Bike rider killed in South LA hit-and-run, Calbike calls for LA River path completion, and bizarre Pedal Ahead apologia

November 13, 2025 / / 2 comments
Day 317 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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KNBC-4 reported late last night that someone riding a bicycle was killed by a motorcyclist in a South LA hit-and-run.

According to the station, the crash happened around 7:30 pm at Vernon and Stanford.

Unfortunately, the story hasn’t been posted online, and that’s all we know right now. Hopefully we’ll learn more soon.

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About damn time.

Calbike says there’s no time to waste to reach out to your Los Angeles County Supervisor, and demand completion of the LA River Bike Path by 2028.

Don’t let Metro miss our last chance to finish the LA River bike path by 2028.

LA Metro has approximately $400 million to complete the LA River bike path through central Los Angeles. Approved by voters in 2016 as part of Measure M, the funding is more than enough to build an in-channel path in the entire 8-mile gap from Arroyo Seco to Vernon. If completed by 2028 as predicted in Metro’s original schedule, the LA River bike path will connect Olympic venues as part of the Festival Trail and provide safe and affordable transportation to the residents who need it most. It will be transformative.

Unfortunately, LA Metro has only considered “above channel” versions of the path that cost $1.1 billion, $700 million more than is available. They have not identified additional funding and have said in public meetings they will not deliver the path by the summer of 2028.

You can change that by helping to get Metro to approve the following two decisions.

Adopt the in-channel design that can be built with available funds. Except for a few weeks each year in the rainy season, it would give Angelenos an amazing river-level experience and a transportation facility that is especially valuable to low-income residents.

Create a Joint Powers Authority dedicated solely to delivering the project by 2028. Independent agencies focused exclusively on specific projects with the power to build and maintain the infrastructure are proven nationwide to expedite construction.

The Metro Board has only one more meeting in 2025. There is no time to waste. Right now, contact your Los Angeles County Supervisor, in their capacity as an LA Metro Board member, and ask them to support the change to an in-channel design and create a Joint Powers Authority.

That project was originally part of the vaunted Twenty-Eight by ’28 list of transportation projects to be completed before the world comes to Los Angeles for the ’28 Olympics.

That is, until Metro decided it was just too hard to get done in that timeline, and replaced it, along with a number of other projects.

Just one more example of the agency’s lack of commitment and follow-through when it comes to bikes and transportation.

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For once, I don’t even know what to say.

Malcomb forwards an absolutely bizarre Twitter/X post from San Diego’s Pedal Ahead defending their role in the now-defunct California Ebike Incentive Program.

Twitter post

Let’s blow that up a little more so you can read it.

 

Not mentioned is that some of those “multiple audits, financial review,” et al, were due to alleged misconduct and reputed state and criminal investigations.

Or that the founder of Pedal Ahead was allegedly forced out as operator of the ebike program.

The San Diego nonprofit may be proud of the job they did, but most observers considered the program deeply flawed, if not a total disaster.

I believe the term I used after enduring the failed first round was “shitshow.”

Which makes their post, in the words of the Bard, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

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We mentioned this one earlier, but it’s worth repeating as the story is circulating again.

The Associated Press wrote last week that California isn’t strongly punishing DUIs, even as alcohol-related traffic deaths increased.

The AP kindly listed exactly the reasons for that, in bite-sized, easy to digest chunks.

  • California has some of the weakest DUI laws in the country, allowing repeat drunk and drugged drivers to stay on the road with little punishment.
  • The state gives repeat drunk drivers their licenses back faster than other states.
  • Even when the state does take their license, many drivers stay on the road for years — racking up more tickets or new DUIs — with few consequences until they eventually kill.
  • Courts and lawmakers don’t treat DUI deaths as violent crimes.
  • California has fallen behind on a simple solution embraced by many other states: in-car breathalyzers.
  • Despite the mounting death toll, state leaders have shown little willingness to address the issue.

Which goes a long way towards explaining why people keep dying on our streets.

And why every Vision Zero program enacted in the state has failed.

Thanks to Steven for the heads-up. 

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A YouTuber examines the disconnected Ohio Ave bike lanes to nowhere, while urging you to take the survey to help improve them.

Meanwhile, the UCLA Bicycle Academy weighs in on long overdue plans to improve safety on Ohio and Westwood Blvd.

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Oceanside bike lawyer and BikinginLA sponsor Richard Duquette reminds us about the need to maximize your uninsured motorist coverage on your car insurance, to ensure you’re protected if you’re injured by a driver with the minimal coverage mandated by the state.

Ted, Im so tired of seeing the bicyclist victims going uncompensated in bad crashes.

I now have a couple of said cases. I also reviewed another case, after a hit & run. Low insurance limits again. It’s just not that much more money if you’re bicycling the mean streets to buy big limits of UM/UIM coverage. But I know money is tight for many I get it. But a while ago, I read an article in the WSJ that said 4.9 Million Motorists are either Uninsured or Underinsured in CA.

Duquette more fully addressed the matter in an earlier blog post, which is more than worth reading again.

You know, in case you meet one of those 4.9 million uninsured or underinsured motorists on the road.

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

Members of the Arlington, Virginia Bicycle Advisory Committee are in open revolt against the county manger, complaining that the committee no longer serves a clear purpose after the county cut back on its responsibilities.

No bias here. Berlin, Germany has been backpedaling on bicycling since a conservative government took over two years ago, cutting back on bike-friendly policies and infrastructure, and turning back the clock to a more car-focused time.

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Local 

She gets it. The founder of H.A.R.D., aka Hit-And-Run Deaths, explains why Sunday’s World Day of Remembrance for the victims of traffic violence matters, eight years after her 15-year old grandson was killed in a hit-and-run while riding his bike in Natomas.

The Eastsider says plans are starting to come into focus for a $10.5 million Complete Streets remake of Huntington Drive through El Sereno, including dedicated bus lanes and protected bike lanes, with two traffic lanes in each direction, a thin median, and wider sidewalks.

 

State

A writer on the San Francisco Peninsula makes the case for why ebike bans are unenforceable, from federal regulations to the fact that there’s nothing to prevent anyone from claiming their ebike is a mobility device.

