Sad news in the Providence Journal, yesterday, about a gentleman, father of two, who fell off his bicycle and died two days later of a brain hemorrhage. I am always amazed – and saddened – that, while many parents enforce a helmet use policy for their children, they eschew them for their own use.  When I
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MapQuest posted on their blog today that Due to popular demand – and our desire for options – we’ve just released worldwide pedestrian and bicycle routing on all of our open.mapquest.* sites along with domestic transit routing on our Open.MapQuest.com site! The bicycle and pedestrian routing is wholly based on OpenStreetMap data – if it’s
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Injury Prevention Center of Rhode Island Hospital is seeking volunteers for 3 bicycling safety rodeos during Bike Month.

Is it just me, or does this video remind you of the good old days when you just got into your car? The next time you have second thoughts about not riding your bike somewhere, even when it’s cold, just remember all the joys of the common alternative