Last weekend’s successful tour of LA bike co-ops points out the need for one in Boyle Heights.
It’s coming. Signage is going up warning motorists about this Sunday’s Wilshire CicLAvia. Speaking of which, the Militant Angeleno has updated his fascinating guide to the Wilshire route, while LA Magazine looks at the churches, temples and Islamic Centers you’ll pass on the way. And Santa Monica Spoke plans a feeder ride.
Great video of a father and sleepy son sharing an 11 minute tandem ride to a Westchester nursery school. Thanks to Serge Issakov for the heads-up.
Racing for the Wolfpack Hustle team, LA’s own Jo Kelso won last weekend’s Red Hook Criterium in NYC.
A memorial will be held April 12th for fallen cyclist and former Pasadena city council member Sid Tyler.
Mark your calendar for Glendale’s Jewel City Fun and Fitness Ride on May 18th.
State
Calbike offers a detailed update on their legislative agenda.
A Redding bike rider was critically injured when a truck driver apparently drifted onto the wrong side of the road and hit him head-on.
National
Used bikes are a $2.4 billion business in the US. I’m all in favor of buying quality second-hand items; we even adopted a used dog.
An 82-year old Omaha woman faces a misdemeanor vehicular homicide charge after crossing the center line to hit and kill a cyclist riding on the opposite shoulder. She surrendered her license last week; sadly, too late to save the life of an innocent bike rider.
In an all too similar case, an 83-year old Holocaust survivor is charged in the hit-and-run collision that took a New York cyclist’s life. Every driver eventually reaches the point where they no longer belong behind the wheel; the key is recognizing it — and doing something about it — before it’s too late.
Florida police will target law-breaking group bike rides and the drivers who threaten them.
International
A British driver gets a well-deserved eight years for a drunken, high-speed hit-and-run.
Good advice not to aim your extra-bright lights where they could blind others on the roadway.
My Pennsylvania Dutch grandmother may have taught me to swear in German, but reading it, not so much. But I’m told this cost-benefit study of mandatory helmet laws show they don’t pencil out; in fact, benefits equaled just over 70% of costs.
Finally…
I’m not much on April Fools pranks online. But here are two of the better ones, as separated freeway bike lanes turn out to be the real reason for the billion dollar 405 widening, and LA’s own Pure Fix invents the first spoke-free bike wheel (unfortunately, Pure Fix has removed the page; thanks to Opus the Poet for the heads-up.)
I heard that was the kids grandfather biking with him to school. Who knows, though.
The link to the Pure Fix article is broken, and there isn’t any mention of the article on their web site.
Bummer. They’ve evidently removed the page now that April Fool’s is over.
Wait, that Pure Fix email wasn’t real!? Well, at least I got to see it.