It’s been awhile since we’ve checked in with some of the local blogs, thanks mostly to my recent move.
And yes, we’re finally making progress.
Most of the boxes are unpacked; the rest are waiting for me to figure out how to manipulate time and space by cramming in more stuff than the apartment will hold.
And maybe even uncover my bike in the process.
Let’s start with the wit and wisdom of Cycling in the South Bay’s Seth Davidson, who figuratively dances on the grave of a retiring bike-hating sheriff’s deputy, and celebrates a successful bike ticket legal strategy that resulted victory over the absent officer who wrote it.
Meanwhile, CLR Effect’s Michael Wagner laments the end of ‘cross season, goes riding with the girlz and considers the possibility of biking with a shark fin up your, uh, crack.
Bicycle Fixation has an LA-oriented bike URL for sale.
Better Bike considers whether bike share will come to the Biking Black Hole, which might force Beverly Hills to make the streets safer for any locals and tourists who might actually use it.
And BikeSD says hit-and-run is not the epidemic in our neighbor to the south that it is here, but it’s still a problem.
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LADOT may not have transformed out streets in the few months since Seleta Reynolds was hired to lead the agency, but they’ve certainly improved their communication with the public, to wit —
Although they did license that music before using it, right?
On the other hand, they seem to have established a temporary bike parking tow-away zone in DTLA. Thanks to Richard for the heads-up.
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No profiling here.
South LA’s Real Rydaz and Black Kids on Bikes get stopped for Biking While Black — while participating in annual the Kingdom Day parade, no less.
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Local
A $10,000 reward has been offered in the shooting of a Rolls Royce-driving real estate mogul in Hollywood. Although I wonder if the press would identify the shooter by transportation mode if he’d been walking or driving.
The LACBC and Multicultural Communities for Mobility are partnering in a series of women-led bike rides and workshops dedicated to empowering women to transform their communities; the first is a Pomona Valley Ride this Saturday.
Santa Monica’s bike and pedestrian safety crackdown continues this Friday; enforcement is directed towards all violations, regardless of who commits them. So mind your bike Ps and Qs.
State
The board president of the Inland Empire Bicycling Alliance offers advice on how vehicular cyclists and bikeway supporters can find common ground.
A Santa Barbara letter writer complains about a pack cyclists holding up traffic on a local highway; he must have been driving pretty slowly to count the 75+ cars he claims were stuck behind.
Palo Alto plans to make things safer for high school students riding to school.
San Francisco’s Mission Bicycle Company provides a step-by-step example of how to get your stolen bike back.
National
Ambulances in my hometown now come equipped with bike racks so injured riders don’t have to worry about their rides.
After a deadly year for Wyoming cyclists, the state considers a three-foot passing law, while Indiana legislators introduce not one, not two, but three three-foot bills. And in Nebraska, which already has a three-foot law, cyclists ask for a law requiring drivers to pass cyclists the same way they would a car.
A Kentucky cyclist is intentionally doored by a passenger in a moving car.
New York City considers requiring side guards on large trucks to keep cyclists and pedestrians from falling underneath in the event of a collision, which should be a requirement everywhere.
International
A Vancouver letter writer says bike riders should be licensed, you know, like dogs; someone should tell him bicyclists subsidize the streets he drives on.
British cyclists don’t need a bike bell to warn drivers they’re around anymore, as long as the drivers have a Jaguar or Range Rover. But it’s a start.
An Israeli Indiegogo campaign is raising funds for a lampshade for your bike’s tail light, promising to make the light visible from every direction while reducing glare for those behind you.
The bicycling revolution has officially begun in the United Arab Emirates.
Caught on video: The Australian press panics when a “reckless” cyclist “dices with death” by passing slower traffic on a steep downhill. In other words, just like bike riders do everyday, all around the world.
Now that’s more like it. A Japanese man faces an attempted murder charge after stringing a wire over a bike and pedestrian path. On the other hand, Japan is cracking down on drunk, distracted and brakeless riders.
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Caught on video: It’s a sad day when even kangaroos don’t respect bike lanes; there seems to be a rash of ‘roo wrecks Down Under these days.
And a bicyclist miraculously lands on her feet and walks away when her bike is hit by a speeding car; I’m still not sure this one is real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n3mPBy4uFU
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I’m with you on the last video, there is just so much that got blurred out and the physics just don’t work out for her to be left standing while the bike goes flying. Knocked to the ground beside the car while the bike goes flying maybe but just standing like that without even staggering reeks of manipulation. I don’t doubt the wreck was real, just that the victim was added in post.
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I would tend to believe The video where the girl hit by the bicycle who remained standing because I had a similar situation where I was hit in my front wheel. It happened so quickly that the bicycle Was knocked out from under me and left my feet down on the ground. Although she wheeled the bicycle away, I doubt she was able to ride it.