 

National

American bicyclists are urged to take action, as a new federal transportation bill threatens to zero out all bicycle funding as it shovels federal money into highways.

A 29-year old man is suing Salt Lake City and a local cop, accusing the officer of a blindside tackle during a popular bike ride, resulting in torn ligaments in both knees; the cop accused him of fleeing after he told a group of riders he was going to cite them for traffic violations, but the plaintiff says he didn’t think the officer was talking to him, and simply rode off when the light changed.

I want to be like him when I grow up. A Texas man rode his bike 75 miles to celebrate his 75th birthday.

Wisconsin is finally getting around to officially recognizing its part of the 3,000-mile Mississippi River Trail, which follows the river from Minnesota through Louisiana, about a quarter century after the other states did.

Once again, Chicago bike riders rolled through the city’s Hispanic neighborhoods buying out the stock of street vendors, so they could go home and be safe from ICE. Thanks to Megan for the link.

A 64-year old Massachusetts man discusses what it was like to ride 4,800 miles across the US, including “about 40 flat tires.”

Livability recommends three regions to explore if you ever ride in Virginia.

Sad news from Florida, where an 82-year old man was killed by a left-turning driver while riding salmon on an ebike.

 

International

Momentum explains just what cities lose when they fail to build or remove bike lanes, from declining local business revenue to rising collision rates and danger to pedestrians.

A writer for Cycling Weekly says he just felt lost after misplacing his bike computer.

After spending a week in Copenhagen, aka the world’s happiest city, a writer for Business Insider provides five lessons for the US, starting with the positive effect an emphasis on biking and walking can have.

If you build it, they will come. Bicycling rates in Paris have doubled in just the last year, thanks to the city’s commitment to building new bicycling infrastructure, and is continuing to trend upward.

A German couple rode their bikes nearly 5,000 miles to Busan, South Korea, discovering along the way how connected everything is.Which is good, because if it wasn’t connected they might have fallen off. 

A native of the Netherlands questions whether she will ever ride a bike again after getting hit by drivers twice since moving to Australia five years ago.

 

Competitive Cycling

A writer for Cycling News discusses what it’s like to cover Tadej Pogačar, from “his quirks to his brutal honesty.”

The Athletic drops their paywall for an interview with Wout van Aert, as he discusses what it’s like to drop Pogačar, and what pro cycling can learn from the NBA.

You can forget adding ‘cross to the 2030 Winter Olympics.

 

Finally…

That feeling when a car maker can’t tell the difference between a cargo bike and a horse and buggy. Or when you’re accused of wearing a condom coat.

And you can now add this helmet-holding turtle to your holiday wish list.

Instagram post

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Judge dismisses bid to drop PCH murder counts; and felony hit-and-run charges in crash that injured CD5 staffer, killed dog

November 12, 2025 / / Comments Off on Judge dismisses bid to drop PCH murder counts; and felony hit-and-run charges in crash that injured CD5 staffer, killed dog
Day 316 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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I somehow neglected to wish a happy Veterans Day yesterday to all those who have served this county. So thank you all, from the bottom of my heart.

Photo by Sora Shimazaki from Pexels: 

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Let’s start with the alleged Malibu mass murderer accused of using a weapon of mass destruction.

A car, in other words.

Because the judge handling the case against 24-year old Fraser Bohm in the deaths of four Pepperdine sorority sisters on PCH two year ago denied a defense motion to have the four felony murder charges dismissed.

LA County Superior Court Judge Thomas Rubinson ruled that Bohm knew, or should have known, that driving more than 100 mph “had a high degree of probability of causing death.”

Partly because Bohm had told police investigators after the crash that two of his friends had died in high-speed crashes.

Data from his car’s airbags showed he was doing 104 mph when he lost control of his BMW on the bend known locally as Dead Man’s Curve, crashing into three parked cars and slamming them into the four young women as they walked on the shoulder of the road.

Just four more victims of SoCal’s killer highway.

Rubinson also rejected Bohm’s defense that he was fleeing from a road raging driver, saying there was no evidence of a second car chasing him. Something that would have logically shown up on at least one of the many security cams along the celebrity-studded street.

According to the story from the Los Angeles Times, the murder charges were “based on the concept of implied malice, suggesting a conscious disregard for human life.”

The ruling means there’s enough evidence to proceed to trial on all four counts of murder and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.

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Next up is news that two people have been charged in the hit-and-run that nearly killed Thao Tran, a staffer for CD5 Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky, and took the life of her corgi, Kobe.

Twentynine-year old Koreatown resident Ana Larasalguero turned herself into police hours after the 8:30 am crash on Sunday, October 5th, as Tran and her dog were crossing were crossing Eight Street at Cloverdale Ave.

Larasalguero was charged with felony counts of hit and run driving resulting in injury to another person, and cruelty to an animal. As was the passenger in her car, Josue Santiago, her longtime boyfriend, who allegedly switched places with Larasalguero and fled the scene after the crash.

The Beverly Press also reports that Tran is already back at work, despite her injuries.

Tran, who serves as Yaroslavsky’s business development deputy, was taken to a hospital after the collision with multiple fractures. Yaroslavsky’s spokesman Leo Daube said on Nov. 5 Tran has returned to work.

“Thao is recovering well from her physical injuries and is expected to make a full recovery. But this accident has undoubtedly changed her life forever,” Daube said. “She’s focused on healing and moving forward, and our office is supporting her in every way we can.”

As I’ve said before, my wife and I both know Tran and consider her a friend, and we loved Kobe, as did virtually everyone who met him.

My heart and prayers go out to her, while recognizing that her bones will heal long before her heart does.

But hopefully these charges are just the first step towards justice for them both. As long as the LA DA’s office doesn’t bargain them away.

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I want to elevate this comment from Ohio Bike Lawyer Steve Magas, co-author with Bob Mionske of the groundbreaking book on the rights of bicyclists, Bicycling & the Law: Your Rights as a Cyclist. 

Magas was responding to yesterday’s criticism of a report on US bicycling deaths, which was so incoherent that a bunch of trained monkeys could probably have done a better job.

