Who’s To Blame?
Most bike crashes do not involve car-bike interaction. Most bike crashes (90%) are caused by bicyclists crashing into stationary objects (parked cars, pot holes, curbs, etc), and other non-car related...
View ArticleMIT Unveils The Copenhagen Wheel
So my first impression was…what? Then I was sorta, hmmm. Now I am kinda What? Hmmm…. I am not really sure how I feel about MIT’s new Copenhagen Wheel part of me is really excited about how this could...
View ArticleA Red Light Runner, Tries Stopping For A Week
100 psi, the very well written blog, tried a little experiment. What would happen if you stopped at every red light for a week. I enjoyed the read, here is a little taste. For the past five days, I...
View ArticleCycling Is Good For You, Safe, And Good For Everyone Else, So Says Science
If the traffic crashes and fatalities being at record low levels was not enough to convince you that cycling is safe, check out this new study about the health risks (or lack thereof) regarding...
View ArticleScience And Cycling: The Pothole
As you probably have noticed there seem to be a lot of new potholes around. Potholes might be the wrong term, is there a word that means “giant wheel swallowing death traps filled with ice cold salt...
View ArticleCambridge String Theory Ride
seeing as how I am a huge fan of science, this made me happy, and nice logo! ———————- The Cambridge Bike Committee Presents The String Theory Bike Tour Please join our spring ride celebrating science...
View ArticleNow We Know Who To Blame For All That Traffic
The dark blue on the map shows the neighborhoods whose residents spend the most time stuck in traffic. The red outlines identify 15 census tracts whose drivers disproportionately clog traffic, because...
View ArticleDo You Bike To Work?
Some students want to talk to you! From the email: “We are a group of students taking a class called UOCD at Olin College, or “user oriented collaborative design” where we work with a people group to...
View ArticleThe Invisible Danger
Cars are pretty bad. Its probably not very hard to come up with a dozen bad things our use of cars has done for the planet, for cities, and for people. You might be thinking you can escape thous bad...
View ArticleHelp MIT Students Test Outdoor Bicycle Training Device
From the email, looks like fun! ———- We are engineering students at MIT who are building a device (Terrainer) for competitive cyclists to train outdoors. To further improve our project, we are looking...
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