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References & Further Reading
Fresno: A City Reborn – rare 1968 documentary by Victor Gruen Associates
Fulton Mall
https://www.pediment.com/blogs/news/the-original-fresno-county-courthouse
https://www.kvpr.org/community/2014-09-02/fulton-mall-at-50-when-things-dont-go-according-to-plan
https://www.kvpr.org/government-politics/2014-02-11/is-it-terrible-or-a-treasure-fresnos-fulton-mall-debate-heats-up
By Bryan Harley – Own work {Bryan Harley,own work}, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91790930
By Michelle Baxter – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21664245
By David Prasad – https://www.flickr.com/photos/33671002@N00/6191573398/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=124016206
By David Prasad – https://www.flickr.com/photos/33671002@N00/6189802045/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=123750104
https://esotericsurvey.blogspot.com/2024/01/fulton-mall-update-2024.html
Beaufort scale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale
NK Tegenwindfietsen
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK_Tegenwindfietsen
The Dutch headwind cycling championships are amazing (Tom Scott)
Cycling to work in 90 large American cities: new evidence on the role of bike paths and lanes
https://www.saferoutespartnership.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Lib_of_Res/SS_ST_Rutgers_impactbikepaths_bikecommutingbehavior_042012%20-%20Copy.pdf
Weather is not significantly correlated with destination-specific transport-related physical activity among adults: A large-scale temporally matched analysis
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5551438/
Weather and daily mobility in international perspective: A crosscomparison of Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish city regions
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2%3A1343725/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Modelling the impact of weather conditions on active transportation travel behaviour
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1361920911001143
Promotional Umbrella SENZ wind tunnel test
Some clips of winter cycling provided by CycleYYZ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHinhHYjd7k_K7d2lEmC73w
As usual, the YouTube Description is not nearly long enough for all of the references. You can find the full list on Nebula or at this link:
https://notjustbikes.com/references/badweather.txt
The vast majority of the content in this video was filmed on location by Not Just Bikes, with some images licensed from Getty Images and other sources.
No generative AI or AI voices were used in the making of this video.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:19 Copenhagen (Strøget)
2:41 Fresno (Fulton)
3:53 The weather didn’t make the difference
5:09 The wind in the Netherlands
6:08 Sunnyvale, California
7:13 The weather isn’t a predictor of cycling
8:12 It sucks to film in bad weather
9:54 Fewer people cycle when it’s raining (surprised pikachu)
11:05 You’re not made of sugar (so quit your bitching)
12:25 It’s not all the same everywhere
13:15 Infrastructure matters even more in bad weather
15:00 It builds character (suck it up)
15:58 Winter cycling
17:51 Ughh … another requisite rant about ignorant Canadians 😫
19:59 You get used to it
21:41 Good urbanism in hot weather
24:31 The worst way to design for the heat
26:19 Concluding thoughts
27:41 Outro and Planet Wild
