This is who we share the road with.
US National U-23 crit champ Luke Fetzer posted video of road-raging, tailgating and trash tossing motorists right here in sunny Southern California.
Including one genius who tried tailgating him in a painted bike lane, apparently annoyed that anyone would have the temerity to ride a bicycle in what’s clearly intended as a traffic bypass lane for impatient motorists.
One more reminder to stay safe out there, because there are always angry, dangerous idiots behind some, if not most, of those steering wheels.
And bonus points for having the exceptional good taste to post his video to the Dropkick Murphys.
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This is who we share the bike path with.
A speeding, helmetless and lightless motorcyclist was killed when he collided head-on with a bicycle rider on the San Gabriel River Trail around 8 pm Friday night.
He died after both men were hospitalized in critical condition.
Needless to say, he shouldn’t have been there on the bike path to begin with. But I would guess most of us have encountered people on dirt bikes and/or motorbikes illegally using SoCal bike paths and bike lanes at one time or another.
No word on the bike rider’s current condition.
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Apparently, life is very cheap in the Bay Area.
As expected, an 80-year old San Francisco woman walked without a day behind bars for killing an entire family while speeding up to 70 mph on the wrong side of a city street.
Mary Fong Lau was sentenced to probation and 200 hours of community service, with no jail time or home vacation confinement, for the deaths of 40-year old Diego Cardoso de Oliveira and his wife, 38-year old Matilde Moncada Ramos Pinto, their one-year-old son Joaquim Ramos Pinto de Oliveira, and three-month-old Cauê Ramos Pinto de Oliveira as they waited at a bus stop.
San Francisco superior court judge Bruce Chan let Lau walk despite a petition with over 8,000 signatures urging him to impose “meaningful consequences proportionate to the gravity of this crime.”
Chan has already announced his retirement, rather than face angry voters at the polls.
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Apparently, parking spaces — not human lives — are what’s precious in WeHo.
Sigh. People’s lives are precious too ya know. @wehocity.bsky.social
— Andrew Solomon (@solomonweho.bsky.social) 2026-03-23T16:16:41.745Z
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Clearly, if we want a train line that serves everyone, we’re going to have to fight for it at Metro’s meeting Thursday.
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When it’s time to have “the talk” with your kid’s, tell ’em this is where road signs come from.
Although I’d say Bikes OK is a major understatement.
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About damn time.
LA’s favorite bike ride is staging a comeback worthy of a Hollywood sequel.
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Active SGV is hosting a Baldwin Park walk audit this Saturday.
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This is what a mayor who supports bicycling looks like.
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This is who we share the road with, too.
And notice that the corgi is herding them all to the side of the road.
@gtconway.bsky.social Have you seen this?
— GypsyHeart 🖤 (@gypsyheart1.bsky.social) 2026-03-23T21:32:07.311Z
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The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.
A Wisconsin man stands accused of using his pickup as a weapon by driving off the roadway onto a separated bike path to intentionally ram and kill someone riding a bicycle; he was detained after also ramming a couple patrol cars at the local police station, before officers even knew about the fatal hit-and-run.
A Trump administration plan to rip out a DC bike lane was put on hold after bicyclists sued to halt them, following a weekend protest ride on streets of Washington DC over the administrations plan to rip out the popular protected bike lanes to make more room for cars — even though they’ve led to a nearly 70% drop in bike crashes, and almost 50% reduction in all collisions, since they were installed 14 years ago.
The case against a road-raging Spanish driver accused of attempted murder for ramming former world champ Alejandro Valverde and another bicyclist during a 2022 training ride will go to trial, after prosecutors were unable to reach a plea agreement last week.
A man riding a bicycle in the Philippines suffered severe injuries when he got into an argument with a road-raging motorcyclist who kept honking at him, then deliberately sideswiped him when the victim took out his phone to take a picture of the motorbike rider; he was then struck by a tricycle coming from the opposite direction.
But sometimes, it’s the people on two wheels behaving badly.
Putting on a wig and trying to make his escape by bicycle didn’t work for an Illinois man, who was arrested for attempted murder stemming from a domestic violence incident.
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Local
Streets For All says LA County can fund local California High Speed Rail projects without raising taxes. Even if I don’t pretend to understand any of it.
New protected bike lanes are planned connecting Pico Blvd, Broadway Place and Martin Luther King Blvd in Historic South Central Los Angeles.
Former Laker Andrew Bynum is one of us, after he was recorded riding his bicycle in the streets of Los Angeles, eight years after injuries ended his NBA career.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department conducted a crackdown on illegal ebike usage in Agoura Hills, Calabasas and Westlake Village, citing 23 riders for illegal activity, towing seven illegal or illegally ridden ebikes, and arresting one ebike rider for fleeing a traffic stop. Which makes it seem like they weren’t even trying; I could have done more than that without leaving the steps of my Hollywood apartment building.
