Bike To Work Day Is Friday!

WABA

Free Range Kids

In her promotion tour for her new book, pictured above, Lenore Skenazy is cute, witty, charming and ironic. She says stuff like this:

If you don't want to have your child in any kind of danger, you really can't do anything. You certainly couldn't drive them in a car, because that's the No. 1 way kids die, as passengers in car accidents.

That's from her interview with Salon. She's also recently had an online discussion with WaPo, and she has a cute video on Amazon. And, of course, she has a blog, called Free Range Kids.

I haven't read her book, but I certainly understand where she's coming from. Her ideas have been well fleshed out in her media blitz. More from her Salon interview:

Salon: Rationally, why aren't cars the bogeyman instead of stranger abduction?

Skenazy: It would change our entire lifestyle if we couldn't drive our kids in a car, and it's a danger that we just willingly accept without examining it too much, because we know that the chances are very slim that we're going to have a fatal car accident. But the chances are 40 times slimmer that your kid walking to school, whether or not she's they only one, is going to be hurt by a stranger.

Salon: Isn't it ironic that parents are driving around their kids to protect them, but riding in a car is the greater danger?

Skenazy: Oh, it's all ironic!

I love it. And I hope people listen to Skenazy. As I've discovered, even if you allow your kids the freedom to explore "free range," they won't enjoy it much if all their friends remain inside their protective pods.

Phoenix Bikes Bike Show - April 30

Phoenix Bikes

One Less Bike Blog

blah blah blah bikes.

There are way too many bike blogs. It’s sort of like mommy blogs but without the cuteness. Sex blogs without... sex.

Shut up and ride?

This is no longer a bike blog.

It's a pants blog.



Dickies Scotchguard pants in Bright Orange. Objet d'art.

Freewheeling Roundup

It's never too hot for multi-modal transportation... or you write the caption. (Photo from Bike Humour)

Craigslist: Free women's bike... pick up this weekend.

Hero's Quest: Hot Britney! (and her platonic friend) made it to Panama!!! But will they make it over the bridge into Panama City?

Bikes For The Rest Of Us (did you hear we're #2?): Specialized Vienna Deluxe.

Planetary Gears: What's the worst that can happen?

BFTROU Voted 2nd Best Local Bike Blog

According to City Paper, Bikes For The Rest of Us is D.C.'s second best bike blog.

Here's the City Paper write-up, which includes some great quotes from David:

BEST: THEWASHCYCLE

SECOND-BEST: BIKES FOR THE REST OF US

TheWashCycle scours local media for news of interest to cyclists.

Bikes for the Rest of Us tries to get you riding, and not just for fun.

“For too long, the US bicycle industry has made the tacit assumption that bicycling is a recreational or fitness activity,” David Moskovitz, 35, one of the site’s authors, writes in an e-mail. “The needs and desires of the person who uses a bike to get around town are very different.”

To that end, Bikes for the Rest of Us periodically presents a new bike model, running down its utility-cycling bona fides: racks, fenders, chainguards — basically anything that makes a bike useful instead of fast.

“Tell interested non-cyclists that they need special clothes and shoes to take a ten mile ride on a Sunday afternoon, and see how many takers you get,” says Moskovitz. “[F]irst we have to get them on the bikes. We can worry about the stuff later.”

—Andrew Beaujon

x-posted at BFTROU

Eat Chili and Support the DC Rollergirls

Meat Will Kill Ya

Now there's a scientific study that backs me up:

Washington Post front page story 3/24/09

Still, the most persuasive reason to go vegetarian remains...



Sex Appeal.