Surly Long Haul Trucker March 12, 2010
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OK, THIS is proper heel clearance for your panniers. This is the bike I want.
New Richardson, TX trails and Bond Election March 11, 2010
Posted by bibliosk8 in transportation, urban/suburban life.Tags: bike commuting, bike paths, richardson texas bond election 2010
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I wrote this on Bike Friendly Richardson this morning, after seeing trail construction on my morning bike ride to work.
As I just read what I’ve written below, I realized it somewhat, errrrr…, well, it’s kind of like a rant. So please just cut me some slack.
Richardson is holding a bond election for some improvements to city infrastructure and amenities on May 8. The entire package will raise the property taxes on a home of about $180,000 valuation by about $110 a year. Amazingly, some nutcases are against this. C’mon people, that is NOTHING. It isn’t like they’re gonna flush that money down the toilet. They are maintaining and improving our city — doing things to try to attract talented, educated, good people to live here, to get excellent companies to locate in Richardson. Good grief, if we left things up to these teabaggers, we’d have no public life at all.
Seriously – do we want to end up like Garland? I don’t think so.
And before some teabagger brings this up — YES – I am a homeowner. In fact, I actually own my home, rather than renting it from the bank. I don’t mind paying an extra $110 per year to keep our city moving in the right direction. It’s all part of living in a good civilization.
Dallas Cottonwood Trail March 9, 2010
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Here’s an article from the Dallas Morning News regarding completion of the under-High-Five section of the Cottonwood Trail.
Just keep building bike paths, please. Build, build, build.
Stickers And Buttons March 7, 2010
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Richard W’s new stickers and buttons for Bike Friendly Richardson. It sure is nice to have an artist in the group. Richard does great posters and flyers for the events.
Oh…this is the 100th post on this blog. Yay.
Cheap bike camera mount March 5, 2010
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Just found this page, showing how to make a camera mount for your bike for about $1. Really cool.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Bicycle-Camera-Mount-for-under-$1/
Sustainable Sources February 24, 2010
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Back in 1994-1995, in Austin, I worked at a small web design company part time, during grad school. One of the guys who worked with us was Bill Christensen, who runs Sustainable Sources and Greenbuilder.com .
Bill always seemed like a real nice guy, but I was a busy grad student and didn’t really get to know him that well. I did find out, however, that he ran greenbuilder.com, or at least its predecessor.
Well, his sites are just really a motherload of information on any greenbuilding/sustainability issue that might interest you. So check them out.
Highway projects in DFW — so depressing… February 24, 2010
Posted by bibliosk8 in politics, transportation, urban/suburban life.Tags: cost of freeways, DFW Connector, DFW transporation
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Saw these two stories today in the Fort Worth Star Telegram. Highways are really, really expensive. I hear people complain sometimes that not everyone on the DART train buys a ticket — that there are cheaters. Compare that relatively small loss to the massive investment in freeways…it just doesn’t compare.
The money involved in just these two projects totals to over three billion dollars. That would finance a lot of light rail and bike lanes and street cars. I’m glad my friends who have to drive in these parts are perhaps looking at less misery, but there’s got to be a better way of doing things….
http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/02/23/1992005/stretch-of-ne-loop-820-has-dallas.html
http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/02/23/1990762/work-begins-on-dfw-connector.html
Visiting farms by bike – upcoming adventure February 23, 2010
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My wife heard about this guy and his dream on the radio today. It is way cool. Check it out. He is planning to ride around the country, and world, by bike, visiting farms.
http://organicfarmingtech.com/
Joe Urban on biking in Portland February 15, 2010
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Enjoyed this article on biking in Portland, by Joe Urban.
Biking in Portland (and thoughts on what makes it such an urban mecca)
Cannondale bags February 10, 2010
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Cannondale Harvester pannier
A few days ago I wrote about grocery shopping via bicycle. I’ve been using these Cannondale panniers for a couple of years now for grocery shopping and to carry my stuff to work when I bike commute, so I thought I’d just quickly note what exactly I’m using. Until today I didn’t even know what these things were called.
The panniers I used are the Cannondale “Harvester” grocery bags.
Yes, they are expensive. Of course, all bike stuff is expensive. I have been very happy with them so far. After two years I’ve had no problem with them. That attach to my Townie rack pretty well, althought its tubing is a bit on the thick side. But they work fine on it. They work great on my mixte’s Topeak rack.
These bags fold up for easy storage. The inside has a little drawstring, so you can seal stuff up pretty well. I’ve never had any of my work clothes get dirty while transporting them in the bags. They seem to be pretty resistant to the elements. So I’m pretty happy with them.
