Cycling

Big Cars, Small Freedom

How oversized SUVs and pickup trucks are sabotaging walkable cities, safety, and climate — and why we need to deflate the big-car arms race.

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Is a Car Horn the Best Horn For Bicycles?

Why familiar car-style horns from Loud Bicycle help drivers react faster than bells and sirens when seconds matter for people biking.

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The Fastest Way Around Boston: Bikes vs the T from Cleveland Circle

Using travel-time maps from Cleveland Circle, we compare cycling and the MBTA to see which is really faster for getting around Boston.

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You Are The Traffic

Why congestion always comes back, why private cars don't scale with growing cities, and what 80 years of transport research says you're really looking at when you're 'stuck in traffic'.

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AirZound Bike Horn Review: Loud Air, Mixed Results in the Cold

A deep dive into the AirZound pump-up bike horn: how it works, how it behaves in real traffic and cold weather.

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Laser Bike Lights: From Virtual Lanes to Projected Bike Symbols

A deep dive into the history of bicycle laser lights, from early ‘virtual lane’ concepts to today’s projection lights, with a look at which products are still on the market and which have disappeared.

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Cycling and Mental Health: How Two Wheels Protect Your Mind

How everyday cycling reduces depression, anxiety, and stress—and how small safety upgrades like lights and loud horns help more people ride.

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Hövding Airbag Bike Helmets: Rise, Fall, and What Comes Next

A deep dive into Hövding’s airbag ‘invisible helmet’ for cyclists: how it works, what safety testing found, why it was pulled from the market, and how the brand is being revived.

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Bike Radar Lights: How Rear Sensors Became the New Safety Upgrade

Rear-view radar lights started as niche Garmin gadgets and are now a whole ecosystem: Garmin Varia, Wahoo Trackr, Trek CarBack, budget radars from Magene and Magicshine, plus experimental projects like Loud Bicycle’s Commute Guardian.

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Cycling for Physical Health: Turning Everyday Trips into Exercise

How everyday cycling improves heart, metabolic, and musculoskeletal health—and how simple safety upgrades like lights and car-horn-loud bicycle horns make it easier to ride consistently.

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Is the Hornit Enough to Keep You Safe?

A short, practical review of the Hornit siren-style bike horn, and why a car-horn-like option such as the Loud Mini can work better in real traffic emergencies.

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Berlin’s Bike Budget Cuts: How a Climate Capital Got Cold Feet

Berlin went from climate-mobility poster child to cutting bike and pedestrian budgets in half. What happened, and what can other cities learn before they backslide too?

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Beyond Home and Work: Bikes, Third Places, and Social Health Across the Lifespan

How walking, cycling, and people-first streets can cut loneliness and rebuild social health from childhood through older age in car-centric societies.

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How Car-Dependent Grocery Trips Turn Into Food Waste

How car-based supermarket runs encourage overbuying and food waste in the U.S—and how bikeable, dense neighborhoods flip the script.

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Cycling and Brain Health: How Regular Riding Protects Memory and Aging Brains

How regular cycling boosts brain health, supports cognitive function, and may lower dementia risk across the lifespan, with evidence-backed tips for aging well.

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Cycling’s Hidden Dividend: The Economics of Two Wheels vs Four

How riding a bike instead of driving saves households money, boosts local business, and pays cities back through health and infrastructure savings.

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Cycling for Environmental Health: Air Quality, Noise, and Population-Level Benefits

How shifting everyday trips from cars to bikes cuts air pollution, reduces harmful noise, and delivers outsized population-level health benefits.

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Sleep, Quiet, and Recovery: How Bikes Give Our Nervous Systems a Break

How traffic noise disrupts sleep, circadian rhythms, and stress recovery—and how cycling and quiet transit can help restore nightly recovery.

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Paris After the Car

Paris shows how a car-choked capital can quickly become quieter, cleaner, and more livable, and what other gridlocked cities can copy.

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The Reason Our Streets Switched to Cul-De-Sacs

How federal housing policy, neighborhood-unit planning, and engineering manuals pushed North American streets from walkable grids to cul-de-sacs—and what that means for safety, traffic, and active travel.

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