I know Ayn Rand left instructions to fountainheads to never show pity. But it’s hard not to show pity! Most of these drawn forlorn strangers we see on the street are not actually farmers or miners, yet they own cars. Why? Nobody working in […]

The Dutch bicycling miracle is all thanks to the political acumen of bicycling advocates in the sixties and seventies demanding separate bike infrastructure. Or, if you don’t like that story, the Dutch bicycling miracle is all thanks to the […]

The government. Why ask the government to spend money on bike infrastructure? If your brother is a communist dictator, sure. But otherwise, the moment you ask, a million car-dependent voters are going to start about cyclists free-riding. “They don’t pay road […]

Any innovative new field of endeavour is bound to spawn some new idioms and some new jargon. It is no different with bicycletecture. Following are most (I think) of the peculiar terms we return to in […]

It’s not that I shy away from big issues. It has simply never occurred to me to write a blog post about cycling’s power over human extinction. An article in last month’s Atlantic explains how the very small 0.1% chance […]