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Month: November, 2007

Critical Mass in the dark

By way of reminding you that Critical Mass Durham’s December ride will take place next Thursday (5:35pm, meet at Major), I’ll share some artwork I received this week. But before I do, I want to remind everyone that this will be the first CM since daylight savings ended. So, darkness will fall on our ride. [...]

NY Times: Finding Liberté on Two Wheels

The NYTimes ran a nice point-of-view article by Eric Rayman this weekend about the success of Paris’ new Velib program. It begins – MY plane landed at Charles de Gaulle airport. I took the RER train into Paris, dropped off my bag and, two hours after landing, I was riding a bicycle down the Boulevard [...]

Why I am not a Democrat (or a Republican)

Phillip Barron This piece ran as an op-ed in Sunday, November 25 Herald Sun I spent the weekend before the election in Washington, D.C. being reminded of the passion for critique on which our country was founded. Standing in the rotunda of the Jefferson Memorial, it’s dizzying to read “I have sworn… eternal hostility against [...]

southern gothic

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spotlight

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bike morning

The Outspokin’ Cyclist: Cyclists don’t like concrete islands

Phillip Barron The Herald Sun Willetha Barnette, of Durham, rode her bike in traffic for the first time on October 4th. Encouraged by her friend Cynthia Ferebee to join the Critical Mass ride, a monthly group bike ride through the streets of Durham, Barnette said that she enjoyed the freedom to ride on the streets [...]

Two great articles in today’s news

Associated Press Nov 5, 2007 : 7:17 am ET South Korea Promotes Bicycles to Ease Traffic SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea is turning to an old-fashioned solution for dealing with its always-clogged roads: encouraging people to ride bicycles. The Herald-Sun editorial: Welcome accord on new bike path Nov 5, 2007 We plead guilty to [...]

Air and Space, and bikes

The Wright brothers, before inventing aviation, were bike mechanics. I got a glimpse of two of their creations this weekend in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. A Rare Wright Bicycle Only five bicycles manufactured by the Wright brothers are known to exist. This one, a model they called the St. Clair, [...]