Archive for the 'safety' Category

How Dutch people open their car doors

Posted by Erik on August 1st, 2011 filed in safety

Did you know that in Holland drivers are taught to reach for their car door handle with their right hands? (See fourth paragraph of linked article.) This forces you to turn and look behind you when opening the door so you can see if anyone is approaching on a bicycle. What a [...]

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The Oregon Coast Bike Route

Posted by Erik on July 8th, 2011 filed in safety

About thirty years ago, when I was still in high school, I took a bike trip from Astoria, Oregon to my hometown, Ashland, with my boss Pat Super, who cofounded United Bicycle Tool Supply and whose husband at the time founded United Bicycle Institute.
It was the worst bike tour I had ever been on. [...]

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I want his bike lights

Posted by Erik on June 29th, 2011 filed in Cool bikes, Joie de vivre, safety

EBR

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Montana legislator speaks out to support drunk driving as “a way of life”

Posted by Erik on April 3rd, 2011 filed in safety

You gotta give a guy like that some credit.
–EBR

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99 years for a DUI . . . (but it’s his 16th one)

Posted by Erik on March 28th, 2011 filed in safety, theory

I’ve been thinking about this for awhile. Is it right to put someone in prison for the rest of his life after pulling him over with 0.10 blood-alcohol content? Even if it’s the 16th time it has happened?
Readers of this blog know that I am critical of our DUI laws. I want [...]

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Pedestrian deaths up, First Lady Michelle Obama cited as the cause

Posted by Erik on January 20th, 2011 filed in safety

First Lady and pedestrian-killer, Michelle Obama.

The Governor’s Highway Safety Association reports that, for the first time in four years, pedestrian deaths are up. This is particularly notable because traffic fatalities as a whole have fallen eight percent in the last four years. According to the report, 1,891 pedestrians were killed in the first [...]

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Thank you Sheriff Dupnik

Posted by Erik on January 9th, 2011 filed in safety

Pima County Sheriff Dupnik had the following to say about the horrific shooting yesterday:
I think it’s time as a country that we need to do a little soul searching. Because it’s the vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the tv business, [...]

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Safety check

Posted by Erik on January 2nd, 2011 filed in safety

Here is an example of a bicyclist performing some basic safety checks of the sort that probably would have prevented the plaintiff in the lawsuit against Ajo Bikes (below) from breaking his arm.
Cool video, too.
–Erik Ryberg

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Unintended consequences

Posted by Erik on October 25th, 2010 filed in safety, vexation of the spirit

A former client of mine pointed me to a new ordinance that Oro Valley is most likely going to adopt on Wednesday. The ordinance would prohibit marijuana dispensaries (should Proposition 203 pass) within a 1000-foot buffer around any school, library, church, child-care facility, and park. It also limits such dispensaries to two classes [...]

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The Driver’s Manual and bicycles

Posted by Erik on October 20th, 2010 filed in safety

Most of you probably know that the Arizona Driver’s Manual now instructs drivers as to both the “three-foot” passing rule and the lawful right of cyclists to ride two abreast. It also states clearly that the same rules of the road and right-of-way apply to bicyclists as to motorists. That’s a big first [...]

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