This guy really does loaded touring, wow

Gotta say, pretty surprised such a great pro city-biking commercial could have been made. Beautiful functional city bike, people utilizing their bike for function and cargo, people having FUN on a bike, perfect. Thanks Kaiser for this pro bike spot

I like this commercial so much I’m willing to glance over the sidewalk and wrong way riding

Bikes on California Ave, UC Davis, originally uploaded by amsthirty.

Here’s a USA Today article citing some examples of high schools and universities looking to deter students from bringing cars to campus through various changes and incentive programs. The crown jewel example is Ripon College’s precedent setting program where they’ve agreed to offer incoming freshmen a brand new Trek mountain bike in exchange for not bringing a car to campus; pretty sweet deal if you ask me. What I find interesting about this type of incentive program is that the school may actually save money by giving each student a $300 bike; get everyone to ditch their car and you won’t have to build new parking lots/structures. I know at my local university one single parking space comes at the cost of $11,000…ELEVEN THOUSAND!

Other programs listed to discourage car usage and/or encourage bicycle usage are on campus bicycle shops, loaner bikes (ie bike library), more bike racks on campus, pathways and more.

Check out the full article: Schools move to eject cars from campuses - USA Today

If you couldn’t tell, this post is purely satire to go along with the satirical video about traffic here:

If you’re been reading my blog lately you’ve seen that I’ve been pretty excited about these high gas prices but I understand not all share my odd enthusiasm. So if perhaps you don’t, I really encourage you to give this list of 10 things you can like about $4 gas a read. All the points are spot on and you really can learn to love our new higher gas prices.

Read the article here

IKEA of Denmark is now starting a new concept at their Danish stores. They did a bit of market research and found that roughly 20% of their customers rode their bikes to the stores…

IKEA has invested in Velorbis bikes, at a couple of their stores, that will pull trailers so that customers can ride home with the new purchases.

Read more at Copenhagenize.com

No big surprises here but still a cool thing to think about and quite a big commitment to car-free lifestyle by Ikea.