Anyway, this blog isn't supposed to limited to riding my bike, but that's naturally received a lot of my attention lately. I haven't read all of these to completion, but they definitely touch on specific topics that I am interested in, so maybe I'll comment on them thematically at a later date:
- The Brian Lehrer Show, "Bicycling 101," WNYC, July 23, 2012
- Grant Petersen, Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike (Workman Publishing Company, 2012)
- BikeSnobNYC (a.k.a. Eben Weiss), The Enlightened Cyclist: Commuter Angst, Dangerous Drivers, and Other Obstacles on the Path to Two-Wheeled Trancendence (Chronicle Books, 2012)
- Robin Sloan, "The Wiggle of Least Resistance," New York Times, August 3, 2012
- Randy Cohen, "If Kant Were a New York Cyclist," New York Times, August 4, 2012
- Eric Jaffe, "Why Cyclists Run Red Lights," The Atlantic Cities, August 6, 2012
My friend P (who sent me the WNYC link) also recently found a contest run by the Paris Review in which you could win a bike if you could describe what's happening in the picture below, 1) in 100 words or less, and 2) in the style of Elizabeth Bishop, Ray Bradbury, Joan Didion, Ernest Hemingway, or P. G. Wodehouse. I happen to love some of Joan Didion's essays, but alas! I missed the deadline.
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| Notice the skirt guard and chain guard; this bike is not American |
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