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Bicycle Commuting as an Urban Safari

One of the best things about cycling, even in winter, is that it brings you closer to your surroundings than car travel or public transportation. You might wonder how close you want to be to your surroundings in the middle of winter, but here in Boston, it’s been unusually mild and snow-less (and for that [...]
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Ease Traffic Congestion, Ease Your Mind: Ride a Bike

I recently read an article in The Wall Street Journal titled “The Hidden Toll of Traffic Jams”, which examined the effects of prolonged exposure to vehicle emissions on the brain. While it’s too early to draw any direct connections between car exhaust neurological disorders, scientists’ findings revealed preliminary links to an array of neurological conditions, [...]
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A Trip to the Polling Station with my Folding Bike

Today is voting day (municipal elections), and dutiful citizen that I am, I left for work 15 minutes early so that I could hit my polling station on the way in and still arrive on time. Since I ride my bike to work, I also rode to the polling station. But after I got there, [...]
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Can Better Infrastructure put us on the Path to a New Cycle?

As we’ve been discussing recently, it’s not easy to be a cyclist on the streets of an American city – cars and bikes are too often competing for the same space, bikes are travelling on roads that have not been designed with them in mind (e.g. bike lanes that place riders squarely in the dreaded [...]
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No Car Diet? Let’s Try It!

ZipCar wants it both ways. On the one hand, they’re trying to get people on board with a Low Car Diet by encouraging them to walk, bike, take public transportation, or rent a ZipCar, instead of using their personal vehicles. It’s a great idea, because it helps people realize that they don’t need to drive [...]
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The Bard and the Bike: A Plea for Tolerance

I don’t know what it’s like in the rest of the world these days, but in Boston, at least, it seems that drivers are becoming angrier. I am an experienced, conscientious, law-abiding cyclist, but recently, it is with alarming frequency that drivers have yelled at me to “Get out of the road” (which, by the [...]
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Bike Me Out to the Ball Game

Biking for Baseball Many people get excited about bike commuting because it allows them to combine something they would do anyway (getting to work) with something they love (riding their bike). But other people are able to combine riding their bike with a cause that’s important to them. Take Biking for Baseball: this Colorado-based organization [...]
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Winter Riding: Avoiding the Bonk

Inclement winter weather can turn an otherwise pleasant outdoor ride into an arduous undertaking. Layering for a 30 minute bike commute is one thing, but dressing for a long ride in sub-zero temperatures, wind, and precipitation that weather forecasters call “wint’ry mix” is a forbidding task indeed. Winter weather leads many cyclists to the spin [...]
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Bikes aren’t the only things that fold

You can never have too much of a good thing… One of the best features of Montague’s folding bikes is that they ride just like non-folding bicycles. If someone blindfolded you and gave you a Montague to ride (amusing mental image, but don’t try it at home), there’s no way you’d be able to tell [...]
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Bike Commuters – neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night

With the shortest day of the year upon us, you may notice a growing number of cyclists in highlighter yellow outerwear. As a bike commuter, I am a big fan of such apparel. I don’t own any yet, but I feel that my first purchase is not far off. I’ve been bike commuting for years, [...]
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