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West LA CicLAvia coming next month, LA speed cams and photo bike lane ticketing, and new helmet may be safest ever

March 31, 2026 / / No comments

Happy César Ch…uh, Farmworkers Day, to all who celebrate. 

And Erev Tov!

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The next CicLAvia will roll just three miles from Westwood to West Los Angeles, along Westwood and Santa Monica Blvds on Sunday, April 26th.

The ride will offer an opportunity to consider long-gestating plans to build protected bike lanes on Westwood between Westwood Village and the E Line; an earlier proposal for painted bike lanes was killed by former CD 5 Councilmember Paul Koretz because he felt like it to satisfy wealthy homeowners.

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Los Angeles is finally getting around to installing the speed cams authorized by a 2023 law.

The legislature, in a typical compromise to avoid passing any major traffic safety legislation, approved a pilot program allowing speed cams in six cities, three in Northern California and three in Southern California.

Streetsblog reports San Francisco and Oakland already have their speed camera programs up and running, while Long Beach and Glendale have finalized locations and approved vendor contracts; San Jose is the other NorCal city included in the program.

The law was later amended to allow a handful of desperately needed speed cams on PCH in Malibu, as well.

The six-city pilot program was a compromise to get a bill that would have legalized them statewide out of committee.

According to Streetsblog, Los Angeles was the last city to move forward with its program, as usual for the notoriously risk-averse and driver-shy city. But the city finally finalized the speed cam locations last week, and will send the contract out to bid with a goal of getting them installed and working by the end of the year.

Yay, us.

In other long overdue news, Streetsblog adds that Los Angeles is trying to work out the details on a program to use cameras to ticket drivers parked in bike lanes.

Here’s a thought.

Let the people who actually use the bike lanes enforce the law by submitting their own photos and videos of drivers blocking bike lanes, and just send the owners a ticket, already.

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The new Si road bike helmet from Vancouver, BC’s PIKIO LABS has been rated as the safest bike helmet ever tested by the Virginia Tech Testing Lab.

The helmet scored a 4.61, more than two points better than the next highest rated helmet.

It’s based on the company’s proprietary OBLIK impact management system, designed to reduce both linear and rotational forces; the nearly 20-year old MIPS system only reduces rotational forces.

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

Someone may or may not have tried to sabotage an Iowa bike path, after the bomb squad destroyed a suspicious device packed with nails and explosive materials left in a backpack along the trail.

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

This is what it looks like when a hundred or so kids on bicycles and ebikes attempt to enter a San Francisco freeway the wrong way, even if the CHP can’t seem to hold the damn camera steady or even make a decent edit.

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Local 

A new pocket park and recreation center called the Slauson Connect project will rise on a narrow strip of land along the north side of Slauson Ave between Budlong and Normandie Avenues next to the new Rail to Rail shared use path.

 

State

Two separate HIV/AIDS fundraising rides will replace the late, great AIDS/Lifecycle ride, with a three-day ride from San Francisco to Guerneville and back benefitting a Bay Area nonprofit, while the three-day Center Ride Out will take bicyclists from Los Angeles to San Diego, to benefit the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

Santee is the latest California city to crackdown on ebikes, without apparently distinguishing between e-motos and non-street legal dirt bikes, and Class 1, 2 & 3 ped-assist ebikes.

A recent University of Arizona grad from Humboldt is setting off with his dad on a 9,600-mile ride to visit all 30 major league ballparks. Although if they really wanted a challenge, they should try riding to all 120 minor league parks in the US alone. 

 

National

A new bi-partisan bill in Congress would give the Consumer Product Safety Commission the authority to define and regulate ebikes and other electric micromobility devices at the national, rather than state, level. Although whether there’s anything left of the CPSC after Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts remains to be seen. 

Outside recommends the year’s best mountain bikes as chosen by the pros at Pinkbike. And they might actually be this time, for a change. 

There’s not a pit in hell deep enough for the co-founder of the Bellingham, Washington edition of the World Naked Bike Ride after he was busted on kiddie porn charges; he claimed he was doing research for a children’s book about a child who runs around naked — even though his book was published six years ago.

Alaska’s Lael Wilcox will attempt to beat her own 108-day women’s world record for riding around said planet, attempting to shave 30 days off her previous time for the 18,000 mile ride to beat the outright record of 78 days, 14 hours; she’ll set off from Chicago on June 7th.

Now drivers aren’t even waiting for bicycles to leave the shop before running them down, as a Colorado driver somehow plows in and through an Aurora bike shop.

 

International

An Oxford, England traffic cam installed to catch drivers making illegal left turns — the equivalent of a right over here — has generated the equivalent of nearly $800,000 at one of the most dangerous sites for bicyclists in the UK, which see around 12,000 daily bike trips per day when Oxford University is in session.

Bicyclists in the London borough of Havering have launched a safety campaign asking candidates for the local council to commit to building bike infrastructure where the city’s department of transportation has identified the need.

Former Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo looks back on her dozen years leading the French capital — which included a massive bike and pedestrian friendly makeover of the city streets — saying “Changing a city is complicated.” Which is probably why no one has succeeded here in the City of Angels, and few have even bothered to try. 

Authorities in The Netherlands are considering introducing a quality mark to show ebikes meet legal EU standards. Which would be a pretty good idea over here, too. 

A Delhi-based white-collar worker swaps his car for a bicycle to commute to work for four months to see if biking every day can help improve the city’s air quality crisis, and finds he can get to work on a bicycle as fast as in a car. A few years back, I spoke with a Delhi-based bike accessory maker, who was comfortable riding that city’s seemingly chaotic streets, but just couldn’t imagine how we manage riding the mean streets of Los Angeles. 

The London Times asks if Tokyo can manage to rein in its sidewalk surfing bicyclists, especially all those darn moms on their mamacharis. 

 

Competitive Cycling

Swiss prosecutors have closed their investigation into the death of 18-year old Swiss cyclist Murier Furrer without charges, concluding there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing even though it took 85 minutes before anyone even noticed she was missing following a crash in the 2024 Road World Championships in Zurich.

Somehow we missed this one last week, as a pro-Palestinian and environmental protestor caused a major smashup in the Tour of Bruges by sitting in the middle of the road as the peloton approached; the same man disrupted the finale of the 2022 Tour of Flanders by running across the roadway, splashed paint on Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring, tied himself to a goal post during the Belgian FA Cup final, and sprayed the British Embassy in Brussels with red paint. Yet somehow, he was still allowed within 50 miles of a bike race without adult supervision. 

A 21-year old Philippine food delivery rider set a new national track cycling record riding the same bike he uses for his delivery work, with the frame and wheels worth the equivalent of less than $250.

 

Finally…

Seriously, when you’re carrying a concealed gun, meth, and illegal prescription pills on your bike, and riding with an active arrest warrant, stop for the damn stop sign. Or if you nearly hit a police car while riding your bike drunk, put a damn light on it, already (the bike, not the cop car).

And your next ebike could be the world’s skinniest car.

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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UK driver walks for trying to kill bicyclist, Whittier man shot riding past car, and CHP thwarts bicycle takeover of Bay Bridge

March 30, 2026 / / No comments

No major news stories this weekend, so let’s get right to it. 

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

Life is cheap in the UK, where a road-raging driver walked with a suspended sentence for deliberately attempting to slam into a semi-professional cyclist, even though the judge bellowed from the bench “What the bloody hell were you doing? Had you hit him and he went under you could have been facing a charge of manslaughter or causing death by dangerous driving. What were you thinking of? You are right to look ashamed.” And even after that, let him off with a slap on the wrist. 

A British parish council faces well-deserved backlash for reporting a group of kids to the cops for building a tiny dirt bike ramp, as locals ask why the council doesn’t have more important matters to attend to.

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

The bomb squad was called out in San Diego when an apparently well-meaning man rode off on his bicycle after dropping off a bag full of high-powered ammunition at the Santee sheriff’s station; he just wanted the deputies to safely dispose of it and didn’t intend to cause a security incident.

The CHP seized a whopping 85 bicycles and cited dozens of people when participants in an apparent rideout attempted to take over the San Francisco’s Bay Bridge; the state police stopped the group as they tried to enter the bridge on an offramp after riding recklessly through the city.

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Local 

The Eastsider wants to know if you’d be willing to reduce or eliminate curbside parking on Sunset Blvd to make room for bike and bus lanes. “Hell yeah!” doesn’t seem to be an option, so you’ll have to settle for yes. 

A Whittier man was hospitalized in unknown condition early Friday after he was shot when he rode his bicycle past a car, and two people inside fired multiple shots at him.

Once again, ebikes got the blame when a group of about 50 people riding “illegal electric motorcycles, pocket bikes and e-bikes” took over Long Beach streets late Friday afternoon, leading to the arrest of a 17-year old boy, police issuing five traffic citations and impounding five vehicles. Something tells me that not one of those ebikes would be legal under California’s Class 1, 2 or 3.

 

State

The LA Times catches up with the road rage harassment and attempted assault of two bicyclists in Newport Beach last week, and the subsequent arrest of one of the drivers allegedly involved, which we told you about on Friday. Ironically, the belated story was reported by the paper’s breaking news desk.

