Some posts roll, some get a flat tire not long after they head out into the world. I write to share thoughts and information, not to try for a huge following, but it’s still instructive to review which posts gain momentum and which face an uphill climb. (Okay, okay, I’ll stop with the riding analogies. OTOH, this is primarily a bike blog.)

Reviewing this year’s stats, these posts drew the most views. I write a mix of think pieces, events, a bit of travel along with poetry. That’s what shows up in the top so this mix seems to work for readers as well as for the writer/rider here. I’m also glad to find some of my older posts showing up. I deliberately daylighted them in a monthly series this year, which no doubt helped along with search results.

2023 Top 20 Posts

• What’s in a Name? Acoustic or Analog, Regular or Traditional Bicycle*

• My Mary Poppins Bike: Review of the Specialized Globe Daily 2
• “I think/therefore/I ride.” A Bike Rack of Bicycle Poems
• Great Gear for a Rainy Ride: The Wander Wrap 
• Sitting Pretty: Some Solutions for Bike Butt 
• Pants Management 101
• Bike Helmets: Pro-Cute, Anti-Ugly 
• Hashtag Bikes
• Why 30 Days of Biking? (Or More) 
• Wheeling Sea to Sound, Day One
• Wednesday Words: Bicycling Quotations on Metaphors for Life
• “We Are Still Here”: Indigenous-focused Bicycle Programs
• Wheeling Sea to Sound, Day Two
• Personal Privilege and Biking: It Takes More than a Bike Lane to Start Riding
• Day Three: Port Townsend to Port Angeles 
• Wheeling Sea to Sound, Day Three
• Street of Dreams: Can We Live the Martin Luther King, Jr. Way?
• If Electric Hand Dryers Were Bikes
• 13+ Reasons Bicycles Are Perfect for the Zombie Apocalypse (and Other Disasters)
• Happy Holiday + Awesome Alliteration 

A baker’s dozen of ones I like

Some of my favorites already appear in the list above. A few others that don’t draw as many clicks as the ones above, although some were pretty close:

• Model Modal Manners: Move Like You’re in a Grocery Store 
• Why I Walk
• Riding Thoughts: Privilege Is a Tailwind
• Choose Your Own Adventure: Creating your Version of an Athlon
• How Bicycling Keeps Me Flexible
• It’s All in the Attitude 
• Event Planning 101: It’s Transportation + Accessibility Information, Not Parking Information 
• Surgeon General Warning: Bicycling Can Be Habit-Forming
• Biking as Downtime and other Musings on Overproductivity
• Seeing with New Eyes
• Your “Right” to Speedy Travel Doesn’t Exist
• We Engineered Our Way into this Mess. Now We Need to Engineer Our Way Out of It. 
• When I Get Older: Why I Believe in a Multimodal System and Complete Streets