Regular users of Capital Bikeshare should not be surprised if they can't find a rental bicycle this week in Washington DC and its environs.
Hundreds of bicycle advocates are descending on the nation's capital this week for the 10th annual National Bike Summit, and they're sure to be practicing what they preach when it comes to getting around town — they'll do it by bicycle.
US Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is giving the keynote speech at a dinner Tuesday night. Although it's doubtful that he'll jump up on a table to give it this year, he's still a full-fledged supporter of bicycling. On Friday, he wrote on his blog:
“I've been to more than 100 cities in more than 40 states across this great country, and everywhere I've gone, people have said they want more ways of getting around …..
It's a popular and respected competition in some parts of the world, and Corrina Hein has earned the right to wear the rainbow jersey of a world champion.
Then I stumbled across this video of an unknown person performing his own style of artistic cycling to a funky drumbeat outside the BM Chez Kiki cafe in Senegal.
His stunts look every bit as difficult as those performed by the Germans. I especially enjoy how he commands his bicycle to stand up with his finger.
It's good to see that Washington state bicycle advocates are not alone in making progress for so-called vulnerable users bills that seek to protect bicyclists and pedestrians. A bill in New Mexico is similarly moving forward, although one in Maryland might be stalled.
Although the bills aim to levy more severe penalties than simple traffic tickets on motorists who injure or kill bicyclists, they vary widely in their severity.
In Olympia, two vulnerable users bills, one in the House and in the Senate, have passed their respective chambers. Now lobbyists for Cascade Bicycle Club and Bicycle Alliance of Washington are pushing for at least one bill to win approval in the opposite chamber and go to the governor's desk for a signature …
It took a Colorado jury eight hours to issue a guilty verdict against a man accused of threatening a group of bicyclists and hammering one of their bikes with a bat.
The LovelandConnection.com reports the jury found the man guilty of criminal mischief and menacing. The jury reduced the criminal mischief charge to a Class 1 misdemeanor, while the menacing with a deadly weapon charge remained a Class 5 felony …
A quartet of seniors — their average age is 68 — took off on their bicycles from Arizona this week on a cross-country trek to raise awareness about pediatric cancer.
The effort, called SammyRides, was triggered by the death of cyclist Michael Libenson's granddaughter, Samantha Rotman, at age 9 after a two-year battle with pediatric cancer.
Libenson, 73, Mike Brown, 62, Adolf Lex, 71, and John Baer, 64, left from Sun City, Arizona, on Wednesday and are headed 2,400 miles to their homes at Sun City, Florida. They were joined by well-wishers and fellow cyclists, above, for the first leg of their journey toward Phoenix. ….
The cyclists leaving Sun City in Arizona for a cross-country bicycle ride across the southern tier included well-wishers. The four are raising money and awareness for pediatric cancer. SammyRides.com
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/04/sammy-riders/
One out of four of the 630 bicyclists killed in traffic accidents in 2009 had a blood alcohol content considered at or above the legal limit for drunken driving.
And in 40% of all highway deaths of bicyclists that year, either the motorist or bicyclist or both had been drinking.
Those facts are included in a US Department of Transportation report entitled “Bicyclists and Other Cyclists” that was released recently as an addendum to the “Traffic Safety Facts of 2009” report that I reported on a couple of weeks ago.
While the study doesn't report the cause of the crashes ….
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Regular users of Capital Bikeshare should not be surprised if they can't find a rental bicycle this week in Washington DC and its environs.
A quartet of seniors — their average age is 68 — took off on their bicycles from Arizona this week on a cross-country trek to raise awareness about pediatric cancer.
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