The Edinburgh (Scotland) News writes about a bicyclist who won a lawsuit from the local bus company after the judge said he didn't fake his fall.

George Johnston, 63, claimed that he was hit by the bus in 2004 while bicycling home through Oxgangs. The bus driver disagreed calling the fall staged and "a comedy act ... a pathetic stumble ... the most pathetic fall you would imagine."

Apparently the judge considered the driver's defense something suitable for a comedy act, and awarded Johnston 61,600 pounds, about $126,000. Johnston will use it to replace his artificial hip, which was damaged in the wreck.

Being distracted with other stuff, I completely missed the DVD release of the cycling flick "The Flying Scotsman" in mid-September.

Earlier this week I stumbled across it after taking a stroll to my local video rental store, snatched  it up, watched it immediately, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

The movie is based on Graeme Obree's autobiography, "Flying Scotsman; Cycling to Triumph through My Darkest Hours." Obree set the one-hour bicycling record, twice, in the early 1990s in spite of battling officials at the Union Cycliste Internationale and the demons inside his head...   more »

If you're pedaling through North Portland on your bicycle and feel some hunger pangs, you might want to swing by the "bike-thru" window at the Little Red Bike Cafe.

Only open a couple of months, the breakfast and lunch cafe will feed anyone who wants some homemade goodness in the form of sandwiches, baked goods, ice cream and locally roasted coffees. But cyclists do get that 50-cent drink discount that others don't.

Owners Evan and Ali explain all the trials of opening a restaurant and feature their tasty menu offerings at the Little Red Bike Cafe blog. Don't read it on an empty stomach. ...   more »

"Take a ride you won't forget,
On my bicyclette;
Fast as lightning and so much more,
It's a traveling metaphor."

These are the opening lines to the theme song for "The Bicycle Men," a musical comedy opening in London soon.

The show stars Dan Castellaneta, best known as the voice of Homer Simpson. In the musical he plays Steve, an American tourist who crashes his bike and "encounters the twisted inhabitants of a sinister French village," .....   more »

When I first saw the story about the two guys riding their bicycles to every Burgerville fast food joint in the Northwest, I thought I'd be reading a cross between "Super-Size Me" and "Breaking Wind Away."

No such deal here. Brent Krebsbach of Redmond, Wash., and Paul LaFrance of Wasilla, Alaska, are visiting a chain of restaurants in Washington and Oregon that strives to do the right thing toward its customers and employees.

Krebsbach and LaFrance bicycled more than 500 miles in four days to visit all 39 Burgervilles in Oregon and Washington....   more »

The guy at the corner grocery watched me walk across the parking lot in the rain.

"Where's your bike?"

"In the garage, where it's happy," I told him.

Five days after my radical prostatectomy, I'm happy with the bike in the garage too. Considering my soreness and catheter, I can't imagine riding it anytime soon ....   more »