Archive for April, 2009
Faith Quick sentenced today in Charles Nystrom Fatality
As most of my readers know, Charles Nystrom was killed while riding his bicycle on Tanque Verde Road last year. He was a retired Air Force pilot, a bicyclist, father of two daughters, and was working as a school teacher at the time of his death.
I never met him, but he sounds [...]
El Grupo Film Festival this Sunday!
What’s goes better than bikes, movies, youth cycling teams, and half-price admission? Here is a chance to come support El Grupo and check out some awesome bike films!
–Erik Ryberg
Tucson Citizen on “spindly entitlement bicyclists”
Here’s what a Tucson Citizen reporter has to say today about “pushy bicyclists.” It’s hard to decide which part to quote, but here’s a sample:
I had been inching south during morning rush hour on North Alvernon Way, a shade north of Broadway, where traffic is more clogged than fast food arteries.
A spindly bicyclist decided [...]