Sheesh. As a math guy who went to law school and who has studied crash/death numbers for some decades now this really drives me crazy. This looks like a law firm trolling for “bike” cases that took some random advice from a web site development firm that said “we’ll create some clever, catchy click bait for you…”

Yes, FL is the worst- I agree 100% with that assessment.

How do you assess “risk” or “danger” though?
FL is a “big” state but… if you look at the “rate” of fatal bike crashes… the number of deaths per, say 100,000 people, you get a better gauge of “safety”

NHTSA has published this data, based on FARS data, for years.
So if you open the most recent, 2023, data here https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/813739
you see that the 50 states are listed on page 10

FL had a total of almost 3,400 TOTAL traffic deaths and 234 BIKE deaths, which was 6.9% of all the traffic deaths… that’s a HIGH figure as the national average is 2.9%, which is UP from the 2.0% or so that was norm prior to 2009.

FL’s “rate” of Fatal Bicycle Crashes is also high – 1.03 deaths per 100,000 people.
That’s the WORST in the US, by far.

Because of smaller numbers of people it is “easier” for a smaller state to have a bad number in a bad year. Maine, for example, had 0 bike deaths in 2023. IF they suddenly had 2 their rate would be significant.

FL had 234 deaths with a total population of 22+M
Compare OH, which had 22 deaths with a population of 11.7M.
So Ohio has slightly more than half the population of FL but only 10% of the number of cycling deaths!
One could argue that OH is 10x “safer” or FL is 10x more “dangerous” than OH… or you are 10x more likely to be killed in FL than if you ride in OH

So yea, FL leads the league

Also, if you look at the Big 3 – FL, CA, TX – you see that 234+145+106 =485 deaths. These 3 states have 485/1166=0.416 or 42% of ALL US Cycling deaths.
BUT
When you look at RATES
FL – 1.03 per 100K
CA – 0.37 per 100K
TX – 0.35 per 100K
US Average is 0.35 people killed on bikes per 100K population so CA and TX are pretty much “average” compared other states but FL is WAY out of whack.

Ohio is, by contrast, well below the national average with a “rate” of 0.19

Steve Magas

This wouldn’t be the first time I’ve said that if you ever need a good bike lawyer in the Midwest, tell Magas I sent you.

And it probably won’t be the last.

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Your periodic reminder that CicLAvia will be doing Stranger Things on Melrose Ave next weekend.

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

A British cycling coach says he was shocked at the hatred he encountered after posting video of a near-collateral damage crash, when a driver skidded out of control following a three-car crash, missing him and another rider by mere inches — yet somehow, some people still blamed them for it.

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Local 

Streets For All issued their monthly newsletter for November, including a job opening for their state legislative team.

Survivors of the Eaton Fire can register for free lifetime Metro rides, including Metro Bike, from 10 am to 1 pm this Thursday at Pasadena’s Robinson Park Recreation Center. But if you have to work that day, evidently you’re screwed.

Long Beach broke ground on a new greenway along the LA River, featuring bike and pedestrian paths, as well as fitness and play equipment, and native plants.

 

State

Sad news from Fullerton, where 19-year old Lauren Turner, a member of the Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer team, died six weeks after she and a teammate suffered life-threatening injuries when a truck driver struck the e-scooter they were sharing. Although maybe someone could tell the OC Register that the box truck that hit them probably had a driver.

 

National

Seattle Bike Blog examines the state of the city’s divided bike movement. LA’s may not be divided, but our movement has turned to sludge.  

Tucson, Arizona opened the world’s first aluminum-surfaced velodrome.

A Wichita, Kansas teacher is closing in on her goal of riding 5,000 miles this year to raise funds to send members of the school’s HOSA club for future health professionals to the organization’s national convention and competition; she’s also lost 50 to 60 pounds in the process.

Bike advocates in Dallas are cautiously optimistic that it can become a more bikeable city.

Cycling Weekly considers what New York’s new bikeshare-riding mayor will mean for bicycling in the city, asking whether he can be the Gotham equivalent of Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.

 

International

Momentum marks Remembrance Day, or Veterans Day as it’s known here, by recalling the military bicycle corps employed by both sides in WWI.

An Ontario appeals court ruled that a case with profound implications for cities throughout the province must get a hearing, with the potential for a ruling that counties and townships must maintain trails they know bike riders use, even if they aren’t designated for the purpose.

Officials in Edinburgh want to reclaim the city’s busiest bike path for a new tram line, despite the 600,000 trips that are made by foot, bike and wheelchair along the route each year.

A Lancashire, England school welcomed back their beloved “lollipop lady” — which is apparently what they call a crossing guard over there — after she missed more than five weeks with a broken elbow suffered when the gears on her bicycle froze up.

A British advocacy group is calling for the country to reduce the current standard width for traffic lanes, arguing that it’s too narrow to allow the required 1.5 meter passing distance — just under five feet — and that narrowing lanes would force drivers to change lanes to pass someone on a bicycle.

The Florence suburb of Scandicci becomes the first Italian city to improve security by rolling out shared neighborhood bike lockers.

A man from Nepal is currently in Qatar on a bike ride from Mount Everest to Antarctica to spread awareness and call for action on climate change.

A decade-long Japanese study shows that bicycling can play a key role in extending health and life expectancy among older adults. Which is probably why my diabetes hasn’t killed me yet. 

 

Competitive Cycling

Cycling Weekly argues that the island roads on my ancestral home punch well above their weight when it comes to churning out pro cyclists — including the famed Manx Missile. I can proudly claim that my great-great-grandfather went to prison for his role in the biggest bank failure in the British Isles prior to the Great Depression.

Cyclist asks the burning questions on everyone’s lips leading to next year’s pro cycling season.

The Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe WorldTour cycling team is training in an underground tunnel to get faster.

 

Finally…

Learning the hard way that flats ain’t passé. Forget lithium-ion, your next ebike could have a semi-solid-state battery.

And it’s long past time to add the Kentucky Bourbon Trail to your bike bucket list.

Okay, mine then.

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Report on bike deaths appears prepared by trained monkeys, and more details on road rage stabbing of Sausalito bike rider

November 11, 2025 / / One comment
Day 315 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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Maybe someone can make sense of this.

Because I sure as hell can’t.

