Advocacy & Safety - Anyone write cycling zines?

I've only written one zine before, and that was on the subjuct of the benefits of fruits and vegetables over meat and dairy in your diet. I've just begun working on one to promote cycling, where I plan to share what I see and experience while on my bicycle. I've been keeping the camera on me whenever I'm riding, and have been taking tons of pictures of everything I see. I am planning on also including written accounts of what I am thinking about while riding, and any interaction I have with other people while out riding around.

Does anyone else have any experience producing any zines, and if so do you have any advice as to content, distributing, technical aspects, etc?

Not any actual zine experience, but very similar, I have been keeping a weblog journal of my commuting experiences over the past few months. My goal is to keep it going for about a year, use it to promote safe cycling, and commuting in general, and highlight the area I live in. It will also help me keep going through the winter, cause I have someone to write for (my readers, so more than one). I have been getting numerous hits recently, though not necessarily from my region. I need to add more pictures (I really like pictures), but dont have a dig camera to make it easy. Check my site at www.bicyclecommutingnow.blogspot.com - peace.

p.s. and leave a comment or send an email (or post a reply here) to let me know what you think about my blog posts. Thanks

I am working on a quarterly newsletter and website/discussion forum. The newsletter will have no advertising and if printing costs are still the same when the first issue is ready, a one year subscription should cost about $18. I won't post the web address here because it isn't nearly ready yet.

Its been a couple of weeks since the original postings on this thread. Anyone want to update on the progress your making with your publishing efforts? I am still keeping up almost daily posts to my blog (www.bicyclecommutingnow.blogspot.com), and have added some new information about my costs to run my bikes since I've started commuting. I am developing an idea now to start a website that would incorporate multiple blogs within a thematic framework, and then migrating the posts from my Blogger blog there, as a part of a tighter on-line community. I am probably going to use Movable Type as a content management system, any comments on MT out there?

Franklen, I noted in your most recent blog that you said something about needing safety glasses for rainy days. In my experience, safety glasses, even totally clear ones, are unusable on rainy days -- just imagine what it would be like driving your car without windshield wipers. The water trails on the lenses create dangerous distortions or block vision altoghether. So don't waste your money for rainy day protection. I use the glasses to protect against those nasty bugs that can really sting if they hit your eye at 20+ mph.

...safety glasses, even totally clear ones, are unusable on rainy days -- just imagine what it would be like driving your car without windshield wipers. The water trails on the lenses create dangerous distortions or block vision altoghether. ...

I wear prescriptions. RainX windshield treatment on glasses works well - no water trails. This combined with a helmet visor makes for good visibility.

Not thinking ahead, I was, but the rain streaking thing would be an issue (unless treated, perhaps I try the Rain-X), just as I have noticed it being on my helmet mounted mirror which becomes pretty much useless, except at night I can see headlights in it, and tell where someone is behind me relatively well due to that. I have thought about visors too, but read a few posts that said the velcro comes off too easily in winds/fast speeds. Are there one's that attach differently?

I have had a few bug whacks in the eyes this past summer, and its something to prevent in the future (eyes are important after all), especially along the Riverfront here when the mayflies hatch.

I'll have to try the Rain-X too. My visor is one that came attached to the helmet. It has been my main method of keeping rain out of my eyes.

Well, well, we've certainly migrated off-topic here, haven't we...anyway, here's my two cents on the safety glasses-in-the-rain thing:

(1) get a helmet with a visor,
(2) wear a baseball cap with a visor under your visor-less helmet.

Either of these will keep the rain out of your eyes, and make your commute in the rain that much more pleasant. I would avoid glasses in the rain, unless absolutely necessary, and then, under a visor, as well...