In a story that should sound familiar to Los Angeles bike riders, criticism directed at Caltrans for building a very short bike lane should have been directed at San Diego officials, who were supposed to build a new bike lane when a street was resurfaced for a water project, but neglected to budget enough for a complete resurfacing, and decided to just skip it, even though Caltrans didn’t.

The inaugural family-friendly Bike the Coast Ventura is scheduled for this June.

A Spanish architect completed a six-month, 1,200-mile bike trip retracing the route of the 1775 Anza expedition from Sonora, Mexico to the San Francisco Bay.

Speaking of San Francisco, the city’s transportation department released a map showing where the most collisions involving drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists occurred. Something that we were promised under Vision Zero, but which the city only maintained for a year or two.

Finishing our San Francisco trifecta, the city absurdly ripped out a DIY protected bike lane installed by a local advocacy group after a driver ran down and killed a two-year old kid last month — removing their yellow plastic posts and replacing them with white posts.

 

National

A Redditor is grateful for a random act of kindness after she fell off her bike on a rough patch of pavement, and a stranger ran over with his dog to was her off and help her get back up.

A website for people over 60 offer the best bicycle dad jokes — or grandad jokes, in this case — although “best” is doing a lot of work here.

A health website offers “the ultimate guide to choosing the best bike for every rider.” Which isn’t, and aren’t.

Seattle creates four “low-pollution neighborhoods” designed to reduce air pollution and increase access to transit and safe walking and biking infrastructure.

A Washington bike rider was lucky to escape with minor injuries when the driver of box truck jumped the sidewalk she was riding on, and fled the scene after hitting her; the driver was later arrested for reckless driving, hit-and-run and driving with a suspended license.

That’s more like it. Denver, Colorado is moving forward with a nearly $1 billion Complete Streets makeover of the city’s streets, with over 500 traffic calming projects which will reduce space for motor vehicles and replace it with wider sidewalks, bike lanes and dedicated bus lanes throughout the city; naturally, critics complain it will increase traffic congestion. However, you’ll have to find your own way past the paper’s paywall. 

That’s more like it, part two. A 24-year old Colorado ex-con was sentenced to 18 years behind bars for the hit-and-run death of a 41-year old man riding a bicycle in Boulder, Colorado, after he was paroled despite being previously considered a high risk to re-offend on drug crimes.

An Indiana bikemaker is urging the Trump Administration to level the playing field by imposing hirer tariffs on imported bicycles, in what could be a test case of the administration’s strategy of using import taxes to promote domestic manufacturing.

That’s more like it, part three. New Jersey officials threw the book at a hit-and-run driver for dragging the victim and their bicycle behind her car as she fled the scene; she was charged with vehicular assault, aggravated assault, and endangering an injured victim, as well as DUI, reckless driving and hit-and-run counts.

A five-year old Virginia boy was remembered with a 6th annual Easter event that gave away 20,000 eggs and 65 bicycles to families in need; he was shot point-blank by a neighbor while riding his bike in North Carolina in 2020.

You’ve got to be kidding. Police in Charlotte, North Carolina blamed the victim when an eight-year old girl was killed by a driver after she rode her bike out of the family driveway into the street — even though the driver was a) driving with a revoked license, b) driving without insurance, c) driving an unregistered vehicle, d) driving with a fictitious registration, and e) may or may not have been speeding.

Life is cheap in Louisiana, where a 36-year old man got just two and a half years behind bars for killing a 64-year old man riding his bicycle, despite pleading guilty to negligent homicide and a number of traffic infractions after striking the victim with a too-close pass. And even though sideswiping the victim’s bike is a prima facie violation of the state’s three-foot passing law. 

 

International

How to find yourself metaphorically singing in the literal rain while you ride.

Tres shock! It turns out that sucking high-sugar energy gels is bad for your teeth.

The UK’s Factor bike brand received a cease-and-desist letter from a Colombian bikemaker, which complained the Scarab logo for Factor’s new iridescent aero bike is too close to custom steel bikemaker Scarab Cycles name and logo, and likely to cause confusion in the market. And yes, they’ve got a damn good point.

A British soccer legend learns the hard way that being the Premier League record-holder for goals scored is no protection from hitting a nasty pothole on his bike.

A bicyclist in Malta dreams of a safer environment for riding.

Tragic news from India, where a 42-year-old businessman was killed by a speeding 17-year old hit-and-run driver, while on his very first bike ride after taking up bicycling to maintain his fitness.

Dubai announced the opening of 13 new cycle tracks to create a nearly 400 mile network, placing the Emirate on track to open over 630 miles of bikeways by 2030.

Starting next month, bike riders in Japan will be subject to traffic tickets and fines, just like drivers; parents fear it will make it more challenging to get their kids to school.

 

Competitive Cycling

A couple of men in Italy seriously stretched the definition of “fans” as Velo reports a “rampaging fan” climbed on top of the moving Visma-Lease a Bike team car during stage four of the Coppi e Bartali, attempting to steal a bike off the roof, while another “fan” punched and threatened the people inside; American teenager Ashlin Barry went on to claim his first victory for the team’s development squad.

Speaking of first wins, Aussie Brady Gilmore claimed his first WorldTour victory on the final stage of the Volta a Catalunya — even if Bicycling Australia takes until the final paragraph to mention almost in passing that Jonas Vingegaard captured overall victory.

Speaking of the Volta, British cyclist Tom Pidcock considered himself lucky to escape with relatively minor knee and wrist injuries from crashing down a steep ravine on Friday.

Good news from Italy, where Debora Silvestri is out of the hospital, more than a week after she suffered severe chest trauma going over a guard rail in a terrifying Milan-Sanremo crash, then landing on a service road after a ten-foot drop.

Texas Monthly says the next great American cyclist could be unassuming Amarillo 18-year old Beckam Drake. Although once again, you’ll have to get around their paywall. And never mind how the last great American cyclist from Texas turned out. 

Speaking of which, it turns out that women dope, too, as Italian cyclist Linda Laporta was provisionally suspended for testing positive for a banned substance during the recent UAE Tour Women. Although she has a long way to go to catch up with Lance’s record of seven ex-Grand Tour wins.

 

Finally…

That feeling when you “ingeniously” tow a mattress-laden boat with your ebike, unless maybe it was all stolen. Who needs carbon fiber or titanium when you can build your own frame from PVC pipes?

And why let tandem riders have all the fun, when you can build your very own unicycle for two?

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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LA mayoral race starts with Mayor Bass missing in action, and taking both sides of the K Line Northern Extension debate

March 25, 2026 / / No comments

That sound you heard Monday was the official start of the Los Angeles mayoral race.

Normally, any contest with a standing incumbent in Los Angeles makes paint drying seem absolutely thrilling.

Particularly since this year’s race starts with LA Mayor Karen Bass enjoying an eight point lead over her closest opponent.

Except CD4 Councilmember Nithya Raman currently has the support of just 17% of eligible voters. Which means that Bass’ seemingly insurmountable lead after four years in office is based on only has 25% support.

And over half of the electorate has a negative opinion of her, making the race anyone’s to claim at this point.

The kickoff for the campaign was Monday’s first debate, sponsored by Streets for All and Housing Action Coalition. Although Bass and reality TV star Spencer Pratt, in third place with 14%, apparently couldn’t be bothered to attend.

Or maybe she was just off on another diplomatic mission, like she was when a large section of the city burned to the ground last year.

According to LAist, the candidates who could be bothered to show up were —

  • Adam Miller, founder of a homelessness nonprofit and self-described lifelong Democrat, said the city is “broken,” physically and figuratively.
  • Nithya Raman, an L.A. city councilwoman, said the city is “challenged.”
  • Rae Huang, a Presbyterian minister, community organizer and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, said L.A. needs “new and fresh leadership.”

Apparently, the other 35 candidates qualified for the June primary were also otherwise occupied. Or maybe they just weren’t invited, since their combined support could be listed on the back of a postage stamp.

You know, those sticky things you used to put on snail mail to make it go places.

LA Public Press offers five takeaways from the debate, including a reminder that Nithya Raman has a masters in urban planning from MIT, adding to her urbanist bona fides.

You can watch the full debate below.

Please enjoy that photo of a bass by Gio Spigo from Pexels up there on the left, since Mayor Bass didn’t bother to show up for the debate.  

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Meanwhile, Mayor Bass’ insisted that her stance on the Northern Extension of the K Line is being misrepresented, and she’s really a big ol’ supporter of extending the line.

Except, as Streets For All points out, her support is actually a delaying tactic, calling for extending the line while offering an amendment to approve it without selecting a final alignment, even though it has already been studied to death.

And even though that will just lead to more delays, and a loss of funding.

Apparently, she learned a lot during her time in Washington. Like how to take both sides of an issue.

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Metro Bike is hosting a virtual meeting at noon today to discuss expanding the  city’s bikeshare system.

Meanwhile, Czech carmaker Škoda’s We Love Cycling website takes a look at Prague, Czech Republic’s successful bikeshare system to see what it takes to make one work — starting with broad availability.

