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

• By Bob Cesca
  Feb 17, 2016

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

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

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

• By Bob Cesca
  Feb 17, 2016

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

• By Bob Cesca
  Dec 20, 2018

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

• By Ben Cohen
  Mar 21, 2018

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  Nov 9, 2018