A new report on bicycling deaths from a legal group professes to list the safest and most dangerous states for people riding bicycles.

According to the report, Florida is the most dangerous state in the US, with a whopping 234 people killed riding bicycles in 2024, up from 222 in 2023. California ranks second with 145, which would be a significant drop from 177 the year before.

Although they note that the 2024 figures are based on their own analysis, since official states aren’t yet available.

However, the report seems to misplace the Golden State, however, calling California “a close neighbor of Florida,” as if it had somehow switched places with Alabama or Cuba. It only makes sense in the context of the state’s ranking one and two, even though Florida had 89 more deaths, which doesn’t seem close at all.

The rankings are also based on sheer number of deaths, without taking population into account. On a per capita basis, California had roughly one bicycling fatality per 274,000 people, while Florida had one death per 98,000.

So which of these is not like the other?

Then there is this bizarre chart, which bears no correlation to the actual rankings, placing California 4th, and Florida 8th.

 

It also lists Washington State “1th,” Massachusetts “2th.” and Oregon “3th.” And no, that’s not a typo.

Or at least, not mine.

Apparently, that what you get when you let AI do the work for you. Or farm it out to the lowest bidder in some non-English speaking country.

Or maybe just leave all the work to a bunch of trained monkeys.

But at least that’s better than the report on that report published by The US Sun, which offered this mind-boggling set of stats.

The report also showed that cyclist fatalities have increased significantly since 2015, starting at just over 20,000 a decade ago and now amounting to roughly 28,000 in 2024.

Which is about 25 times the estimated total of 1,109 bike deaths in the US last year, and 24 times the total for 2015.

At least that appears to stem from some staffer incapable of reading a badly drawn chart from the lawyers group report that conflates total US traffic death with bicycling fatalities.

But at least The US Sun ends their story about bicycling deaths with these helpful safety tips.

No, really.

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More details are starting to come out about the Bay Area bike rider who was stabbed by a Tesla driver near Sausalito, in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Velo reports the incident appears to be the result of a road rage dispute that began on a narrow road with poor sight-lines, and a history of being unsafe for cyclists. The stabbing itself appears to have occurred just as the roadway widens to make room for a dedicated bike lane.

Both parties were taken into custody once police arrived, with the bike rider taken to a hospital where he is reportedly in stable condition.

There’s no word on who started the dispute, or who was the aggressor. But there’s no question who was the victim.

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BikeLA, formerly known as the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, is hosting their happy hour fundraiser this Saturday, rain or otherwise.

Rain or shine — BikeFest 2025 is on!

We’re celebrating this Saturday, November 15, from 12–3 p.m. at Highland Park Brewery – just a hop, skip, and roll from the Chinatown Metro Station. A little light rain might join the fun, so come prepared with a jacket and your best bike spirit.

Join us for this Pedal-Powered Party and enjoy:
  • Free bike valet
  • One beer or non-alcoholic drink
  • A commemorative BikeLA bandana
  • ️ Our largest-ever bike-themed silent auction, featuring gear from Spurcycle, Patagonia, Yakima, Tern, Road Runner Bags, ABUS, Kryptonite, and more – the auction is live now, so you can start bidding today!

Come celebrate with us and help support BikeLA’s mission to make L.A. a safer, more connected place to ride.

Get Your Tickets Here

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Streets For All is hosting a mobility debate for Los Angeles Council District 1 next month, including incumbent Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez.

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Holiday gift guides for your favorite bike rider are starting to roll out, with new guides from Bike Rumor and Cyclist. Even if your favorite bike rider is you.

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Local 

Damn good question. A San Francisco website examines how the planned completion of LA River bike path through DTLA ended up in bureaucratic hell.

 

State

Once again, an AirTag hidden in an ebike led to the arrest of an Orange County bike thief, after Huntington Beach cops tracked a surfer’s missing bike to Anaheim.

Sad news from Tulare County, where someone riding a bicycle was killed in a collision with the driver of a milk truck; the victim was reportedly riding on the centerline when the milk truck approached from behind, and the driver veered off the road to avoid a crash, just as the bike rider inexplicably veered right, and struck the truck. No, it doesn’t make any sense to me, either. As always, the question is whether there were any witnesses who survived the crash, other than the driver. 

Over 60 people rode their bikes across the Richmond-San Rafael bridge on Sunday to celebrate the sixth anniversary of bikes being allowed on the bridge, though the mood was darkened by the recent loss of the bike lane across the bridge on weekdays.

 

National

Bike Magazine provides a tutorial on how Trump’s tariffs are affecting mountain biking, and what it all means for bikes, frames and parts.

The New York Times examines how the Sierra Club entered a doom spiral by embracing social justice at the expense of its core environmental mission, leaving it in a weakened position to combat changes under Trump.

Once again, bike riders were heroes, as a Seattle search and rescue team rode ped-assist ebikes to save a hiker in distress on a local peak as night fell and temperatures dropped.

Popular Seattle ebike maker Rad Power Bikes is reportedly circling the drain, as the company battles “significant financial challenges,” and could shut down operations within the next two to three months.

A sightless man rode in the 43rd-annual LoToJa bike race, completing the 200 mile race from Logan to Jackson Hole, Wyoming riding a tandem.

A 46-year old Illinois man was critically injured when a nine-year old boy darted out from between two cars, and into the path of the man’s ebike; fortunately, the kid escaped with just minor injuries.

Kindhearted Ohio cops gave a new bicycle to a ten-year old boy after the one he had worked all summer to buy was stolen.

A New Jersey judge ruled that prosecutors can use a statement from Sean Higgins, the driver accused of the drunken killing of the hockey-playing Gaudreau brothers as they rode their bicycles last year, admitting that he tossed the empty beer cans he’d been drinking from into a cornfield before investigators arrived.

A kindhearted Louisiana lawyer is planning to give away 600 bicycles and helmets to kids across the state before the holidays, in his 10th annual bicycle donation program.

They get it. Fox News reports that a 15-year old Florida boy faces felony charges after leading police on a dangerous chase while riding an electric dirt bike, weaving through traffic at speeds up to 70 mph. But at least they made clear it was not a ped-assist ebike.

