The Desegregated Cyclist

My sole mode of personal transportation is my bicycle. I've never driven a car and I'm quite proud of it.
This blog is my place to rant and rave about cycling issues as I see them.

This is not a place for critics of integrated cycling - that conversation is over - segregation has no future - studies show it is not a safe or useful strategy, nor is it a healthy philosophy.


Tuesday, 8 October 2019

The Extinction Rebellion Returns

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Ian Brett Cooper
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
I'm from Sheffield, Yorkshire. I lived my first 22 years in England. Between 1984 and 1986, I cycled 10,000 miles throughout Western Europe. I met my American wife in Austria in 1988 and moved to the USA in 1989. I've worked as a shop assistant, a draughtsman, an artist, a bartender, a picture framer, a writer, an office clerk, a genealogical researcher and a board game designer. My daughter and I are probably the only people in town who commute on the bike every day through fair weather or foul: rain, snow, hot or cold. No matter what, we're out on our bikes.
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Quotes on Cycling and Society

"Integrated cycling means putting safety, not ridership, first." - me.

"Vehicular cycling techniques have not been tried and found difficult. They have been presumed difficult and not tried." - P.M. Summer, paraphrasing G.K. Chesterton

"If American bicycle advocacy leaders had championed the civil rights movement, the 'Dream' would have been reserved seating in the back of the bus." - Jack R. Taylor

"The task of the 'protected' bicycle facility is to hide collision participants from each other right up to the point of impact." - John Schubert

"Stress, obesity, heart disease, traffic congestion, pollution, peak oil, global climate change. If only there were a simple solution." - unknown

"Position on the road is by far the most important influence that a cyclist has over his safety. Indeed, the loss of this ability to influence the actions of others is one reason why road-side cycle tracks and shared footways increase danger at junctions. Many cyclists fail to position themselves properly because of their fear of traffic, yet it is this very fear that puts them most at risk. Encouraging unsafe behaviour by directing cyclists to more hazardous positions does nobody
any favours." - John Franklin

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so" - Mark Twain

Blogs I'm Watching

  • Los Alamos Bikes
    Earth Day Bike Ride: Those Multiuse Paths Are Useful for Transportation, Too
    2 weeks ago
  • Steve Magas Ohio's Bike Lawyer
    DATA – CYCLING – and some BAD NUMBERS…
    3 weeks ago
  • R A N T W I C K
    RANTWICK LOVES the USA
    5 weeks ago
  • i am traffic
    Gary Cziko — Discussion
    3 months ago
  • Bicycle Driving
    Easing into Bicycling
    4 years ago
  • DFW Point-to-Point
    One of Our Nuclear Bombers Has Gone Missing
    5 years ago
  • John S. Allen's Bicycle Blog
    Throttled and doored
    5 years ago
  • The Invisible Visible Man
    A move back, two angry path-blockers - and why it's time to stop writing and start remembering
    7 years ago
  • LAB Reform
    My criticism of the Bicycle Friendly Communities (BFC) program
    8 years ago
  • Carbon Trace
    CTP Team to Jordan This Week
    8 years ago
  • C y c l e * D a l l a s
    freelance Fotografi
    8 years ago
  • NC Bike Ed
    H232 Study Postmortem
    9 years ago
  • bikeolounger's meandering thoughts
    On Jackie Green and his current publicity
    9 years ago
  • Bicycle Law and Advocacy
    California Cyclists Buzzed --By the CHP!
    9 years ago
  • Commute Orlando
    LYNX Lost & Found Auction
    10 years ago
  • CYCLES
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