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Thoughts on winter bike commuting

( Melbourne and Rant and Gadgets & Gear and Heh! and Commute )

I’m a year-round cycling commuter–it’s never really occurred to me not to ride in winter, and it’s easier and much more fun that you might think.

The repair that every cyclist should be able to do

( Rant )

If you’re going to ride, you really should be able to fix a flat tyre.

Make roads safe

( Rant and News )

I’ve been pondering the urgent and focused responses of governments and people to the outbreak of “Swine Flu”, and contrasting the handful of tragic deaths from H1N1 virus with the enormous number of equally tragic deaths due to road trauma. Where is the urgent response to this leading preventable cause of death?

A negligent lack of care

( Melbourne and Rant and Grrr! )

It seems road hazards are handled entirely differently, depending on whether they are in the bike lane or the car lane.

Where law and logic don’t mix

( Rant and News and Grrr! )

Make sure you have a front headlight on your bike–so that you are visible to drivers behind you.

Sharing the shared paths

( Melbourne and Rant and News and Grrr! and Commute )

Shared paths sometimes bring walkers and cyclists into conflict. But the answer to the problem is not installation of speed humps.

His attitude is not my problem

( Melbourne and Rant and Grrr! )

A pathetically narrow bike lane and a driver with anger management issues. I’ll not let either disturb a quiet Sunday ride.

Take the road or the bike path?

( Melbourne and Rant and Commute )

With just under an hour to spare recently, I conducted an interesting little experiment: How much extra distance does riding on a shared path add compared to the adjacent on-road route?

Bike parking: Almost getting it right

( Melbourne and Rant and Heh! and Grrr! )

A shopping centre newly built nearby has some pretty impressive bike parking–if they’d just allow cyclists to use it!

Behave, or you won’t get that bike lane!

( Rant and News )

When good opinion pieces go bad: Graham Cornes starts out well making his case for better bike lanes in Adelaide, but then he heads off into illogical and dangerous territory…

Juvenile tools

( Melbourne and Rant and Grrr! )

I really had to tone down my language on this posting. It’s considerably shorter now that I’ve calmed down a bit and taken out all of the F-words…

BV pushes “Us-vs-Them” on Beach Road

( Melbourne and Rant and News )

It is well worth pushing for weekend clearways on Beach Rd, but using the “might is right” argument to achieve that won’t help cyclists in general.

Unwrap the cotton wool and get real

( Kids and Rant )

If you wrap your kids in cotton wool, you aren’t really doing them any favours…

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