Carbon Trace

I rode my bicycle to the grocery store yesterday afternoon. It’s been more than two years since I last drove a car to the store, and I do the majority of the family food shopping. Here’s what I saw upon returning to my bicycle parked in the rack the store provides.

That’s five adult bicycles in [...]

I hear it a lot when the weather is nice: “Great day for a ride!”
I hear it because, as I have said before, I often wear my helmet like a hat when I do things such as grocery shopping. It’s just easier to leave it on my head, and it opens the door to one-on-one [...]

I mentioned the dinner-and-a-movie promotion yesterday. My wife and I rode downtown to catch the action on the Square, eat at the new Ziggie’s, and see Sugar at The Moxie. Here are some of the scenes:

Here’s a little Springfield Cycle Chic — my wife at our parking location on Patton Alley.

Evidence of family bicycling activity [...]

At Cycling in Wichita, John B. offers a second essay related to bicycling and community, this time partly focused on the idea of self-sufficiency and its role in creating sustainable and self-sufficient communities. Here’s the start of a thread I find most interesting:
The automobile, while it evokes in the American psyche images of freedom and [...]