TreeHugger has a great article comparing cars, buses, and bikes. They compare the real estate sacrificed by each mode of transportation.
This image pretty much summarizes everything.
(Image: Press-Office City of Müenster, Germany via TreeHugger)
Talking about starting a new year with a bang. First JC, myself and a bunch of other people did a 70 mile bike ride from San Francisco over Golden Gate bridge all the way to almost top of Mt. Tam. Phenomenal trip. Spectacular views of everything from gorgeous City by the Bay and the ocean. The visibility was so good that we actually saw Farallon islands. My friend BC has a bad luck of hitting Golden Gate in bad weather. For some reason I only bike across when it is spectacular.
So, yesterday, I took my bike from my place in San Jose over Calaveras road, all the way to the top of Mt. Diablo and back. This was my January Century a Month ride. What was the most amazing is that the temperatures were in the 70s. And this is in January. Felt like summer all the way there and back.
Here is a little video from my recent trip to Slovenia, where I did a lot of cycling. Among other, I biked from Ljubljana to Koper and then to Novi Grad, Croatia. All together about 107 miles.
Enjoy.
EC and I attended a road bike race on Sunday in Benicia, California. This was my first road race and it showed. I did several rookie mistakes, but I finished the race and I was not the last. And hey, sustaining close to 25 miles per hour for 30 minutes with lots of turns is actually pretty good. After about two thirds of the race, the pack dropped us and a small group of us was trying to finish the race. That meant no real drafting, no real pace line. We were all over the place. But all said and done, we were not the last.
Couple of things for the next time:
