By Paul Andrews, BI editor on November 7, 2009
Bike Radar has a detailed report on the “landmark case” of the LA physician recently convicted for doorstopping cyclists. We see the conviction as significant but not breakthrough, since intent is already (and has been for some time) a judicial threshold for culpability in cycling collisions. A real landmark will come when conviction does not [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Obama Bikes, Transportation | Tagged bicycle justice, bike rage, Dr. Christopher Thomas Thompson, road rage
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on November 6, 2009
Start the Giro d’Italia in America? In New York? Little Italy? A criterium? Would Lance try to organize another slowdown? I can’t wait… I mean, what would BikeSnobNYC say? More coasting backwards: Easton Bell, joining Shimano, SRAM and Mavic, says sales are in the tank, down 11.3 percent for 3Q. “On the Bell side, preseason [...]
Posted in News Cycle | Tagged bikesnobnyc, evil bikes, FSA, Giro d'Italia, right hook, san francisco bike injunction
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on November 4, 2009
They snickered when Mike McGinn started off his campaign by showing up at cycling events with “MIKE BIKES” stickers. How quaint. He’s going after the funny-hats-and-clicky-shoes vote. It was a startlingly unconventional way to build a base, campaigning in a bike helmet and blazer. But McGinn knew something that cyclists have long suspected: We’re a [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes | Tagged cascade bicycle club, cycling candidates, mike mcginn, seattle bicycle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on November 3, 2009
SRAM cannot elude the downturn. Doesn’t have to give numbers but says it is “in that same ballpark” as Shimano’s negative 25 percent. Is the bike biz in Portland defying gravity? Certainly the Rose City tends to look through rose-colored glasses. Latest case in point, from BikePortland.org: the Oregon Handmade Bicycle Show. What’s the Hippocratic [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes | Tagged Bike recession, bike sharing, Dr. Christopher Thomas Thompson, Hippocratic Oath, Paris bike-sharing
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on November 2, 2009
Fat Cyclist hangs with Fit Cyclist. Early Christmas presents are on sale at Ric Hjertberg’s Wheel Fanatyk, especially Ghisallo wood rims! We repeat: Brandon Semenuk is redefining the expression, “Go Big!” Shimano sales down 21 percent in 3rd quarter. Mavic sales down 14 percent. Dismal as both sound, read the links. The issue appears to [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Racing | Tagged Brandon Semenuk, fat cyclist, lance armstrong, Mavic, Shimano
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on November 2, 2009
Doping scandals aplenty, Velo News reports. They’re taking another look at 2008 Giro d’Italia samples for CERA, undetectable previously but now testable. The same may happen for the 2009 Giro and Tour as testing catches up with ever newer, previously undetectable substances. “The report also outlined a new blood doping practice which evaded current testing [...]
Posted in Racing, This Day in Doping | Tagged Cadel Evans, cycling doping, euskaltel-euskadi, floyd landis, Giro d'Italia, michael rasmussen, Tour de France, uci
