Archive for the 'I am in slack-jawed awe' Category
Portland
I returned last weekend from a week in Portland, Oregon. I kept a keen eye out for signs of its platinumy bike status, and I am here to tell you: they were everywhere.
As readers of this blog know, I have opposed plans to grant Tucson a “platinum” award for its bike-friendly community, because I [...]
A Happy Ending to the Steely Dan Saga
Steely has been recovered!!!! Last night my best friend Jared, who is a wizard, hunted down the guy who had my bike! A big thank you to one of our blog readers, Tony. Tony came into Ordinary Bike Shop while I was working and told me that he thought he may have seen someone riding [...]
Read More..>>Not Your Typical Road Obstruction
A bike-commuter from Missoula, Montana was riding to work the other day when he suddenly collided with a 300 pound bear. Jim Litz, a 57 year-old schoolteacher, stated, “I didn’t have time to respond. I never even hit my brakes.” Litz estimates that he was going about 25 mph when the collision occurred. He T-boned [...]
Read More..>>Bike thief is “easily the most hated man in Toronto”
My friend L. sent me this from today’s New York Times, about a fellow who was arrested with more than two thousand stolen bicycles.
From the article:
Mr. Kenk’s legacy now fills a former police garage with a leaky roof. Organized by brand name and mostly resting on their handlebars, wheels pointed upward, are 2,396 [...]
They have a fixed gear category on the Kitt Peak Hill Climb????
Good grief. But congratulations Cindy! (Also to David Glick, sometimes Tuesday Night Community Bike Rider, who won the men’s pro 1-2 category).
From the article.
Other women’s records set were Cindy McFarland of Tucson in the Fixed Gear category (1:14:45),Teri Albertazzi of Tucson in Category 4 (1:04:27) and San Diego’s Adrienne Brian in Masters [...]
Charles W. Nystrom, 54
The police have identified the man killed on his bicycle in Tucson last night as Charles Nystrom. Tucson Citizen article here.
I’m just going to let the first three comments on the article do the talking.
1. Comment by A C. (Apstudent34) — August 15,2008 @ 1:20PM
charles was my enviromental science [...]
SF Driver who killed and injured 16 pedestrians and cyclists declared insane
I’ll say. From the SF Chronicle:
Authorities believe Popal began his attacks in Fremont by ramming 54-year-old Stephen Wilson with his SUV as Wilson walked in a bike lane on Fremont Boulevard. He died at the scene.
Popal then drove to San Francisco and, in the course of half an hour shortly after lunchtime, ran down [...]
Road rager wants to know: You mean I have to stay in jail for a whole week?
Cyclist on car hood
The whole of bike-blog internetdom is awash in this story about a road raging motorist who first attacked a cyclist (after the cyclist told him to slow down) and then, when the cyclist stood in front of his car to get the plate, drove into him and thence down the road with [...]
Read More..>>That does it. I am moving to Copenhagen.
Ikea now offers free bike trailers for overnight loan to its customers in Denmark.
Realistically, how far are we from doing that in this country? In centuries?
Man I bet the beer is good in Copenhagen, too.
–Erik Ryberg