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CicLAvia hosted a recent discussion on the state of open streets in the Los Angeles area, as Metro wants to tie all upcoming events to this summer’s World Cup and the ’28 LA Olympics.

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Active SGV is hosting a ride on April 4th to check out the new Whittier Narrows BMX pump track.

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

The video of Ben Byra and U-23 national crit champ Luke Fetzer being harassed by a road-raging BMW driver in Newport Beach has now been viewed more than eight million times.

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Local 

The deadline for input on the Monrovia Draft Bike Master Plan is this Friday, aka the day after tomorrow. So get it in, already.

 

State

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department is warning parents after a group of kids rode electric motorbikes through a Santee neighborhood performing “dangerous pranks” that they described as “doorbell ditching,” or what we called “ding-dong ditch” back in the Dark Ages. Although granted, no one was riding an overpowered virtual motorcycle or likely to get shot by a frightened homeowner back in the day.

Caltrans intends to install a crosswalk with flashing beacons on PCH near the Neptune’s Net restaurant, just across the Los Angeles County line, where the speed limit is 55 mph. Because of course drivers will screech to a stop from highway speeds for a few beacons flashing in the roadway.

A 46-year old woman died after she was bitten by a rattlesnake in Thousand Oaks’ Wildwood Regional Park, about a week before a teenaged girl was bitten when she fell off her mountain bike in the same area; a Costa Mesa man died after lingering in a coma for weeks when he was bitten while mountain biking in Irvine February 1st.

San Francisco is completely reimagining the city’s Folsom Street with a Complete Street project designed to prioritize non-motorized traffic. Which compares favorably with virtually every street in Los Angeles, where only motorized traffic gets prioritized. 

Parking mania raised its ugly head in Santa Rosa, where city officials approved replacing a dying mall’s pedestrian plaza with parking spaces. Raising the eternal question of why a dying mall needs even more parking. 

 

National

A writer for Electrek makes the case for why small, seated scooter-type bikes should be classified as ebikes, even if they don’t have pedals. Call them any damn thing you want, as far as I’m concerned, just not ebikes.

Portland, Oregon is launching a $20 million ebike rebate program offering up to $1,600 for standard ebikes and $2,350 for cargo ebikes. Which compares favorably to Los Angeles, where a nonexistent ebike voucher program provides eligible recipients absolutely nothing.

The Bureau of Land Management is considering opening 220 miles of Colorado offroad trails to ebikes, after opening hundreds of miles around Moab, Utah.

The founder of Strider Bikes recalls how the urge to get his two-year old toddler riding the trails around his Rapid City, South Dakota hometown as soon as possible led to the development of the pedal-less bike that forever changed bicycle training for the training pants crowd.

A New York councilmember wants a bike lane on a major roadway crossing Central Park, arguing that more people would ride if they could get from one end of Manhattan to the other.

A 56-year old Florida driver was arrested following a midnight crash that seriously injured a man riding a bicycle, after police discovered he’d been living under a fake name for 30 years to dodge a 1997 arrest and extradition warrant.

 

International

Road.cc recommends a dozen of the best pretend bicycling apps, for when you and your bike are both stuck inside.

The head of e-bikeshare firm Bolt says cities need more bike lanes to reduce traffic congestion and pressure on public transportation.

Momentum recommends the best places in North America to see cherry blossoms from your bike, from BC to DC. Or you can just ride your bike anywhere in Los Angeles and see just about everything, flowering or otherwise.

Um, okay. A Vancouver, British Columbia family known for tall bikes has developed a stacked, double-decker tandem that allows riders to switch positions mid-ride, without stopping, and are now working on a four-passenger version.

Must be nice. The Edinburgh, Scotland city council is fighting back against accusations of covering up figures suggesting a decline in bicycling rates, arguing that the bike network is pulling its weight, and the city needs more bikeways, not fewer.

Cycling Weekly considers the recent British study that shows bicycling saves the country’s National Health Service the equivalent of nearly $100 million, aside from any other activities, arguing that everyone benefits when more people ride.

Ghost bikes are becoming a point of contention between bicyclists and the city government of Melbourne, Australia, which says they don’t come under the city’s “plaques and memorials” policy.

 

Competitive Cycling

Italian cyclist Debora Silvestri is still hospitalized on breathing support after suffering multiple crack ribs going over the guard rail in a high speed mass crash in the women’s Milan-San Remo.

Former Olympic and world time trial champ Grace Brown says she’s glad she got out of the sport alive, arguing that UCI’s “extreme” focus on safety regulations hasn’t kept the peloton from getting more dangerous, as the high speed women’s Milan-Sanremo crash demonstrated.

If you needed any more proof that all-everything champ Tadej Pogačar is riding at the next level these days, he won Milan-San Remo with a mad descent on a cracked frame with a rubbing disc brake, following a bad crash earlier in the race.

Road.cc considers whether modern road bikes are really that much faster, more aero and comfortable compared to bikes from the ’90s.

 

Finally…

Where would Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore mountain bike? That feeling when you scale a bridge with a bicycle on your back, then leave it flapping from the giant American flag at the top.

And why did the chicken use a pelican, puffin, toucan or tiger to cross the road — but not a pegasus, unless it was on a pony?

The chicken, that is.

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Fountain Ave opponents pack WeHo meeting, safer connections to Westside bus lanes, and Nithya supports bike safety

March 23, 2026 / / One comment

We’re going to take little different approach today, because we have a lot of ground to cover, and only limited time to do it. 

So let’s focus on a number of top stories and meetings, and save our usual links for tomorrow. 

Today’s photo show Blake Ackerman’s fiancee writing a message on his ghost bike on Fountain Avenue. 

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Debate over a safety makeover of Fountain Avenue continues to raise its ugly head, seven months after Blake Ackerman lost his life on the deadly corridor.

And six months after we thought it had been approved once and for all.

Following years of unanimous votes of the city council to move the project forward, the West Hollywood City Council approved building protected bike lanes on the corridor in a split 3 – 2 vote in September of last year, following a highly contentious council meeting.

Ackerman’s needless death in a hit-and-run while riding his bike home from work occurred exactly where the protected bike lane would have gone in years before, if not for the endless debate over the project.

And that had seemed to seal the decision to move forward with the project.

Yet WeHo Online reports opponents came back to pack last Wednesday’s meeting of the city’s Transportation and Mobility Commission.

Although most of the article is devoted to a recap of September’s debate. And none of that recap even mentions Ackerman, or anyone else killed or injured on or near the deadly street.

According to the paper, the overall message from the people attending the meeting was “put the project on hold until the serious questions get answered.”

Even though it’s been on hold for years, while people continue to die and get injured.

Among those are the ongoing concerns over parking, as well as worries that property values for homeowners will drop — even though studies have repeatedly shown that property values usually increase along either side of a corridor after a Complete Streets project goes in.

And even though the meeting was packed with project opponents because most of the larger community didn’t even know about the meeting, because the project had already been approved six months earlier, and no action was to be taken at the meeting.

As I read the story, though, I also wondered if the opposition voiced at the meeting would have been so overwhelming if the friends and family of Blake Ackerman had been aware of it. Never mind the safety advocates and the larger bicycling community.

The paper pointed to an upcoming May or June meeting, the exact date still to be determined, when a contract to build the protected bike lanes is set to be approved.

It’s clear we’ll have to come back once again then to defend, and fight for, a project to save lives on the deadly corridor.

Because that seems to have been completely ignored at Wednesday’s meeting. And likely will be again if we don’t show up in force when the final contract gets approved.

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Streets For All sent out a notice about what’s missing from the Westside Cities Council of Governments recent announcement of plans for bus lanes throughout the Westside.

Namely, safe ways to get to them.

The Westside Cities Council of Governments is moving forward with a plan to make buses faster and more reliable on some of the region’s busiest corridors! But right now, the plan is missing something fundamental: how people actually get to transit. There are still no safe, continuous north-south bike connections linking these corridors to the broader system — including the E Line and D Line.

This means a lot of people are stuck driving to transit. We can fix that – WSCCOG needs to hear from you telling them to include bicycle facilities in these plans. 

HOW YOU CAN HELP

  • 🏛️ BEST: Show up in person and make public comment
    • Wednesday, March 25 (6–8pm)
      West Hollywood Park Aquatics Center
      8750 El Tovar Pl
      West Hollywood, CA 90069
    • Saturday, March 28 (9:30–11:30am)
      Culver City Senior Center
      4095 Overland Ave
      Culver City, CA 90232
  • 📧 OTHERWISE: Send an email
    • If you can’t make it in person, send an email

SEND AN EMAIL [CUSTOMIZE THE BOTTOM!]

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Thanks to Andrew for pointing me to this recent video from Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, after I had posted online that I won’t vote for anyone who doesn’t commit to implementing Measure HLA, as well as recommitting the city to Vision Zero.

This may not be the ironclad commitment I have been looking for, but it’s pretty damn close. And we can push her for that commitment if she wants to be mayor.

There were more traffic deaths than homicides in 2025. I’m running to make LA streets safer for everyone!

