Advocacy
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By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 14, 2010
“That was no lady — that was my wife!” goes the old joke. We think of it sometimes when we read yet another news report identifying an errant rider of a bicycle as a cyclist. You know how it goes: Cyclist Robs Bank. Cyclist Charged With Indecent Exposure. Authorities Say Cyclist Killed While Turning Left [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes | Tagged Culture, cycling, cyclist
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 13, 2010
BikePortland.org’s Elly Blue reviews “My year as a woman in a city of bikes”: “The resulting discourse focuses primarily on why so few women choose to ride, concluding that the primary factors are safety concerns — read, greater fearfulness — and image consciousness. More astute observers have pointed out that the majority of errands and [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes | Tagged bicycle business, buff headwear, cycling sexism, john wayne trail, rebecca rusch, ryan leech, World Naked Bike Ride
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 12, 2010
Big bike rally Saturday in Palo Alto to protest the hate-cyclist page on Facebook. Riders will convene at Facebook headquarters near California Avenue and Bowdoin Street. This is a residential area called College Terrace where the locals may well join the protest. Facebook is not well liked. Its employees sucked up all available parking for [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Videos | Tagged $290, 000 speeding ticket, Bicycle Leadership Conference, Facebook anti-cycling page protest, reckless endangerment of cyclists, The Next Generation DVD
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 10, 2010
Indianapolis has a set of new bike laws, including 3-feet-please. Florida law says bikes get the whole friggin’ lane, thank you very much! Now if we could just get that “vulnerable user” legislation passed in the Washington State legislature. Have you checked out the Ghost Bikes Film project’s blog? Cool stuff… Guy turns 70, decides [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Trail Access | Tagged bicycle legislation, Duthie Hill mountain bike park, ghost bike film project, ghost bikes, sea otter classic
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 9, 2010
The Facebook protest against bike-hate continues to grow. Now there’s a “Help REMOVE this HATE GROUP against cyclists!” tribe. All instructions included. The outrage targets a Facebook page showing violence against cyclists as an appropriate traffic-management technique. Speaking of hate: That deranged L.A. physician who doorstopped a group of cyclists with his car last summer [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Videos | Tagged BikePortland.org, bikingbis, cyclelicio.us, dr. christopher thompson road rage, Fatcyclist, portland cycling
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 8, 2010
It’s funny how these things happen. The small southeastern King County town of Black Diamond was originally named after the nickname for coal. Coal mining brought big bucks and lots of people to Black Diamond in its heyday a century ago, a phenomenon commemorated by a coal car on rails at the town limits. The [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail, Trail Access | Tagged black diamond freeride park, Lake Sawyer, southeast king county mountain biking, summit ridge freeride park
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 7, 2010
Tomb of the Unknown Cyclist: A Palo Alto bicycle rider killed by a CalTrans vehicle Dec. 19 still is not being identified by authorities, who claim a policy of notifying next of kin before making an identity public. Apparently no one can find the guy’s next of kin. Wouldn’t it make more sense to publicize [...]
Posted in News Cycle, Rider Down | Tagged bike library, snow cycling, vehicular homicide law, vulnerable user law
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 6, 2010
Right now it’s a seedy vacant lot. But if the mountain biking community in Aptos CA and its Santa Cruz environs have any say, the open field behind the Post Office jump park will soon be transformed into a major drawing card for NorCal riders. Led by Epicenter Cycling, a new bike shop in Aptos, [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking | Tagged aptos ca, aptos jump park, cam mccaul, epicenter cycling, jamie goldman, mark weir, mountain bikers of santa cruz, pump track
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 6, 2010
Folders are hot! The ugly ripple effect when a major retailer closes its doors. Bicycle insurance: Idea whose time has come? With more folks, especially Gen/pick your letter/ers, relying on bikes only for transportation, maybe so. If it does happen it will tell us something about a major demographic shift. Insurance always runs the numbers [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bicycle insurance, Dave Wiens, folders, marin dirtbowl.net
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 4, 2010
Police are seeking witnesses to reckless driving — injured cyclist accident near Redmond. Police are looking for a “newer red Honda Odyssey.” Someone out there knows, time to step forward and do the right thing. And there’s a TV report. Note that one of the riders has a seat cam but apparently wasn’t using it [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle | Tagged bicycle accident, bicycle violence, bikingbis, gene bisbee, sextagenarian cyclist, vulnerable user law
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