Good news for the San Gabriel Valley.
The San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments is teaming with the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), Active SGV and the California Transportation Commission to open up a second round of funding for ebike vouchers.
But only for income-eligible residents of the SGV, over the age of 18.
The groups are providing around 475 vouchers that can be redeemed for $2,000 off the purchase of an e-cargo bike worth $1,600 to $2,500.
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A Redditor shares photos of the new and improved Crystal Springs Drive/Zoo Drive through Griffith Park.
The former, where 77-year old bicyclist Andrew Jelmert lost his life; the latter, where Finish the Ride/Streets Are For Everyone founder Damian Kevitt lost his leg, and nearly his life, when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver while riding his bike, and dragged onto the nearby 5 Freeway in 2013.
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Cycling West offers a remarkable list of Bike Month events in Utah, and cities across the West, including San Francisco and the East Bay.
Needless to say, Los Angeles isn’t even mentioned.
Then again, even Geneva’s CERN lab, home to the Large Hadron Collider, is hosting a Bike to Work challenge, while Ireland host a nine-day National Bike Week.
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How to find great food in Los Angeles without having to set a tire on the streets.
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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.
A man’s family remembers him after he was intentionally killed by a hit-and-run driver while riding his bike in a St. Louis alley, then pushed into a garage to hide his body; police arrested the suspect at his home as he was hiding under a bed.
Wish I knew what this one is about. An Australian paper reports a knife-wielding woman was arrested at gunpoint after chasing a bike rider — but the story is hidden behind a paywall, like most Aussie papers.
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Local
UCLA student newspaper Daily Bruin writes about Sunday’s West LA CicLAvia, the 65th open streets event staged by the organization — and connects the story to CicLAvia Executive Director Romel Pascual, a graduate of the university.
The Los Angeles Fire Department rescued a mountain biker from Mulholland Drive Tuesday evening, airlifting the man to a hospital after he suffered severe injuries to his lower body. Let’s hope he has a full and fast recovery, because that doesn’t sound good.
State
A crowdfunding campaign has raised over $700 of the $900 goal to buy a new ebike for an 81-year old El Cajon jokester, who has gained internet fame in a series of viral videos, after the ebike he relied on for transportation was stolen. Which is a damn good reminder that ebikes can provide mobility people long after they stop driving. And for those who should.
Encinitas will open the Coast Highway 101 to bikes and pedestrians with the Cyclovia Encinitas open streets events from 10 am to 2 pm on Sunday, May 17.
Advocates are pushing for safety improvements on a dangerous roadway, after a UC Davis student was killed riding her bike.
National
They get it. The American Bicycling Education Association calls on the AP to add a section on ebikes to its industry-standard AP Style Book, defining an ebike as having fully operable pedals and an electric motor of 750 watts or less, as well as limited speeds (typically 20–28 mph), suggesting electric motorcycle, electric dirt bike or off-highway electric vehicle for bikes that don’t meet that definition.
Seattle bike commuters outpaced the rest of the US by riding more than 3.3 million miles last year, according to Strava, followed by Chicago with 2.5 million miles, and Minneapolis-St. Paul’s 1.7 million miles. But if that Strava list is posted online, I can’t find it.
A 27-year old Texas man faces a manslaughter charge for killing a man riding a bicycle while driving distracted last November; he drove through a stop sign while busy trying to pair his phone with the new truck he just bought.
A Texas flood control district destroyed a DIY offroad bike park, despite allowing it to remain for years after it was illegally built, after negotiations with bicyclists to save it failed.
Seven MIT students are biking 4,000 miles across the US, from DC to San Francisco, stopping along the way to hold STEM workshops for children in rural communities.
New York’s iconic 5 Boro Bike Tour rolls this weekend, bringing 32,000 bike riders onto a closed course traversing the entire city.
International
Nice story from Cuba, where a family got back the items that were stolen in a burglary after police arrested the thieves, including a bicycle that had belonged to a daughter who had died 18 years before.
An English Green Party candidate says the potholes on the local roads are so bad, they forced his kids to stop riding their bikes.
A Jesuit website tells the story of a Catholic priest who chose martyrdom over safety, riding his bicycle from his missionary parish in India to a nearby village to confront a Hindu mob attacking their Muslim neighbors; he stood in front of the mob demanding an end to the violence, only to be killed himself.
Finally…
That feeling when you use training wheels to get back on your bike after a major TBI, as your husband walks next to you playing Eye of the Tiger. Or when you have to add Queens to your mountain bike bucket list.
And that feeling when Santa Monica is the apparent epicenter of the vegan Crossfit cycling community.
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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.
Oh, and fuck Putin.
