Posts tagged ‘biking’
Price for hitting bicyclists drops
July 20th, 2010 at 9:17 am by Dr. Drang
You may recall the case of Mary Rehm, the woman who tried to run over a couple of bicyclists in downtown Naperville. She succeeded in hitting one of the bikes and dragging it under her car for several blocks (the biker jumped off when he heard her gun the engine and wasn’t hurt). She was…
Halfway
July 16th, 2010 at 11:48 am by Dr. Drang
Assuming I continue riding through the end of November, as I have for the last few years, I’m now at the halfway point of biking season. How am I doing? Not bad. Last year I finished with just over 2500 miles. Barring injury, a lot of bad weather, or a lot of business travel, I…
LATE Ride
July 11th, 2010 at 10:22 pm by Dr. Drang
Last night, my wife and I did the LATE Ride, a 25-mile post-midnight bike ride through Chicago. It’s our second year of doing it, and it’s been a lot of fun both times. The LATE (Long After Twilight Ends) Ride is a fundraiser for the Friends of the Parks, a “park advocacy organization, dedicated to…
The ride to work
July 8th, 2010 at 5:10 pm by Dr. Drang
The weather for the past few days has been jumping around lot. Every day has been mostly hot and humid—the usual for July—punctuated by brief but heavy thunderstorms. This has played havoc with the kids’ sports schedules, but has been great for the bike path I take to work. Most of my ride to work…
Biking season is like deer season
May 4th, 2010 at 9:52 am by Dr. Drang
If you’re a bicyclist who rides in Naperville, you’ll be interested to know that the cost of attacking you with a car has just been set by a DuPage County judge: 21 days, to be served in three-day increments over seven weeks. And although the attacker has been forced to give up her gun owner’s…
Google Maps bike route fix
April 8th, 2010 at 9:24 am by Dr. Drang
As I said at the end of this post last month, I sent Google a bug report about their new bicycling directions. I had tested out the new feature by asking it for the directions from my home to office, a route that I bike almost every weekday 8-9 months of the year. The directions…
Bike mileage and spreadsheet embedding
April 4th, 2010 at 10:50 am by Dr. Drang
Early last month, I started another spreadsheet at Google Docs to track my bike mileage for the year. It’s simply a copy of last year’s spreadsheet, which worked out quite well. Here’s a live embed of the spreadsheet that will update through the year. It’s not that I think you’re all that interested in tracking…
Suburban blight
March 12th, 2010 at 10:48 pm by Dr. Drang
As I mentioned last week, I’ve started biking to work again after the winter layoff. This is the first year it’s been consistently warm enough1 to start bicycle commuting in March, and because the frost is still working its way out of the ground, I’ve been leery of taking my normal route on the crushed…
Google bike directions
March 10th, 2010 at 11:59 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve been using Google Maps to choose bike routes for years. The route I took today from my office to downtown Naperville, for example, uses a set of residential streets and sidewalks along busy roads that I first found by studying its aerial photos. Now Google has a specific option for getting bicycling directions. I…
Biking begins
March 5th, 2010 at 7:58 pm by Dr. Drang
The first full week of March has me moving out of winter mode and getting more active. I had my last two session of physical therapy for the slipped disk I suffered right after Christmas1 and started riding my bike to work again. March typically isn’t a great month for riding, and I don’t expect…