— Nithya Raman (@nithyaforthecity.bsky.social) 2026-03-16T21:11:11.715Z

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Dr. Grace Peng, who lives and rides in the South Bay, offers recap of a recent bike trip.

You can click through for the rest of the story. But for today, we’re going to focus on wha passes for bike safety infrastructure in far too much of Los Angeles, and Southern California in general, with only a thin stripe of white paint to protect bike riders from traffic limited to 55 mph.

Never mind that we all know many, if not most, motorists exceed the posted speed limit, whether by a little or a lot.

CD11 Councilmember Traci Park recently expressed her concern for the safety of bicyclists, even if it took the death of Regan Cole-Graham and her unborn baby Ophelia to prompt her.

Now is exactly the time to push her to commit to real bike and pedestrian safety throughout her district, when she needs our support to continue representing it.

Or move to back someone else who does.

Today’s bicycle adventure starts with infrastructure that LA city council member Traci Park thinks is good enough. She’s up for reelection. Potholes, Large Asphalt Repair, posted speed limit of 55 mph, paint separating bikes from drag racers. @streetsforall.org @lintonjoe.bsky.social

— Dr Grace Peng (@gspeng.bsky.social) 2026-03-23T00:13:22.465Z

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The LA City Council’s Transportation Committee meets at 8:45 Wednesday morning, and need to hear from us to keep the pressure on to commit to safer streets for all of us.

And the aforementioned Traci Park is vice chair of the committee.

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Okay, so maybe this isn’t directly bike-related.

But Mayor Bass has once again stood with NIMBYs, and against supporters of non-motor vehicle traffic, by opposing the route selected by Metro staffers for the Northern Extension of the K Line.

Not only will this route result in the highest ridership, it will finally connect major centers like The Grove, the Beverly Center, Cedars-Sinai, WeHo’s Rainbow District, Hollywood and Highland, and the Hollywood Bowl.

At the same time, it would provide vital connections with the Red (B), Purple (D) and Expo (E) Lines, making genuine crosstown travel by train possible without having to first go downtown.

So make your voice heard by Thursday, before this gets delayed yet again.

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This is your chance to support the Sunset For All Complete Streets project, as well as other safety improvements on the inevitably soon to be renamed Cesar Chavez.

Which right now might as well be named Jeffrey Epstein Blvd, despite everything Chavez did to support farmworkers and Latino & Latina civil rights.

And even though Chavez had been a personal hero of mine for most of my life.

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Finally, good news from Paris, where mayoral candidate Emmanuel Grégoire was elected to continue the bike and environmentally friendly reforms begun by outgoing Mayor Anne Hidalgo, winning with 52% of the popular vote to replace her.

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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California is #8 in bike/ped deaths and #1 in lawyer bikewashing, and pedestrian killed in intentional South LA hit-and-run

March 20, 2026 / / No comments

We’re #8!

A new study from a law group shows that California recorded an average of 1,164 pedestrian and 153 bicyclist deaths per year over a five-year period between 2019 and 2023.

That ranks us eighth in the US on a per capita basis, behind perennial champion Florida.

Although yet another study from yet another law practice ranks Louisiana as the state where bicyclists face the greatest risk of getting killed on a bike and from bad roads.

By that standard, California ranks seventh.

None of which really proves anything, other than a) too many people die from traffic violence on California streets, b) we need more and better bike and pedestrian infrastructure, and c) law firm marketers think bikewashing is the best way to improve their search rankings.

And they’re probably right.

Which is why I linked to stories about their studies, rather than the actual studies. You can click through if you really want to.

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This is who we share the road with.

The LAPD is looking for a hit-and-run driver accused of using his car as a weapon to run down a 54-year old man walking in South LA, intentionally driving up on the sidewalk and striking the victim twice.

The man died after being taken to the hospital.

There’s no description of the driver or the suspect vehicle at this time. Although as always, there’s a standing $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the driver.

Even when it’s on purpose.

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

Adding insult to literal injury, a Louisiana bicyclist was ticketed for being at fault after the bike rider was struck by a state trooper in an unmarked car. Because somehow, cops never seem to be at fault when they hit someone on a bicycle, especially when they’re doing the investigating.

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

No bias here. Some New Yorkers are up in arms over Mayor Mamdani’s decision to stop criminally charging bicycle and ebike riders for traffic offenses — including the widow of a Gone Girl actress killed by an ebike rider — instead of giving them traffic tickets like people in what obviously must be much safer motor vehicles. Never mind that they continue to confuse ped-assist ebikes with electric motorbikes and dirt bikes.

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Local 

Congratulations to Bike LA Executive Director Eli Kaufman on his speaking gig at next week’s National Bike Summit in Washington DC.

 

State

Someone please tell the Seal Beach Police Department that a Surron is not an electric bicycle, as the local weekly says there’s been some online debate over whether the kid who hit an elderly pedestrian was riding “an electric bike or an electric motorcycle.” Gee, ya think?

He gets it. An op-ed writer for the Voice of OC says investing in bike infrastructure pays dividends for all, noting he can get from Anaheim to Irvine faster on a bike than by car.

That’s more like it. About 30% of San Diego Door Dash deliveries are made by bicycle, ebikes or scooters, enabling workers to spend an average of around 15% less time from offer acceptance to pickup, while earning over 10% more per hour.

San Bernardino County’s latest extension of the Santa Ana River Trail was named the 2025 Inland Empire Branch Project of the Year, as well as the Southern California Chapter’s BEST (Building Excellence Shaping Tomorrow) project from the American Public Works Association.

A San Francisco website gets candidates for the city’s Board of Supervisors District 4 on the record for their stands on bicycling.

 

National

No bias here, either. A Seattle news radio program blames a new bike lane for costing $156 million and removing curbside parking, conveniently forgetting that most of the money is being used to build bus lanes.

Minnesota Governor and erstwhile vice presidential candidate Tim Walz made a visit to Angry Catfish Bicycle in Minneapolis, which sponsored the nationwide Unity Rides honoring fallen mountain biker and VA nurse Alex Pretti, murdered by ICE agents in January.

Residents of Downtown Miami are reportedly fed up with people parking in bike lanes, as well they should be, arguing that it’s a public safety hazard and enforcement is rare.

 

International

An Irishman was killed falling off his 30-year old bicycle, offering a tragic reminder not to ride when you’re three — no, make that four — sheets to the wind.

Speaking of biking under the influence, Japan suspended the driver’s licenses of 1,507 people for bicycling while legally drunk last year, up from just 23 the year before.

 

Finally…

Look, if you’re going to shoot someone over ten bucks, maybe try riding off on a plain colored bicycle. What self-respecting male reality TV star wouldn’t ride a tandem in lingerie and suspenders?

And that feeling when your bike seat falls off with 14 miles of cobbles left to go.

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Murder grills designed to kill, Koreatown hit-and-run victim identified, and Monrovia releases daft, uh Draft, Safety Plan

March 19, 2026 / / 2 comments

I noticed that truck over there on the left while walking the dog yesterday.

And was struck by the truck’s murder grill — not literally, thankfully — which seems designed to inflict maximum damage on anyone or anything unfortunate enough to come into contact with it.

Any person struck by it, whether walking or bicycling, would likely be thrown forward as if struck by a giant hammer, then run over by the multi-ton truck if the driver was unable to stop in time.

Yet people wonder why traffic deaths continue to climb in the US, and not in other countries with more rational safety policies.

Never mind that there’s no license plate on the front of the damn thing.

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The victim in last week’s fatal Koreatown hit-and-run has been identified as a 73-year old woman.

Although depending on what source you go by, the driver was either arrested after abandoning their car, or not.

Which means there’s either a standing $50,000 reward for the fatal hit-and-run, or there isn’t.

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Monrovia is seeking comments on their new Draft Safety Action Plan and Bicycle Master Plan.

I don’t know the city well enough to offer any informed thoughts, but it looks to be heavy on Class 3 bike routes, aka sharrows, which are usually worthless for anything other than wayfinding, if not actually dangerous.

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Oceanside bike lawyer and BikinginLA sponsor Richard Duquette offers a short Facebook reminder to max out the Uninsured Driver coverage on your auto insurance policy, which will cover you on your bike if you crash, or get hit by a driver with no insurance or inadequate coverage.

The family of fallen Australian bicyclist James Rapley learned that the hard way, after the stoned driver who ran him down on Temescal Canyon in 2013 had no insurance or financial resources, leaving their lawyer unable to collect a dime, despite his efforts.

The opposite happened when I was struck by a road raging driver who refused to accept liability, and my own auto insurance covered every penny of my medical bills.

It was a painful lesson well learned.

Thanks to Phillip for the heads-up. 

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A new short film from Shimano traces the rise of the inclusive All Bodies On Bikes group, with over 4,000 views in the first day.

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

An accused road-raging driver is set to go on trial in Spain for attempted murder after running over former world champ Alejandro Valverde and another rider during a 2022 training ride, following an argument over a close pass.

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

There’s a special place in hell for the 61-year old Florida man who was arrested for animal cruelty after allegedly beating and kicking a puppy, simply because it couldn’t keep up as he dragged it behind his bike, despite telling police he was “training” the dog. Maybe someone should tie him behind a bicycle and train him, instead. 

