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From the always delightful Yehuda Moon & The Kickstand Cyclery:

Matt Yglesias is a political blogger who takes an interest in the politics of transportation. He makes an interesting point about biking in winter: The top bike commuting city is Copenhagen, not San Diego. If people can bike to work in Denmark’s winter (I even saw plenty of people biking around Helsinki...

A couple weeks ago, when we were in the first major melting phase of this muddled winter, I found myself on a partially submerged road near Cobbs Hill. Apparently all of Cobbs’ snow was melting and pooling on the street. I stopped for a couple minutes to take pictures of motorists as they pondered...

I picked up some studded tires from Towners about a month ago, and have been tearing up the roads with them since. I’ve experienced and seen my fair share of wipe-outs in past winter seasons, and after reading about Ethan’s experience this morning, figured that I’d share some thoughts...

In early December, I spent a few days in New Orleans. I saw a lot of bikes, which was surprising to me. They have a different mentality about their bikes down there- it was eye-opening. I saw a lot of trikes with rear baskets. Bright, fun colors. Most of the bikes I saw were cruiser types. [...]

“Men invented war so they could be among themselves. In peacetime, they have bike racing.” Gabriele Rolin But what does it mean when we insist on waging war upon ourselves, flagrantly dismissing dubious weather forecasts, common sense, and good advice from friends in some perverse determination to...

(or maybe a sticker, or patch to be worn on one’s messenger bag) You’re just jealous because you’re a wuss.

I received a link recently from lonerider, who directs us to the blog Rock’N'Bike, which looks at the history of bicycles in music: Enjoy!

This is from today’s entry by Bike Snob NYC: The New York Times also points out that in particular the number of cyclists crossing the Williamsburg Bridge has quadrupled from 2000 to 2008. This particular statistic is an excellent example of how important semantics are when it comes to interpreting...

Ice around the edge of a puddle. First time I’ve seen that this season. Horizontal sunlight hitting a tree on the Sage campus, lighting it up like brass. My steaming breath, looking into the sunlight at the intersection of Myrtle and Delaware.