Slow Biking: “if you think you’re going to sweat, slow down” by Kirsten Dirksen on June 3, 2009 “First there was Slow Food and then Slow Travel, Slow Companies, Slow Planet, etc. The time is ripe for Slow …
Bakfiets: a Dutch cargobike is the SUV of bikes by Kirsten Dirksen on March 8, 2009 It’s easy to assume once you have a couple of kids, your days of freewheeling are numbered. One kid seat …
Dutch bikes: appliances, not sporting goods by Kirsten Dirksen on February 11, 2009 There are more bicycles than people in the Netherlands: 18 million bikes for 16.3 million people. There are less than …
Commute bikes 2008 by Kirsten Dirksen on May 5, 2008 New gear makes it easier to ditch the car. Shiftless gearing, electric boost, micro-foldable models to cycle to the train …
When a bike beats a car: how appropriate is our transport? by Kirsten Dirksen on April 27, 2008 If we were truly a society addicted to speed, more of us would get out of our cars. The average …
Smart bikes: bike-sharing redux by Kirsten Dirksen on October 17, 2007 In cities like Paris, Barcelona and Vienna, residents use a smarter generation of bike-sharing programs. Now North American cities like …
