Had the nicest “Ride Through Hellish Bike Infrastructure” experience just the other day with the two folks unprofessionally photographed below, Margie Davis founder of ABQ’s Cycling Peeps and Charlie Otto, former brewery master and long-time world bike tourist. The ride, taken generally through the northeast part of town really wasn’t that Hellish, except in the… Read More Bear Canyon Arroyo Trail: It’s Great Until It’s Not

by Scot So you’re cycling away on some of the wonderful bike infrastructure here in the Duke City, when, suddenly, you go from feeling all cozy and spice and everything nice, to staring immediate death in the face. That is, you approach an intersection. Let’s say an intersection like this: This is our good enemy,… Read More Addressing the Worst Curse Word in Roadway Design: Mixing Zone

We’re so busy at Better Burque these days we’re reduced to links to stories with headlines like this: Spokane woman is standing up to cyclist who yelled ‘Hot pizza!’ then smashed into her on trail Not only that, but we’re copy/pasting a “nut graph” from said story: “I hate to slow down,” the cyclist said… Read More Headless Body in Topless Bar: Cycling Edition

Rode several crossings of the roiling (yes, I get to use that word) Rio Grande River this past Sunday, and, in addition to medium to high roil, it appeared to be in a wash cycle: Does anyone know the source of this bubbling, detergent-meets-Styrofoam-esque material coating the River’s surface? It was a bit disconcerting to… Read More Anyone Find Out What Was/Caused This?

Just wondering. Why does Montoya Rd. N.W. end at these two unnecessary fences inches away from the I-40 multi-use path, when it could be a north/south connection from the “bike boulevard” that is Mountain Road to the path without riders having to go all the way to Gabaldon Drive? I’m also wondering if there’s an… Read More Today’s “Little Things I Wonder About”

by Scot This past Friday I finally got the highly informal, yet supremely official, Better Burque Cycling and Walking Count Program kicked off. I spent a half-hour at two locations. While these two intersections are only about mile apart, they just about cannot be more different. Site #1: Lead at I-25 Above is Lead looking… Read More Counting Cyclists and Walkers: Lead/I-25 & Yale/Silver