Karen Voyer-Caravona is an admitted bicycle dilettante in Flagstaff, Arizona, who blogs about her adventures on two wheels, vélo envy, her husband's cooking, and cross country skiing at www.sheridesabike.com. Visit her Website for her endless opinions on the most stylish shoes for pedaling, critiques of bike parking, and the best bike date dining destinations. According to the Cleverhood Website their product is a “smart looking, high-performance rain cape ... built for the demanding requirements of the urban lifestyle.” The description seems pretty on target to me and I’ll outline just why very shortly. Regular Commute by Bike readers might recall the post of New Year’s Bike Commuting Resolutions posted in early January. I resolved to do a better job of biking through ...

Commute by Bike has been HuffPo'd! Welcome, readers of The Huffington Post. We hope you enjoyed the article, "Bike To Work: Commute With 'Park To Pedal' Instead Of Driving All The Way" with it's link to Tim Grahl's article over here, "A Guide to a Simple Bike Commute." And thank you for continuing to explore our site. Look at you there, reading this article that I wrote, when you could be back reading about the woman who faked having cancer to get money for her wedding and honeymoon. (I just lost some of you. I should never have made that a link.) Anyway, the whole "Park to Pedal" concept is interesting, but I see a flaw in it. In theory, you drive halfway to work ...

Tom Bowden is a bike commuter from Richmond VA, a “suit” - a corporate lawyer with an MBA, and a conservative – You betcha! He is also a board member of Bike Virginia, a pro cycling and pedestrian group in Virginia that raises money to promote cycling, walking and active lifestyles. Tom's lawyerly blogging can be found at: http://vabizlawyers.com/author/tbowden/ I had a dream that I was watching the news last night, and it went something like this... This just in: Iran Admits to Nuclear Weapons Program, agrees to disband by Thursday to be followed by unlimited international inspections. Immediately prior to his public self-beheading in Tehran, Former President Ahmadinejad admitted it was all a huge error and the US "isn't really so terrible ...

Mike Rubbo, filmmaker, painter and cycling advocate, raises some very interesting questions in his short film, “The Return of the Speedwells.” Focusing specifically on Australia, Rubbo faults the media for its depiction of cycling as a competitive and aggressive sport, to the exclusion of images of the friendlier, utilitarian benefits of cycling. he sport cycling culture here crowds out every other sort of cycling in Australia. It takes over the whole habitat. Sure it's exciting, it's challenging, but it stifles bikes as transport. For that way of riding, there's just no room left in the public mind or the media. He tells this story through Gill Charlton, an enthusiast who cranks out the miles on her road bike but has rediscovered feelings ...

Somebody yelled at me from a car this week. I'm pretty sure he was yelling at me. It happened so quickly. I was heading down a hill, preparing for a left turn. I checked the traffic behind me with my rear-view mirror. I moved out of the bike lane, into the main lane, and toward the left turn lane. A brown SUV going the opposite direction had just pulled out of the driveway on my trajectory, leading into an apartment complex that I cut through almost every day. And as the SUV passed me, I heard a hostile, Doppler-shifted voice yell, Get the fu@&remafdr.....! That's what it sounded like to me, anyway. In a flash, I concluded that he was yelling at me because ...

Keith is a Flagstaff resident, an all-time, all-weather, all-conference/all-state bicycle commuter. If you want to get him a present he would love a Park Tool TM-1 spoke tension meter. He writes a filthy, NSFA (Not Safe For Anything) blog at www.spacedriftin.blogspot.com. He aspires to own a pair of Bar-Mitts one day. Before trying out this portable, bike mount-able, music dock I strictly used earbuds to listen to music while riding, which is about 90% of all my bike trips. After trying out the Jam-Pac Premium Handlebar Bag by Audible Rush I'll probably still wear my earbuds most of the time, but there was much about the Jam-Pac that I liked and there are times when I'd prefer to use the Jam-Pac. I ...