Archive for July, 2008

LAPD arrests “road rage” doctor in bicyclist assault

Posted by Erik on July 8th, 2008 filed in safety

This is an ugly story: an L.A. doctor slammed on his brakes in front of cyclists descending a steep hill, putting one of them through his rear windshield and sending another onto the pavement at high speed. The fellow who went through the window got his nose detached and is badly injured, but both [...]

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Yikes! Police say bicyclists in Huntersville, NC ride “at their own risk”

Posted by Erik on July 7th, 2008 filed in safety

Don’t look for any sympathy from the Huntersville, NC police department when you get run down by an angry motorist. Huntersville Police Captain Michael McKee told the local newspaper that there are a lot of folks “who resent bicyclists for being an inconvenience on the road,” and that if you bicycle in those parts [...]

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Okay so I was wrong about gas

Posted by Erik on July 4th, 2008 filed in imminent death of car-based culture

(From today’s Yehuda Moon comic strip)

A few months ago I posted a nasty, cynical post about how gas would have to go up to around $50.00 a gallon before it would make a dent in people’s driving habits. This hypothesis involved math, albeit a simple, primitive kind of math, reflective of my abilities.
I was [...]

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Woman who doored and killed cyclist fined $110.00–Canadian!

Posted by Erik on July 4th, 2008 filed in getting off easy again

A Toronto woman who doored a cyclist, knocking him into and then–fatally–under a van, has been fined $110.00.
The police said she was really shaken up about it, and commented that it’s hard to see cyclists, so it can’t really be considered negligent to open a door into one.
The $110.00 fee is the same amount local [...]

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Los Angeles made me proud . . .

Posted by Erik on July 4th, 2008 filed in imminent death of car-based culture

. . . to live in Tucson.
I was in L.A. the last few days in federal court and I kept a keen eye out for bicyclists while out and about.
I saw very few.
I am sure that L.A. has lots and lots of neighborhoods where the bicycle is featured more prominently than [...]

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Varo’s tall bike

Posted by Erik on July 2nd, 2008 filed in Cool bikes, Tuesday night ride

Here are two pictures my friend Sarah H. from BICAS sent me of Varo on his tall bike last night. As you might imagine, he’s always a big hit with the spectators.

Varo has lots of cool bikes that he makes himself, including a side-by-side two-seater. I’ll try to get a picture of that [...]

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Tuesday Night Community Bike Ride visits two ghost bikes

Posted by Erik on July 2nd, 2008 filed in Tuesday night ride, ghostbikes

Last night’s Tuesday Night Bike Ride visited two ghost bikes. The first was for Andria Ligas, a 19 year-old Flinn scholar at the U of A who was killed when she was struck from behind by a driver who then fled the scene. Her ghost bike can be found on Euclid just north of [...]

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One-year anniversary of the Tuesday Night Community Bike Ride tonight!

Posted by Erik on July 1st, 2008 filed in Tuesday night ride

Depending how you look at it. It might have been last weekend, too.
If you’ve never been on this ride you really need to do it. Hundreds of people show up and as my friend Deana puts it, it is “like a cocktail party on wheels, except you have to drink the cocktails [...]

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