 

International

Momentum recommends seven cities around the world where biking is the “coolest” way to explore them. None of which are Los Angeles, of course. Or even in the US. 

Cleveland police vetoed plans for a new bike path through a field, arguing that it would exacerbate a problem with drug runners who cut through while riding off-road motorbikes. No, the one in England.

An Aussie writer explores the “five countries” of the British Isles by bicycle. Even though Northern Ireland isn’t technically a country.

An Irish newspaper remembers a doctor who dedicated his life to caring for the Tarauacan people of Brazil while riding a folding bicycle he brought with him from Ireland; he was 89.

A Spanish website says Malaga, Spain may seem like a bicyclist’s paradise to tourists biking along the sun-drenched coast, but a lack of safe bike lanes make riding impractical for many residents.

 

Competitive Cycling

A 24-year old British cyclist says it hasn’t sunk in yet that he’s a world champion, after winning the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. And no, I didn’t know that was a thing, either.

Speaking of UCI, bike racing’s governing body is actively monitoring suspicious betting activity across gambling platforms in an effort to prevent corruption or race fixing, which has recently affected basketball and baseball.

 

Finally…

Your purloined bicycle could be stripped and turned into a makeshift shotgun. When you’re illegally packing a pistol on your ebike, don’t ride on the damn sidewalk (although you’ll have to find a way around the paper’s paywall to read it).

And don’t ride your electric motorbike through a Rancho Cucamonga mall.

Or any mall, for that matter.

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Haralson murder trial delayed again, how to succeed in Hollywood without a car, and a Florida weapon of mass destruction

November 10, 2025 / / Comments Off on Haralson murder trial delayed again, how to succeed in Hollywood without a car, and a Florida weapon of mass destruction
Day 314 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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No surprise here.

An update from Edward indicates that the trial of 37-year old LA resident Zachary Thomas Haralson for the — alleged — drug-induced murder of 72-year old bike rider Jeff Rosenthal in Laguna Hills has been postponed yet again.

The new date for the trial, which was supposed to begin last week, is February 20, 2026, nearly three-and-a-half years after he took the life of an innocent man.

So mark your calendar.

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The Hollywood Reporter reports that it is in fact possible to succeed in the industry without a motor vehicle.

Among the carless industry insiders featured,

One of them is Bill Wolkoff, a writer and producer who recently worked on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and The Man Who Fell to Earth. Wolkoff began commuting by bike nearly two decades ago after his car broke down. At the time, he was a script coordinator — not a job known for its remuneration — and couldn’t afford to buy a new car. He could, however, buy a new bike. Nearly 20 years later, he’s still biking to work from his home in Mount Washington.

Also featured is Tom Smuts of Mad Men and Bosch fame, who we mentioned here leading his bike tours to the Emmys in years past.

Some industry workers find that going car-less can have its professional perks. Mad Men and Bosch writer-producer Tom Smuts made headlines in the mid-2010s when he led bike rides from Santa Monica to downtown for the Emmys. Today, when he has a job in the L.A. basin, he still bikes to work one to a few times a week. (He also likes to ride his motorcycle.) “I have medium ADHD, and I find it’s really hard for me to sit and work,” says Smuts. “So I often write by either hiking or biking and just recording my thoughts.”

Then there’s this from Adam Conover, of Adam Ruins Everything and The G Word With Adam Conover.

“The idea that we don’t have public transit here is a myth, and the fact that people repeat it is bad for the city because it means we don’t invest enough in transit,” he says.

Yep.

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This is who we share the road with.

A police pursuit of an alleged street racing reckless driver wasn’t wreck-less. Or deathless.

A 22-year old Tampa, Florida driver is under arrest after losing control of his car and slamming into a crowded gay bar while fleeing from police, killing four people and injuring another 13, while leaving some with life-threatening injuries.

Just one more example of a car becoming a weapon of mass destruction in the wrong hands. And innocent people dying as a result a police chase.

My apologies to whoever sent this to me. Your email seems to have disappeared off my laptop, out of the cloud and off the surface of the earth after I clicked on the link, despite all my attempts to retrieve it. 

So please accept my anonymous thanks, and I’ll be happy to credit you if you want to email me again. 

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Whoa.

A pair of British bicyclists, including including record-breaking time triallist George Fox, barely avoided becoming roadkill when a driver lost control on a slight bend, skidding sideways down the road at high speed and missing them by mere inches — and only because they had just moved to single file to let a van pass.

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They get it.

A Christian organization in Tampa, Florida is closing in on their 3,000 bicycle donation as it enters the holiday season.

According to a press release release from Bikes For Christ,

A simple gift of a bicycle can be life-changing — enabling a low-income parent to travel to work, attend parenting classes, or visit a doctor. For children, it can mean a safe way to commute to school, attend tutoring sessions, or reach their first job.

That about sums it up.

And something tells me that if Jesus were to come back today, he’d be more likely to be on a bicycle than riding around in back of a bigass black limo.

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

A Tesla driver stabbed a bike-riding man multiple times following some sort of confrontation in a Marin Headlands parking lot, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge; the victim was reportedly conscious, breathing and stable, but both the victim and the alleged stabber were detained by park police.

A man in Odesa, Ukraine suffered serious injuries when he was pushed off his bicycle by one of two men who had just gotten out of a van, suffering multiple multiple broken ribs, as well as a broken shoulder blade, femur, bruised lung and pneumothorax; the attacker, who has been arrested, was reportedly a member of a military recruitment unit.

But sometimes, it’s people on two wheels behaving badly.

Former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond argues that it’s your obligation to keep yourself safe on the streets, and not everyone else’s job to avoid crashing into you if you do careless stuff on your bicycle.

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Local 

The latest edition of Bike Talk covers a wide range of topics, from systemic reform to a book about 1885 world bicycle circumnavigator Annie Londonderry banned from the Pentagon for violating Trump’s DEI policies, apparently for the crime of being a Jewish woman.

Streetsblog catches up on new bike lane projects on Sunset Blvd, Ohio Ave and in South Whittier.

Urbanize looks at the Ohio Ave protected bike lane project, as well as yet another effort to put protected bike lanes on Westwood Blvd.

