Archive for the 'opportunity knocks' Category

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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The only future that is ours is the one we make for ourselves

Posted by Erik on February 26th, 2010 filed in Joie de vivre, Our eternal quest for Platinum Status, opportunity knocks

The comment in Danehy’s article (post below) that he would never ride a bike in the street or allow his children to do so because he’s too scared has really stuck in my craw. Mainly it’s the sense of superiority I detect in most of his writing (if you aren’t scared like me then [...]

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Arizona Bikes Safe Yield Act to get a hearing — possibly this Thursday

The so-called “Idaho Stop” statute, as most of my readers know by now, has been introduced again here in Arizona. My representative Daniel Patterson has joined with Matt Heinz, another legislator from Tucson, to sponsor this bill. It was introduced by Rep. Quelland, a long-time bicycle commuter from Phoenix.
The bill is [...]

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Bike lanes from around the world — including Tucson — on Huffington Post

But as usual, Copenhagen wins.
–EBR

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“Idaho stop” bill introduced in Arizona — would permit bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs when safe to do so

Posted by Erik on February 3rd, 2010 filed in Our eternal quest for Platinum Status, opportunity knocks

Bicycles, Rolling Stops, and the Idaho Stop from Spencer Boomhower on Vimeo.
I got a call yesterday from my State legislator, Daniel Patterson, who told me that the “Bike safe-yield” bill had been introduced again this year. This bill would permit bikes to treat stop signs as yield signs when safe to do so. [...]

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Study finds bad driving, not bad cycling, the cause of most cycling accidents

Posted by Erik on December 29th, 2009 filed in Carhead, Preapocalyptic technological dystopia, opportunity knocks, safety, theory

This is interesting:
A tiny proportion of accidents involving cyclists are caused by riders jumping red lights or stop signs, or failing to wear high-visibility clothing and use lights, a government-commissioned study has discovered.
. . .
The data, which was analysed by the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), showed that more than a quarter of all [...]

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BICAS Offering kids bikes at $5.00 for the holidays

Posted by Erik on December 18th, 2009 filed in Joie de vivre, Yay!, opportunity knocks

I just got this from BICAS:
Subject: BICAS Kids Bike Sale, $5 !!!
Hey everybody,
BICAS is fixing up kids bikes for the holidays and they are available to you starting at just $5! (or ask about our work-trade program).
Come on down and get a new-used bicycle for your little son or daughter, niece or nephew, grandkid, great [...]

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Copenhagen and bicycles

Lauren just sent me this video under the heading “Copenhagen is ridiculous.” I thought it was going to be about global warming, but it is a video on some of the really creative and amazing things Copenhagen has done for bicycles. Like for example pavement-level flashing red lights that bicyclists cannot see (“we’d [...]

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¡Tucson Ciclovia! Meeting tomorrow, all are welcome!

Posted by Erik on December 14th, 2009 filed in Joie de vivre, Yay!, opportunity knocks, upcoming bike related events

Hey all — there is a Tucson Ciclovia meeting tomorrow to help work on the details of getting the ciclovia going in Tucson. All are welcome to attend! I’ll be there. Feel free to bring a lunch with you. Here is the invite:

Ciclovia Tucson
When:
Tue 15 Dec 2009 11:45 AM – 01:00 [...]

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Riding to bike rack on the sidewalk now legal in Denver

Posted by Erik on December 10th, 2009 filed in opportunity knocks, safety

One of the things that has always irked me is that, to be strictly lawful about it, you have to mount and dismount your bicycle in traffic and walk to a bike rack.
I never cared much about it until, naturally, I got a client who had been ticketed for riding his bike fifteen [...]

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