Seriously, what kind of schmuck would steal a disabled man’s handcycle?
Long Beach’s Richard Dahl was paralyzed two years ago, just a month after graduating from college, and used the recumbent bike to take him places his legs no longer can.
According to KABC-7,
Dahl had received the bike through a $6,000 grant.
He says the thief didn’t just steal his bike, but also took part of his independence.
“What this individual stole wasn’t just a bike, it wasn’t just a handcycle, it wasn’t just a $6,000 object, it was my independence. It was my ability to ride,” Dahl said.
Hopefully someone will spot the bike before it gets sold or dismantled.
If not, if anyone wants to start a crowdfunding campaign to buy him a new one, I’ll be happy to feature it here.
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Apparently, shopping at a Circle K convenience store can be bad for your health.
A Colorado man faces a murder charge for a fight that began with a dispute over a gold bicycle in a Circle K parking lot.
And two Florida men are charged with attempted murder for attempting to smash their car into a man on a bicycle after spotting him shopping at Circle K, then shooing him when they caught up with him again.
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Think your cross-country ride was tough?
A Chinese dad took a 71-day bike ride across the country with his young daughter in a child seat.
Father of the Year contender: This single dad took his daughter on his bicycle, riding across China to celebrate her birthday. pic.twitter.com/AuhMCTaPKJ
— South China Morning Post (@SCMPNews) July 23, 2020
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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.
British police are investigating an alleged hate crime where a group of teenagers verbally abused a man riding a bicycle and threw rocks at his bike. Although in typical British fashion, they fail to mention what racial, ethnic, religious and/or sexual group he was being targeted for.
Police in Perth, Australia are looking for a pair of moped riders who pushed a man off his bike on a local bike path.
But sometimes, it’s the people on two wheels behaving badly.
Not every violent assault starts in a convenience store parking lot, though; a British Columbia man got a measly five years for killing another man, stopping his bike to kick the victim in the head with steel-toed boots, in a dispute over encroaching on his preferred panhandling spot.
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Local
Call it yet another LADOT fail. At a time when new bike riders are begging for safe bikeways, the city gives them these sad North Hollywood sharrows — even though there’s more than enough room for a protected bike lane instead. As we’ve noted before, sharrows appear to exist only to help drivers improve their aim.
The Malibu Times wants to introduce you to the wealthy beachside city’s mountain bike-riding mayor.
Long Beach’s Studebaker Road is getting a five-mile long protected bike lane, thanks to funding from Metro.
State
The Canyon News looks at California’s bike boom, and says hopefully it won’t take another crisis to get people riding. Although maybe they shouldn’t illustrate a story about LA collisions rising with a photo of a mangled New York police cruiser.
A Bakersfield op-ed says the San Joaquin Valley city benefits from having more people on bicycles, and is lucky to have a robust bicycle network.
Mammoth Mountain wants you to come there to ride your new offroad ebike, opening a new trail for ped-assist mountain bikes.
National
At last, a Segway you might actually want to ride. Even if it doesn’t have pedals.
Livestrong offers a step-by-step guide to start riding a bike for people over 50. Although a writer for the Wall Street Journal says it can be hazardous to your dignity. If you can get past the Journal’s paywall, that is. And as if I had any left.
Refinery 29 wants to keep you looking your best on your bike, with eight cool and comfy women’s outfits without a shred of Lycra.
This is why you should always carry ID on your bike. Police in Lone Peak, Utah are struggling to identify a man who was struck by a driver while riding his bike on Saturday.
Gear Patrol recommends buying a premium used bike from Colorado’s online Pro’s Closet marketplace.
That’s more like it. A Montana drunk driver will spend the next eight years behind bars for killing a woman riding her bike while driving home from a Christmas party.
A Montana food distributors organization teamed with the local Rotary club to build and donate 195 bicycles for members of the Crow Nation.
Once again, bike riders are heroes, after a San Antonio TX couple jumped off their bikes to help rescue victims from a burning plane crash.
A 61-year old Minnesota man is riding 6,000 miles from LA to New York to raise funds for breast cancer research.
They get it. A Michigan town is offering residents a $150 rebate on the purchase of an ebike to help the city achieve carbon-neutrality in the next ten years.
A bighearted stranger gave a seven-year old Ohio girl a new bicycle after someone stole hers.
A bike-riding New York priest is planning his first century ride to inspire people and raise funds for a Catholic food pantry.
Probably not the best idea to try to steal a bike cop’s bicycle during dueling pro and anti-police protests in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Kindhearted Savannah, Georgia cops gave a seven-year old boy a new bicycle after Covid-19 cancelled his birthday party.
No, “anger issues” is not an excuse to fight a cop who tried to stop a Florida man for riding his bike into traffic.
International
Pez Cycling News looks at the brief rise and fall of spine bikes, made in the early years after the turn of the century with half-carbon/half steel frames. Like my 2004 LeMond, for instance.
How to get the best stopping power from your rim brakes.
Bike Radar makes the case for why you only need a gravel bike.
Four people have been arrested for a hit-and-run crash that injured an off-duty British cop as he was riding his bike, though police say he wasn’t targeted.
A Glasgow paper takes a ride through the city to see what’s changed thanks to the city’s the new bicycling measures.
A massive e-cargo bike is patrolling the streets of The Hague on a mission to collect abandoned plastic products.
Hundreds of Turkish bicyclists rode to call for safer streets after a 19-year old bike rider was killed by a drunk driver.
Bollywood star Sara Ali Khan is one of us.
Bicycling is up in Delhi, as people respond to the coronavirus crisis by taking to their bicycles.
Competitive Cycling
Cycling Tips offers an on-the-ground perspective of how the coronavirus crisis affected bike racing.
The BBC retells the tale of how the Flying Scotsman Graeme Obree became a world record holder on his own homemade bicycle.
Finally…
Forget parked cars, now we have to deal with giant saw blades in the bike lane. Your next bike could have a built-in wine cooler and charcuterie board.
And we may have to deal with angry LA drivers, but at least we don’t have to worry about hungry bike-seat eating bears.
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Be safe, and stay healthy. And wear a mask, already.
The Florida men should be charged with multiple counts of attempted murder and assault with a deadly, because they made multiple attacks/assaults with the car and then with the gun. Because multiple deadly weapons.
I know most people don’t consider cars as “weapons” but e have had multiple examples of motor vehicles of all kinds used as weapons and killing people just this year.
I was thinking about building a box to fit inside the triangle of my old Raleigh. Couldn’t find the roundtuit to complete the task.