(Updated: Nov. 14, 2007 — The Scotsman accused of having sex with his bicycle in a hotel room has been placed on three years probation.)
Bike porn I can explain, but sex with a bike is something I can't really picture.
So let's call on a police official who testified recently in a court proceeding regarding a man in the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr, Scotland ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/14/sentencing-for-man-who-had-sex-with-bike/
More than once, I've been cut off by a Metro bus pulling to the curb to drop off a passenger. It's bad driving, but nothing compared to the addlebrained recklessness shown by operators of India's Blueline buses.
The Blueline bus fleet has caused 103 deaths in India so far this year. The country's media calls them variously “killer buses” and “rogue buses,” names formerly bestowed on rampaging herds of elephants.
Official enforcement seems ineffective, so local residents are taking matters into their own hands. After the October 25 death of a cyclist who was run down by a speeding bus, a mob torched and gutted the bus as the operator fled …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/11/05/death-toll-from-india-busline-tops-100-pedestrians-and-cyclists/
The Edinburgh (Scotland) News writes about a bicyclist who won a lawsuit from the local bus company after the judge said he didn't fake his fall.
George Johnston, 63, claimed that he was hit by the bus in 2004 while bicycling home through Oxgangs. The bus driver disagreed calling the fall staged and “a comedy …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/21/the-falling-scotsman/
Being distracted with other stuff, I completely missed the DVD release of the cycling flick “The Flying Scotsman” in mid-September.
Earlier this week I stumbled across it after taking a stroll to my local video rental store, snatched it up, watched it immediately, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
The movie is based on Graeme Obree's autobiography, “Flying Scotsman; Cycling to Triumph through My Darkest Hours.” Obree set the one-hour bicycling record, twice, in the early 1990s in spite of battling officials at the Union Cycliste Internationale and the demons inside his head…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/20/the-flying-scotsman-cycling-flick-at-your-local-video-store/
If you're pedaling through North Portland on your bicycle and feel some hunger pangs, you might want to swing by the “bike-thru” window at the Little Red Bike Cafe.
Only open a couple of months, the breakfast and lunch cafe will feed anyone who wants some homemade goodness in the form of sandwiches, baked goods, ice cream and locally roasted coffees. But cyclists do get that 50-cent drink discount that others don't.
Owners Evan and Ali explain all the trials of opening a restaurant and feature their tasty menu offerings at the Little Red Bike Cafe blog. Don't read it on an empty stomach. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/18/portlands-little-red-bike-cafe/
“Take a ride you won't forget,
On my bicyclette;
Fast as lightning and so much more,
It's a traveling metaphor.”
These are the opening lines to the theme song for “The Bicycle Men,” a musical comedy opening in London soon.
The show stars Dan Castellaneta, best known as the voice of Homer Simpson. In the musical he plays Steve, an American tourist who crashes his bike and “encounters the twisted inhabitants of a sinister French village,” …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/16/the-voice-of-homer-simpson-stars-in-the-bicycle-men/
When I first saw the story about the two guys riding their bicycles to every Burgerville fast food joint in the Northwest, I thought I'd be reading a cross between “Super-Size Me” and “Breaking Wind Away.”
No such deal here. Brent Krebsbach of Redmond, Wash., and Paul LaFrance of Wasilla, Alaska, are visiting a chain of restaurants in Washington and Oregon that strives to do the right thing toward its customers and employees.
Krebsbach and LaFrance bicycled more than 500 miles in four days to visit all 39 Burgervilles in Oregon and Washington….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/10/two-men-on-burgerville-bicycle-tour-in-northwest/
The guy at the corner grocery watched me walk across the parking lot in the rain.
“Where's your bike?”
“In the garage, where it's happy,” I told him.
Five days after my radical prostatectomy, I'm happy with the bike in the garage too. Considering my soreness and catheter, I can't imagine riding it anytime soon ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/10/02/back-on-my-feet-but-not-my-wheels/
A couple of blog items involving bicyclists convinces me that things are as bad as ever out on the streets.
The LAist blog writes about a cyclist getting handcuffed by police after his bicycle was damaged by a bus and Cyclelicious had an item about a struck cyclist who shoots at a motorist ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/09/25/if-you-need-proof-the-world-is-going-crazy/
This might seem a little odd, but there's an exercise book that recommends workouts based on your astrological sign.
“Zodiaction: Fat-Burning Fitness Tailored to Your Personal Star Quality” was written by TV fitness personality Ellen Barrett and astrologer Barrie Dolnick.
A newspaper story summarized findings for the different signs of the Zodiac and told which exercises were most appropriate for each group. Which signs are aligned with bicycling? …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/09/15/bicycle-touring-might-be-in-the-stars-for-you/
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