A Colorado judge accepted a controversial plea bargain on Thursday in the case of wealthy financial planner Martin Erzinger who hit a cyclist from behind back in July and didn't stop.
County District Judge Frederick Gannett sentenced Erzinger to a suspended jail term and one-year probation. The Denver man pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of careless driving resulting in injury and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in injury.
The July 3 hit-and-run case drew widespread attention, especially among bicyclists, after the district attorney's office dropped a felony charge against Erzinger as part of the plea deal….
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You roadies out there probably know the name Ed Pavelka.
If memory serves me, I first ran across his byline on some entertaining and informative bicycle reviews he wrote for Bicycling magazine many years ago as he discovered the limits of bicycles he tested on the rolling Pennsylvania countryside.
He has served as editor of VeloNews and Bicycling magazine, and his name has appeared as author on more than a dozen books still available at Amazon.com.
Now he has announced the sale of RoadBikeReview.com, a website he launched in 2001 that focused on helping sport-recreational bicyclists improve their conditioning and riding skills to get the most out of bicycling ….
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Longtime bicycling writer and editor to retire from last venture, RoadBikeRider.com.
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March 12, 2011
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30th anniversary in 2011… http://www.chicovelo.org/main/century-series/26-wildflower
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A Denver-based financial planner is using a unique defense to explain why he hit a bicyclist from behind near Vail, Colorado, last summer and didn't stop:
The new car smell of his 2010 Mercedes sedan made it happen.
Attorneys for Martin Erzinger say in court documents that their client suffers from sleep apnea. They maintain that he had fallen asleep behind the wheel and drove onto the shoulder where he hit Stephen Milo, a liver transplant anesthesiologist from New York.
An accident reconstructionist, John Koziol of Koziol Forensic hired by the defense, claims that the month-old car was emitting new car fumes and that may have been a contributing factor. Quoted in the SummitDaily, Koziol wrote ….
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A break in the weather Monday afternoon enabled me to get out for a short bike ride to one of my favorite haunts, May Valley Road.
Although my career in newspapers ended 15 years ago, I still feel a need to survey the damage from severe weather.
There was still plenty of evidence of flooding and small slides, even a day after the torrential downpours that swept through Western Washington.
Above is a horse pasture that's been transformed into a duck pond by floodwaters of May Creek. ….
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Heavy rains turn this horse pasture into a duck pond along May Valley Road in King County.
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We already know that Lance Armstrong's return to the 2009 Tour de France helped boost the viewership on the Versus cable network — as 41% more people watched the race last year than in 2008.
Now Bloomberg reports that he also helped fatten the wallet of the Amaury Sport Organization, owner of Le Tour and other cycling events around the world.
[Update: Dec. 23, 2010 — That assertion has been questioned by John Wilcockson of VeloNews, who reports that Amaury revenues climbed in 2009 due to the return of the Dakar Rally, a motor sports race. In summary, Wilcockson found that Amaury's revenues dropped in 2008 when the Africa-based Dakar Rally was cancelled due to terrorist threats. When it returned the following year, revenues returned to normal.] ….
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