“Yeah. Let’s fly to Florence and pedal to the village. It will be, I dunno, five hundred miles or so.”
EXCERPT: ‘THE ROAD TO SAN DONATO’
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CYCLING FOR DUMMIES
Daniel De Visé on his new book The Comeback
The Sox have done it again this week, winning the fourth World Series in 15 years. You can’t walk down the street without seeing a proud fan sauntering with a Red Sox cap cocked on their head. A little over a hundred years ago, though, baseball wasn’t ...
GHOST RIDERS: AN ILLUSTRATED TRIBUTE TO CYCLISTS KILLED THROUGH THE YEARS
Memorials to friends and family members who have been killed while riding on two wheels, they are infinitely sad to pass, yet serve as critical reminders about the life and death issue that cycling is for many people.
TACOS ON TOUR
Biking is practical, tacos are practical. Practical people like practical things. Bikes and tacos were made for one another.
THE SOMERVILLE LANE … AND THE LONG ROAD TO A BIKEABLE BEACON STREET
"The Beacon-Hampshire corridor is the single busiest bike corridor in Massachusetts, and that’s why Somerville is building a protected bike like along a stretch of Beacon Street. That’s where the bike lane is raised a few inches off the street and separated from vehicles by a curb."
THE BALLAD OF BIKING IN BOSTON
Dispatches from my daily dance with death en route to work
GETTING TO BIKE
Urban multimodal network needed to make bicycles a viable alternative in the ’burbs
VIDEO DISPATCH: RUSH HOUR CHALLENGE 2017 AFTERPARTY
How fast can you get from Downtown Boston to Davis Square?
VICIOUS CYCLE (DATA EDITION): BOSTON’S UGLIEST INTERSECTIONS FOR CYCLISTS
Despite apparently enthusiastic planning by the City of Boston in a few token places, by certain measures nil has changed in the past four years when it comes to bike safety.
I LIKE BIKE: A COLUMN THAT SOME OF MY FELLOW DRIVERS WILL HATE ME FOR, BUT THAT THEY SHOULD PROBABLY READ ANYWAY
The reaction to my advocacy is often like when ignoramus bigots question why white people would back the Black Lives Matter movement.
