Let’s call this Morning Links lite.
Writing about bicycling fatalities in San Diego and Laguna Canyon — with a third in Santiago Canyon still to come — left limited time to write today’s post.
So we’re just hitting the highlights today. Or lowlights, in some cases.
We’ll be back with a more detailed report tomorrow.
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Local
Bike riders, including a retired police officer, come to the rescue when a 70-year old woman was attacked on a Santa Clarita bike path; a 29-year old transient from Orange County was arrested on an attempted murder charge. Thanks to Jeff Vaughn for the heads-up.
Santa Monica’s Breeze bikeshare is getting an updated look, and a new Instagram contest to help promote it.
You could soon find yourself sharing Santa Monica bike lanes with new rental e-scooters.
State
Bicycle safety is now officially part of the curriculum in Atascadero elementary schools.
Pleasanton has installed a permanent memorial to a 72-year old woman killed in a bicycling crash last year, following a number of bike and pedestrian safety improvements after her death.
Sad news from Petaluma, where a 74-year old bike rider was killed in a collision while making a left turn.
National
Your next Trek could come with batteries.
Bicycling offers advice on how to climb up a really tough hill. Without resorting to an ebike, that is.
Life is cheap in Colorado, where a driver still hasn’t started his five-month sentence for killing an eight-year old girl as she rode her bike, despite accepting the slap-on-the-wrist plea deal in April. Which means he would have been out already otherwise.
A Chicago weekly looks at female Mormon missionaries and their bikes.
Michigan considers requiring a statewide five foot passing distance in the wake of last year’s Kalamazoo massacre.
The organizers of a St. Louis century ride apologize to the Jewish community for scheduling the ride on Yom Kippur.
New York’s mayor throws bike riders under the bus, ignoring stats from his own Department of Transportation showing protected bike lanes improve safety for everyone and enhance compliance with traffic laws.
Now that’s more like it. A South Carolina woman was sentenced to ten years behind bars for the hit-and-run death of a bike rider.
International
A Toronto writer says bicycling brings out the worst version of herself. If that’s as bad as she gets, she should be a candidate for sainthood.
Caught on video: A total jackass records himself leaning out of a car window to shove a London bicyclist off his bike and into a bus stop sign, as his equally obnoxious passengers laugh. Hopefully they’ll catch these jerks and give them the jail time they so richly deserve.
There’s a special place in hell for whoever stole a customized adaptive bike from a severely disabled British man with cerebral palsy.
The war on bikes continues, as a man in the UK is on trial for allegedly punching a passing bike rider in the face, and sending him crashing through the rear window of a van.
An Aussie website calls Warsaw, Poland, the picturesque bike-friendly European capital you’ve never heard of.
Just like dockless bikeshare systems around the world, Australian bikeshare bikes continue to be dumped in all the wrong places. Although Aussies may be taking “wrong places” to a whole new level.
Finally…
As long as you’re riding your bike on a river anyway, you might as well clean it up a bit.
And Phil Gaimon’s Worst Retirement Ever takes on Boulder CO.
