Let’s start with an update on Thursday’s lead story.
Sunset4All has raised nearly $7,000 of the $25,000 goal towards LA’s first public/private partnership to force encourage city officials to build protected bike lanes and other safety improvements on Sunset and Santa Monica Boulevards, through East Hollywood, Silver Lake, and Echo Park.
Every donation is being matched dollar for dollar this week, so that $7,000 really represents $14,000 to help keep bike riders safe on a dangerous corridor that’s way down on the city’s priority list.
So if you’ve got a few extra bucks, open your wallet and give what you can.
Because if this is successful, this kind of public/private partnership could come to your neighborhood next. And help improve safety where you ride.
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Burbank’s Hollywood Way is now graced by a new partially curb-protected bike lane.
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Video of the Nairobi Critical Mass proves that bicycling really is a worldwide phenomenon.
Thanks to Stormin’ Norman for forwarding the video.
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That feeling when a cough lozenge makes up for forgetting your bike’s front thru-axle that somehow caused a flat to your rear tire.
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Local
Streets For All is hosting another of their virtual happy hours, this time talking with UCLA distinguished professor and parking meister Donald Shoup on July 14th.
A couple dozen people turned out Saturday to ride in support of union organizing efforts for the workers who serve the Metro Bike program, which is operated for Metro by Bicycle Transit Systems.
KCRW looks at the volunteers behind Koreatown’s Bicycle Meals, who ride to feed the area’s homeless people.
State
A 33-year old San Diego man broke his ankle when he was right hooked by a bus driver, after coming off the sidewalk into the crosswalk.
Santa Barbara-adjacent Goleta wants to hear from you about whether they should invest in a bikeshare system. Which can and should be answered with a resounding yes.
Sad news from Hayward, where police are looking for the hit-and-run pickup driver who killed a 55-year old man riding a bike.
Legendary bike mechanic John Stein is hanging up his wrench after more than four decades serving Redding bike riders.
National
A new Kickstarter project promises to let you check your tire pressure with a swipe of your smartphone. As long as you don’t mind a big round bulb on your valve stems.
Even Las Cruces, New Mexico has installed popup bike lanes in an effort to get people safely outside while they study how to improve bike and pedestrian safety throughout the city. Unlike a certain megalopolis to the west, with roughly 40 times the population.
A Western Colorado bike shop just gave a $10,000 check to a shelter for homeless teens; the shop resells donated bike and gives the proceeds to the shelter, while donating some bikes to homeless kids.
An Evansville, Indiana community college partnered with a local school district to give away 280 bicycles, along with locks and helmets; the annual program has given away over 3,500 bikes over the last 15 years.
Cambridge, Massachusetts shelved plans for nearly five miles of separated bike lanes after local residents chose the convenience of streetside parking over the safety of people on two wheels.
The New York Times offers a reluctant rider’s guide to bicycling.
Life is cheap in Pennsylvania, where an unlicensed drunk driver got just two to four years behind bars for killing the rider of a motorized bicycle in a left cross collision.
After years of watching the Tour de France together, it became more than just a bike race last year when a man’s DC-based father was dying.
After tomorrow, Virginia bike riders will finally be able to legally ride side-by-side, while drivers will be required to change lanes to pass them if the road doesn’t allow for a minimum three-foot passing distance.
An 1,186-mile bike ride from Fredericksburg, Virginia to Miami as teenagers in the ’70s helped bond three friends for 50 years.
International
Pink Bike looks at the year’s best mountain bike helmets.
Treehugger takes a look at the how and why of traffic calming.
An English woman is honoring her dying husband’s last wish by selling his prized bicycles to raise the equivalent of $6,200 for the cancer ward that cared for him.
Scottish bicycling deaths surged to a seven-year high as roads emptied and bicycling boomed during the pandemic.
Seoul, Korea will test child bike riders and provide a safe cycling certification, which provides a discount on the city’s bikeshare system.
A Singapore-based artist takes a zen-based look at bicycling.
Bicyclists in Hong Kong celebrate California’s lowrider bicycle culture.
Competitive Cycling
Once again, the third stage of the Tour de France was marred by crashes, which took down Caleb Ewing, Peter Sagan and Primož Roglič, who lost significant time on the leaders.
Geraint Thomas somehow finished the stage after a team doctor popped his separated shoulder back into place, while Robrt Gesink was forced to abandon the race; Mark Cavendish was lucky to avoid injury in a crash that trashed his bike.
Yet another crash may have knocked 27-year old Australian cyclist Jack Haig out of the Tokyo Olympics later this month.
A photographer for Peloton captured a gripping image of Ewing on the ground, surrounded by teammates.
The manager of French cycling team Groupama-FDJ calls for rule changes to prevent the sort of chaotic, crash-ridden stage finales seen Monday’s stage before someone gets killed.
Cyclist looks back at what may have been the Tour’s toughest stage ever, marked by a legendary ride by Lucien Buysse nearly 100 years ago.
SoCal’s own Coryn Rivera will represent the US in a grueling ride up Mt. Fuji in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.
Red Bull profiles French 2019 world downhill mountain bike champ Myriam Nicole.
Finally…
Who needs streets to evade the cops, when you can drive on a bike path? Your next retro chic ebike could do its own shifting.
And who really needs hubs, anyway?
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Donations are always welcome, regardless of size or reason.
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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.
