Life in the Bike Lane - Tom Frady Mrs. Bike Lane and I had driven down to Folsom last week and I was feeling a little down because I have not been able to participate in my usual rides due to weather, holidays, family and (mostly) a nagging injury keeping my mileage down. I started to show her where a bunch of us got flat tires from thorns left in the road from some maintenance work about ten years ago, but held off.    Just a bit farther down the road was where Dave hit a cu

Life in the Bike Lane - Tom Frady I’d like to ask you nine loyal readers help me to delete a few tropes from the general argot in the debate about bikes vs cars, misinformation that is used over and over again to assert that cars take priority.  While I am both a driver and a rider, I will admit my bias might skew a bit toward cycling.  After all, this column (with apologies to the Eagles) in not called “Life in the Fast Lane”. Let’s look at a few of the most common “pro-auto