wheel itself as a vehicle. To solve balance-problems two parallel wheels were used. The driver…

  • Layering: as easy as 1, 2, or 3

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    Fall is turning chilly with the temps in the low 40s this morning and going colder tomorrow.  I found this article by Elizabeth on Bike Commuters, written for Chicago to be useful.  Certainly Portland is not as cold as Chicago, but the east Gorge Wind provides subzero chill factors during Winter and so I always…

  • NYTimes Article: Life is a Wheel

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    I read the Sunday NYTimes this morning and this article was in it, or rather a lot of it was.  I recommend buying the paper simply to look at the images and quotes on the two page spread in Travel.  The Internet simply doesn’t capture that, rather, while I love that it allows us to…

  • The Zombie Apocalypse Will Not Be Motorized

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    From the PathLessPedaled and for sale on spreadshirt.com.

  • The Bike I Came Home On

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    School started, both High School where I teach and Graduate School where I am picking up more Highly Qualified endorsements after my Masters, to teach wider and deeper.  Writing lags just a tad. I am traveling this weekend and taking the LeMond with me, not the Rivendell.  They are as dissimilar as one can explain.…

  • Whistle Workwear Safety Shirt does Biking

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    Whistle Workwear has become my new favorite Work Wear shopping store.  I first saw this shirt on a younger working crew and purchased one for Peter to wear commuting in Chicago.  I have since purchased them for a member of my Bike Commute Challenge Team who was in a bicycle accident last year so that…