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 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/05/colorado-batsman-convicted-in-bike-beating-incident/
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. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/04/four-senior-cyclists-hit-the-road-for-childhood-cancer/
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 ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/03/alcohol-involvement-in-40-of-bicyclist-fatalities/
Traffic Safety Facts 2009
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/03/alcohol-involvement/
Some Australian cyclists have caught the attention of the media down under with their use of bicycle-mounted video cameras.
Simon Hookham (that's his video at left) and Nathan Besh say they can use the videos to record near-misses or collisions with cars or pedestrians.
Police in New South Wales told the Sydney Morning Herald that the video footage is useful in crash investigations and might even be used as evidence.
Cyclists have been doing this for years. The growth of digital video makes it easy, and relatively inexpensive, to record your bicycle rides ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/02/smile-youre-on-bicycle-camera/
“I'm sick and tired of you old guys from Boulder coming up here and acting like you own the road.”
That's how a roadside argument started on a county road south of Loveland, Colorado, between a motorist and a group of three cyclists last July. Before it ended, the motorist had poked at a bicyclist with a baseball …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/02/bicycle-quote-sick-and-tired-of-cyclists/
Bicycling in the City of Angels can take flight with today's expected approval of the 2010 Bicycle Plan for the City of Los Angeles.
The plan seeks to expand the city's network of bikeways to 1,680 miles at the rate of 200 miles every five years. The city currently has about 280 miles of disconnected bike lanes and paths on the ground.
The emphasis for the first five years will be to close gaps in the existing system, serve lower income and under-served communities and open bike lanes on major arteries such as Figueroa Street and Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards.
The Los Angeles Times credits vocal bicycle advocates and two high profile bicycle “accidents” for the changing attitude that brought improvements to the plan ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/01/los-angeles-set-to-approve-bicycle-master-plan/
Expected to be approved by Los Angeles City Council on March 1, 2011
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/03/01/la-bike-plan/
Although I've participated in six or seven Chilly Hilly bicycle rides in my 10 years in the Seattle area, I'm always one of those in the last-minute registration line near the ferry terminal.
Not this year, however. I registered early and received my packet in the mail well before Sunday.
It was still sitting there, unopened, on the kitchen table when I returned from the airport Sunday night. My wife's father died after a long illness last week, and we had flown back East. That's why there were so few updates on this blog lately.
I soon learned that I had missed one of the worst — or best — Chilly Hilly bike rides in recent memory. My biking buddy Kazuki told me he ran into snow, rain and fierce headwinds on this year's ride ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2011/02/28/a-cold-wind-blows-at-the-2011-chilly-hilly-bike-ride/
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