Daniel Convissor's Website

Bicycles

Action Alerts

• Transportation Alternatives' Pressure Points for NYC activists.

• The Danish Cyclists' Federation has action alerts for Europe.

The Bike Route Database for New Jersey

Mandatory Bicycle Helmet Legislation

• The short but sweet outline of why to fight bike helmet bills TO THE HILT!

• Don't Kill the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg. Bicycle Helmet Efficacy.

• Thompson's infamous statistic saying helmets prevent 85% of head injuries is completely bogus.

• Debating Bicycle Helmet Legislation

• The dangers of biking are used as a justification for helmet laws. When compared to driving, cycling isn't so dangerous.

• Cars are the real source of cyclist and pedestrian injuries/deaths. Motor vehicle velocity is the major determinant of how severe injuries will be when crashes occur. Reducing speeds dramaticly improves the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists. So, if people proposing helmet laws are serious about safety, they should be working to lower and enforce speed limits, not placing the onus of safety upon the victims.

• My Transportation Safety Page goes into further details about the dangers of motor vehicles and means to reduce them.

• D L Robinson has done fantastic research on this subject.

• OCBC has lots of good helmet law info.

• The International Pro-Choice Bicycle Helmet Coalition

• For proponents of mandatory helmets, check out the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute

Planning for Bikes

• Auto-Free Central Park!

• Automobile Reduction Measures

• Amtrak Bike Access Policies

• Risks of Bicycling and Means of Risk Reduction

• Bicycle Paths Work

• Urban Planning

• Administrative Measures to Promote Cycling

• Bicyclist Education

• Encouragement from Corporations for Cyclists

• Encouragement from Government for Cyclists

• General Points about Cycling

• Bicycle Parking

• Philosophy of Cycling

• Planning for Bicycles

• Surveys of Cyclists

• How Bicycles are Used

• Bicycles and City Traffic

• Energy Consumption: Bikes v Cars

• Bike Racks for Buses

• Bike Bus-ters. A Danish project which gave a free bike and bike pass to car drivers. Many car users reduced their driving.

• Manhattan's West Side: Route 9A Reconstruction, the proposed park and development.

Riding Techniques

• Bicycle Theft Deterrents

• Cyclists: How to Avoid Having a Car Turn On You

• Dealing with Rude Cyclists

• What to wear for cold weather riding

• Tips for Wet Weather Cycling. "Singing in the Rain" By Daniel Convissor. City Cyclist, March/April 1989.

• How to Handle Single Track. "Public Service Video?" By Daniel Convissor. A Letter to the Editor of Land Access Alert published in April 1991.

• Cycling in the middle of traffic is safer. "In the Middle of the Road" By Daniel Convissor. A Letter to the Editor of NYCC Bulletin published in March 1990.

• How to ride rough while still being cool. "Outlaws Code of the Road" By Daniel Convissor. ICA News, December 1989. Reprinted in Moving Target, Issue Number 7.

Miscellaneous Bike Stuff

• NYC's Central Park would be much nicer if cars were permanently kicked out.

• Bicyclists Rights in New York State

• Bicyclists Rights in New Jersey

• Direct Actions and Protests to Support Cycling

• Cargo/Freight Bicycles! [this isn't ready yet.]

• Boston area turn sheets

Cool Cycling Organizations

• Transportation Alternatives

• London Cycling Campaign

• League of American Bicyclists

• International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA)

• Dansk Cyklist Forbund (Danish Cyclists' Federation).

• Sustrans

• New York Cycle Club

• Toronto City Cycling Committee and Toronto's Metro Cycling & Pedestrian Committee.

• Federazione Italiana Amici della Bicicletta (The Italian Federation of Friends of the Bicycle).

Decision Makers

• My brief explanation of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council

• North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority

• Port Authority of New York and New Jersey