Tag: Bike

When I was 7 years old, my mom and I would have study sessions on the balcony. With my tiny hands, I held papers printed with long tables containing the base form, present tense, past tense, and past participle of regular and irregular verbs in the English language. With my Russel-like figure and my...

Recent years have seen a surge in bicycle technology as transformative as anything since the penny-farthing gave way to the safety bike. Bike-share systems provide access to bikes without the troubles of parking or storage. Electric bikes boost the length of an acceptable ride far beyond what t...

In my 3+ years of local advocacy I’ve heard every objection under the sun to putting in safe bike infrastructure. It seems that no one objects to bike lanes themselves, but they object to the reallocation of space that make safe bike lanes possible. Drivers seem to view roads as exclusive...

I have used public bike services all around the world. ECOBICI is excellent, with 480 bike stations and 6,800 bikes. However, I found the ECOBICI temporary registration renewal very frustrating. There is nothing worse than approaching a bike station and having to spend 45 ...

Hallelujah! It’s about time somebody said something about the manner in which bicyclists ride in the Big Apple. I’m a native New Yorker who’s been riding the streets of the city daily for over 30 years. And the changes I’ve seen over the decades are considerable. Back in t...

The dataset used in this visual analysis includes records from February 2022 to March 2023 allowing for an extensive temporal analysis of bike usage patterns during this period. For more information about this dataset, please refer to one of my previous posts: The Paris Bike Count Data provide...

This summer our family went to Prague to visit our daughter Sadie, who’s graduated from college and moved to Europe to work as an English teacher. I decided to bring my bike, since I was tacking on a bike business-related work trip to London afterwards. I’d ridden bikes once before in...

My home for 6 years, Tokyo, is a city with countless dimensions. It boasts the dazzling splendour of Ginza and the somber slums of Arakawa, embodying a spectrum of rhythms within its urban expanse. Navigating the city via public transport is an experience in itself — a testament to remarkab...

Think of teaching regulation skills like teaching children to ride a bicycle. We don’t just put a kid on a bike and expect them to figure it out for themselves. First, we might teach them how to balance and explain the mechanics of keeping the bike upright. Next, we might hold on to the bac...