The City of Miami will be hosting an Open House for the community to give some feedback on two proposed Bicycle Boulevards in the NW area of the city. Bicycle boulevards are a special type of shared road with traffic-calming features that make it ideal for bicycle transit; this video from Streetfilms.org showcasing a bike [...]
It’s been a fun time, doing all the research on the various bikes. I even got to test-ride a really awesome bike that I’d been eying for a while. I cast my net far and wide, checking out a lot more bikes than I actually wrote here about, brands I came to discover along the [...]
I’ll be honest, I’m getting a little antsy to have a new bike. After Sunday’s Bike Miami Ride, my legs and knees were very sore for a couple of days; I understand I’m overweight and all that, but this was all due to trying to keep up with 30+ other riders while on a singlespeed [...]
There are a lot of cycling magazines on newsstands–Bicycling, Velo News, Mountain Bike, Road Bike, Cycle Sport, Cyclocross, BMX Sport, etc–covering pretty much every single angle of bicycling possible, as long as it treats the bike as a sports/specialty machine. In the last issue of Bicycling Magazine there was only one article geared towards commuter [...]
Monday I was in the mood for looking at bikes, so we dropped by the Miami Beach Bicycle Center, one of the locations on the Beach that carries Electra bicycles. We found the store fairly easily (corner of 5th Street and Washington Ave, or the place with the loaded bike rack right in front) and quickly [...]
I just discovered my new favorite webcomic, Yehuda Moon & The Kickstand Cyclery. Creator Rick Smith puts out this comic daily (with some minor exceptions, as you check the back “issues”) and after having caught up to the current strip in a nonstop laughing frenzy, I am glad for his dedication! The story follows Yehuda [...]
Consider this as a PSA of sorts. I was reading my new favorite webcomic (a post about it later this week) and came across this strip. I’ll be darned if that’s not how I’ve felt sometimes when I’m out riding. This is especially a problem when we ride Downtown from the Beach for a Bike [...]
Tonight starts Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, and we’d like to extend a heartfelt shannah tova to all the Jews out there, especially our fellow Jewish cyclists. To celebrate, I’ve changed the look of the website to a magazine-style theme. The main advantage of this new look is that it allows a lot more [...]
While checking out Twitter over the weekend, I saw a tweet from @GustavoLlamas (local rider and one of the BikeTown winners) showing fellow riders of the Saturday, September 12 edition of Critical Mass Miami at a pub. The gentleman pictured had a shirt that called my attention, so I asked Gustavo to post a pic [...]
I rode out this morning to prayers as I always do; went up the bridge, down the bridge, rode on the street for a bit, took the sidewalk for another part, took the left turning lane and crossed the incoming lanes into a parking lot through which I shortcut into my synagogue’s parking lot. As [...]
