Comments on: What are the top cities for bicycle commuting?

By: ValkRaider

ValkRaider — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:40:19 +0000

Hmmm. Tim Grahl has not “checked in” since comment number 2.

I wonder if he has even read any of the feedback here, after that point?

By: LosFelizRider

LosFelizRider — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:04:34 +0000

I am a regular reader of this blog, too, and I enjoy and value what I find here.

But I think the reason some posters are ruffled is that this post’s headline is misleading in that way that AOL.com headlines cheat you into clicking on them: “What A-List Celeb Killed Her Mother?” And you click that headline [of course] and find out it’s a silly trivial story about a plotline in an upcoming episode of “Desperate Housewives” (or something like that).

This post is NOT “The Top Cities For Bicycle Commuting”. Com’on CbB, you know this. This post IS “What My Blog Web Stats Tell Me About My Readers’ IP Addresses”.

Big diff, and the misleading (and probably inaccurate) conclusion that is manifest in the headline is why your readers, including this one, are ticked off a bit.

This is a great blog, really. Please don’t write these kinds of misleading headlines or draw inconclusive conclusions.

Ride on!

By: Curmudgeon

Curmudgeon — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:18:01 +0000

Did your stats show that I read your website while I’m pooping on the toilet? Because that’s where I was when I discovered your site. God bless laptops.

By: Michael R

Michael R — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:16:30 +0000

I agree with the complaints raised by others. When I visit this site from work my hit comes from Minneapolis. Until I changed ISPs last month my home visits registered as Seattle. In just the last few weeks have any of my visits counted for Portland.

You also don’t seem to have done anything to count for raw population. Chicago, with a metro area population of 9.7 million provides more hits than Portland with a metro area population of 2.1 million, which includes Vancouver, WA. Did Chicago provide over four times as many hits? If not your rating it as #1 doesn’t make a lot of sense.

How about some numbers to go along with the heat map dots?

By: steve

steve — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:55:30 +0000

Peter, good to see someone else from Houston. I used to commute from Meyerland to Bellaire/Med Center via the Braes bayou trail, but job transfer led me to 1960 and 249! I just can’t do it anymore, although I hope this is temporary. Do you commute? BTW, Tim, thanks for the numbers. Why this is stirring controversy is pretty silly.

By: Daniel (teknotus) Johnson

Daniel (teknotus) Johnson — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:01:19 +0000

That analysys assumes that the distribution in interest in this site is highest in the cities with the most bike commuters. I hadn’t ever heard of this site until someone posted about how Portland wasn’t #1. I don’t need a website to find out about bike commuting when 1 in 20 people in the city are bike commuters, or in some parts 1 in 5.

By: bikehorn

bikehorn — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:52:37 +0000

i have to say i’m surprised to see london in there…

i ride atleast 5 days a week, and whilst it’s vastly superior to cramming on to the sweaty tube carriages, it ain’t exactly ‘friendly’ out there.

although.. it is ‘fun’

By: rick

rick — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:47:10 +0000

They don’t seem to care in Montana and Wyoming.

By: wannaCmore

wannaCmore — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:38:46 +0000

I don’t commute by bike, yet… I’m using this site (and a few others) as infotainment for hen I get one w/the stimulus pkg $$.

By: nick

nick — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:39:30 +0000

i like to see that dot roundly over st. louis