Bicycles

AAPT meeting in Portland and my bike trip home

July 15, 2010

I’m leaving today for the American Association of Physics Teachers summer meeting in Portland, Oregon. I’ll be presenting a workshop at the meeting (see next post), then riding my bicycle to Eugene then down the coast back to Berkeley. You can follow my cycling exploits here: www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=RrzKj&doc_id=7183&v=V Share this post:

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Blogging my SF-San Luis Obispo bike trip on crazyguyonabike.com

April 3, 2010

I’m riding a six-day bicycle tour from San Francisco (well, Daly City BART, actually) to San Luis Obispo. I found a great web site for posting bike trips, CrazyGuyOnABike.com/leetramp. You can follow my trip there. I’m riding a great touring bike, the Surly “Long Haul Trucker.” The bike is not light, but it’s sturdy I’m [...]

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200 people can commute in:

June 25, 2009

Great poster from Seattle demonstrating the space it takes on a street to move 200 people in various modes. Share this post:

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Berkeley Traffic Circles – Share the Lane

June 14, 2009

The traffic circles in Berkeley neighborhoods have created confusion for many car drivers. One of the difficulties is knowing how to interact with bicycles. The Bike Friendly Berkeley Coalition’s email chat list has been discussiong what signage could be placed at the circles to help drivers understand how the circles work. One of the main [...]

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The 15th Annual Bike to Work Day is Thursday, May 14th, 2009

May 8, 2009

The San Francisco Bay Area’s 15th Annual Bike to Work Day will take place on Thursday, May 14, 2009. Bike to Work Day is the premier bicycling event taking place in all of Northern California with all nine Bay Area counties participating in the celebration. The event is just one day of many events taking [...]

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“Day lighting” or “Peek a boo”: pedestrian safety at intersections

January 21, 2009

From Eric McCaughrin at East Bay Bicycle Coalition: Another great clip from Streetfilms. This time, they show how removing parking spaces around intersections (“Daylighting”) can greatly increase visibility for pedestrians and cyclists. Even better: the reclaimed space can be used for low-cost bike parking. In Berkeley and other Bay Area communities, similar kinds of treatment [...]

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Two hundred people can commute…but how would Lenin do it?

July 10, 2008

Great poster on the ferry. Be sure to click on the larger image to see all the details. The options shown in the poster are: By car, by bus, by light rail, and by bike. Very descriptive. Then, there’s Lenin in Seattle: A guy found this in the former Czechoslovakia, bought it for its artistic [...]

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Bicycles in Paris

March 22, 2008

I’m on a nine-day trip to France with students from my school (the benefits of sharing my classroom with a French teacher!), and we spent the last couple days in Paris. Paris is doing some good things to get more folks on bikes, including rental bikes all over town: Rental bikes similar to but easier [...]

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Bicycle maps on Google: Petition

March 2, 2008

A great group of folks (GoogleMapsBikeThere.org) have developed an online petition to request that Google add “Bike There” check box to Google Maps. If you haven’t explored Google Maps recently, it’s worth checking out. One of their options for directions is “Avoid highways” which is halfway to a bike friendly mapping experience. Google has also [...]

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