These tips are intended for bike commuters (especially novice commuters), not racers or mountain bikers. Upright bicycles are really not that good for you – they place a lot of stress on various parts of your body.
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Technical Information about Transportation Planning
Planning for bicycle facilities doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Activists who want more bicycle facilities in their communities need to understand about transportation planning in general.
Patron Saint of Bicycling: Madonna del Ghisallo
Also known as Our Lady of Ghisallo; Madonna of Ghisallo Profile Medieval legend says that Count Ghisallo was travelling near the village of Magréglio when he was attacked by highway bandits. Spotting a image of the Virgin Mary in a roadside shrine, he broke away from his attackers and ran […]
Car Criticism
Consequences of oil addiction Wars for oil are an obvious consequence of our addiction to oil. But there are lesser-known atrocities. Take the case of Ken Saro-Wiwa. He campaigned in Nigeria to stop Shell and Chevron from taking over native people’s lands to drill for oil. The oil companies, in […]
Bicycle & Transportation Books
PEDAL POWER: The quiet rise of the bicycle in American life by J. Harry Wray. 2008. 248 pp., 6″x9″ Wray examines how cycling has organized itself across this country and internationally through the grassroots efforts of various people.
Bicycle Safety Almanac
Statistics about Safety, Fatalities, & Injuries Stats about Pollution, Energy Use, Walking, Highways, and Airplanes, are on our general Almanac page. (All statistics below refer to the United States unless otherwise noted.)
