Archive for March, 2010

Cyclovia Tucson: it’s really happening!

Posted by Erik on March 3rd, 2010 filed in Joie de vivre, Tucson ciclovia, upcoming bicycle related events

Most of my readers know how excited I am about this. I even visited Bogota, Colombia last year to participate in and learn about their Ciclovia, which to this day is the largest and most impressive in the world. Here in Tucson, ours is just a fledgling operation, but it is going to [...]

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A terrible new AZ Court ruling for State, County, and Municipal employees who have been injured

Posted by Erik on March 3rd, 2010 filed in theory, vexation of the spirit

The Arizona Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would not grant review to a Division Two Arizona Court of Appeals case, Ariz. Dep’t of Trans. v. Cox.
Jennifer and Richard Cox were injured in a motor vehicle accident and incurred medical expenses of $25,000.00. They obtained a total of $30,000.00 from the motorist who hit [...]

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Monique is a bad ass and you better return her bike

Posted by Erik on March 2nd, 2010 filed in Advice

From my friend C, and from my other friend Monique:
Monique’s bike was stolen 3-1-10 outside the art building at the U of A. It’s a spray painted brown track bike with a typewriter sticker on the head tube and a sticker that says “my bike takes me places that school never could” on [...]

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Hermosillo velodrome

Posted by Erik on March 1st, 2010 filed in Joie de vivre, Our eternal quest for Platinum Status, opportunity knocks

This photo is from the awesome El Grup blog post about their trip last weekend to ride the velodrome down in Hermosillo. They also did a road race.
Why don’t we get to have a velodrome?? Isn’t this supposed to be a gold-star biking city?
Hermosillo’s is 250 meters with a 44 degree [...]

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