The MinusCar Project

Trips - MinusCar: 43 Multi-occupant Auto: 51 Single occupant Auto: 27 I’ve been slacking off on these reports since mid March. I’ve been a l...

Pop Quiz: which US Senator said these words about high gas prices on April 27th? “[The truth is] there probably aren’t a lot of short term s...

Something pretty bizarre happened to me today. I was checking out the local television news before supper tonight and their obligatory high ...

Red Light, Missed Chance – in January I mentioned my not so secret desire to someday be cited for riding through a red light. Yesterday mor...

I celebrated my 21st birthday tonight with my good friends /kt and DDD. There are 51 years of friendship between me and those two guys. If ...

My previous post "Sidewalks & Cycling" led to some interesting comments which led me through some pretty enjoyable thought ex...

So much to write about…so little time. September 4, 2005 I described my reasons for why I choose not to ride by bicycle on sidewalks. Monda...

It started Sunday with the disappearance of half my keys…the house key being one of them. The house key isn’t all that important to me right...

A funny thing happened in the college town of Vermillion this week. An Assistant Editor of the Student Newspaper published an invitation for...

My daily blog round-up led me to an article about what has occurred in Cuba after the fall of the Soviet Union. The fall left Cuba with 50% ...

The Boy 4 came up sick today. I took the call at work, hopped on the bike to retrieve The Wife's car, and recovered The Boy 4 from the f...

Saturday morning I replaced The Boys desktop PC with an inherited laptop. I re-wired my desktop PC and household entertainment center so tha...

For 200km George Hincapie had one of the lightest strongest steerer tubes technology could buy. With 45km to go, George had two(!) of the li...

My favorite professional bike racer George Hincapie rides his favorite race Paris Roubaix tomorrow. He finished 2nd last year. He's fini...

The Other Tyler Hamilton types on his keyboard and broadens my world again. Over at the Clean Break Blog he talks about "small wind...

I rode to lunch today. I went to KFC, two blocks away from work, and grabbed two Buffalo Snackers. I had to get them to-go because I was run...

Yo Dick. This isn’t your grandfather’s energy crisis – first off, New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnist Thomas Friedman was on NPR’s Fre...

I still like the good news better. When I look at all the vehicles following the big races, and all the miles driven during multi-day tours ...