Sunset Magazine says Malibu is “bouncing back stronger and dreamier than ever” now that PCH has reopened. Although notably, walking or riding a bicycle along PCH is not one of the activities they recommend.

 

State

Calbike calls for permanent funding for ebike vouchers, in the wake of the cancellation of California’s voucher program.

No bias here. A San Diego TV station says Encinitas residents are divided on “upgrades” to Santa Fe Drive, which most safety advocates would consider significant downgrades.

San Diego Union-Tribune subsidiary La Jolla Light continues its so-far four-part series on ebikes, this time talking with teen riders who admit some kids do “stupid stuff” — like yelling racial and sexual slurs while flipping people off. But the paper continues to conflate ped-assist ebikes with often-illegal electric motorbikes and dirt bikes. 

It only took 14 years, but the 40-mile CV Link bike trail circling most of the Coachella Valley is finally as finished as it’s going to get, with a grand opening in Palm Springs on Friday, although Rancho Mirage and Indian Wells opted out of the trail, leaving significant gaps. However, you’ll have to find a way around the Desert Sun’s paywall if you want to read the second link.

Mountain View is cancelling plans for a bike and pedestrian bridge over Highway 101, after concluding that commuting patterns and office market conditions have changed since the pandemic.

 

National

Nike is introducing a new “mind-altering” sensory shoe platform designed to “reawaken the foot, the body, and the mind,” that could result in incremental performance gains from new bike shoes.

She gets it. A Missoula, Montana woman argues that a new downtown street improvement project will improve safety for pedestrians and drivers, but it’s lacking quality bicycle infrastructure, or any at all, in some areas.

A San Antonio bike rider was hospitalized after he was sideswiped by a hit-and-run city bus driver; no word on how seriously he was injured, but at least he was able to call the cops to report it.

A podcast from a Houston public radio station discusses the evolution of bicycles and personal freedom.

This is how you make Vision Zero work. Kansas City has responded to the death of a nine-year old girl riding her bike to school by banning right turns on red lights during school hours. Although a better step would be to ban right on red, period. And someone please tell the city’s public radio station it wasn’t a car that killed the little girl, it was someone driving one. 

This is the cost of traffic violence. A doctor specializing in spinal cord injuries is in a coma after he was run down by a hit-and-run driver while on his usual bike commute from a Chicago hospital.

A bike rider was critically injured in a New Jersey collision where the combined ages of the victim and driver was 179 years; the victim was a mere youth of 80, which raises the question of what the hell was a 99-year old woman doing behind the wheel.

 

International

The Manual revives a study from last year to explore whether bicyclists can benefit from strength training, concluding exactly what you’d think it would.

Brujula Bike compares and contrasts the differences between a 3,000 euro and 10,000 euro bicycle — roughly $3,500 to $11,500.

Cycling Weekly says bicyclists aren’t considered a nuisance in Colombia, saying the country is a superb, if far flung cycling destination with plenty of big climbs.

Derby, England-based bikemaker Mercian Cycles is back from the dead after being rescued from bankruptcy by local businessmen, celebrating the company’s 80th anniversary with their first new bike model in 20 years.

A 19-year old London woman was knocked cold and suffered facial injuries and broken teeth when the Lime ebike she was riding suddenly malfunctioned and stopped without warning, throwing her over the handlebars.

Bicyclists are celebrating a new segregated bike lane linking three cities in southern England, which could eventually extend to 26 miles.

A travel website says the Netherlands is joining Germany, Japan, Argentina, and Chile in defining the future of sustainable tourism, with bicycling routes designed to get the attention of American tourists. Proving that we Yanks are still welcome somewhere. 

The war in Ukraine claimed a civilian man riding a bicycle, who was a victim of a Russian drone attack in Kostiantynivka. 

 

Competitive Cycling

Cycling News introduces the full 20-man roster of George Hincapie’s new Modern Adventure Pro Cycling team, including 12 Americans, which will debut as a UCI ProTeam, a step or two below the WorldTour.

Velo says pro cycling has never faced a transfer market this bad following the collapse and mergers of multiple teams, leaving 60 to 70 pro cyclists competing for eight to ten remaining slots; 36-year old Italian cyclist Davide Cimolai considers a life after racing, after failing to keep his contract with Movistar.

Former Tour de France champ Sir Bradley Wiggins is headed to one of America’s leading trauma rehabilitation clinics to deal with his addiction, mental health and financial problems since retiring as a pro, with seven-time ex-Tour de France champ Lance Armstrong kindly picking up the entire tab. Although British tabloids are only interested in the American influencer Wiggins is dating.

Premier Tech has pulled their support from the bike team previously known as Israel Premier Tech, citing the firm’s “untenable position” following pro-Palestinian protests at the Vuelta and other races, despite the team dropping “Israel” from its name.

 

Finally…

Get your Czechs on Route 66. After 130 years, it’s safe to say bicycles are probably here to stay.

And Google AI gets me. I mean, they really get me.

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Bike lanes slowing fire trucks is an urban myth, celebrate SciFi author Octavia Butler tomorrow & give Egan his damn bike back

November 7, 2025 / / Comments Off on Bike lanes slowing fire trucks is an urban myth, celebrate SciFi author Octavia Butler tomorrow & give Egan his damn bike back
Day 311 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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It was a quiet bike news day yesterday, so let’s get right to it.

Today’s photo: If they can drive an ambulance on the old beach bike path pre-widening, they can drive a fire truck on or near a bike lane. 

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

No bias here. Firefighters in San Antonio, Texas apparently haven’t gotten the memo, trotting out the persistent urban myth that a proposed road diet and two-way cycle track will slow down their trucks and response times, even though that hasn’t happened in other cities. And those bigass trucks with their massive tires could just drive over the little plastic posts they’ll probably use to separate the bike lanes from the traffic lanes, anyway.

But sometimes, it’s people on two wheels behaving badly.

A Singaporean driver was shocked and appalled to see a pair of teens drafting a semi on a bicycle and an ebike without the “proper gear,” as if a few ounces of plastic and foam would somehow offer protection if they went under a multi-ton tractor trailer. Look, we’ve all seen that scene from Breaking Away, but seriously, it’s not a good idea, with or without a helmet. 

