Day 50 of My Car-Free Experiment – Met A Human-Powered Amphibian        
Today's Picture: Meet the Invisible Bicyclist, Carter Ruml. He has a passion for rowing a one-man scull on the Ohio River – and at regattas in distant waters. But in recent months, the Louisville attorney has turned his interest to another form of hu ... more
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Day 48 of My Car-Free Experiment – And 262 Days Until RAGBRAI 38        
Today's Picture: A view of an Iowa highway overrun with bikes during the 2009 Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI). It's a week-long adventure that attracts bicyclists from all over the U.S. and the world to ride nearly 500 mile ... more
  posted Nov 3, 09    102 views    1 kudos

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Day 45 of My Car-Free Experiment — Looking Out For Land Mines        
Today's picture: On my way to church, I passed more than a dozen hazardous utility caps like this one. While I take in the brilliant fall color in the canopy of maples along my route, I need to be aware that land mines are armed and ready to trip up ... more
  posted Nov 1, 09    143 views   

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Day 43 of My Car-Free Experiment – And One Man's Success Story        
Today's picture: David Crowell, 38, is the "Invisible Bicyclist." Stay alert behind the wheel of your car or you may miss him. David commutes as much as he can from Charlestown, Ind. to the Kentucky Center for the Arts, where he's a database administ ... more
  posted Oct 29, 09    96 views   

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Day 41 of My Car-Free Experiment – So, Why Do We Prefer Bikes?        
Today's picture: Meet Gay Windsor, 82, from Old Louisville – today's "Invisible Bicyclist." She routinely rides her Murray bicycle to Greentree Mall, across the river, a couple of times a week. And she thinks nothing of cycling to Robben's Roost on S ... more
  posted Oct 27, 09    150 views    1 kudos

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Day 38 of My Car-Free Experiment – Cut Out Welfare for Motorists!        
If you're one who believes cyclists don't belong on the streets – that we're just a bunch of freeloaders who don't even pay gas tax to keep the roads repaired – you'll first need to get out of your gasoline induced trance, then let's talk. For start ... more
  posted Oct 25, 09    168 views    1 kudos

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Day 37 of My Car-Free Experiment – It's No Mere Hobby, Mr. Woeste        
Today's Picture: For one week every summer, nearly 20,000 bicyclists take over the highway, for roughly 500 miles across Iowa. The event, called RAGBRAI, has an economic impact of more than $2 million a day, proving that bikes can be very good for th ... more
  posted Oct 24, 09    110 views   

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Plastic wrapped bananas        
The banana may well be the perfect food -- it even comes with its own handy, easy-to-remove, biodegradable packaging. But, come on, we wouldn't be were we were as a society if we knew how to leave well enough alone. So no one should be surprised a ... more
  posted Oct 20, 09    344 views   

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Day 34 of My Car-Free Experiment – When Will Women Bike More?        
Today's picture: Heather Floyd, a regular bicycle commuter, gets ready to ride from downtown to her home in the Highlands. Susan B. Anthony once said the bicycle "has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world." In the 1890s the b ... more
  posted Oct 19, 09    165 views   

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Day 33 of My Car-Free Experiment – When Did Bike Geeks Get Chic?        
On May 11, 2006, I scanned an Article in The Wall Street Journal that rocked my consciousness. "Commuting to work by bike has renewed appeal right now," it announced. "On top of health benefits – like offering a chance to exercise without taking extr ... more
  posted Oct 18, 09    151 views    1 kudos

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