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		<title>Liquor Store Drive-Thru by Bike</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2011/12/30/liquor-store-drive-thru-by-bike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was getting late. I knew it would be cold outside. I was starting to think of my commute home, and thinking of what pretext I might have to get a ride home from my wife &#8212; a pretext that would not involve an admission that I just didn&#8217;t feel like cycling home. Aha! My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing Dog / Seeing the Light</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2011/12/21/seeing-dog-seeing-the-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Apophenia is the experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.&#8221; It is the very human tendency to put meaning into random and unrelated information. For example, I recently saw Dog in the wood grain of a baseboard at a local restaurant. Some would call it pareidolia (a vague and random [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bike Commuter is Born — On&#160;the&#160;Bainbridge&#160;Ferry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was nepotism day here on Commute by Bike. Today it&#8217;ll be cronyism. Tobias Eigen is a friend from the years I spent living in the Washington, DC Beltway &#8212; Takoma Park, Maryland to be specific. (&#8220;Capital of hippie-land&#8230; home of the squirrel lady and that guy who walks around swinging a dead fox.&#8221;) I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fight Road Rash with a Good Headlight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew D. Johnson, Ph.D. is the director of the Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory and formerly the deputy to the president of Binghamton University, blah de blah blah&#8230; He&#8217;s my brother. Sounds like a smart guy, huh? Like I said, he&#8217;s my brother. Decide for yourself. &#8211;Ted I have been thinking about the advantages of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Fox, Goose, Running, Bike Commuting, and Beer Puzzle</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2011/10/19/the-fox-goose-running-bike-commuting-and-beer-puzzle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.commutebybike.com/2011/10/19/the-fox-goose-running-bike-commuting-and-beer-puzzle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know that the aversion some people have to commuting to work is partially because of the logistics and planning involved &#8212; at least in the beginning. After a time, these logistics become as second nature to us as, say, stopping for gas, or texting while driving is to many motorists. Bike commuting has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soul Cyclists: Different Motivations, Common Purpose</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2011/10/15/soul-cyclists-different-motivations-common-purpose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gene Clarke is a frequent commenter on Commute by Bike, known here as &#8220;Gene @ BU.&#8221; Gene sent me this story about a team of cyclists in Binghamton, New York. I would like to recognize my cycling friends, the Lourdes Hospital Mission in Motion Women’s Cycling Team. Yes, they are the Lycra clad weekend warrior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commutosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe I&#8217;ve achieved a new level of bike commuting: commutosis Lately, I&#8217;ll be sitting on my butt at a computer &#8212; like I am right now, and you probably are too. But I&#8217;ll be working away, and I won&#8217;t remember immediately how I got to work. Did I drive? And I&#8217;ll think for a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Peace, Love, and Tour Potatoes</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2011/07/12/peace-love-and-tour-potatoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I swung by KickStand Kafé all in the name of testing a newly-mounted bottle cage on my Dahon for its compatibility with my commuter coffee mug. While there, I found a deeper purpose to my commute. The building occupied by KickStand used to be a bike/ski shop, and the owners very shrewdly have [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Still Life with Gas Pump</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2011/05/10/still-life-with-gas-pump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 17:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.commutebybike.com/?p=11243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On my commute this morning, I passed by an antique store on Route 66. I stopped to check out the bikes for sale out front, hoping to find a rarity. (Once this store had a Schwinn tandem out front for about an hour before someone snagged it.) Today is was a Huffy and another generic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fix-Curious? An Experiment in Fixed-Gear Commuting -&#160;Part&#160;1</title>
		<link>http://www.commutebybike.com/2011/04/30/fix-curious-an-experiment-in-fixed-gear-commuting-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.commutebybike.com/2011/04/30/fix-curious-an-experiment-in-fixed-gear-commuting-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josh King lives in Seattle, where he commutes by bike every day, rain or shine.  He switched to full-time single speed commuting in 2010. You can read his thoughts on going gearless at www.singlespeedseattle.com At the beginning of 2010, frustrated by the mechanical problems and constant derailleur adjustments necessitated by riding through Seattle’s winters, I [...]]]></description>
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