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Vehicle of Urban Transformation?
As an advocate for cycling as a means of daily transportation, I often get push back of the form: “Well, you can’t ________________ on a bicycle” (pick your objection – kids to soccer, stock up at Costco, etc.). But we’re increasingly seeing creative solutions. In many families the bakfiets has begun to play the same…
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KBOO Bike Show: Getting Muddy
Listen to the show (mp3, 25.6MB) This month’s Bike Show will go behind the scenes with bike racing. Guests Rick Potestio, Tony Kic and Sue Butler talk about getting muddy building race courses, where to ride around Portland if you want to ride fast, and how to get the peloton to stop with you when…
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Safety First!
Transportation for America has released a new report “Dangerous by Design” (PDF, 1.6M) scoring safety for people walking and riding bicycles state by state and metro area by metro area. Oregon’s rankings are here. Portland ranked as the 7th least dangerious metro, but there are still far too many injuries and deaths and we have…
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KBOO Bike Show: Cycling Authors
Listen to the show (mp3, 26.5MB) Tori and Michelle interview Sue Macy, Author of Wheels of Change, How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) and Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, editor of Cycling – Philosophy for Everyone: A Philosophical Tour de Force. Both books are available as premiums in KBOO’s…
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Can We Intersect the Politics of Bikes and the Politics of Thrift?
While we avoided a government shutdown a few weeks ago, it seems clear that the 2012 Federal budget is going to involve some heavy cost-cutting. And infrastructure dollars have been getting harder and harder to find at the local level for some time. So I’d like to suggest that we consider promoting cycling as a…