Commuter Profile

Bike riding journalist

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Carrie Peterson reports on crime for the Democrat Herald newspaper in Albany, Oregon, which is south of Salem about halfway between Portland and Eugene. Carrie’s beat includes burglaries, thefts, homicides, fires, car crashes, scams, court cases, drug activity. And for the next three weeks, Carrie is doing this without a car.
She’s been very honest [...]

Sport Utility Bike

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Anthony and Nickie Stout live car-free in Longmont, Colorado with their two small children. Among their several bikes is the “Lllama” — a Surly Big Dummy with custom crafted rear seats that they use for camping trips in the Colorado Rocky Mountains Front Range.

Of the Big Dummy, Anthony writes:
it is remarkable how much less [...]

Commuter profile: Suit in the City

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

One of the more common reasons given why people don’t bike commute is because they can’t wear office wear on their Bianchi Pista track bikes.

This bike commuter is architect Riyad Ghannam in San Francisco. He rode is bike to elementary school, middle school, high school, to his college classes in North Carolina, and now to [...]

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