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Local 

A Redittor raves about the San Gabriel River bike path after riding over 30 miles from Santa Fe Dam to Seal Beach, then back again, as commenters tell him hush before everyone finds out.

Riding the sharrows on Fountain Ave in West Hollywood could be even dicier than usual, as the city takes traffic signals offline to upgrade traffic signal controller cabinets, “to modernize traffic infrastructure and improve safety and reliability for motorists, pedestrians, and bicyclists.”

Speaking of WeHo, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will conduct yet another of the LA area’s bicycle and pedestrian safety operations on Monday, so ride to the letter of the law until you cross the city limit line. Although people don’t seem to end up driving any better, no matter how many of those things they hold, or how often.

 

State

Apple Valley will install a roundabout, center turn lane and new Class 1 separated bike lanes to improve safety at a dangerous intersection.

They get it. A Streetsblog San Francisco op-ed says California has to stop expanding freeways, because “While transit, bike, and safety projects struggle for funding, the state keeps writing blank checks for freeway widening boondoggles. It’s time to tell our lawmakers: enough!” It’s long past time to stop flushing money down the induced demand-inducing toilet.

Sacramento is working on getting an action plan to reduce traffic deaths ready by the end of the year, in the city with the state’s highest per capita rate of traffic deaths.

 

National

A tiny new sensor raising funds on Kickstarter can now tell you the air pressure on your bike tires within ±2%.

Seattle is ripping out the curbs protecting a new bike lane after a “surveying error” left the traffic lane too narrow for trucks to navigate. Although that sounds like a good thing to me. 

Albuquerque, New Mexico will now require drivers to stop at crosswalks for bicyclists and pedestrians, and student drivers in the state will have to take a three-hour course on driving around vulnerable road users, after a mother turned her grief over the death of her bike-riding daughter into a campaign to improve safety for all of us.

Burlington, Vermont is now home to what may be the world’s first fully adaptive mountain bike trail network, allowing handicapped riders to take to the trails without fear of insurmountable obstacles.

New York Mayor Mamdani is calling a halt to the previous administration’s policy of giving criminal summons to scofflaw bike riders, rather than traffic tickets, for even minor violations; the policy was considered unfair to delivery riders who need their bikes to earn a living. Although it was also unfair to anyone on two wheels, who were treated more harshly than motorists, despite posing less risk to those around them. 

The Delaware-based Lycra Company, makers of Lycra, Coolmax, THERMOLITE, Supplex, and Tactel, is the latest bikewear-related firm to go belly-up, after the company couldn’t stretch to cover up to a half billion dollars in debts.

A 72-year old North Carolina woman had her bicycle restored by the same shop where her parents bought it 60 years earlier for a whopping $39.95, plus tax.

 

International

London’s epidemic of Lime Bike Leg could be ending, after the company redesigned their bikeshare ebikes to remove a heavy center bar that could trap a user’s leg under the bike if it fell over.

An Israeli nonprofit is using bicycling as a “therapeutic and educational tool to enrich disadvantaged and behaviorally challenged youth,” while exploring the country on two wheels in small groups up to just 15 people.

 

Competitive Cycling

A 60-year old San Diego man known as “The Slasher” has 11 national championships under his belt, and is the reigning age-group mountain bike and gravel national champ, as well as the founder of the city’s Quick-n-Dirty racing series.

 

Finally…

Probably not the best idea to describe your car as “an absolute weapon” while still on probation for killing your wife with one. Your next extremely overly expensive bicycle could be a Bugatti.

And that feeling when you need a sudden change in footwear.

https://twitter.com/cyclingontnt/status/2034296832566657081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2034296832566657081%7Ctwgr%5Ebe3ac7f76316f799f4a564f3fb3df6977479cbc8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Froad.cc%2Fnews%2Fcycling-live-blog-18-march-2026

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Use caution in threatening heat, killer Long Beach driver waited 23 hours to turn himself in, and Grossman appeal rejected

March 18, 2026 / / 3 comments

My apologies for another unexcused absence. 

I was knocked on my ass by yet another migraine, which I’m told probably results from the TBI I got a couple decades ago in the Infamous Beachfront Bee Incident. 

And yes, I was wearing a helmet, and no, it didn’t seem to make much of a difference. 

Then again, that’s probably the cause of my REM sleep disorder and potential pending Parkinson’s, too. 

Good times. 

And of course, I came back to yet another person killed riding a bicycle in Southern California. Which means we’re now averaging another bike death every 3.3 days this year. 

Image by Shafin Al Asad Protic from Pixabay. 

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A week of life-threatening dry air and epic March heat could threaten your safety for the next several days.

Wear light, quick-drying clothing, bring — and drink — plenty of extra fluids, and stick to cooler, shady routes if you can.

And if possible, do your riding in the cooler morning or evening hours, when you’re less likely to suffer from heat-related problems.

I say that as someone who used to love riding on the hottest days when I was only likely to encounter mad dogs and Englishmen on the roads.

Depending on where you are, temperatures could range anywhere from the high 80s to the low 100s, at a time of year when your body isn’t adjusted to the heat.

So just be careful out there.

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The driver who hit and killed 54-year-old Lori Ann Carreon last month called police to turn himself in the day after the crash.

But only after waiting seven hours following a call to Avis Car Rental to report he’d been in a crash in one of their cars. And even then, taking another three days to turn himself in at Long Beach police headquarters.

The beloved Long Beach occupational therapist was riding her bike just one block from her home when 40-year old Christopher Bryant allegedly blew through the stop sign at high speed, killing her on the spot.

Detectives seized his cell phone and filed search warrants to obtain phone records and GPS data, which could reveal not only where he went after the crash, but whether he was driving distracted at the time of the impact.

It would not show whether he had been under the influence when he killed Carreon, then drove home to his apartment in DTLA, however.

Bryant released on $50,000 bond after being booked on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.

No charges have been filed yet.

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No surprise here.

A California appeals court upheld the conviction of socialite Rebecca Grossman, co-founder with her ex-husband of the famed Grossman Burn Center, in the speeding hit-and-run deaths of two young brothers in Westlake six years ago.

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It’s got nothing to do with bicycling — or only tangentially, anyway — but Streets For All asks you to support the staff-approved route for the K Line Northern Extension at today’s 11 am meeting of the Metro Planning and Programming Committee meeting.

As they put it,

Once built, this would be the busiest light rail line in the country, and connect the region to key destinations like The Grove, Farmers Market, the Beverly Center, Cedars Sinai, nearly all of West Hollywood, and the Hollywood Bowl!

But it’s not a done deal, and Metro needs to hear overwhelming support for the project.

Although without a big boost in funding, it’s not likely to happen in my lifetime.

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Megan forwards news that New York will be lowering speed limits to 15 mph in school zones.

Although you can lower speeds as much as you want, but without the right infrastructure, many drivers will just ignore it.

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A Cartagena, Colombia-based mountain biker hangs on for dear life after taking a spill near the edge of a cliff before pulling herself to safety.

@sol_y_bici

♬ sonido original – Sol ☀️

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

They’re onto us, comrades. An op-ed in the San Diego Union-Tribune suggests the city’s new bike lanes are part of a secret plot to enhance transit-oriented developments around the city, which would trigger SB 79 to allow greater housing density near transit stops, and foist it upon unsuspecting single-family neighborhoods. Although you’ll have to find your own way around the paper’s draconian paywall. 

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

Seal Beach police report an elderly woman was hospitalized with serious injuries when she was struck by a “juvenile riding a Surron electric bicycle.” Except a Surron does not look, ride or perform anything like a bicycle, and should be classified as an electric motorbike; at least KCBS gets it right. 

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Local 

The Los Angeles Times recommends riding a bicycle as one of the best things you can do for under twenty bucks in Los Angeles — and at least three times.

No surprise here either, as Streetsblog’s Joe Linton reports drivers are destroying the new quick-build traffic circle at a deadly Koreatown intersection.

Linton also reports on quick-build bus lanes on the Westside, and a new protected bike lane Long Beach’s Pacific Ave.

Venice and Washington boulevards could get some of LA’s first automated speed cams.

A consortium of Altadena bike advocacy groups got a $2,000 Bike League grant to develop a concept for a continuous trail loop connecting West Altadena neighborhoods affected by the Eaton Fire.

Culver City finally dumps the muted green bike lanes forced upon us all by Hollywood filmmakers too cheap to digitally remove the brighter lanes.

About damn time. Santa Monica is on a path to become the first jurisdiction in California to implement automated bike lane enforcement.

 

State

Two SoCal teens are rewriting the narrative around ebikes by promoting responsibility, community and positive culture among young riders. Although the press is still conflating ped-assist ebikes with electric motorbikes and dirt bikes. 

A Victorville BMX rider was hospitalized with undisclosed injuries after being struck by a driver headed for a freeway onramp, while riding in a crosswalk.

Sad news from Salinas, where a woman in her 60s was killed when she was struck by not one, not two, but three drivers while riding her bike; naturally, the CHP blamed her dark clothing.

