Just a quick update today after a far too busy yesterday.
Not to mention I’m in mourning after my DU Pioneers lost in the semifinals of the Frozen Four.
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The Sierra Club endorses Daniel Lee, Councilwoman Meghan Sahli-Wells, and Thomas Small in Tuesday’s Culver City election.
Which corresponds perfectly with Bike the Vote LA’s ranking of the candidates.
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Defending women’s champ Mara Abbott won Thursday’s stage of the Redlands Bicycle Classic despite suffering a possible broken clavicle in a fall; unknown 22-year old Colorado rider Sepp Kuss won the men’s stage.
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Local
The Times says building a bike lane will finally get easier when the state gets around to writing to CEQA rules to correspond with a change in the law eliminating the requirement for an environmental review for one.
A Manhattan Beach man is riding across the country to raise $10,000 for the Wildland Firefighter Foundation.
This year’s edition of Finish the Ride rolls through Griffith Park this Sunday. And yes, there’s free beer for every adult rider.
Also Sunday, you’re invited to ride through Northeast LA with the LAPD’s senior lead officers for the area. This would be a great time to bring up the need for better bike and pedestrian infrastructure in the area, especially on North Figueroa.
State
A state appeals court rules that a convicted drunk driver can withdraw his guilty plea for killing a seven-year old Fresno boy as he rode in a crosswalk with his family. Apparently, he wasn’t satisfied with his well-deserved 12-year prison term.
Fat bikes are gaining popularity among Sonoma County cyclists.
National
April is Distracted Driver Awareness Month. Something few bike riders actually need a month to be aware of.
Momentum Magazine looks at nine examples where bike infrastructure had a positive impact on cities and their local economies.
A new study says sleep deprived teenagers take more chances, such as riding a bike without a helmet.
Plans for a Portland bike trail are in jeopardy because of fears it will harm wildlife, while a Portland paper looks at attempts to open wilderness trails to mountain bikes.
A Oregon bicyclist is looking for the stranger who saved him when he became disoriented after a fall.
A Seattle cyclist proposes building a protected bike lane on a busy Interstate highway through the downtown area.
A Pee-Wee Herman-ish Flagstaff AZ bike rider says it’s time to take over the city council to make the city bike friendly.
A Wisconsin teenager apologizes from behind bars to the family of the cyclist she killed while driving a car in 2012, when she was just 13 years old.
A six year old Georgia boy was accidently shot by a friend as he rode his bike.
International
Business Insider talks to British world champ Lizzie Armistead, who has been torching the women’s cycling circuit this year. But despite the headline, as amazing as she is, she is not the world’s fastest pro cyclist.
The Guardian asks why so few British frame makers are women. A better question is why are there so few women bike builders anywhere.
A writer for Bike Biz says the shortfall in bicycling infrastructure is hitting women the hardest.
Cycling Weekly asks if Rapha is one of the UK’s biggest cycling success stories, or just a triumph of branding.
Nothing like getting doored by a London cop.
At least that’s perseverance. After a Brit bike rider is escorted off a freeway leading to Heathrow Airport by police, he gets back on the freeway and does it again.
If you’re not doing anything this June, how about a three-day bike race through the Kalahari desert?
A teenage bike rider hopefully learned the error of his ways when he groped a Kiwi kickboxer.
Finally…
At least no LA bike path has ever been closed on account of Wapati. Maybe Boaty McBoatface isn’t the best name after all.
And a proposed amendment to a bill repealing Nebraska’s requirement for cyclists to use sidepaths when available would require cyclists to use sidepaths when available; thanks to Mark Elliot for the heads-up.
Just politics as usual.
