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On Jose Rincon

This comment was posted to the Tucson Citizen comments page on the Glenda Rumsey trial:
My heart aches for the Rincon Family having to place baloons on the side of the road for Jose Jr’s 15th birthday. What you all need to know is for this family and all families like them, will put baloons again [...]

Hit and run involving a bicyclist — do Tucson drivers get one freebie?

While mulling over why it is taking so long for a decision to made about charging the driver with leaving the scene of an accident in the El Tour case that left local cyclist Gary Stuebe in a coma, I got to thinking about the Jennifer Henderson case from earlier this year.
Ms. Henderson struck a [...]

Closing arguments expected this afternoon in Glenda Rumsey trial

If you want to go, the trial is in Judge Fields’s courtroom at the Superior Courthouse, the big one on the corner of Church and Congress. Don’t bring anything that could possibly be construed as a weapon and also clear your bike bag of any of those CO2 cartridges many carry to inflate tires.
An [...]

Still no decision to charge El Tour hit and run driver

I don’t understand the hold up here. The guy obviously left the scene of an accident. But the Daily Star is reporting that the Pima County Attorney’s Office still has not made a determination on whether to charge him. Odd. (The driver critically injured one rider, Gary Stuebe).
Meanwhile, Scott Blanchard is circulating [...]

Here’s the Salazar police report for your review

Several people have asked me for a copy of the police report from the Leonard Salazar case, below.
Here it is. (pdf).
–Erik Ryberg

El Tour incident update

I don’t know much about what is happening with the fellow who hit the El Tour riders other than that he is 91 years old. I personally am a little concerned that 91 year-old people are driving around, but maybe that’s a youngster’s bias? I have already noticed my own reaction time and [...]

Inquiry

My snarky friend G wants to know: what do you suppose the carbon footprint is of the El Tour de Tucson?
–Erik Ryberg

Yay Sun Tran

I wrote below that I was unclear what Sun Tran’s response to me meant as far as whether they were holding the driver accountable, but got an email today that said they were. Here’s the whole thing:
Erik ~
Yes, we did deem it is was a chargeable incident to the driver.
Michelle
>>> >>> Erik Ryberg [...]

Worksman Cycles to be featured on NPR tomorrow, November 15

It’s going to be in the second hour of Weekend Edition. Worksman Cycles is an all-American bicycle manufacturing company that focuses on industrial bikes. Their cruiser-style “Paperboy” bikes are classics. I have one and it is built like a tank. Weighs just less than your average mid-sized tank, too.
But it looks [...]

A thought

I was riding with my friend A today when somebody honked at us to move over in a short stretch of road that had construction cones in it. This guy just had to squeeze by us rather than wait for us to get through the brief section of the road that was being repaired. [...]