So when the opportunity came up to publicize a new business membership for the East Bay Bicycle Coalition to none other than the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, Sylvia was on the case.

The good news is, she rode to the event by bike.

The bad news is, her bike was stolen while she was doing her presentation.

The good news is, a construction crew working on a nearby roof saw the whole thing happen.

The bad news is, they were too far away to do anything about it at the time.

The good news is, Sylvia got another bike right away from Mike’s Bikes. “I can’t live without a commuter bike,” she explained.

The bad news is, there’s obviously no good way to secure a bike in the big city. Sylvia had a burly steel lock which the thief sliced through with bolt cutters.

Sylvia’s assessment:

“Someone needs to invent a far more sophisticated theft device for the bicycle, maybe using mobile communications. Or maybe it (a chip embedded with an owner’s recognition software program? ) should come built into the frame of each new bicycle. Whatever is clever. Bicycle thieves would all but disappear if their brawny tools no longer sufficed.”

Biking for the homeless: “Now, Nelson plans to set off from his home in Asheville, North Carolina, on March 19 on a new quest — to raise funds for the homeless and homeless veterans and to raise awareness about solutions for the problems of homelessness…”

Adam Craig out for 4 months with shredded ACL, we wish him a speedy recovery.

I kept my Schwinn Continental for 40 years before giving it to a youth bike program. But hey, it wasn’t rideable. This guy takes the cake.

After years of study and aeons of debate, it is still impossible to say definitively that helmets save lives. But that doesn’t stop us all from trying. Aside: Some of my worst bell-ringers have come in fairly innocuous tumbles, e.g., losing balance in a slow section and going over backwards. If you hit your head, it’s gonna hurt, helmet or not. So why take the chance on going lid-less?

Fat Cyclist, newly anointed Hall of Fame blogger, is a big fat cyclist. Actually he’s not. Just his ego. Not even that either. It’s impossible not to like Fat Cyclist, no matter how easy he tries to make it.

We’ve said it before, you can’t be DUI on a bike. You can, however, be RUI.