One out of four of the 630 bicyclists killed in traffic accidents in 2009 had a blood alcohol content considered at or above the legal limit for drunken driving.
And in 40% of all highway deaths of bicyclists that year, either the motorist or bicyclist or both had been drinking.
Those facts are included in a US Department of Transportation report entitled “Bicyclists and Other Cyclists” that was released recently as an addendum to the “Traffic Safety Facts of 2009” report that I reported on a couple of weeks ago.
While the study doesn't report the cause of the crashes ….
“I'm sick and tired of you old guys from Boulder coming up here and acting like you own the road.”
That's how a roadside argument started on a county road south of Loveland, Colorado, between a motorist and a group of three cyclists last July. Before it ended, the motorist had poked at a bicyclist with a baseball …
Bicycling in the City of Angels can take flight with today's expected approval of the 2010 Bicycle Plan for the City of Los Angeles.
The plan seeks to expand the city's network of bikeways to 1,680 miles at the rate of 200 miles every five years. The city currently has about 280 miles of disconnected bike lanes and paths on the ground.
The emphasis for the first five years will be to close gaps in the existing system, serve lower income and under-served communities and open bike lanes on major arteries such as Figueroa Street and Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards.
The Los Angeles Times credits vocal bicycle advocates and two high profile bicycle “accidents” for the changing attitude that brought improvements to the plan ….
Although I've participated in six or seven Chilly Hilly bicycle rides in my 10 years in the Seattle area, I'm always one of those in the last-minute registration line near the ferry terminal.
Not this year, however. I registered early and received my packet in the mail well before Sunday.
It was still sitting there, unopened, on the kitchen table when I returned from the airport Sunday night. My wife's father died after a long illness last week, and we had flown back East. That's why there were so few updates on this blog lately.
I soon learned that I had missed one of the worst — or best — Chilly Hilly bike rides in recent memory. My biking buddy Kazuki told me he ran into snow, rain and fierce headwinds on this year's ride ….
The horror and grief caused by a motorist who plowed through a group of peaceful critical mass cyclists in Brazil is captured in this scene from a video posted on YouTube.
The moments that precede this are a sickening reminder of how some motorists become monsters in the presence of bicyclists. Here's a link to the video, but I'll warn you that it's very graphic.
The savagery committed in Porto Alegre on Friday night started with the monthly critical mass bike ride through the streets of this lakeside town in southern Brazil. At least 40 were injured in the attack, incredibly no fatalities have been reported ….
The man credited with inspiring a generation of handmade bike builders in Oregon won the coveted “Best in Show” award at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show on Sunday.
DiNucci Cycles, owned by Mark DiNucci, led the list of 17 award winners presented at the conclusion of the 7th annual NAHBS located at the Austin Convention Center this past weekend.
The 2011 NAHBS was the largest yet, featuring 172 exhibitors who displayed their wares to some 7,300 visitors. Show director Don Walker announced next year's show will be in Sacramento from March 2-4, 2012 …..
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[Note: Here's another story about a couple of early bicycle explorers. Written by noted bicycling author David Herlihy, the book was published this past summer.]
If you're looking to travel by bicycle vicariously this summer by reading about someone else's adventures, I'd recommend “The Lost Cyclist” by David Herlihy. But I'll warn you that, as the title implies, it ends badly.
From the opening pages, you can tell “The Lost Cyclist” is not going to be your average book about a bicycle tour. It's an historical account of Frank Lenz's around-the-world bicycle adventure gone wrong, possibly made worse by attempts to make it right again.
Herlihy starts by describing how one of the main characters in the story walks out of the mists of time and into a newspaper office in 1953 to take care of some business. He's recognized by the editor. They chat, and the editor asks if he'd like to talk to a reporter about his attempt to rescue a missing bicycle traveler halfway around the world a half-century earlier …
[Note: Busy with some family issues through the weekend, so I'm pulling up some stories from previous years. Here's one about Peter Zheutlin's great-grandaunt, who became the first woman to ride a bicycle around the world.]
Imagine that you're a writer with a growing appetite for riding your bicycle.
Then consider that a researcher who had contacted your mother years earlier about your great-grandfather's sister — no one in the immediate family had ever heard of her — gets back in touch and asks if you had learned anything more about her.
Oh, and by way, that great-grandaunt had bicycled around the world more than 100 years ago.
There you have the circumstances that launched Peter Zheutlin on his quest to research and write a book about Annie Kopchovsky (aka Annie Londonderry): “Around the World on Two Wheels, Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride” …..
Felt Bicycles is in the midst of recalling 1,550 F-series model bicycles because of a potential problem with the carbon forks.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the Felt recall, and one involving 160 Novara Fusion bicycles, on Tuesday.
Irvine, California-based Felt Bicycles issued its own recall notice on Felt F3, F4, F5, F5 Team and F75 back in November 2010. Although no breakages or injuries have been reported, Felt said a test sampling of the carbon forks did not meet the company's standards …
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Bicycling in the City of Angels can take flight with today's expected approval of the 2010 Bicycle Plan for the City of Los Angeles.
Although I've participated in six or seven Chilly Hilly bicycle rides in my 10 years in the Seattle area, I'm always one of those in the last-minute registration line near the ferry terminal.
The man credited with inspiring a generation of handmade bike builders in Oregon won the coveted “Best in Show” award at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show on Sunday.
If you're looking to travel by bicycle vicariously this summer by reading about someone else's adventures, I'd recommend “The Lost Cyclist” by David Herlihy. But I'll warn you that, as the title implies, it ends badly.
Felt Bicycles is in the midst of recalling 1,550 F-series model bicycles because of a potential problem with the carbon forks.
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