We started Loud Bicycle because we believe biking should be safe — safe enough for your commute, your kids, your grandparents. Our horns prevent crashes one close call at a time. But over years of digging into crash data, acoustics research, and street design studies, we kept finding fascinating research that deserved a bigger audience than our engineering notebooks.
So we built it a home. Today we're thrilled to announce Bike Research, a free, multilingual site dedicated to the science and policy behind cycling, safety, and urban transportation.
What you'll find there
Bike Research publishes deeply-sourced essays on the questions cyclists and city-lovers actually argue about:
- Traffic Calming Saves Lives — what the data really says about speed humps, road diets, and pedestrian safety.
- Your Lizard Brain on Loud Horns — why sound beats sight in traffic emergencies (yes, this one is close to our hearts).
- Do E-Bikes Actually Replace Car Trips? — what the studies show about the e-bike revolution.
- Barcelona's Superblocks — how traffic lanes became public squares.
- The Idaho Stop — why letting bikes yield at stop signs makes streets safer.
Every article combines data science, research synthesis, and real-world riding experience — with full citations, so you can check our work.
Read it in your language
Cycling is global, and so is the research. Every article on Bike Research is available in more than ten languages, from Spanish and French to Japanese and Russian. Send it to your cousin in Berlin or your riding buddy in Osaka.
Who's behind it
Bike Research is written by Jonathan Lansey, Loud Bicycle's founder, together with Joseph Rodriguez, an urban data scientist specializing in transit operations. It's part of the same mission that drives everything we do: making streets safer for people on bikes, with evidence instead of anecdotes.
Go take a ride
The site is live now at bikeresearch.net. No paywall, no ads, just essays worth reading. If an article changes how you think about your streets, share it with your city councilor. That's what it's for.
Be Safe, Be Loud, Be Good. 🚲