Long Beach will host a public meeting on April 2nd — a week from Thursday — to discuss the proposed Pacific Avenue Transformation Project, a Complete Streets makeover of the current overly wide corridor.
State
The Southern California News Group looks at the law governing ebikes and how it’s struggling to catch up to their rapid expansion.
San Diego’s city council voted to reduce speed limits on roughly 20% of the city’s streets. Which isn’t likely to accomplish much when most drivers ignore the posted limit anyway.
Simi Valley approved a new bike plan, which “identifies proposed bike paths, bike lanes and bike routes, along with intersection improvements and a prioritized list of projects based on safety, feasibility and funding potential.” Which, as any veteran of the Los Angeles bike plan wars can tell you, is bureaucrat speak for most of them will probably never, ever be built.
For the second time in six weeks, a Southern California mountain biker has been bitten by a rattlesnake. Firefighters in Ventura County responded when a teenaged girl fell off her bike at a Thousand Oaks trailhead, and was bitten by the snake; the girl was listed in stable condition with minor injuries. Hopefully, she’ll fare better than Orange County’s Julien Hernandez, who lingered in a coma for a month before dying from his injuries.
Seriously? A Central Valley website reports a woman was “majorly” injured when the right-front of a pickup crashed into her as she rode her bicycle.
The on-again, off-again bike lane on the Bay Area’s Richmond-San Raphael Bridge will continue to be studied and discussed, as 840 bicycle trips were counted in this past Sunday’s unseasonably warm weather, on a pathway we’re supposed to believe no one ever uses.
National
Bike helmets and aluminum-framed bicycle trailers will be exempted from Trump’s China tariffs for another year, for reasons known only to him.
A beloved Nebraska man was honored with a bicycle sculpture outside the food co-op where he worked, featuring a wheel made of classic album covers, two years after he was killed.
Rochester NY spent a total of half a million dollars to install separate bike and pedestrian pathways next to a local roadway, then rip them up and reinstall a shared path, for no apparent reason.
New York State had a 2,000-mile network of bikeways over 125 years ago, not much of which remains after they were ripped out or overtaken by motor vehicles.
No bias here. The California/New York Post cites “alarming” ebike stats as proof of the that “chaos” New York Mayor Mamdani is unleashing on the city’s hapless citizenry, after four people were killed and less than 100 injured by ebikes in the city last year, while 16 ebike riders were killed. Just wait until someone tells them about cars.
International
Momentum deservedly busts ten myth about bicycling, from only rich white guys ride bikes, to the perennial classic that bike riders don’t pay for the roads they ride.
Bikes are booming again in Cuba, as local residents cope with fuel shortages resulting from the Trump administration’s blockage of oil shipments to the island, revealing the resilience of the local population.
By royal decree, ebikes in Great Britain will hereby be considered cheating.
A writer for Bike Radar says riding was a dream in the UK following the 2012 London Olympics, but the dark days of angry road-hogging drivers are back. Which suggests maybe we could have a few good years after the ’28 LA Olympics. But I wouldn’t count on it.
Good news from Islamabad, Pakistan, as the city will get new bike lanes and pedestrian paths, as well as a crackdown on illegal encroachment on them by drivers.
Bike Radar talks with a British expat Joe Whittingham of the Panda Podium website about the meteoric rise of Chinese bicycles.
Competitive Cycling
No surprise here, as Tadej Pogačar overcame a fall to edge Tom Pidcock in the Milano-Sanremo one-day classic, a victory that left the usually talkative Eddy Merckx speechless; Belgian Lotte Kopecky won on the women’s side.
Spanish cyclist Javier Romo grabbed American pro Matteo Jorgenson by the neck and verbally threatened him outside the Visma-Lease a Bike bus on Saturday after Jorgenson made an off-camera move to improve his third place position Italy’s Tirreno-Adriatico.
The great Colombian climber, and Giro and Vuelta champ, Nairo Quintana announced he’s calling it a career at the end of this season, after 16 years on the WorldTour.
Tadej Pogačar vows to stop training on the roads of the Italian Riviera, blasting the “criminal” actions of the area’s motorists.
I want to be like him when I grow up. Seventy-seven-year old Gilles Quevauvilliers completed the 40th edition of the Cape Town Cycle Tour, as his son flew in from Australia to ride along with him; his grandson also races Down Under.
Twenty-seven-year old Italian cyclist Debora Silvestri suffered five broken ribs and a micro fracture in her shoulder after a horrific crash at Saturday’s Milan-San Remo when she went over a guard rail following a collision with several other riders; Polish cyclist Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney, the first rider down, appeared to take the crash in stride, while, Cycling Weekly called the reaction to her crash an overreaction.
Finally…
That feeling when a carton of eggs and a secondhand vase don’t survive the local roads. That feeling when your tiny spotter has his own handlebars — you know, just in case you don’t answer him in time.
And probably not the best idea to modify your ebike from one horsepower to a single dog.
