Archive for the 'Yay!' Category
BICAS wins “Bicycle Advocate of the Year” Award from TPCBAC
I was so pleased to get this email yesterday from Kylie Walzak, the Education Coordinator at BICAS!
The Tucson-Pima County Bicycle Advisory Committee (TPCBAC) has chosen BICAS as this year’s recipient of its Bicycle Advocate of the Year Award.
According to the BAC’s chair, Brian Beck, the Bicycling Advocate of the Year Award will be presented to [...]
Another sign we are winning
I saw today that CNN.com has as one its main stories . . . the Los Angeles Tweed ride! Granted, it’s an “ireport,” which is where they highlight a story written by a member of the public, but still.
Popular culture is showing increasing reception to stories about how riding a bike is fun. [...]
Flagstaff Bike Advocate hits one out of the park
Most of you have probably been following the story of Randy Mason, the Flagstaff cyclist who got grazed by a city bus and then yelled at for it, and then cited for disorderly conduct.
He was riding his bike as far to the right as he reasonably could, given that the bike lane was full of [...]
Getting from downtown to Dunbar Spring got a little bit easier recently
I have had a chance to use the new bike-access or bike-crossing thing that the city installed recently at that awful intersection at Church and Toole. It used to be that if you were trying to get from downtown to, say, BICAS, you had to either ride dangerously through tunnels or on 6th Street [...]
Read More..>>Tucsonvelo.com
Between the horrific news from Haiti and a full calendar, I’ve not had much to add in the past few weeks and some of my readers have been pestering me about it.
So I’m glad to report that Mike McKisson has started tucsonvelo.com, a website along the bikeportland.org model, which along with being a [...]
Another Appellate win for bicyclists in Pima County
We won another appeal last week of a traffic citation for not riding “as close as practicable to the right-hand side of the roadway.” This was a much more difficult case than the similar appeal we won last month, and I was concerned after our oral argument that we would not win this case. [...]
Read More..>>Lauren is coming back!
But only for a visit. She’ll be here February 2 and she’s going to ride in, or at least attend the 24-hour race. Lauren used to work here at TBL but she took off last year on permanent bike tour. She’s currently wintering in Chicago, which she rode her bike to via [...]
Read More..>>BICAS Offering kids bikes at $5.00 for the holidays
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 [...]
An important court win for Pima County cyclists!
Pima County cyclists got a nice court victory today. Judge Richard Gordon of Pima County Superior Court (which has jurisdiction over civil traffic appeals) issued a favorable ruling on a civil traffic appeal filed by an out-of-state cyclist who got ticketed for not riding “as close as practicable to the right-hand side of the [...]
Read More..>>World’s most infamous bike thief gets 4 months in jail for stealing over 2000 bikes
Igor Kenk pleads guilty, gets four months (he’s already spent thirteen months in jail awaiting trial).
–EBR