Article by Li Muxin in the Chinese Publication - Women of China. Direct Link to the article is here - http://www.womenofchina.com.cn/html/node/1011-1.htm   The community group known as Smarter Than Cars (STC) is trying to show that living and moving around Beijing is better on two wheels. The members stress both the importance of keeping Beijing's bike culture alive and how the city can gro...

It's hard to imagine Beijing without cars as it seems so far away from the direction the city is traveling. For a few thousand Beijing actually had no cars and functioned pretty well. While I can't see that Beijing is going to remove cars anytime in the near future it is still worth thinking about how this city might be shaped in the future and hearing the opinion of the urban visionary Enrique...

This page shows you real ways you can get hit and real ways to avoid them. This is a far cry from normal bicycle safety guides, which usually tell you little more than to wear your helmet and to follow the law. But consider this for a moment: Wearing a helmet will do absolutely nothing to prevent you from getting hit by a car. Sure, helmets might help you if you get hit, but you...

Speed Bikes are just as fast (or nearly as fast) as cars on short trips (<5 miles) inside the city -- which are a majority of all trips. (More than half of Americans live less than five miles from their jobs.) For all the examples below, we'll use 5 miles as the commuting distance. Cars have a very high top speed but that's irrelevant for most commutes, since most are slowwed down by ...

The Cyclist Lifestyle Two questions immediately suggest themselves: 1) What is a cyclist? 2) Do cyclists have a common lifestyle? Research articles and statistical reports avoid "cyclist," perhaps to prevent confusion with motorcyclists, using "bicyclist" or "pedalcyclist" instead. Newspapers, on the other hand, use "cyclist" to describe anyone riding a bike. History can help, as...

The Cyclist Lifestyle Two questions immediately suggest themselves: 1) What is a cyclist? 2) Do cyclists have a common lifestyle? Research articles and statistical reports avoid "cyclist," perhaps to prevent confusion with motorcyclists, using "bicyclist" or "pedalcyclist" instead. Newspapers, on the other hand, use "cyclist" to describe anyone riding a bike. History can help, ...

had a lovely woman come into the studio yesterday and we discussed gears on bicycles and how they worked. Apparently she didn’t know how to use them and nobody helped her learn. This post is to all the women in the world who get frustrated with bicycles and elitist riders who make them feel badly. In a word, don’t. You learn things differently than men and it is ok! You don’t ha...

Photo by Alexandra Moss. Once known as the world’s ‘bicycle kingdom,’ China has experienced rapid urbanization leading some to declare the beginning of the end for China’s bikes. While it’s true that from 1995 to 2005, China’s bike fleet declined by 35 percent and private car ownership more than doubled, there is no evidence today that bicycles are a thing of the past on B...