Bike commuting? No sweat.

Despite my insistence that bike commuting is not a sport and does not require a special wardrobe, the first few votes in my reader poll suggest that a major reason people don’t bike commute is that they don’t want to get their work clothes sweaty.  Apparently people are less worried about the dangers of biking in [...]

Believe it or not…

It’s actually safer to bike in New York than in most other American cities.   Most people believe that it its much more dangerous to bike in New York than in other parts of the country, but after reading my friend’s article about biking in Chattanooga, I’m no longer convinced.  True our traffic is horrendous, [...]

Why not?

The “no-brainer” bike commute

So I’ve realized lately that I’ve become somewhat of a bike evangelist.  I find myself preaching to friends and acquaintances about why they should bike as aggressively as if I were selling God (or food-processors) on some awful cable channel at 3 in the morning.  And while I feel that a bike would be useful [...]