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Friday Musings – Baggage Claim and Bicycles
Summer Bike Love - courtesy of Oh Shoot Cycle ladies and gents of the planet, let’s talk about summer travel and bikes, and how you get it done! Friday means it’s time to muse, and I’m wondering how...
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The “Perfect” Commute – Sunday Bliss
Empty streets in Honolulu - The "Perfect" Commute! Image from Oliver Beattie's flickr. Do you ever have one of those late evening/early night rides home where you take some superfluous detours just to...
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Spinlister: Peer-to-peer bicycle rental
Ever go on a business trip, or a vacation, and wish you had a bike? Don’t want to deal with a bike shop in an unfamiliar city but still want to get your ride on? Spinlister may be another avenue for...
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Bicicletas in Costa Rica
Bike Commuting in Limon, CR by tomac1978 via flickr Buenos dias, mis Bike Commuters… I’m writing from Turrialba, Costa Rica to give you the skinny on the bike sitch in my favorite country – read: the...
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Friday Musings: Skunk Stripe
The common variety of this bike commuter species is known as a "Skunk Stripe" Buenos días de Costa Rica once again lindisimos Bike Commuters! In honor of Friday and my stream of consciousness...
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TD Five Boro Bike Tour registration starts Jan. 22…a “bucket list” ride!
We got this press release a few days ago…the TD Five Boro Bike Tour is one of several “bucket list” rides in my future — what a fantastic way to see New York City! We provide this announcement just...
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Bike Share Success!
Okay everyone, luckily boyfriend and I were able to sign up for the Mejor en Bici FREE bike share program all in a matter of 24 hours right here in our neighborhood in Buenos Aires! What does that...
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Bike Share Breakup & Biking Buenos Aires
Happy Belated Saint Valentine’s Day, Bike Commuters! After a successful start, a short-lived love affair, and a predictable break-up with the Mejor en Bici bike share program, Mir.I.Am searches for new...
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Porteños on Bikes – a Photobarf just for you, Bike Commuters!
Hey hey hey, bicipeeps. Just in case there are any readers out there who commute in the lovely city of crazy mad drivers in Buenos Aires, I wanted to give a shout out to all Porteños on bikes. Every...
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Friday Musing: Regulators! How would you regulate on your city?
Hello hello from Buenos Aires again, bicikids. A group of friends and I (including my new pals Will and Robin from Biking Buenos Aires) were sitting around a salad pile at lunch yesterday, and we...
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From Chicago to D.C. for a kick-off of Women & Bicycles and the National Bike...
This past March I ventured (for the second year) to Washington, D.C. for the National Bike Summit. For those of you unable to attend the event “in-person” I hope that the insights of these next few...
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Weirdest things you see on your commute, a Bikey Roundup
Hey everyone. Mir.I.Am here, wrapping up a solid summer season in Buenos Aires… The leaves have begun to change color just as platform birkenstock sandals are changing into platform oxfords. I may have...
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Some positive trailbuilding news from Florida…
It’s fairly rare that anything positive in terms of bicycle-infrastructure news comes out of Florida, but here’s something pretty big: lawmakers have approved $50 million to create the Coast To Coast...
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Asheville – Where Weird Meets the Road
Hey there U.S.A Bike Commuters: yours truly, Mir.I.Am reporting from the good ol’ Southeast in Asheville, North Carolina! “Asheville?!” you say. “What the eff, Mir, I thought you were a Honolulu...
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Book Review: “Tour de France” by Graeme Fife
The Tour de France kicks off in a few short days…what better time than to present a review of Graeme Fife’s stellar Tour de France: The History…The Legend…The Riders…14th ed. (London: Mainstream...
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Guest Article: The ABCs of Trip Planning
Editor’s note: Here’s the latest from Andrew “Doc” Li — you may remember him from his excellent DIY repair stand tutorial a couple weeks ago. Today, Andrew will give us some smart and practical advice...
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Copenhagen’s growing pains
I’m sure you’re all aware of the tremendous cycling savvy of the people of Copenhagen, Denmark — one of the places that U.S. cities try to emulate when pushing for increased bicycle ridership....
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Boston Bike Love, a.k.a. Cambridge Commuting
With only 48 hours between NYC and a trip to Vermont, boyfriend and I decided to ditch the apple for the bean these last couple of days… And let me tell you, bike monsters, was it worth it! Boston, I...
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Book Review: “My Cool Bike” by Chris Haddon
Our friends at Independent Publishers Group sent us a review copy of My Cool Bike: An Inspirational Guide to Bikes and Bike Culture by Chris Haddon; photography by Lyndon McNeill (London: Pavilion, an...
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Take me to the Motherland… The Port-Motherland.
A-O River! To all the bike commuters that may or may not have followed the past year of sporadic, wtf, travel-inspired posts, the one and only Mir.I.Am is taking off for the cycle kingdom known as...
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