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Local 

Say you’re old without saying you’re old. Former LA City Councilmember Dennis Zine reminisces about “even” riding his bike on city streets delivering the Los Angeles Herald Express and Herald Examiner.

Don’t miss the Octavia’s Pasadena Bike Ride tomorrow, as the Rose City celebrates Pasadena native and noted SciFi author Octavia E. Butler.

 

State

Encinitas is getting rid of back-in parking, widening lanes and ripping out one of the separated bike lanes on Santa Fe Drive, after drivers couldn’t figure out how to manage them.

A 55-year old man was hospitalized with a compound fracture of his tibia/fibula and a fractured femur after he was struck by a driver while riding his bicycle in Pacific Beach Wednesday night; police said he continued straight at an intersection instead of making the required right turn, riding into the path of a driver on the cross street.

The people of Fallbrook have raised more than $1,000 to replace a 34-year old disabled man’s ebike, after he was the victim of a hit-and-run driver who destroyed his bike.

A Santa Cruz man learned he had multiple myeloma, a difficult to treat form of blood cancer, after suffering an apparent rib fracture on a marathon bike ride; 14-years later, he’s back to riding his bike after a being in remission for three years thanks to a cutting edge therapy.

 

National

Bike Magazine recommends their picks for the year’s best bike computers. Although the best bike computer is the one you’ve already got — after you throw it as far as you can so you can just enjoy riding without one. 

Talk about not getting it. A Newton, Massachusetts resident and self-described bike rider complains that new raised bike lanes around a sharp curve make the road more dangerous, because it narrows the roadway on a dangerous corner. Except that forces drivers to slow down, which is kinda the point. 

The kindhearted folks at a sporting goods store in a tiny town in central New York State have given away 7,000 bicycles to kids in need so far this year, just a fraction of the 23,000 bikes they’ve donated since beginning the program.

The bike bus movement has taken over Montclair, New Jersey, with hundreds of kids riding their bikes to school every day.

Drivers who block bike lanes in Montgomery County, Maryland could now be subject to a whopping $60 fine. In other words, a gentle slap in the wallet, if not on the wrist. 

 

International

You’ve got to be kidding. An English man claims he had no idea he struck and killed a man riding a bicycle as he was backing up across the roadway to make a U-turn, insisting he thought he hit a stick — even though he never bothered to stop to see what shattered his rear window before driving away. You know, like any normal person would. 

He gets it now, anyway. A UK Member of Parliament accepted a challenge from local bicyclists to ride a “terrifying” stretch of roadway, so he could understand the need for a new greenway. And he did.

Britpop singer Ed Sheeran is one of us, describing how he crashed a borrowed bicycle while riding down a steep hill, then continued riding to a pub — only to wake up in pain the next morning with a broken rib, elbow and wrist.

Life is cheap in Singapore, where a truck driver got eight months behind bars after pleading guilty to driving without due care and attention for killing a woman who was riding an ebike in a crosswalk, after blaming the victim for not looking for traffic first, before crossing. But at least he lost his driver’s license for eight years.

 

Competitive Cycling

Someone stole the yellow Pinarello bicycle Colombian cyclist Egan Bernal rode on the final stage when he won the 2019 Tour de France.

A bike shop owned by the family of Chilean mountain biking star Martín Vidaurre was also the victim of thieves, who stole bicycles worth the equivalent of $103,000.

If you want to win friends and influence people, don’t suggest privatizing Alpe d’Huez and selling tickets to watch the Tour de France.

 

Finally…

Your new ebike could look like, well, a bike. Well, who wouldn’t ride a bicycle if you’re hunting vampires?

And more proof Mathieu van der Poel is a wheelie good cyclist.

Sorry.

Instagram post

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Malibu approves watered-down PCH plan, cougar stalks OC mountain bikers, and Calbike fights back on CA ebike incentives

November 6, 2025 / / One comment
Day 310 of LA’s Vision Zero failure to end traffic deaths by 2025. 

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We won.

More or less, anyway.

Less than a week after we joined with other organizations in an urgent call for support — although this is only an organization if you count the corgi — the Malibu Planning Commission voted 4 – 1 to approve desperately needed safety improvements on PCH.

Although there were changes that watered down the project to get commissioners on board.

According to public media site LAist,

  • Caltrans decreased the number of new streetlights from 42 to 27.
  • City planning staff will inspect and ensure the lights are compliant with the city’s Dark Sky Ordinance.
  • Caltrans reduced the total length of new or upgraded bike lanes from 15 to 10 miles.
  • Caltrans must engage with first responders and Pepperdine University about a sidewalk it plans to build between John Tyler Road and Malibu Canyon Road to clear any concerns over emergency access to campus.

Notice that the bike lanes have been cut by a third. So apparently, the goal is now to only cull a few people on Malibu’s share of SoCal’s killer highway, instead of actually eliminating traffic deaths, or anything.

Approval of the project was needed this month, or Caltrans would have shifted funding for the $73 million project somewhere else, likely never to return.

Although LAist makes clear that some aggrieved person could still try to throw a wrench in the works. And there’s no shortage of aggrieved people in the ‘Bu.

Appeals timeline starts: According to the city, an “aggrieved person” has 10 days after approval to file an appeal of a Coastal Development Permit, like the one the commission extended to the Caltrans project. If the project is appealed, the matter will go before Malibu’s City Council.

Meanwhile, the Malibu City Council unanimously approved an additional $1.6 million for “enhanced safety measures” along PCH, including innovative speed detection technology and infrastructure for speed cams.

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We may have to deal with feral SoCal drivers, but at least we don’t have to worry about aggressive mountain lions.

Usually.

Two Orange County mountain bikers ran into one on Sunday, which followed them down the trail as they tried to back away.

They were riding on a trail in Whiting Ranch in Lake Forest on Sunday afternoon when they recorded the big cat walking slowly down after them. Which is not a good sign, since they usually try to avoid people.

Adding to the concern, this is the same area where 35-year old Mark Reynolds was killed by a cougar back in 2004, apparently as he was fixing his bike.

The mountain bikers tried using their bikes to shield them from the big cat and yelling to frighten it off.

