There are a lot of news stories this holiday season about different organizations giving away bicycles to children in need, and I tip my hat to all of them.
But year in and year out, the effort that catches my attention is the work done by Moses Mathis, the so-called “Bicycle Man” of Fayetteville, North Carolina.
The 72-year-old man has been giving away bicycles every Christmas for the past 20 years to children in the poor communities of North Carolina's sand hills. He told News14Carolina:
“I'll see the kids and the parents, and the hugs and the kisses and the thank you's. … That's what it's all about.” …
Here's a little bit of holiday cheer brought to us via YouTube by the London-based FreshNetworks social media company. It shows a group of Santas swooping in on London to ride the city's new bike-share system like so many Valkyries in a Wagner opera.
Launched just four months ago, the bike-share program is already a big part of many Londoners' lives. If they're not using one of the 5,000 bicycles for commuting or running an errand, they see them on the streets weaving through traffic.
The system has become known as “Boris Bikes” for Boris Johnson, London's current mayor. Ironically, it was his predecessor …
You can't say that the friends of a Hawaiian cyclist who was struck and killed by a hit-and-run motorist took the law into their own hands, but they did help police with their investigation.
Zachary Manago, a Hawaii Pacific University student, had joined a Friday night group ride with 30 or 40 other cyclists who were on their way to watch the sunrise at a beach on Oahu.
As they pedaled their bicycles along Kamehameha Highway shortly before midnight, someone driving an SUV struck the 18-year-old from behind and then sped away. Manago was later pronounced dead at the hospital. ….
Many of my favorite books — both fiction and non-fiction — involve travel or adventure. Lately I've been thinking how a loaded touring bicycling might have been a better conveyance for the author or main character than a horse, car, or pickup or camper.
“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” immediately comes to mind, with the bicycle replacing the motorcycle in the title. But, I just googled this and it turns out it's the title of a TV episode of “Radio Free Roscoe”, and any number of blog headlines. In other words, it's already been done.
There's not anything wrong with the following books. I loved reading them and these comments aren't meant as criticism. It's just that I would have liked to have read the author's take on bicycling in these books. Here are some of my favorite books and how a bicycle might have worked:
How would you feel if a simple parking violation resulted in a ticket that surpassed the cost of your car?
That's what bicyclists at the University of California at Berkeley are asking in the wake of a crackdown on bicycle violations by campus police.
So far this semester, police have issued 103 citations, a 41% increase over the same period last year. What's really frosting the students, however, is that the infractions cost $220 each, which is more than the cost of some of the beater bikes these college students ride….
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….
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 ….
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 ….
Bicyclists representing the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy delivered a petition with more than 51,000 signatures to the American Automobile Association headquarters in Heathrow, Florida, Monday morning.
The petition asks that AAA stop its opposition to using the federal Highway Trust Fund to pay for trails and other bicycling programs. Those programs amount to about 1.5% of the surface transportation funding, according to the non-profit.
About 25 cyclists joined the procession from the OutSpoke'N Bike Shop in Lake Mary, Florida, to the AAA offices located on the Seminole-Wekiva Trail …
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There are a lot of news stories this holiday season about different organizations giving away bicycles to children in need, and I tip my hat to all of them.
Many of my favorite books — both fiction and non-fiction — involve travel or adventure. Lately I've been thinking how a loaded touring bicycling might have been a better conveyance for the author or main character than a horse, car, or pickup or camper.
You roadies out there probably know the name Ed Pavelka. 
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.
Bicyclists representing the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy delivered a petition with more than 51,000 signatures to the American Automobile Association headquarters in Heathrow, Florida, Monday morning.
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