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  • Jumping the Tracks

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    Tonight my neighbor Andrew emailed me a last-minute invitation to see a screening of the documentary “The Greening of Southie” (http://www.greeningofsouthie.com/), and since I didn’t have any firm plans, I decided to go.  By the end of the evening, I had:Riden my bike to Coolidge Corner after workEaten Pizza at Upper CrustBrowsed for half hour…

  • The Language of Biking

    The Language of Biking

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    Thanks to everyone who donate to my Bikes Not Bombs ride. We raised much more than last year–over $100,000 dollars after pledges come in. It was a hot day–97 degrees–by the time I rolled back into the city via Blue Hills Ave in Dorchester, but it was a fun ride nonetheless. At the beginning of…

  • Bikes Not Bombs Fundraising Ride

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    I'm excited to be participating in the 21st Annual Bikes Not Bombs (BNB) Bike-A-Thon on June 8th, riding 62 miles to raise money for this fine organization that promotes biking for transportation and community development. ABOUT BIKES NOT BOMBSBNB is doing many things right: recycling donated bikes, training city kids to repair bikes, sending bikes…

  • From here to there, one fall morning

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    A short video from my bike ride to work this morning. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tS-646ut4]

  • Why Bike to Work?

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    "Why bike to work?" Because you might see something interesting along the way, according to Phillip Barron at nicomachus.net. Phillip emailed me with link to this great slideshow of photos he's taken while biking in the Durham, NC area. I like the way he includes a bike in each image, as if to remind us…

  • I Heart Commuting

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    Thanks to Sara for sending this my way. I couldn’t have said it better myself.  

  • Fixed Gear and Fixed Rate

    Fixed Gear and Fixed Rate

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    In the space of two hours on Friday afternoon, I closed on a condo in Jamaica Plain and picked up a fixed gear bike at Ace Wheelworks in Somerville. Sorry to drop this news on you without any run-up, but that's just the way it has to be. I can't really explain why I haven't…

  • The Right Ride: A Collaborative Map for Safer Biking in Boston

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    Earlier this week, Nancy M. pointed me to a new Google mashup called The Right Ride, designed to allow users to document dangers spots for bikers by adding annotations to a map. Chris Briaotta created the site in response to the recent death of two Boston cyclists, and it gives fellow bikers a way to…

  • Spring from the Front Row

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    I must be in the front row. That's what I keep thinking as I bike into spring this week, getting a great view of each gradation of change as I get to work and back. Last week at this time I was facing 6 degree temperatures with a ferocious headwind, but I felt my body…

  • Gear Report: Winter Biking Apparel

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    Wednesday I finally got to test out my new biking apparel with some actual winter weather (not the 69 degree temperatures last week that had me back to shorts and t-shirt). It was 7 degrees with a stiff headwind when I rode to BC and I wanted to find the right balance of clothing so…