Category Archives: biking

You should bike (if you want to)

Posted on 9 March 2016 by zolltan

For someone who has spent a bunch of time on the internet talking about bicycles, I don’t bike all that much. Sure, I usually bike to work, but then my work is a 15 minute bike ride away. That, and the … Continue reading →

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Songbook of Weeks: Bike to work week

Posted on 30 October 2014 by zolltan

Since Bicycle Day isn’t actually about bicycles in any way, we might as well celebrate bike to work week (which is happening in Vancouver this week). Queen – Bicycle Race St. Vincent – Bicycle Pink Floyd – Bike mum – … Continue reading →

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I wanna be non-doored

Posted on 28 October 2014 by zolltan

As recently mentioned, getting doored by a car sucks a lot, and my theory is that fear of dooring probably makes people bike in a less safe manner overall. But there is an easy cure for dooring: get drivers to … Continue reading →

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For the bicycle-curious

Posted on 20 October 2014 by zolltan

And now, some good news: David Roberts, superstar environmental journalist has apparently recently returned from a year-long hiatus at grist, which is great, because he is a very good journalist (note, this was a lot more recent when I started writing … Continue reading →

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One of the stupidest things I’ve ever read *Updated*

Posted on 4 March 2013 by zolltan

Sometimes, one can get to thinking that politicians, though I often disagree with them, are trying to improve things, working for the common good, or even at least trying to advance their own personal careers and ambitions. Clearly, this isn’t … Continue reading →

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Down (-wards on the map from) and Out (-side) of Paris and London

Posted on 9 August 2012 by zolltan

Blog traffic has been flagging lately, so we must not be writing anything that is interesting to people. The things that people on WordPress seem to like most are inspirational tales of hardships overcome and reinforcements of the mantra to … Continue reading →

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zolltan continues to blather on about bike helmets

Posted on 11 July 2012 by zolltan

So Vancouver’s getting a new bikeshare program, which is fantastic news. It is especially fantastic news considering that one of the first things that set me against bike helmet laws is that they seemed to make it impossible to run … Continue reading →

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Straat autovrij, kinderen blij

Posted on 30 May 2012 by zolltan

This is the kind of blog post where I repeat what I’ve already said before, but more forcefully. In other words, it’s like the Zuuko posts on Europe. Oh, I also link to a bunch of videos. So here‘s a … Continue reading →

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Cross Canada Tour

Posted on 27 May 2012 by zolltan

So a week ago our friends A. and M. embarked on a cross-Canada bike trip (see http://www.tourdesustainability.org for all about it). For this reason, and because I like songs that mention cities, here’s a cross-Canada playlist! British Columbia: Gordon Downie … Continue reading →

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Dangerovich is my patronymic

Posted on 22 March 2012 by zolltan

So this weekend I was out for a bike ride with some friends of mine and we stopped by a bike shop. And the guy at the bike shop told us that we should be wearing helmets. He said, “if … Continue reading →

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