Sad news from Compton, as a woman riding her bike was killed in a drive-by shooting on the 800 block of West Cherry Street around 1 pm Monday.
LAist suggests she may not have been the intended target, but just happened to be riding by when the shooter(s) targeted a group of people standing in a driveway.
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After the ghost bike for fallen cyclist and former Napster CEO Milt Olin was removed recently — over the wishes of local officials — family members install a new one with a moving message for all of us.
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Former winner Andy Schleck is out of the Tour de France after crashing into a spectator, while Chris Froome may have dodged a bullet and the peloton rides through the ghostly remnants of the Great War.
Just thinking the other day I was thinking the Tour should ride through the Channel Tunnel — aka Chunnel — from the UK to France. Now it turns out Froome just did.
Meanwhile, the world’s best women are racing, too, as Marianne Vos wins stage four of the Giro Rosa and retains the leader’s jersey.
A little closer to home, Erica Allar and Ken Hanson win the Manhattan Beach Grand Prix, as Rahsaan Bahati puts you right in the middle of the last three laps; thanks to Jim Lyle for the heads-up.
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LocalThe LACBC offers free ride marshal training this Saturday.
The third annual Clitoral Mass — yes, you read that right — rolls on August 16th.
What a difference two feet make, as Pasadena gets a new buffered bike lane.
Long Beach’s Third Street needs a facelift to improve safety for cyclists and motorists.
The Beach Babe Bicycling Classic comes back to Long Beach this weekend.
Pedal Love and Women Talk Bikes talk bikes on Bike Talk.
State
A Saratoga drunken hit-and-run driver gets out of prison with orders to never drive again for leaving a bike rider with permanent injuries. And immediately goes back to driving drunk and fleeing the scene.
A San Francisco supervisor considers lowering speed limits in the City by the Bay.
We’ve mentioned this one before. But if you haven’t yet, sign the petition to support Andy’s Law to increase penalties for hit-and-run; thanks to Mario Gastelum for the reminder.
National
How to pay for innovative bicycling infrastructure (pdf).
Bike share programs reduce the risk for all riders, despite a misleading study suggesting the opposite.
Off-duty Albuquerque fireman uses the inner tube from an injured rider’s bike to save her life, if not her leg.
Louisiana prison inmates fix bikes seized by New Orleans police to donate to children.
New Jersey considers a $500 fine for any motorist who commits a traffic violation resulting in a collision with a bike rider.
Jerry Seinfeld rides a bike in New York, but the Mail can’t get over his toned arms.
Evidently, any DC bike rider who doesn’t want to get killed — or needs a boost up a steep hill — is a bully.
Confused — or maybe just confusing — Athens GA writer says there must be some truth to the scofflaw cyclist trope, even though he’s never seen one. And even then, not all bike riders should be held responsible for the actions of a few, unless maybe they should.
International
Ghost bikes come to Uruguay.
A British Columbia bike thief returns a boys stolen bike with a note apologizing for being such a drunken fool.
Toronto gets serious about parking in bike lanes.
A London bike rider says hell isn’t other people, it’s other bike riders. Especially the ones on Boris bikes. Then again, maybe other bike riders aren’t really the problem after all.
Caught on video: Gut-wrenching first-person view of a head-on cycling collision; fortunately, the rider survived with broken bones.
Dressing up in spandex beats sleeping with the secretary. Then again, who says you can’t do both?
Finally…
When you’re carrying homemade bombs on your bike to celebrate the 4th, don’t ride on the damn sidewalk. Esquire says Lance may not be in hell, but at least he’s in Purgatory.
And ride without fear; it turns out bike riding doesn’t cause erectile dysfunction or infertility after all.