The Bay Area’s Caltrain commuter train is reconsidering plans to ban cargo bikes, panniers and bike child seats in the face of major blowback from bike commuters.

Sad news from San Jose, where a man riding a bicycle was killed by an alleged DUI Tesla driver, who inexplicably returned to his car after abandoning it following the crash.

 

National

Hack your own DIY illuminated bicycle pedals, while turning your small, lightweight clip-in pedals into bigass platforms.

A new study from Bicycle Colorado calls for automated enforcement after identifying 7,900 violations among just over 49,000 vehicles during 30-minute observations at 196 intersections across 25 Colorado cities and counties.

Um, okay. A website for a Chicago suburb remembers the final resting place of six-day bike race champ Albert Schock, “currently listed as the 31st greatest American rider of all time (behind Lance Armstrong and Greg Lemond.)” And no, I’m not merely mocking it because the period is in the wrong place. But that doesn’t help any.

An 83-year old Ohio man says repairing and donating bicycles is his “bicycle ministry,” giving away over 400 bicycles a month to kids and people in need. Which is an astounding number if accurate, since most organizations can’t even manage that, let alone elderly individuals. 

A local magazine says Richmond, Virginia’s mountain biking community has helped create the city’s outdoorsy culture.

 

International

He gets it. A writer for Cyclist says bikes have never mattered more because they give you a little sanity break while the world is burning. My bike got me through the death of my father, 9/11, and (insert your least favorite president here).

New bike lanes are helping to trigger “remarkable reductions” in air pollution in 19 cities around the world.

A London school kid says “safety is Paramount when you are cycling on the road.” True though it may be, the odd capitalization made me think safety matters only because it’s buying Warner Brothers. 

A British broadcaster unexpectedly finds himself riding with the country’s next king.

The head of Britain’s Asphalt Industry Alliance says it would take 12 years and the equivalent of nearly $25 billion to bring the roads of Wales and England up to standard conditions. Or as we call that here in Los Angeles, a down payment. 

A new report says bicycling saves the UK’s National Health Service the equivalent of $96 million a year in health costs. Meanwhile, it helps American insurance companies enjoy more of their record profits. 

No bias here. A British paper says the residents of Plymouth, England are up in arms for a decision to spend the equivalent of over $5 million to build a bike lane a little more than the length of two football fields, even though that involves boring through an abandoned railroad tunnel to connect two bikeways. Never mind that it should say “some” residents, and no one would likely complain if it was a car tunnel. 

The smallest bike lane in Killarney, Ireland — and possibly the entire country — measures just six inches at its narrowest point. Which even makes LA’s bike lanes seem absolutely capacious. 

The recent bicycle-friendly conversion of Paris, France may continue, as a former deputy of Mayor Anne Hidalgo is leading in early election results, after Hidalgo chose not to pursue a third six-year term.

India held the 65th edition of the nationwide Fit India Sundays on Cycle, which is a series of organized bike rides in 5,000 cities large and small.

A 40-year old Swiss bicyclist’s 10,500-mile journey from one end of Africa to the other was delayed for two weeks when military authorities in Cameroon detained him for filming a bridge in a restricted area. Because as we all know, international spies always prefer traveling by bicycle instead of high-powered sports cars.

That’s more like it. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority in the Philippines has opened a Bike-to-Work End-of-Trip shower facility to allow riders to clean up and change clothes after riding to work in the humid city.

Aussie university researchers consider the burning question of whether ebike riders should be required to have a driver’s license, aptly noting the pedelecs, or ped-assist bikes in this country, don’t pose a greater risk than regular bicycles.

 

Competitive Cycling

Mexico’s Isaac del Toro claimed the second CG victory of his career by winning Tirreno-Adriatico on Sunday.

A British Continental team was the victim of an armed robbery when moped-riding thieves pulled bikes off the roof of a team car.

Jonas Vingegaard crushed the GC at Paris-Nice, sending a warning to the competition.

A Philadelphia writer looks back at Robin Morton, the first woman to own and manage a men’s professional cycling team back in the ’80s. That’s the 1980s, not the 1880s. 

 

Finally…

You could get stuck in your Waymo when restless residents rebel against our new robotic overlords. Who says bikes can’t climb trees (thanks to Steven for the heads-up)?

And only Michael Caine could look that posh on a foldie with a flat.

Michael Caine seems a bit deflated hereCheer up, Michael, it's your #BicycleBirthday!Born March 14, 1933

— Cool Bike Art (@coolbikeart1.bsky.social) 2026-03-14T08:15:35.994Z

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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Update: 73-year old woman dies after apparent right-hook hit-and-run in Koreatown Monday; suspected DUI driver arrested

March 14, 2026 / / No comments

Seriously, this has got to stop.

For the fourth time just this week, someone has died riding a bicycle in Southern California.

Multiple sources are reporting that a 73-year old woman was killed by the driver of a pickup in a Koreatown crosswalk Monday morning.

The driver stopped briefly, then backed up and fled the scene.

The crash occurred around 6:40 am at Olympic Blvd and Vermont Ave, as the pickup was headed east on Olympic. The driver attempted to turn right onto Vermont, and apparently right hooked the victim as she rode east across Vermont.

Although that part isn’t exactly clear, because the reports say she was in the crosswalk on Olympic when she was struck; only My News LA says she was headed east, which would put her in the crosswalk on Vermont.

The driver stopped for a moment, then backed up onto Olympic and fled east.

The victim, who hasn’t been publicly identified, was taken to a hospital, where she died sometime later.

Police found a white Dodge Ram pickup matching the description of the suspect vehicle nearby and took the driver into custody. Investigators note that drug use “may” have played a role in the crash, though it’s unknown if alcohol may have also been a factor.

The crash is still under investigation. Anyone with information is urged to call detectives with the LAPD’s West Traffic Division at 213/473-0234 or 1-877/527-3247.

This the 21st bicycling fatality that I’m aware of in Southern California this year, and the ninth already in Los Angeles County; it’s also the fourth we know about in the City of Los Angeles.

Six of those SoCal deaths have involved hit-and-run drivers.

Update: The victim has been identified as 73-year old Kum Soon Lee-Kim. 

However, someone should tell My News LA that once a driver flees the scene, it’s not a “suspected” hit-and-run driver, it is a hit-and-run. The driver is only suspected once they’re accused.

However, there also seems to be some question whether the accused driver was taken into custody; KTLA-5 says an arrest was made, but My News LA says police are still looking for the driver, with the usual standing $50,000 reward for any fatal hit-and-run in the City of Los Angeles. 

My deepest sympathy and prayers for the victim and her loved ones. 

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Racism rears ugly head in bike community, road-raging man uses bike as weapon, and killer driver on trial for murder

March 13, 2026 / / No comments

Nothing is uglier than racism.

Unless it’s racist kids.

A Black student at UC Irvine was surrounded, harassed, spat at and struck by a small group of ebike-riding teens.

Not to mention subjected to ugly racial slurs.

The fourth-year student headed back to his dorm from the Black Student Union when he was approached by four teenaged boys and a girl on their ebikes.

After he asked to be left alone and tried to walk away, they started to chase him.

According to KNBC-4,

“They were close enough that they were spitting on me, trying to grab at me, trying to do all sorts of heinous things,” he said. “I’m being called ‘monkey,’ ‘blackie,’ completely out of my name. Obviously, this is stuff I never expected to hear.”

During the attack, the victim said he was also called the N-word and was struck on the back of his ankle by an assailant who accelerated their e-bike toward him.

“It was the worst pain I had felt in a very long time,” the victim said.

The campus police offered a description of just two of the five kids.

According to UC Irvine police, one of the assailants was described as a 16 to 17-year-old boy who was about 5-feet-8-inches tall and weighed about 160 to 170 pounds. He had a white T-shirt, black pants, a black helmet and was traveling on a black e-bike at the time of the attack.

A second attacker was described as a 14-year-old boy who was 5-feet-5-inches tall and about 190 pounds. He wore a black shirt, denim gray pants, white Air Force 1 Nike shoes, a black helmet, a blue backpack and was also traveling on a black e-bike, police said.

We can assume the kids are white, but that’s not guaranteed. Because for some bizarre reason, there’s no mention of the teens’ race in their descriptions, which just might help identify them.

There’s also no word on what kind of ebikes the kids were on. But we can probably guess.

Anyone with information is urged to call UC Irvine Police at 949/824-5223.

Photo by Johan Bos from Pexels.

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As if that wasn’t bad enough, something eerily similar happened to an 11-year old girl in Carlsbad.

Except this time, it was the victim who was on a bike.

A viral video shows a young Black girl was surrounded by students from Aviara Oaks Middle School, both boys and girls, while she was riding at Poinsettia Park on February 26th.

According to People magazine,

Racial slurs can be heard in the video, and at one point a boy says it feels “racist” and, “We’re all ganging up on a Black girl.”

The girl tried to back up on her bike and leave, but was prevented from doing so and then slapped, at which point she fought back and the video ended.

NBC San Diego quotes the girl’s mother, April Amor, saying she’s proud of how her daughter handled the situation.

