As Summer rolls around and bike riders like me begin to wedge ourselves into our ill-fitting, garish cycling regalia and hit the road, we're steeling ourselves for an all new round of road rage incidents and, generally, hypertensive drivers lashing out at bike riders on the ...read more
Joseph Stromberg wrote an article for Ezra Klein's new explainer site Vox.com titled "Stop forcing people to wear bike helmets." The author insists we shouldn't be forced to wear bicycle helmets because there's no real danger in exposing our bare noggins to everything from cars, ...read more
Photo: Brandon Majewski, via his Facebook I should preface this post with the full disclosure that I was once hit by a car while cycling. Suffice to say, I've always been a bit militant about the ongoing Cyclists vs. Drivers debate -- which group is composed of reckless a-holes ...read more
It's really easy to pick on bike riders, and so I don't mind admitting that I've been successfully trolled by two of my closest friends. Ben Cohen, who also happens to be my boss here, wrote an item the other day titled, Reasons Why Cyclists Suck in which he detailed a series of ...read more
I'm going to catch an enormous amount of flak for this one, but here goes... Like everything else that is good for the environment, cycling has morphed from being a mode of transport into a weird annoying cult full of pious missionaries spreading the good word. As a driver, I ...read more
Americans are good at a lot of things. We've defeated Nazis and ended a Holocaust. We've created a universe of technological advancements that have connected the world. We've discovered many of the vast secrets of space. We've created groundbreaking art and entertainment. You ...read more
