Archive for June, 2008
Carbon
I don’t pretend to know much about the science of global warming. But last year as the arctic ice caps were melting at record speed I started visiting the National Snow and Ice Data Center website for daily updates (click on the map in the upper-right corner of the page) on the melting.
It’s still [...]
Bike v. car
One of the things I am not proud of is that I quickly turn into an angry, raving lunatic when I get behind the wheel of a car. I don’t know what it is, but luckily I have structured my life in such a way that I rarely drive.
But no matter how late I [...]
San Francisco finally catching up to Boise . . . in some ways
I recently posted about the enlightened bike laws in Idaho, which permit bicyclists to regard stop signs as yield signs, and red lights as “flashing reds,” which is to say they can proceed through after stopping if there is no cross traffic.
Now reader Richard M. has pointed me to an article that shows San Francisco [...]
200 show for last night’s Tuesday Night Community Bike Ride
I made a rough estimate of the crowd at a stop light last night (I counted what I figured to be about a quarter of the people and multiplied by four) and came up with about 200 bike riders and some guy on a skateboard who I think was overtaken by us.
It was [...]
More about Velo Med
The Velo Med doctor has informed us that a bike rack will soon be installed. They have bike lockers available (cool!)…and they are “committed to injured cyclists.” Bill Peterson, a local pedorthist, is also available for orthotic fittings for cycling and running shoe inserts. Best of all, according to this article in [...]
Read More..>>Velo Med
Last week a friend of mine told me about a locally owned urgent care clinic that recently opened in Tucson called Velo Med. So I decided to ride up to the foothills to investigate. Though it isn’t exactly a mecca for injured cyclists (I was a little disappointed that there was no bike [...]
Read More..>>"How can you not see my baby on a bike. I just want to know why. It’s just too soon"
This Yehuda Moon comic strip took on an eerie meaning for me today when I read the news account about the young girl from San Jose who was killed while riding her bike home from school . . . by a woman who was driving to pick up her own children. A very sad [...]
Read More..>>Americans realize they can save money by riding bikes
My coworkers and I at Ordinary Bike Shop have been talking about how busy the shop has been this past month, which is normally when business slows down in the hot Tucson summer. Lately there are more and more articles like this one about how much the bicycling industry is growing. It is [...]
Read More..>>One day’s worth of e-mail alerts
Cyclist hit by CTA bus is in hospitalChicago Tribune – United StatesLast month, more than 200 people participated in the Chicago Ride ofDriver Charged In Death Of Mansfield CyclistsCBS 11 – Dallas,TX,USAA 24-year-old Duncanville man is out of jail one day after two bicyclistswere killed. Kenneth Brandon Bain is charged with intoxication manslaughterin the …
Mansfield [...]
Chicago Bike To Work Week starts off with a fatality
The cyclist was doored, then struck by an SUV. The usual comments about how it being his own damn fault follow the article.
–Erik Ryberg