You can see from the video how well that worked.

Growing up in Colorado, where cougar encounters are far more common, we were taught to make yourself look as big as possible while maintaining eye contract and yelling while you slowly move away. Holding your bike or backpack up to make yourself appear larger could help.

But whatever you do, don’t run. Because that can trigger an attack response.

Experts say the young cat was probably just curious, rather than hungry. But just be careful and keep your eyes open if you’re riding in the area.

Or better yet, maybe ride somewhere else for the next few weeks.

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It looks like Calbike is finally starting to fight back over the ill-conceived cancellation of the California Ebike Incentive Program, calling on followers to write their representatives.

Although the better time to send out this email would have been when their executive director first found out about it in mid-October, rather than weeks later.

The state’s response to a wildly popular e-bike program? Cancel it and put the money towards cars. 

CARB just pulled the plug on the E-Bike Incentive Project, folding what’s left of the funding into Clean Cars 4 All, a car trade-in program. Instead of helping people replace car trips, the state is rewarding people who already own one. It’s a telling political moment that mistakes “cleaner cars” for real progress.

This isn’t what climate leadership looks like. Over one hundred thousand Californians lined up for a modest voucher that would help them drive less, save money, and move freely. Ending that opportunity now ignores that clear demand and walks back hard-won progress.

Send a message now

Our state leaders can’t afford to shrug this off.  It’s time to create a permanent fund for e-bikes — a real mobility solution, not another subsidy for car dependence. Contact your reps now.

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Streets For All is calling on Metro to spend just a tiny fraction of the $600 million it spends building freeways to fully fund CicLAvia.

Tell Metro to fully fund CicLAvia

Metro’s Planning and Programming Committee is currently reviewing Open Streets applications for Cycles 6 & 7 (2026 – 2028), but their own guidelines“include funding only for open and slow streets aligned with the major events 2026 and 2028,” leaving little or no support for local community Open Streets events in between.

CicLAvia is Los Angeles County’s largest recurring Open Streets program, drawing an average of 50,000 participants per event. These events transform city streets into safe, car-free spaces that promote public health, community connection, and environmental benefits:

  • Nearly 50% of first-time attendees said they would have otherwise stayed home or been sedentary.
  • A Preventive Medicine study found CicLAvia delivers measurable public-health benefits.
  • Harmful air pollution (PM 2.5) drops by almost 50% along the route on event days, and by 12% in surrounding neighborhoods.

Yet while event costs continue to rise, Metro’s Open Streets funding has not kept pace. Concentrating funds only around major international events undermines proven, community-based programs that already advance Metro’s mission of improving mobility, public health, and sustainability. Metro invests more than $600 million annually in freeway projects. We urge the agency to fully fund monthly CicLAvias, modest investments with outsized returns for public health, clean air, and community well-being.

TELL METRO TO FUND CICLAVIA [CUSTOMIZE THE BOTTOM]

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Funny how bike lanes are always the problem when it’s the cars that are getting bigger.

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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.

Bike lane haters keep losing at the ballot box in Massachusetts, despite misleading comments that bike lanes cause traffic congestion. Hint: It’s actually too many cars.

But sometimes, it’s people on two wheels behaving badly.

Apparently, a mass World Naked Bike Ride is okay, but riding naked by yourself along a New Zealand waterfront isn’t. Although most of the story is hidden behind a damn paywall, unfortunately.

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Local 

No news is good news, right?

 

State

Orange County cities are playing catch-up to the massive boom in ebike popularity. Although once again, most of the problems come from people on often-illegal electric motorbikes, rather than ped-assist bicycles.

With a form of Doublespeak that would make Orwell proud, Encinitas is considering removing safety features on Santa Fe Drive to improve safety.

Sad news from Bakersfield, where a 32-year old man was killed by a driver while riding his bike

Healdsburg’s BiblioBike mobile bicycle library was honored by a national group for Excellence in Book Bike Outreach Programming.

 

National

A 69-year old Las Vegas man faces charges after he told police he killed a 77-year old man riding a bicycle after using marijuana and drinking an “unknown quantity of beers” before the crash; officers described him as “belligerently impaired” after the crash, and before he was taken away in an ambulance.

Voters in my bike-friendly Colorado hometown lived up to their reputation, approving plans to replace the former college football stadium with a shiny new bike park. And yes, that was the same stadium where I used to smuggle bourbon and rum inside my Sousaphone for the marching band.

Bike lanes on a busy Jacksonville, Florida street have gotten a new coat of green paint, although at least some bicyclists say it’s not enough to keep cars out and improve safety.

 

International

Momentum says London, New York and Paris rank at the top of the newest list of the world’s best cities — in that order — and what they have is common is they all put people first.

They get it. An English town is planning to spend the equivalent of $654,000 to upgrade the city’s main separated bike lane to keep delivery drivers from bypassing the widely spaced car-tickler plastic posts to park in it.

In the US, people have protested competitions that allow trans women to compete, but in the UK, several women turned down nominations to Cycling UK’s annual 100 Women in Cycling award because it excluded trans women and non-binary people from consideration.

You can add bikepacking along the Rhine River from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea to your bike bucket list, taking you from “Swiss mountain air to German castles, French Alsace flavors and Dutch windmills.”

Hundreds of people are expected to turn out next month with their bicycles festooned in twinkling lights and creative decorations for The Hague’s fifth annual Haagse Fietslichtjesparade.

 

Competitive Cycling

Good news for LA cycling fans, because multi-time former national champ Justin Williams is getting the band back together, reforming the L39ION of Los Angeles Continental-level cycling team with his brother Cory; the team dominated elite US racing until it was disbanded a few years ago.

Belgian pro Wout van Aert says it feels “pretty weird” to have a fanbase in the US, as he visits Laguna Beach. As if American cycling fans somehow don’t appreciate greatness. 

 

Finally…

The manifold joys of drinking out of a garden hose on an ultra-endurance ride.

And a bet’s a bet.

Although it would have been nice to see Karen Bass on that bikeshare bike. Even if, as Steven put it in an email to me, Bass “would have had a prepared, pothole free, debris free, inconvenience free, (What? Stop at red lights????) route with a large security entourage.”

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Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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