Unnamed Sunday riding buddy and I ventured from our relatively proletarian neigborhoods (South Valley/Unnamed neighborhood north of UNM) and illegally, kinda, broke into Tanoan yesterday in a funny set of circumstances involving White Privilege (ours). That’s not the reason for this post, but it makes for too good of a “lede” to pass up. What… Read More What’s Up With the Bike Lane Gap on Academy?

Being as you’re in this obscure neck of the Internet woods, you’ve probably heard/read findings of the preliminary 2022 report on pedestrian fatalities by the Governors’ Highway Safety Association. You also probably saw an accompanying graph that looked something like this from CNN: And maybe, you’re like me and you’ve been thinking quite a bit… Read More That Pedestrian Fatalities 1975-2022 Graph

Bad news, everybody. My current, and hopefully last ever, attempt at gainful employment ends this week. That means your inbox, or where/however you receive Better Burque, is about to receive pretty much daily missives from this blog. As personal employment still continues to linger like a bad case of Covid this week, I’m just posting… Read More How Best to Ding Dangerous Vehicle Types?

Having had a touch of that infectious disease you might have heard about the last couple of years, my cycling has taken a tumble, more like a free-fall in the last couple of weeks: TRIMP is a measure for some complicated biometrics that I sum up as “Doing Stuff,” which is to say I haven’t… Read More Recovery Graph

Currently the City and folks that try to think for the City are trying to figure out whether ebikes with a throttle should be allowed on multi-use paths. The need for that decision goes back to the “class system” established for ebikes in this country. Cities/other governmental units and those that try to think for… Read More Ebikes, Throttles, and Freedom