Ruthie Matthes will highlight ROMP’s holiday party.

Jacquie Phelan reviews Thirty Ears of Appetite Seminars.

After a friend is killed on a bicycle, a 10-year-old invents a new bike-safety device.

A Yankees pitcher hurt his shoulder riding in Mexico, but no details on how. Let’s hope he was ripping it up in, say, Copper Canyon at the time.

In the Seattle cycling community, CBC usually stands for Cascade Bicycle Club. It could also stand for Cyclists Behaving Cluelessly.

I think we’ve hit a critical mass, where bikes are transformed from this really fringe group to being a relevant part of the population,” said City Councilmember Mike O’Brien, a cyclist who relied on Cascade’s support in his first run for elected office last year and founded the council’s bike caucus.

The Times also hosted an online chat this morning with club representatives.

And over at SeattleLikesBikes, a post has gone up urging readers to recall the club’s board of directors. More to come …