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About Dorea

Dorea is a postdoctoral research fellow in neuroscience and mathematics, as well as Mama to H & R, and wife to Angela. She thinks parenting is way more fun when you don't have to worry about car seats.

This year’s offering to the winter visibility g-ds

by Dorea 12.27.2012

It seems like every winter I end up forking over at least a hundred bucks to feel sort of visible out on the road after dark (and this time of year, a lot of our bike riding is after dark). This year is all about adding reflective tape to everything. In a city environment like [...]

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Xtracycle Hooptie: Initial Impressions

by Dorea 12.25.2012

We set up our Xtracycle almost 5 years ago, when our now 6 1/2 year old daughter was not quite 2. It’s hard to explain how different the cargo and family bike market was back then (or the family-biking-blog scene, for that matter). The only true extended frame on the market was the Big Dummy, though [...]

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Come ride with us! (Honk! parade 2012)

by Dorea 10.04.2012

For years we have crashed the Honk! Parade, an amazing non-motorized parade from Davis in Somerville to Harvard Square in Cambridge, full of raucous activist street bands from all over the world, and the purpose of which is to “Take back the streets for Horns Bike and Feet!” That’s a sentiment we can get behind [...]

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Barriers to biking

by Dorea 06.18.2012

When I talk to people about getting around more by bike, or any efforts to move towards less car dependence (but here the more relevant aspect is biking), I often say that even if things seem more inconvenient at first, you really can get to a place where life is more convenient, that it’s worth [...]

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Learning to bike as a grown-up — reader advice please

by Dorea 03.21.2012

A friend and sometimes commenter here recently sent a note asking for help and encouragement. She never learned to ride a bike as a kid and wants to learn how now, but she’s getting frustrated. I have a few thoughts, but this is outside our own experience, so I’m hoping some of our readers who [...]

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On marriage, parenting, biking and blame

by Dorea 03.11.2012

A few weeks ago, Angela got into an accident with our brand spanking new bakfiets. She caught the front wheel in a really bad pothole turning onto a poorly maintained street/alley near H’s Hebrew school. They went over hard. There was no traffic. Everyone was fine. R was in the bike but he was fine [...]

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A warm bikey glow

by Dorea 03.03.2012

Last weekend, a collection of cargo and family bike folks gathered at our place. Aaron Naparstek, streetsblog founder, is here in Cambridge instead of Brooklyn for the year, and he and I put together the event to contribute to the Revolutions per Minute crowdsourced documentary by Liz Canning. If you haven’t seen the trailer, check [...]

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