My personal wiki. A kind of website I can easily expand infinitely. Visit my other websites.

Are you looking for my master's project on bike parking in Chicago or the bike parking white paper?

These are projects (DIY, homemade, what have you) I've been working on the past few years or just started today. In 2010, I've realized that I spend too much money on DIY projects so going forward I need to pay more attention to intentions, goals, and most of all, my time and money.

See Cargo bikes below.

• Bucket panniers - Making panniers out of plastic, white, square buckets.
• CCFL lights for bike - Cold cathode fluorescent lights, like you see on cars in the Fast & Furious.
• Bike speakers - I'm now up to version 3.
• Camera mount - The most beefy handlebar mount setup for point and shoot or mini HD cameras.
• Double deck bike racks - My thoughts on double deck bike racks.
• Bike parking - I know a lot about bike parking.
• Painting bike fenders - A complete guide on how to paint bike fenders. To further customize one of my bikes, I painted the fenders Chicago blue (with Rustoleum's Spa Blue). Includes materials list and detailed task list.
• Raleigh Rush Hour for sale - Bike for sale.
• On-street bike parking and On-street bike parking in Chicago
• Information we need - What kinds of information are useful to decide when/where/how to ride a bike in our urban home?
• Bike parking at grocery stores in Chicagoland suburbs - Database of bike parking at suburban grocery stores.
• Bike Parking Menu
• Community Bike Shops
• Crash reporting tool - Ideas, suggestions, concerns about a crash reporting tool. Should it accept reports from users or just “official” channels?
• Bicycling for college students
• Simple bike parking checklist - How do you know if you have good or bad bike parking?
• Cities with protected bikeways
• Bicycle data
• University students contribution to bicycling information
• GPS
• Bikes and buses - Bikes that don't fit on CTA and other buses.
• Studies about bicycling - Studies about bicycling.
• Bikes and Trains - Bikes on Trains. A database of the best features of bikes on trains policies and facilities from around the world.
• Bicycle data - Available data that describes many aspects of cycling.
• The Bike Shop Commitment - A commitment bike shops can make to their customers
• Bike rack links - Portland, Oregon Bike Racks map on Google Maps.

• A campaign for simple bike parking policy - Communicate the basics of a good bike parking policy (for all cities and towns).
• Bike parking awards - Award the best and “needs improvement” bike parking installations in Chicago

• On-street bike parking in Chicago
• Bike parking at grocery and convenience stores in Chicago - Database of bike parking at Chicago grocery stores.
• My goals for Chicago - For late 2010, early 2011, by June 30 2011
• Protected bikeways for Chicago - Possible locations for a cycle track (cycletrack) in Chicago, and who to contact
• Chicago Bicycle Industry - Bike-related industry and businesses in Chicago
• Where I can go in 25 minutes - How far I can get in 25 minutes
• Bikeway History - A history of bikeways in Chicago
• Problem intersections in Chicago - Intersections that are particularly bad for people on bicycles.
• Chicago bike crash data - Crash data from IDOT
• Prioritizing parking over bikeways - If the bike lane ends or narrows because of parking, then your city cares more about parking.
• How road construction projects negatively affect bicycling - How road construction projects negatively affect bicycling
• 2012 bicycle crashes in Chicago - Starting to document bike crashes in Chicago, in 2012
• 2011 bike crashes in Chicago - Going in the past to document 2011 bike crashes in Chicago
• Bike sharing in Chicago - A special topic page in development for Grid Chicago
• Bike counts in Chicago - How the program is currently managed
• Synopses of Chicago bicycling amenities and features - What are bike boxes? Who is West Town Bikes? Questions and answers about bicycling culture and infrastructure in Chicago.

• Building a Hackintosh - The goal of this project is to build a fast computer that runs Mac OS X so I can upload more photos faster as well as create more videos more often. I abandoned it after two years because of the constant frustration in ensuring it ran well.

I like to draw cities, trains, and highways from a bird's eye view.

• Drawings set on Flickr.

• Lift bridge
• Suspended monorail. Photos
• Suspension bridge. Photo

I like to take a lot of pictures of things I see in Chicago, and transit facilities around the country. You can view them on my Flickr.

• Bicycling behavior
• Locked bikes
• Bike parking
• Interesting bikes
• Urban issues
• Urban idiosyncracies
• Food I cooked
• Travel. Here's a list of places I went in 2009, 2010, and 2011. I went all around the country (a few times) including New York City, Detroit, Portland, and San Francisco. I also went to Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, with a hike in Switzerland (I often forget about that epic hike up 600m over 3km).

I own two digital cameras now.

• Panasonic GH1, since January 2012. I don't have a lens right now, but I will be getting the 20mm f/1.7 very soon.
• Olympus EVOLT E-500, since 2006, have two kit lenses. I still use this.

• Agfa ePhoto 780, from 2000. I no longer own this.
• Fuji FinePix F50fd, from 2007. The lens cover stopped working and I bought a new camera with HD video; I recycled this one.
• Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX5V, since April 2010. I traded this with West Town Bikes to get a new Fuji Royale bike frame.

• Bike Parking Equity - Master's project for urban planning graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
• Steven Can Plan - A blog about planning school experiences and transit and bicycling-related travels across the United States.
• Grid Chicago - A blog I co-author with John Greenfield about sustainable transportation in Chicagoland.

Do you have a cargo bike? Which one and what are the top 5 reasons to choose that kind. What are the top 5 to not choose it? Leave your input on the Cargo Bike flowchart.

• Cargo bike homepage
• Cargo bike flowchart
• Cargo bike links
• 2011 Cargo bike calendar

I picked and rode my Yuba Mundo for the first time from Blue City Cycles in Bridgeport (Chicago), Illinois, on Friday, June 7, 2010. In this section, I will list my specifications and modifications.

• My Yuba Mundo specs - Table of components specifications for my custom Yuba Mundo.
• Yuba Mundo mods - So far, mods include adding a Coke tray (since removed) to the rear rack. Umm, nothing else has happened. My current shifter issue is holding things back.
• Yuba Mundo tidbits
• Tons of my Yuba Mundo photos - All on Flickr, where else
• Yuba Mundo owners exchange - Flickr group
• I heart my Mundo - Flickr group

I brought a WorkCycles Fr8 cargo bike home from Amsterdam in August 2012.

• Government Transportation Agencies and Social Media
• Google Refine - Scripts, tips, and tricks.
• Crash reporting standards - When you want to analyze, publish, or map bicycle crashes, consider this.
• GIS resources
• Open data
• Bike Research - A collection of studies and research about bicycling.