Larry Frederick always expresses his gratitude to blood donors:
“Thank you, it was someone like you who saved my life.”
The 60-year-old California cyclist says he wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for people who donate blood.
Rehabilitating his broken body on a stationary bicycle, Frederick became a cycling enthusiast and decided to use his love of bicycling as a way to promote blood donations ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/10/california-cyclist-promotes-blood-drives-on-cross-country-bicycle-tours/
“He knew his name was cleared before he left. He wanted to be baptized again, and I thank God he got to do that. He wanted to ride a bicycle and he got to do that. He had been locked up for 32 years.”
Jerry Dixon talking about his wrongly convicted brother to Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Miss.; “Cleared Mississippi man's freedom cut short.”
Bobby Ray Dixon, 53, died this past Sunday of lung and brain cancer, not long after he had been cleared of the rape and murder of a Hattiesburg woman back in 1979. The Innocence Project New Orleans filed a motion to have DNA evidence in the case tested …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/10/quote-wrongly-accused-man-dreamed-of-going-for-a-bike-ride/
After receiving 1,000 e-mails and a petition with 9,000 signatures, a Colorado prosecutor is trying to explain his choice of misdemeanor, instead of felony, charges against a hit-and-run driver who seriously injured a bicyclist.
District Attorney Mark Hurlbert and the case of wealthy fund manager Martin Joel Erzinger has become the focus of bicyclists across the country who are increasingly frustrated by the judicial system's apparent leniency toward motorists in crashes with bicyclists.
It's now up to a Colorado judge to accept or reject the plea bargain and determine a sentence, which can include loss of driver's license and one year of jail time ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/09/prosecutor-explains-plea-bargain-in-cyclist-hit-and-run/
More than 800 cyclists used their bicycles to go grocery shopping in St. Louis on Sunday to help fill the pantry at Food Outreach for Thanksgiving.
The bicycling food drives in St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Mason City, Iowa, were the earliest Cranksgiving events this year. Others are planned for the next couple of weekends in cities across the US.
In St. Louis, the bicyclists were given a list of items needed by Food Outreach and a map of grocery stores located along a 10- or 25-mile route. The event was free, but buying 5 to 10 items each set the participants back $10 to $20.
The pilgrims at the first Cranksgiving were a bunch of bike messengers in New York City back in 1999. Still going strong, that Cranksgiving — like many of the events — is an Alleycat race ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/08/cranksgiving-upcoming-thanksgiving-rides-for-bicyclists/
“I got on a bicycle and rode it a mile. I did that 45 times each day, for 89 days.”
That's how David Jones of Vancouver, Wash., described his cross-country bicycle tour to a reporter at The Columbian newspaper recently.
Breaking up a 4,022-mile bicycle journey into bit-sized pieces was the easiest way for the 55-year-old to tackle the challenge. Before this bike tour, his longest bike ride had been about 15 miles. At times in the Rockies ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/07/traveling-by-bicycle-one-mile-at-a-time/
If you're outraged by this lack of justice, sign the petition at Change.org: DA Mark Hurlbert: Don't Drop Felony Charges Against Hit and Run Wealth Manager
A Denver-based financial planner will be charged with two misdemeanor traffic charges, but not felony hit-and-run, after he allegedly hit a bicyclist from behind near Vail, Colorado, and didn't stop.
The prosecutor in the case, District Attorney Mark Hurlbert, said he chose not to seek the felony charges because it would effect the driver's ability to make restitution for medical costs to the victim.
The victim, Dr. Steven Milo, is “livid” about the case, according to the Vail Daily. Milo objected in writing to the district attorney about the case, which he says “has always been about responsibility, not money ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/07/financial-planner-gets-bailout-in-hit-and-run-vs-cyclist-near-vail/
Whenever I read a long-range forecast for the upcoming winter in the Pacific Northwest, each one says wetter than normal — expect streams and rivers to overflow their banks for widespread flooding.
Must be time to look into the amphibious bicycle. Just ride along down your favorite road, deploy the floaties when you hit deep standing water, and pedal on.
Floating bicycles are not unheard of. I easily found a patent for one dating to 1981. Forbes.com touts an inventor from India who put one together over a three-day period during the monsoon season in his region. At the opposite end of the spectrum is the high-tech amphibious bike created by students at the University of Southampton …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/06/is-this-the-winter-for-amphibious-bicycles-in-the-pacific-northwest/
A number of freelance pieces of art have been appearing around downtown Muskegon, Michigan, lately — brightly painted bicycles chained to lampposts, bicycle racks and chainlink fences.
So far eight bicycles have been set up around town since mid-October. Sometimes they're moved from one location to another in the dead of the night. One, a pink bicycle that carried a breast cancer awareness message, was repainted yellow.
The only thing they have in common, besides being bicycles, is that each has a picture of an old-fashioned drill bit stenciled below the handlebars. If there's a theme to the spray-painted bicycles, no one has figured it out yet ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/05/painted-bicycles-mystify-muskegon/
The use of bicycles for transportation and recreation is clearly on the upswing. Now the Adventure Cycling Association says that bicycles are a growing part of the travel industry as well.
The Missoula, Montana-based nonprofit that produces bike travel maps, organizes supported and self-contained bicycle tours and advocates for bicycle travel had a record year in 2010. One of its big gains was a 16% increase in the number of cyclists joining one of its many bicycle tours.
In reporting the 15% overall growth in revenue for Adventure Cycling, Executive Director Jim Sayer said:
” … it's also a sign that in difficult times, people turn to the things they love, like bicycling and travel by bike.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/04/10-ways-that-bicycle-travel-industry-is-booming/
It's too soon to know for sure how the results from the mid-term elections will affect funding for bicycle programs, but most are doubtful that the news is good.
With Republicans taking over the House of Representatives by a 254 to 177 margin, that means any funding for alternative transportation — including bicycle projects — faces an uphill battle against a party that's interested in cutting the federal budget.
The tenor of the battle may have been set earlier this year by Republican Senators Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and John McCain of Arizona, both re-elected Tuesday. In a stimulus oversight report, they described money spent on two bicycle projects as “wasted, mismanaged, or directed toward silly and shortsighted projects.”
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/11/03/bicycle-advocates-shift-to-defense-with-election-results/
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