I found this post more relevant than most would. But amazingly you are safer biking than walking to work. "Per kilometer, cyclists are 12 times more likely than car drivers to suffer a fatal accident, according to Rutgers University urban planner John Pucher and Lewis Dijkstra of the European Commission (the same study found traveling [...]
So, as planned, my friends and I rocked the Seattle to Portland bike ride last weekend. It was both grueling and fun and I think we'll certainly be doing more long rides in the future. I actually found the ride easier physically than I expected, but harder mentally. Somewhere around mile 80 on the first day [...]
Tomorrow my friends and I will be rockn' the Seattle to Portland ride. The first day anyway. I'm behind the recommended training because of my baseball schedule and having been hit by a car when I should have been ramping up the mileage. So the result is that I haven't yet ridden more than 70 [...]
After being told by one bike shop that it was totaled I went to a different one to go new bike shopping. I dropped my bike off in the meantime so they could swap components off of it. I was expecting them to call and give me a price for the new bike I speced [...]
Somehow a car hit me while I was going full speed on my bike and I’m OK. In fact, I made our daily team scrum meeting. I’ve been riding my bike north on East Lake Sammamish the 7.5 miles to work 2-3 times a week for the last year. It seems like a fairly safe activity [...]