Getting Started Bike Commuting: A Blogspedition inside Bike Style
The blog now stands at over 170 posts after a year of writing. Lots of advice is sprinkled throughout every post, along with my ponderings and miscellany on bike policy, infrastructure creation, and other aspects of becoming a bike-friendlier world.
This post serves as a categorized round-up of many of the posts you may find helpful if you’re thinking about bike commuting.
This green jersey dress is great for riding–soft and stretchy and skirt length doesn’t get caught in the spokes. Photo by the lovely ladies of Design Spike.
Clothing
- Women’s Clothing for Biking that Doesn’t Look Like It’s for Biking: What to Wear, What to Wear
- Wearing Real Clothes: A Radical Political Statement
- What to Wear for Your Bike Commute? Clothes.
- Bustin’ the Style Boundaries, Believe it or Not
- Wednesday Words: Bicycle Quotations on Women, Fashion, and Emancipation
- The Skirt Scoot: A Key Maneuver
- Sure Footing: The Blogspedition Goes Shoe Shopping
- It’s Pants Week. Share My Obsession.
- The Quest for the Perfect Pants: Phase I
- The Quest for the Perfect Pair of Pants for Biking: Are We There Yet? I Need to Go.
- Pants Management 101
- Sweaty Betty: The Blogspedition Looks for Answers to that Special Glow
- It’s Snot Pretty
- Pretty Handy, Gloves. The Blogspedition Assumes You’ll Get ‘Em.
- Shoulder Season: The Blogspedition Stays Toasty
- Cutest Dress You’ll Ever Sweat In: I Heart Nuu-Muus & Ruu-Muus
- Happy Bottom: Pedal Panties Review
Riding and Mechanics
- Things I Now Do on My Bike without Having to Think about It
- How to Get a Dropped Bike Chain Back On, Grease-Free
- That Was No Accident
- Falling Down on Your Bike. It Happens. To Grown-Ups.
- Reality Check
- It’s a Wild World
Weather
- Keep your Weather Eye Open
- Baby, It’s Cold Outside
- Still Riding!
- Beautiful Fall Riding
- Solstice Post: Gifts I Give Myself by Riding in the Winter
- Winter Ride Report: Sunshine and Splatter
Hauling Stuff
- Biking Commuting 101: Carrying Stuff
- The Search for the Perfect Purse: It May Just be a Bike Bag
- A Trunk for your Bike: Donkey Boxx Review
- Grocery Run: Impossible!
- Losing Weight
- How to Bike Commute: Getting the Gear Together
- Buying a Bike for Commuting: Some Questions and a Blogspedition
Getting Started as a Commuter
- On Getting from Here to There–A Betsy Post
- Becoming a Bike Commuter I: It’s Easy, One Mile at a Time
- Becoming a Bike Commuter II: A Few More Miles
- Hassle Factor: Driving vs. Biking
- Evolution, Not Revolution: All Biking Motives Welcome, Part I
- Evolution, Not Revolution: All Biking Motives Welcome, Part II
- Car, Bike, Bus: 3 Transportation Perspectives
Route Selection
- There and Back Again: How to Pick your Bike Commute Route
- Intro to Bike Commuting: Route Selection Part 2
- More Bike Commuting Route Selection Tips: Part 3
- Thinking like a Driver vs. Thinking like a Bicyclist
- 30 Days of Biking: Hills and Miles and Darkness, Oh My!
Bike Parking
Attitude
- How Bikes Can Save the World
- Feeling Good: Biking and Self-Image
- Why We Ride/Resolve to Ride–A Blogspedition
- Preparing to Commute by Bike: Get the Worry out of the Way
- 30 Days of Bike Commuting: You Can Do It!
- It’s All in the Attitude
- Mental Essentials for Bike Commuting: Risk and Trust
- More Mental Essentials for Bike Commuting: Friendliness and Openness
- Even More Mental Essentials for Bike Commuting: Tolerance, Humor, and Persistence
- Independence and Freedom, Courtesy of the Bicycle
- Bicycling Rites of Passage, Spokane Style
- In Which I Give Thanks for Biking
- Seeing with New Eyes
- Biking Is Good for Us: An Infographic “Duh”
- Getting Healthy: The Blogspedition Looks at Biking for Weight Loss
Rules of the Road
- Just Like Riding a Bike–Or Not: Reminders of those hand signals you learned as a kid and links to Spokane ordinances and Washington bike law
- Don’t Do This! A Post in which I Complain about People on Bikes
- Hint: It’s the First Word in the Boy Scout Law (No, Not Clean, Brave, or Reverent)
- Miss Manners Would Approve: Dealing with Drivers
Paying Attention
- Mindful Driving, Mindful Biking, and “Accidents”–Part I
- Mindful Driving, Mindful Biking, and “Accidents”–Part II
- It Pays to Pay Attention
- Unmindful Biking by Yours Truly
“Roll” Models
Women featured in our “On a Roll with” series talk about how they ride and other posts about or by individual women riders. Be inspired!
- Angela Brown
- Rachel Scrudder
- Wilma Flanagan
- Katherine Widing
- Jamie Morgan
- Mary Verner
- Betsy Lawrence
- Fat Girl on a Bike, by Andrea Parrish
Snapshots of Riding Days and Destinations
These posts are of the “where I rode my bike today” variety to give you an idea of how easy and flexible bike transportation can be, whether it’s for the round trip to and from work or a Saturday full of errands. Many of them also tell you what I was wearing, in my ongoing mission to demystify and de-Spandex everyday biking.
- Bike to Work. Bike to Eat. Bike to Shop. Bike to Everything.
- Bikespedition #1: Carnegie Square
- SoDo Is So Terrific! Bikespedition #2 a Must-Shop (Part I)
- Bikespedition #2 Part II: Exploring SoDo Some More
- Coffeeneuring: Fueled by Caffeine
- A Training Ride–to the Fabric Store
- Spending the Day Running around Downtown: Bikespedition #4
- A Typical Week, in Outfits and Mileage
- 30 Days of Biking: Week One Report
- 30 Days of Biking: Week Two Report
- 30 Days of Biking: Week Three!
- 30 Days of Biking: Final Report
Your Turn
- Some topics are missing from the list. Helmets and hair, for example–an issue for many women and one I’ll tackle in a future post. What topics would you add?
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