“I just want to go home,” her daughter says in the video while kids yell racial slurs and other expletives. After about two-and-a-half minutes of tension, she rolled her bike backwards, away from the group. A young boy pulled her bike back in and then 30 seconds later, someone slapped the girl in the face before she got off the bike and fought back.

“She stood her ground,” Amor said. “I told my daughter, you don’t start fights, but you better finish them. And I’m proud. I’m proud of how she conducted herself.”

Amor said she was removing her daughter from the school district, and will be homeschooling her now.

Probably a good choice. Especially if the kids get the discipline they deserve.

Or if they don’t.

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Police in Santa Ana are looking for a man who was caught on dashcam throwing his bicycle at a car when several driver honked at him for standing in the middle of 1st Street and blocking traffic, for no apparent reason.

The incident happened on February 27th.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Santa Ana Police Investigative Specialist V. Hernandez at 714/245-8372, or VHernandez@santa-ana.org.

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Apparently, justice delayed isn’t justice denied this time.

According to the VC Star, 33-year old Port Hueneme resident Samuel Rocha has finally gone on trial for murder in the death of 16-year-old bike rider Pedro Valdez five years ago.

Rocha also faces four counts of attempted murder, five counts of assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of battery for a series of assaults, including intentionally plowing his car into a group of seven fixie riders.

Allegedly.

Rocha was reportedly still angry following a series of altercations a few minutes earlier when he encountered the group that included Valdez.

Just 10 minutes before the crash, Rocha is seen on camera at Queen Wash in Oxnard, confronting and then hitting a man and his wife in the laundromat. When another man follows Rocha outside to take a photo of his license plate, Rocha is seen driving his car into the man and knocking him over.

To make matters worse, he seemed proud of it.

Later in the evening, in a video from the back of a police car, Rocha rants about how he didn’t have a house to sleep in, while rich kids pretended to be poor. He said he didn’t care if he went to prison.

“I’m happy I ran over those fools today, dawg,” Rocha said, prompting tears from Pedro’s parents in the audience.

In a recorded police interview, an officer asks him if he took his anger from the laundromat fight out on the bicyclists and intentionally hit them, and Rocha replies, “Yeah.” He said he accelerated toward the bikes and didn’t stop after the impact.

The trial was delayed after Rocha was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial, which seems to be his defense.

Because according to his lawyer, Rocha didn’t mean to slam his Lexus into the kids riding bikes; he just didn’t see them because he was so deeply psychotic and intoxicated.

The paper reports he’s being held without bail while the trial continues, which is expected to take four weeks.

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

The National Park Service may be secretly planning to rip out a DC bike lane that’s under their control, without any public comment or written announcement, according to an anonymous whistleblower.

Apparently lacking anything new to stir up outrage against bicyclists, British tabloids dig up an old survey that they twist to suggest half of bike riders “think they’re ‘too cool’ to wear a helmet.” Even though 31% actually said it’s not practical or needed because they’re only riding a short distance, and 13% don’t want to mess up their hair — which still only adds up to 44%. And while I wasn’t a math major, that seems like less than half. But what do I know?

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

A 50-year old British ebiker walked without a single day behind bars, after he was given a 15-month suspended sentence for killing a 91-year old man while illegally riding on the sidewalk; the tabloids celebrated the country’s first manslaughter conviction for riding a bicycle on the sidewalk (or “pavement,” in Brit-speak).

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Local 

Streetsblog’s Joe Linton explains how to read the signs showing where a bike lane or crosswalk was ripped out by the city, putting lives at risk for the convenience of motorists.

Culver City is hosting a public workshop on the Sepulveda Connects Complete Streets project on Wednesday, along with a virtual workshop a week from Saturday.

 

State

The family of fallen San Diego bicyclist Andres Gallardo want answers, after the 43-year old man was killed by a hit-and-run driver while riding in the city’s Clairemont neighborhood March 1st; a crowdfunding campaign to defray funeral expenses and send his ashes to his parents has raised the equivalent of just $144. And no, it doesn’t look like I knew about this one yet; I’ll try to get to it later today.

San Diego is on the verge of becoming the largest California city to crack down on ebikes, including a ban on kids under 12. Although like virtually every other attempt to rein in ebike riders, they continue to conflate ped-assist ebikes with higher speed and more powerful electric motorbikes and dirt bikes.

The San Diego Association of Governments, aka SANDAG, finally broke ground on long-awaited bike lanes on San Diego’s University Ave, which has been in the works since 2012.

Santa Clara has adopted a Vision Zero plan, after 51 people were killed in traffic collisions over a five-year period in the city of just 120,000.

The parents of a four-year old boy are suing the city of Burlingame, as well as 19-year-old driver, her parents, and the parents of an 11-year old boy riding an ebike, after the four-year old was killed as his family exited a restaurant, collateral damage following a collision between the 19-year old driver and the boy on the ebike.

 

National

Toddler-sized Pro Rider bike helmets are being recalled because they may pose a “serious risk of injury or death due to head injury.”

Projects across the country are at risk as President Trump targets hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants for biking and pedestrian projects.

Uh, probably not. After a teenaged Utah girl miraculously survived a traumatic brain injury, her mother said “it would have made the hugest difference” and “she would have had such less trauma” is she had only worn a bike helmet when she crashed her ebike into a retaining wall at 40 mph, then landed head-first after falling 25 feet off a cliff. Even though bike helmets are only designed to protect against impacts up to 12.5 mph. And don’t even get me started on her grammar. 

A Netflix doc about the life and murder of gravel champ Moriah “Mo” Wilson premiered at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin, Texas on Thursday, the city where she was fatally shot by a jealous Kaitlin Armstrong, who thought she was involved with her erstwhile boyfriend, pro cyclist Colin Strickland, in 2022.

Huh? A Minnesota legislator wants to amend the state’s Idaho Stop Law to make bicyclists stop at yellow lights, but only if they’re riding in bikeways. And no, I honestly have no idea why going through a yellow light in a bike lane is perceived as more dangerous than doing it without one. 

I want to be like him when I grow up. An 81-year old Michigan man shares the story of how he rode his bike 2,600 miles from the coast of Alabama to the coast of Marquette, Michigan — just two years after becoming the oldest person to ride cross the US.

Good question. An Ohio letter writer wants to know why a cop asked his group of bicyclists to ride single file, when state law explicitly allows people to ride side-by-side.

The Indiana Pacers are inviting fans to join them on a police-escorted bike ride to the team’s final home game.

If you build it, they will come. Cambridge, Massachusetts has recorded a 250% jump in bicycling rates since 2004 after “investing in high-comfort bikeways.”

That’s more like it. A Rhode Island bill would require stop signs for motorists at all bike path crossings.

A North Carolina bike shop offers job training and experience for neurodiverse workers.

Hats off to a 13-year old Alabama boy, who used his bicycle to subdue his 32-year old stepfather who was physically attacking the boy’s mom, leaving the older man banged up and bloodied.

 

International

Once again, a London bobby borrowed a bystander’s bicycle to chase down a thief, who stole baggage from the boot of a black cab. Not bad alliteration by someone who’s barely literate, if I do say so myself. 

British bike sales are up for the first time in five years, after a modest 5% increase last year.

 

Competitive Cycling

Mathieu van der Poel has already won two of the four completed stages of Tirreno-Adriatico, as Mexico’s Isaac del Toro holds the leader’s, points and young rider’s jerseys.

Jonas Vingegaard was roundly ridiculed for a sartorial faux pas when he finished a stage at Paris-Nice wearing his bibs on the outside, explaining the racing was too intense to remove them.

 

Finally…

You can ride your bike to the world’s best movie theater right here in Hollywood, though there’s just a good chance it won’t be there when you get out. Evidently, you can be replaced by a robot — and so can your bike.

And that feeling when bike shops are prime comedy fodder.

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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New LA bike lanes sprouting with the spring, and CA DMV fights to keep killer driver on the road and record secret

March 11, 2026 / / No comments

Maybe we’re making progress after all.

Suddenly, there’s news of bike lanes sprouting all across the Los Angeles area, albeit to the apparent chagrin of some.

 

But evidently drivers are up in arms over at least some of the changes, as opposition grows from “some residents and local officials who say the plans could worsen traffic congestion, eliminate parking, and create confusing road designs.”

And even the death of a pregnant mom isn’t enough to get protected bike lanes on Pershing Drive.

After the death of a pregnant mom riding a bike with her family, Traci Park all of a sudden cares about bike lanes.But the bike lanes they’re proposing aren’t safe! They’re door zone bike lanes.Even after a tragic death, protected bike lanes aren’t being considered.

— Michael Schneider (@michaelschneider.com) 2026-03-07T19:01:26.881Z

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This is why people keep dying on our streets.

Cal Matters reports that the California DMV not only kept a driver on the road, despite at least 16 previous moving violations and four crashes, they fought to keep his driving record a secret.

Even from persecutors after he was charged with vehicular manslaughter for killing a two-year old boy.

And adding insult to grievous injury, the DMV renewed his license just a year later, while the manslaughter charge was still pending.

