Archive for February, 2008
Say hi to Lauren if you are doing the 24-Hour ride this weekend!
My legal assistant Lauren will be riding with the El Grupo team in the 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo bike race this weekend. If you stop by this half carnival/half bike race event, say hello. And check out this great article on pro mountain biker Susan Haywood, who also will be competing [...]
Read More..>>Don’t do this when the cops show up
From the AZ Wildcat:
Five individuals were seen riding bikes and performing tricks around the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering building, 1130 N. Mountain Ave., Monday.
When the officer arrived he initiated contact with five individuals. A records check showed that one of the men had been previously warned for trespassing and performing bicycle motocross tricks.
When the man [...]
Bike Taxis in Tucson
Wesley, footdown extraordinaire from the Tuesday Night Community Ride, is working for the new bicycle taxi service Wildcat Pedicab. He usually works on weekend evenings and for special events at the U of A. I ran into Wes the other day and he told me that he had ferried some customers from Bison [...]
Read More..>>Bureaucrats on bikes to invade downtown Tucson
Let’s hope so anyway. Tucson is apparently leading the way in creating “bike fleets” for city employees and, ideally, others, to borrow to get around town during the work day. Raytheon is also implementing this program. Now if only they would stop buying bikes from China for these programs and instead focus [...]
Read More..>>Another Arizona bike fatality
From today’s Arizona Republic:
Bicyclist killed by construction truck
Brent WhitingThe Arizona RepublicFeb. 12, 2008 09:10 AM
A 46-year-old Glendale man was killed Tuesday morning when he was struck by a truck while riding his bicycle in Peoria, authorities said.
The crash occurred while both the bicyclist and the driver of a truck with a flatbed trailer were heading [...]
More on Jose Rincon
Several of Jose Rincon’s friends have just won a Ben’s Bell for their work to benefit Rincon’s family. And this letter to the newspaper was forwarded to me by a woman concerned about the inaccuracies in the reporting:
I was dismayed to read in the Feb. 2 Star that a higher bail was not setfor [...]
A late post on the late Sheldon Brown
Most cyclists who read blogs know by now about the passing of Sheldon Brown. Sheldon was a superstar bike advocate who probably did more for advancing knowledge and love for bikes than anyone else alive today, and news of his death hit many of us hard.
I’ve been looking around for a good [...]
Get a ticket for not having a light on your bike?
It seems the Pima County Sheriff’s Department has been giving people tickets for not having lights on their bikes in the daytime. If this happens to you, it is important to fight the ticket! Also, call me so I know how frequently this is happening.
According to the statute, you need a light on [...]
Another reason to ride a bike…
An article in the NY Times today entitled “Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat” describes two recent studies published in the journal Science that examine the land-use issues associated with biofuel production. Not only are greenhouse gases are released in the process of turning natural ecosystems into cropland for biofuel production…but more alarming is that [...]
Read More..>>Worldbike
If only us bloated Americans could appreciate these designs, too.
–Erik Ryberg