Rider Down
Tracking riders cut down by motorized vehicles, the whys and wherefores and remedies
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 29, 2010
If you try to run down a cyclist in your car but somehow miss, never fear. You can always go for strangulation. In L.A., a booming promise that “The culture of the car ends now!” No throwing projectiles, no verbal abuse, no cutting within 3 feet … and yes! No strangulation! “(No) making physical contact [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Rider Down | Tagged alliance for biking & walking, awesome land women of dirt, Cyclelicious, ecovelo, Gary Fisher, ipad, marin dirt bowl
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 26, 2010
BikingBis: Top bike-club names. Can’t argue with Gene on these. We did have the privilege of serving with a 1980s club founded by the estimable epicure, Bradford O’Connor, in celebration of one of his favorite beverages. It was called Team Green Death, in reference to the suitably toxic Rainier Brewery product, which served as official [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Lance's Chances, News Cycle, Rider Down | Tagged bike safety, bikingbis, lance armstrong, zoic
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 25, 2010
Justice Rising: Guy gets 5-year sentence for killing a cyclist while texting. Does requiring helmets reduce cycling among youth? Bicycle light leads to evacuation of downtown homes and businesses in Arcata. What were they smoking??? Seattle’s Bicycle Master Plan is lagging. Let’s see now. 19.7 percent of city’s population rides bikes. Cars banned from driving [...]
Posted in Advocacy, News Cycle, Rider Down | Tagged bicycle helmets, bikehugger, google latitude, iphone cyclemeter, San Francisco Bicycle Plan, seattle bicycle master plan, texting fatality
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 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
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 December 23, 2009
Waxahachie: Police donate 70 bikes. A 10-year-old raises money to give away bikes. “Bicycle Man” breaks the record with 1,100 bike giveaways! What makes Fat Cyclist tick. Ride tandem and make yourself a robot for a stoker and guess what. No complaining from the back about not being able to see anything! You can break [...]
Posted in News Cycle, Rider Down, This Day in Doping | Tagged bike giveaways, Christmas bikes, fat cyclist, missy giove
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 21, 2009
Over at SeattleLikesBikes, Michael Snyder offers an intriguing analysis of the “sharrows” issue. We don’t like sharrows, never have, and SLB uncovers yet another reason why: Inconsistency of implementation. It’s bad enough that sharrows send mixed signals to both cyclists and drivers. As Snyder shows, rules governing sharrow placement are not even applied consistently. Be [...]
Posted in Accessories, Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Rider Down | Tagged bicycle bob, niki gudex, pastajet, seattlelikesbikes, sharrows, six six one
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 19, 2009
The Seattle Times has a story about a West Seattle cyclist who suffered multiple injuries and went into a severe coma last August after colliding with a … what? Apparently no one knows. The cyclist awoke, eventually, from her accident with no memory of the incident. She’s now recovering, and police continue to “investigate,” if [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Obama Bikes, Rider Down | Tagged angela sweet, bicycle accidents, west seattle blog
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 2, 2009
PinkBike: A new world speed record on a mountain bike! 131mph, which is just 21 mph faster than I’ve ever driven in a car. SF.StreetsBlog: They’re dancing, and wheely-popping, in the streets of San Francisco, which just got its first bike lane in 3 years, thanks to a partial break in an absurd legal logjam [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Culture, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Rider Down | Tagged bike injuries, bike speed record, deadly roadways, high school cycling leagues, san francisco bike lanes, stolen bikes
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