Advocacy
All about gaining respect for cyclists and cycling … on the streets, on the trails, in the halls of justice
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 22, 2010
Reminder: Facebook anti-cycling hate page protest is tomorrow at FB headquarters near the foot of California Street (and Bowdoin) in Palo Alto. Gets rolling at noon. Protests are good. Action is even better. What you can do today to actually combat anti-cycling mentality is to click on over to Cascade Bicycle Club’s advocacy page and [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes | Tagged cascade bicycle club, facebook anti-cycling hate protest, florida honk at cyclist, portland cycling community, vulnerable user law
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 21, 2010
We kvetched recently about how only one American city, Portland, made the Top 10 bike-friendly cities in the world list compiled by that paragon of velo-ology, AskMen.com. Now in the spirit of Spinal Tap, Virgin Vacations has gone one notch further up with the 11 Most Bicycle-Friendly Cities in the World. And guess what: There’s [...]
Posted in Advocacy | Tagged bike-friendly cities, boulder, davis, Portland, San Francisco, virgin vacations
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 21, 2010
Mark Weir’s tragic house fire has a lot of the bike community stepping forward offering help. We continue to wish him and his family the best. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ULqg8TycIE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] The legal woes blocking the San Francisco Bicycle Plan are finally ebbing, and work is getting under way. I’m having trouble getting worked up about the Tour Down [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes | Tagged league of american bicyclists, mark weir house fire, San Francisco Bicycle Plan, tour down under 2010
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 18, 2010
Rider Down & Dragged: “The car failed to stop despite having the victim’s bicycle trapped underneath, dragging the mangled frame all the way into Key Biscayne…” According to the story, the driver “appeared impaired”…d’ya think? Is this a trend? Remember the Toronto incident where a bike courier was impaled and tried to hang on for [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Rider Down | Tagged bicyclist killed, cycling hate crime
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 17, 2010
From an alert issued by the California State Parks System… I was riding in Arastradero today and the rangers were all over, battening down the hatches. “Don’t expect much in the way of riding weather through the end of the month,” one told me. We at Bike Intelligencer ride when sane mortals rest. But this [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Trail Access | Tagged cycling storm, cycling weather, mountain biking storm
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 16, 2010
The Washington State legislative session in Olympia is only a few days old, but so far it’s looking good for “vulnerable user” legislation backed by Seattle’s Cascade Bicycle Club. Or at least it isn’t looking bad. This year’s bill is more “wakeup call” than “strict punishment,” and we think that’s good. The point with upping [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes | Tagged askmen.com, b.c. bike scammer, north american handmade bicycle show, top 10 bike-friendly cities, trek bicycles, vulnerable user bill
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 15, 2010
You have to love this: Newly elected Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn riding his bike to a press conference. Thanks to BikeHugger for the pix. When we wondered last August whether Seattle could get a mayor “who actually rides,” we were expressing more hope than expectation. Now it’s breakthrough reality. Images like this do wonders to [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Trail Access | Tagged bikehugger, bikingbis, fanatik bikes, galbraith mountain, Momentum magazine, seattle mayor bike commuter, seattle mayor mike mcginn, whimps
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 15, 2010
Would 1,200 sharrows in downtown Portland be a good idea? A plan to do so is on the shelf, so BikePortland.org put out the question to its readers. Bike Intelligencer readers know we’re not fans of sharrows here. We feel they do little to increase safety, are an excuse to avoid real progress with actual [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes | Tagged portland cycling sharrows, seattle cycling sharrows, sharrows
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 14, 2010
Passed: New cycling safety laws in Boise. Given a pass: Woman driver who killed mother on bike cleared of wrongdoing because, she says, she fainted. Kolelinia: A severe lapse of judgment, marked by bouts with insanity, while riding skinny half pipe suspended 12 feet over traffic in crowded metropolitan areas. Curiously high rates of occurrence [...]
Posted in News Cycle, Rider Down | Tagged b.c. bike scammer, bicycle theft, boise cycling laws, cycling safety, kolelinia
