Bike Commute Tips Blog

Helpful suggestions & encouragement for commuting by bicycle

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Bike commuting tips site turns 10

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In 1997 I launched my not very creatively named Paul Dorn's Bike Commuting Tips site. I don't exactly recall what month, but I'...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007

More bicyclists in New York City

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From WCBS-TV, New York, 06.07.07 : With the price of gas steadily rising and city streets so congested, some New Yorkers are choosing a more...
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"Bikepooling" in commuting future?

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From the Baltimore Sun, 06.07.07 : Spinning around town on bicycle built for seven Sometimes whimsy can be the mother of invention. A Dutch ...
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"No driving today"

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From Inside Bay Area, 06.07.07 : As gas prices rise, more drivers ride the cycling trend "My Honda normally parks right there," (J...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Colorado: Car-free commuting

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From the Colorado Daily News (University of Colorado, Boulder), 06.03.07 : For ( Community Cycles founder and manager Rich) Points, who has...
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Get rich and gorgeous--and save the planet

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From the Toronto Globe and Mail, 06.04.07 : When I first started biking to my workplace, I found it slow, tiring, and strenuous. When I fina...
Monday, June 04, 2007

San Francisco bike mural

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One of the most significant accomplishment of San Francisco's bike movement in the 1990s was the conversion of one block of Duboce Stree...

Ohio: A good bike town that could be great

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From the Yellow Springs News (Ohio), 05.31.07 : Pedaling north of Yellow Springs on East Enon Road, a touring bicyclist might hear the cardi...
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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Bicycling makes communities healthier

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From New West (Missoula, MT) 05.31.07 : It's finally happening. Bicycling is finally catching on as a way of life in America, even in th...
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I want to ride my bicycle

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From the Hook (Charlottesville, VA), 05.31.07 : They bicycle daily for health reasons and for the love of nature. "It's the issue o...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Give riders a brake? No thanks

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From the Philadelphia Inquirer, 05.28.07 : New, simple bicycles are missing something If you've walked anywhere in Center City during th...
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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Air Force Base Hosts Bike to Work Day

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From the Skywriter (Wright-Patterson AFB, OH), 05.25.07 : With the price of gasoline skyrocketing to well over $3 dollars a gallon, what bet...
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Bike shops peddling back-to-the-basics

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From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 05.25.07 : Dr. Tom Mackenzie can wax poetic about his one-speed bicycle, a throwback to the bike he rode ...
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Bikes on board Amtrak's Capitol Corridor

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I'm a big enthusiast of Amtrak's Capitol Corridor line, which provides service between Sacramento and San Jose, with BART connecti...

Bike commuting works, even in Alaska

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From the Juneau Empire (Alaska), 05.27.07 : Commuting by bike means cleaner air, clearer heads Joanna Roth does it to "blow out the cob...

Colorado Springs challenging for bicycling?

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From the Colorado Springs Gazette, 05.26.07 : Consider a gas-saving commute on a bike Bike Month in Colorado Springs kicks off Friday with ...
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Wisconsin residents start pedaling

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From the Beloit Daily News (Wisconsin), 05.26.07 : Pedalers finding way to pass up gas pumps As the gas prices keep climbing, some rebels ar...
Saturday, May 26, 2007

Sharrows against oil wars

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Some enterprising San Francisco bicyclist with a stencil modified this sharrow on Market Street, reminding us that bike commuting is not on...
Friday, May 25, 2007

Salt Lake: New trail to support bike commuting

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From the Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 05.25.07 : Parleys Trail — Daily bike commute gets a lift Dea Ann and Randy Cate couldn't be mor...

Valet bike parking could save planet

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From Time, 05.25.07 : How Valet Parking Could Save the Planet Using a bicycle to get around has always been a bittersweet proposition in Sou...
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Paul Dorn
Sacramento, California
Paul Dorn is a writer, activist, creator of a popular bike commuting site, and co-author (with Roni Sarig) of The Bike to Work Guide: What You Need to Know to Save Gas, Go Green, Get Fit (Adams Media, 2009). He is the former editor of the Tube Times, newsletter of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC), and served on the SFBC board of directors. He is the former executive director of the California Bicycle Coalition. Dorn is certified by the League of American Bicyclists as a League Cycling Instructor (#1237).
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