Bicycle Transportation Examiner

Weekend Pick: Hipster hating

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:20:14 -0700

A question I'll be mulling as I head out today for a ride:

*Do hipsters love their bicycles more than the unhip masses hate hipsters?

All You Haters (Suck My Balls) from nixbros on Vimeo.

More Weekend Picks from the Bicycle Transportation Examiner

Urban cyclists: stinky sex-crazed narcissistic reckless communist terrorist cranks!

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:49:39 -0700

Emmett Tyrrell lashed out at cyclists in 1980. (Credit: Indianapolis Star) Well, at least so suggested Emmett Tyrrell Jr. in a 1980 Indianapolis Star article that's befuddling in its lunacy. (If you're not familiar with Tyrrell, he's a proli...

Study: Cyclists inhale more than twice as much air each minute as motorists

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:02:49 -0700

An illustration of the lungs. (Credit: NIH) A recently published study makes the obvious---but important--point that cyclists tend to inhale a greater volume of air each minute than motorists and bus riders do.The difference is particularly pr...

Keep an eye on ReadysetDC

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:23:37 -0700

ReadysetDC (Credit: ReadysetDC) Those who fancy themselves young and hip may want to keep an eye on ReadysetDC, a newish DC arts and c...

Tweed Ride round up: As fun for the reporters as the riders?

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:09:12 -0700

A quaintrelle preparing for the Tweed Ride. (Credit: Voiland) Professional news writers are a pretty glum bunch these days. Newspapers are in disarray, many high-profile magazine are struggling, and space in the ever-shrinking news hole ...

Dapper dandies and bonnie quaintrelles descend on DC for Sunday Tweed Ride

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:03:18 -0700

One of the city's more fashionable pelotons made its way through Washington on Sunday. (Credit: Voiland) In Washington, droves of dapper dandies and bonnie quaintrelles donned caps and pearls--and plenty of tweed--as they took to the streets ...

An octopus of a bike

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:53:39 -0700

The Conference Bike. (Credit: Lost at E Minor) I saw this on Lost at E Minor, an art blog, so I figured it was just a pie-in-the-sky artsy thing. But, nope, the octupus-like Conference Bike is no joke. According to its makers, it's being used ...

Weekend Pick: The Bike Project

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:08:41 -0700

The Bike Project (Credit: Rouse Company Foundation Gallery)There's only one day left, but the Rouse Company Foundation Gallery at the Howard County Community College is hosting a show titled The Bike Project: A Visual, Literary and Cinematic Cel...

Spoof: Hitler and bicycles on trains

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:45:40 -0700

I've written a number of times about the fact that many Amtrak trains don't permit roll-on bicycle service. Apparently, I'm not the only one irked by the situation. Though, in this case, this is one advocate bicyclists could live without. (Watch at y...

Don't forget DC's first ever Tweed ride this weekend

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:23:41 -0700

Start rummaging for tweed. (Credit: Dandi...

Politicycle: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:47:25 -0700

A. Schwarzenegger (Credit: BikeMonkey) His state's broke, but that hasn't stopped California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from loading up his Hummer with bikes and heading out for some R & R every now and then. More details on the gover...

Politicycle: Mayor Fenty in hot water over riding habits

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:22:11 -0700

Adrian Fenty &nb...

Greatest dog ever

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:46:29 -0700

I'd thought it would be tough to find a dog more charming than my brother's bike-loving pup, Velo, but I must say I've never seen anything quite like this, which I first saw on TMZ. And while we're on the topic of heartwarming dogs and...

Umm, white people aren't the only ones who like bikes

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:51:35 -0700

(Credit: Freedom Ride) There's been some chatter on New Geography that bicycles and progressive transportation policy is a "white thing". (Yes, bicycles are #61 on Stuff White People Like, but does that really mean anything?...

Weekend Pick: Boards of Canada

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:34:48 -0700

One of the most visually satisfying bikescape music videos I've ever seen comes from the Scottish electronic music group Boards of Canada:Cycling, simply a form of transportation for most riders, serves as a surprisingly robust source of creative ins...

Weekend Pick: A four shilling bicycle

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:03:51 -0700

A lovely 1950s animation from across the pond via San Francisco Tweed. Cycling, simply a form of transportation for most riders, serves as a surprisingly robust source of creative inspiration for others. The Weekend Pick, an ongoing feature of t...

Some 80 percent of bicycle crashes in the District involve men

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:38:00 -0700

((DDOT Traffic Safety Report Statistics 2006-2008)As in past years, new data shows that a large majority of cyclists involved in traffic collisions in the District are male. This isn't surprising given that a comparable percentage of DC cyclist...

DC traffic collisions increase in 2008

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:11:22 -0700

(DDOT Traffic Safety Report Statistics 2006-2008) The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) has released a trove of new traffic collision data about the District. The total number of collisions is up slightly in 2008, though the general ...

Domestic terrorists on two wheels?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:33:58 -0700

A domestic terrorist? (Credit: DBC)I've heard that bikes have been used in ...

Bicycle helmet saves the day -- on foot

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:30:33 -0700

A helmet saves the day--off a bike. (All Photos: Voiland) If she hadn't been wearing a bicycle helmet, there's a good chance that my girlfriend would be in the hosp...