Author: Rob Attrell

  • My First Ebike (~2 months in)

    My First Ebike (~2 months in)

    Before I get too far into specific ideas and thoughts on this site, I wanted to spend a little time talking about my current thoughts and feelings about ebikes, about two months in to owning my first one. My thoughts will almost certainly evolve on this topic as time goes on, but here’s how I…

  • Running Errands on a Cargo Bike – July 14, 2024

    Running Errands on a Cargo Bike – July 14, 2024

    I did something today that would have been very hard to do without the cargo ebike I got this spring (I’ll describe this bike more in a future post). This afternoon I did a couple of errands on the bike, which is better in almost every imaginable way than doing equivalent tasks would have been…

  • Jeanne d’Arc Boulevard North – Road Layout Update

    Jeanne d’Arc Boulevard North – Road Layout Update

    My neighbourhood I live in a suburb of Ottawa called Orleans, and though the neighborhood is starting to work towards a modern understanding of good urban design, a lot of the transportation infrastructure in the community is based on 99% car traffic. There are affordances for other modes of transport in some places, but in…