Andrew Sullivan, I thought you were displaying poor judgment when I saw you trucking up the Rock Creek Trail, letting your freak dome fly. Guy we put on the cover, I thought you were the ass clown. And while I'll never come over to your side on the bike-helmet debate, I offer you an excellent [...]

Richard Layman, over at Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space, is capping on our recent cover story about bike helmets. After laying out his own biography vis-a-vis helmets, Layman goes prescriptive on what Washington City Paper could have done to produce a better cover story. Here goes:
The City Paper article would have been better [...]

or at least he tells Brightest Young Things.
That's right: The guy that we put on our cover story about helmet use last week has been located. You remember him—he's the guy that we photographed from the rear, on a blue bike. Carrying a helmet—not on his head, but rather around the hip area. We posed [...]

On a nice fall night in 1992, I set out from a friend's house in Glover Park on my bike. I was headed to my place in Dupont East and decided to swing through Georgetown. It was around 9:00 pm when I cut through the Georgetown University campus and then snaked my way onto Prospect [...]

Staff Writer Mike DeBonis shows a lot more respect to his cranium than he does to stop signs. He gets around town on bike, mostly, and the only time he didn't wear his helmet was during the inauguration, when he was in a tux. Fortunately, he's not often in formalwear. He's been using this particular [...]

Nick DiBlasio and Nikki Caporale are account executives here. They frequently ride together on DiBlasio's Vespa 250cc, and quite often they do so without helmets. This is particularly interesting since both have had accidents–Caporale has had two cycling accidents, and DiBlasio had a particularly gnarly one in January. He says the reason he has a [...]

Already this week's cover story about bike helmets is getting some passionate reactions, and I thought it was only fair that those of us in the office come clean about our own bike-safety habits. I surveyed most of the office's cyclists this morning (photos are from the cover story; no CP employees are pictured).
William Philpot [...]