A bike rider was shot to death early Wednesday morning in the Mid City area of Los Angeles.
Twenty-five-year Kehende Lang was found dead from a wound to the head on the 1700 block of South Longwood Avenue after police responded to a report of gunshots around 3:30 am; his bike was lying nearby.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the LAPD West Bureau Homicide Bureau at 213/382-9470.
Sadly, shootings like this are nothing new.
Most turn out to be gang related in some way, rather than because the victim was riding a bike. And few ever seem to merit more than a few paragraphs in the paper, if that.
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Congratulations to LADOT GM Seleta Reynolds, who’s been appointed interim vice president of NACTO.
Which means she’ll help set the standard for street and bike infrastructure designs throughout the nation.
And hopefully, bring the best of them here.
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The plot thickens. That 23-year old pro cyclist cut from the Astana women’s may have been fired over a failed attempt to get her to ride for Kazakhstan in the 2016 Olympics.
After winning stage one of the Aviva Women’s Tour, Brit pro Lizzie Armistead loses her line and crashes into the finish line photographers; fortunately, she wasn’t seriously injured.
Sounds like the owner of the Tinkoff-Saxo team may be giving up on Tour of California winner Peter Sagan already.
Lance’s former manager says he’s not going to any more cycling events after the backlash over watching Wiggins set the hour record.
The great Eddy Merckx reminisces on his legendary cycling career as he turns 70; VeloNews offers a tribute while a German website looks back at The Cannibal in action.
A Swiss skiing champion will compete in RAAM with a defibrillator in his chest after a heart condition kept him from making it to the starting line last year.
And the schmuck man who presided over pro cycling during the worst of the doping era threatens to sue over a report that says he presided over the worst of the doping era.
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Local
DTLA gets its first bike corral.
Rick Risemberg says if transit officials build bike facilities right, people will actually use them.
Redondo Beach approves a new budget, including funding for bike lanes on Manhattan Beach Blvd.
State
The Orange County Register reports that Michiko Day was just one block from home when she was killed while riding in Laguna Woods last month; her riding partner confirms that a poor bike path design may have contributed to her death.
The Encinitas city council says a planned coastal rail bike trail shouldn’t run along the coast. Or along the rail line.
A Paso Robles street reopens after being rebuilt to add bike lanes and a sidewalk.
Victims’ relatives call it insensitive as Kern County tells bike riders to see and be seen so they won’t be roadkill. Once again putting all the responsibility for safety on cyclists, rather than the people in the big, dangerous machines.
National
People for Bikes will host a webinar next month on how to crowdfund a bike project.
A new handlebar-mounted device scans the road for potholes before they can take you down. Should be a big seller here in LA.
The guitarist for rock band Pierce the Veil will be out of commission for awhile after getting badly banged up mountain biking.
A Portland paper questions if the city can really eliminate traffic deaths by 2025 with a proposed Vision Zero plan. Vision Zero is about the journey, not the destination; even if traffic deaths can’t be eliminated, everyone benefits from the effort to try.
A Denver CEO loans his bike share bike to a passing cop to bring a fleeing suspect to justice. But did he still have to pay for the rental?
Caught on video: A Texas truck passenger faces a misdemeanor charge after hurling at a bike rider. A pipe, that is.
New York’s mayor signs a bill requiring side guards on all city trucks and garbage trucks to keep cyclists and pedestrians from getting trapped underneath. Every truck, everywhere, should be required to do the same.
Cars have been banned from much of New York’s Prospect and Central Parks. Now we need to do the same for Griffith Park.
Why rent New York’s Citi Bikes when you can steal them?
International
How to cheat at Strava.
Caught on video: A cyclist rides from Oregon to Patagonia to be in more control of his own life.
Toronto streets are getting increasingly more dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians; hopefully more separated bike lanes will help.
A London expat builds a 500 pound — currency, not weight — bespoke bamboo bike.
After receiving the heart of a fallen cyclist, a British transplant patient decides to honor him by keeping the heart cycling with a 342-mile bike tour.
A Dutch suburb shows bikes and cars can peacefully coexist, as long as you banish cars from the city core.
A new Swedish study says most injuries in car bike collisions come from hitting the pavement, so the solution is better crash avoidance and separating bikes from traffic.
Colnago may be recalling your Ferrari.
An anonymous group of guerilla bicyclists give Sydney, Australia bike lanes a failing grade.
Finally…
It’s not really the World Naked Bike Ride when you’re the only naked guy on a bike. Don’t get caught asking an undercover cop for a ride after selling him a hot bike. Or making your getaway by bike after burning down your own home to destroy a basement demonic portal or the aliens lurking in the walls.
And when you’re carrying crystal meth on your motorized bike, try not to crash into a James Franco film set.
