Cycling in Vancouver
Both yesterday and today I’ve been taking advantage of Vancouver’s various cycle paths to put a good deal of enjoyable kilometers under my tires. It’s hard to compare Vancouver cycling with cycling in Toronto, but I can put it this way – in Vancouver, I actually look forward to getting on my bike.
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Cycling in Vancouver
Posted in Picturesque, Pragmatics, Technology, bikes on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Bike lanes, and why cyclists are better off without them
Posted in Capitalism, bikes on June 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Bike lanes seem to have some plus points – the city is carving a place on the road for bikes, theoretically making cycling in traffic safer, and faster during traffic jams.
However, the reality happens to be the opposite. While bike lanes create the illusion of safety, they tend to produce situations of extreme unsafety in [...]
On Elation
Posted in Technology, beginning, bikes, global warming on April 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last night I finished my last paper for core theoretical. So, while I have several other things due before I am finished the term, I do feel over the hump in the sense of having completed almost all the work I dislike – I’m really quite looking forward to the rest.
Today is warm, sunny, and [...]
A tribute to a friend
Posted in bikes on November 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My friend will likely never read this post, because for reasons I don’t myself fully understand, I am not telling anyone about this blog. (If there is an obvious reason – it is because no one who matters reads blogs anyway, so a blog “for no one” is the logical extension of the very idea [...]
