I make upcycled handcrafted vegan-leather earrings out of old bike tubes,* bike chains, and bike brake pad hardware (retail cost: $35 a pair/wholesale cost: $25 a pair in limited micro-batch orders of 10 pairs/every $150 […]
Tag: Today’s Nice Stranger
Meet Ben
Meet Ben. He was yesterday’s Today’s Nice Stranger. He ran the Peachtree Road Race (which was split into two days this year due to COVID) and then rode his bike home from the train. He […]
Meet Lois
Meet Lois. She’s Today’s Nice Stranger*. I met her yesterday when I packed a freshly-picked-and-made fried green tomato sandwich and some balled melons speckled with spearmint, and headed on out to one of my fave […]
Meet Kivonté
Meet Kivonté. He was Today’s Nice Stranger a couple of days ago. I met him after riding my bike to pick up a printed copy of a draft of my new book, Slow Duck Crossing, […]
Meet Matt
Meet Matt. He’s Today’s Nice Stranger. He gets to paint new cycletracks green. I met him while Traveling at the Speed of Bike to work on my new free Ride Spot tour yesterday featuring Atlanta’s […]
Jon’s Leap of Faith
My friend Jon (who was a Today’s Nice Stranger when I originally met him on Atlanta’s Edgewood Avenue — here’s that story) took a metaphoric Leap of Faith when he gave me a bike he found […]
Meet Val
Meet Val. She is Today’s Nice Stranger. I met her while I was Traveling at the Speed of Bike yesterday around Atlanta. She was working at the Atlanta Zoo and she called me over. Val […]
James Beard Foundation Winner
I met Abiodun Henderson in 2018 while traveling at the speed of bike on Relay Bikeshare in Downtown Atlanta. She was selling hot sauce by Woodruff Park. We chatted. I loved hearing how she had […]
Traveling at the Speed of Bike 