Well National Bike to Work Week is almost over and I’ve only managed to ride home from work twice and to work once. For me that is not so good as I could usually do that on any given week. I was hoping to make the trip under my own power a few more times than that.
Here in Central Missouri, biking to work is not that common, but its growing. With gas prices up to $3.19 for the cheap gas today I think biking to work is a lot more appealing. Still a lot of people that could bike to work simply don’t ever try it. Its fun, its healthy, it saves the environment, and it doesn’t cost a dime. [click to continue…]
Just the other day I was out for a ride and as I was pulling into my parents driveway my mom was outside and she says to me, “Aren’t you supposed to ride on the other side of the road?” meaning shouldn’t I be riding against traffic on the left hand side. I thought that was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard of doing. But she was serious. I asked her why she thought I should be doing that and she said that’s what she was taught in school. When bicycle and pedestrian safety was taught when she was in school (it wasn’t that long ago…my mom will appreciate that) they said it was safer to see the cars coming instead of riding with the flow.
I have occasionally seen individuals doing this and most of the time they are either older or part of the immigrant population. I have also noticed that drivers don’t really know [click to continue…]
I’ve been trying to convince my girlfriend to get a bicycle for some time now. I’ve just about accomplished this and we have even gone and looked at some bikes. There are a lot of options when it comes to picking out a bicycle and getting started with cycling these days. So read on and maybe this will provide a little assistance with getting started. If you’re trying to get your girlfriend or boyfriend to bike you can force them to read this and it may save you the trouble. So here we go. [click to continue…]
Sedalia is not very bike friendly. It’s not. If you are a cyclist in this community you already know this. Yeah we have the Katy Trail and sure most motorists are fairly courteous to cyclists but there are no considerations provided to cyclists in the transportation infrastructure at all.
Well I suppose I can’t say at all really, there is a short section of bike lane that is part of the Katy Trail that diverts from the rail line to avoid active train tracks on the North East side of town. One section of bike lane in an area that, unless you are biking [click to continue…]
