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.

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

• Nice Rack, Lady
• Bike-Friendly Restaurants

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?