Thanks to The Bike Rack for offering free coffee to brighten up a gloomy morning commute!
You know you’re a Capital Bikeshare pusher when three or more friends send you this Slate article, just in case you hadn’t seen it!
(I had. Of course).
If you had been handed, a decade ago, a map of the U.S. and asked to predict where the novel idea of bike sharing—then limited to a few small-scale projects in a handful of European cities, might first find its firmest footing, you probably would have laid your money on a progressive hub like Portland or Seattle or the regional poles of walkable urbanism, New York or San Francisco—all of which were scoring higher, those days, in surveys like Bicycling magazine’s list of most bikeable cities. But today, the nation’s largest, most successful bike-share program—in terms of size, ridership, and financial viability—is in Washington, D.C. How did D.C. accomplish this unlikely task?
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein (via kari-shma)
(via quote-book)
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A sad day for this Capital Bikeshare user, as my black “original member” key has bit the dust — no longer fitting into the docks. Guess it’s time for a replacement.
An absolutely gorgeous morning for a bike ride into the office.
(With a gratuitous peek of hairy leg)!
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Serbia. Bass player on the road Belgrade-Kraljevo, to play at a village festival near Rudnick. Yugoslavia 1965
If I got back into bass-playing, I would aspire to this kind of bike riding.
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Weekend biking highlight: my first panda portrait (though I clearly need to work on my framing)!
Feeling like a Parisian stereotype in DC with my bicycle stop at the farmers market. No bordeaux or baguette, though.