Surely, the DMV did some sort of review before deciding it was safe to let (Kostas) Linardos stay on the road.

Right?

The DMV spent close to a year fighting to keep the answer to that a secret, refusing to release information on Linardos without a court order and then urging a judge not to issue such a decree. The agency’s lawyer argued in a filing that prosecutors wanted records “for the improper purpose of smearing the DMV for alleged and unfounded wrongdoing.”

Prosecutors said they wanted the DMV records to help show Linardos knew the risks of driving recklessly, which is something they needed to prove to make a felony vehicular manslaughter charge stick.

When the issue finally made it to court this year, the attorney representing the agency made a shocking admission: The DMV had no records of any investigation into a longtime reckless driver who killed a 23-month-old boy. The agency didn’t even appear to have held a hearing before deciding it was fine to let Linardos stay on the road.

Un-effing-believable.

Thanks to Megan for the heads-up. 

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A new study from San Diego’s Rady Children’s Hospital shows a more than 300% increase in ebike injuries in just the last four years.

Although once again, there’s no attempt to differentiate between ped-assist ebikes and electric motorbikes.

According to the study, the hospital recorded 262 ebike-related trauma cases last year, with most of the victims 11 and 14 years old, with a noticeable spike among 13‑year‑olds.

While that likely corresponds to the increase in ebike use, the hospital also reported ebike injuries were likely to be more severe than those caused by regular bicycles.

It’s also questionable how many of those ebikes were actually street legal, or could legally be ridden by children that young, who are limited to Class 1 and 2 bikes with a maximum speed of 20 mph.

Let alone on the freeway.

https://twitter.com/Sandiegohumor/status/2030712819264737671

Thanks to Ellectrek for the link.

Meanwhile, Newport Beach is considering banning ebikes from all schools except for high school students, and 7th graders if they have written parental permission. And once again, without differentiating between ped-assist bikes and e-motos.

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San Francisco Streetsblog’s Roger Rudick doesn’t pull his punches after Caltrans ripped out a painted Oakland bike lane, replacing them with, yes, sharrows.

And as studies have shown, sharrows are worse than nothing when it comes to preventing injuries to bicyclists, and shouldn’t be used on streets with speeds above 35 mph.

Actions speak louder than words, Lucy pulls the football away again; whatever aphorism or metaphor one wants to use, Caltrans proves once again that it’s run by bad actors who betray the public in their relentless pursuit of auto-über alles policies.

Then there’s this.

With the removal of the painted bike lanes, which were woefully inadequate on a multi-lane street such as Oak Street to start with, Caltrans now expects cyclists to share a lane with traffic. Keep in mind that this is also a major route to I-880 and is plagued with non-stop speeding traffic and red-light running. The removed bike lanes are on a major bike commuter routes that connect the Oakland ferry terminal, Lake Merritt BART, and thousands of residential units…

Nobody, really, should be surprised. Caltrans, Alameda County, and the consultants who work for them have acted in bad faith throughout this project.

Never mind that Caltran’s ostensible Complete Streets policy requires the state transportation agency to “provide comfortable, convenient, and connected complete streets facilities on all projects and in all project phases, including construction and maintenance,” according to Jeanie Ward-Waller, Director of Transportation Advocacy at Fearless.

She should know, since Ward-Waller was the whistleblower who was “reassigned” from her position as Deputy Director of Planning and Multimodal Programs at Caltrans after warning that a Sacramento highway project violated that same policy.

Just one more reminder, if we needed it, that the agency’s Complete Streets requirement needs to be codified into law, since they only seem to follow it when it’s convenient for them or the public demands it.

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I had the time to rip into this piece from a rightwing Irish site, as a writer complains about the “fetishization” and “relentless promotion” of the government’s “obsession” with bicycling.

Instead, we’ll have to let Road.cc handle this one.

According to Vincent, from the “perception of the average person”, the number of cyclists in Dublin using the city’s bike lanes “is so small that it is set completely off balance with the amount of space they take up”.

“Hardly anyone uses these lanes, and yet we are forced to swallow it when an entire lane from a road is sacrificed – often with the result of creating an infuriating one-way system in the area – to make space for more bikes; the same bikes that seem never to fill the lanes they are currently provided with,” he continues, failing to grasp the point of cycling infrastructure entirely.

Never mind that those “empty” bike lanes have resulted in a 50% increase in bicycle trips.

But that inconvenient fact probably wouldn’t fit his narrative.

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

No bias here. Residents in Devon, England are getting out the torches and pitchforks over construction work for a new protected bikeway, which will force a three-mile detour that will add “minutes” to their commute.

No bias here, either. After a woman in Singapore was struck by a driver while riding her bicycle in a crosswalk connecting two sides of a bike path, commenters online wrongly assumed she was required to get off her bike and walk it across the street.

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

The LAPD is looking for a suspect in a bike-by shooting in Historic South Central Los Angeles, after a 36-year old man was shot by someone on a bicycle while sitting in his car at Washington Blvd and Santee Street.

The French bike rider who was caught on video shoving a five-year old girl out of his way on a snowy bike path says he didn’t do anything wrong, and the whole thing was blown out of proportion.

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Local 

If you left your bicycle, cellphone, blowtorch or prosthetic leg on a Metro bus or train, they may be holding it for you to reclaim. Although it makes sense that someone would leave their bike behind after losing their leg on the bus, which would make it kinda hard to pedal. 

Momentum hails Santa Monica resident Caro Vilain, aka mobilityforwho on Instagram, for her “viral videos steering a fun-fueled cycling revolution.” I would have embedded some of her videos, but Insta was being uncooperative tonight. 

 

State

Streetsblog offers a first look at transportation bills advancing in the state legislature.

Streets For All is out with their annual California Mobility Report Card grading individual legislators for their support of mobility legislation, or the lack thereof.

Evidently, complaining works. The Bay Area’s Caltrain is backing off new restrictions on taking cargo bikes, panniers or child seats onto their bike cars.

Police in Redwood City used license plate readers to snare a pair of bikewear thieves, who somehow walked out of a bike store with more than four grand worth of bicycle clothing.

That’s more like it. Palo Alto is using an app to reward people for riding a bicycle, ebike, e-scooter or electric skateboard, providing them with money that can be spent at local businesses.

A 27-year old man was found safe when he was reported missing after setting out for Big Sur from Monterey on his bicycle.

Say what? Sad news from Sacramento, where a man died in the hospital after he was struck by a driver while riding a bicycle — yet the police bizarrely said they suspected the death was a suicide, without offering any explanation.

 

National

Um, okay. Ebike imports to the US either a) set a new record last year, or b) declined significantly from 2024 levels, and c) may have exceeded the total value of regular bicycles for the first time. Or not.

On the other hand, bicycling contributed $3.67 billion to the American economy last year, an increase of 3.4% over the previous year.

Clean Technica recommends escaping the “Trump pump” on a ebike.

That’s more like it, too. The governor of New Mexico has signed a bill requiring driving students to take at least three hours of training on how to operate their vehicles around vulnerable road users, including bicyclists, pedestrians and emergency service workers.

Bicyclists in Omaha, Nebraska are calling for safety changes after a bike rider was killed by the driver of a semi-truck, following the removal of one of the city’s most-used bicycling routes for a streetcar project.

Heartbreaking news from Pennsylvania, where a 15-year old girl was killed while on a brief bike ride with her twin sister, at an intersection that had received more that 100 complaints from local residents.

A North Carolina newspaper offers an in-depth report on last month’s 950-mile Remember the Removal bike ride to help members of the Cherokee Nation reconnect with their heritage, while retracing the northern route of the horrific Trail of Tears; an estimated quarter of the 16,000 tribal members died along the way when the Cherokee people were forced to walk to Oklahoma from their Southern Appalachian homelands.

Florida lawmakers unanimously approved a draconian new ebike law that requires ebike riders to slow down to 10 mph within 50 feet of pedestrians on sidewalks or shared pathways.

 

International

What took so long? A man in the Isle of Wight faces charges seven months after he pushed a woman in her 60s off a seawall, resulting in injuries to her head, legs and face.

Custom lowrider bikes crafted by a Los Cruces, New Mexico artist made an appearance at the Paris Fashion Week.

Police in Soweto, South Africa have yet to make an arrest in an apparent hit-and-run that killed a popular security guard as he rode his bike to work in January, though they have brought in a suspect vehicle for testing.

 

Competitive Cycling

California’s Luke Lamperti claimed his first win on the season, sprinting to victory in stage 1 of Paris-Nice on Sunday.

Velo says the 2026 road cycling world championships in Montréal “will be an old-school rainbow jersey brawl.”

Twenty-two-year old Belgian pro Leander Van Hautegem was the subject of a “miracle rescue” when a passing forest ranger found him lying in a ditch with a severe concussion, collapsed lung, and broken rib after he crashed on a training ride.

Indiana University is expecting a record crowd for next month’s 75th annual running of the school’s iconic Little 500, made famous in Breaking Away. Which remains the all-time best bike movie, in my not-so-humble opinion.

A DC area public radio station reports on the annual Garage Racing National Championships, which was held last month in a multilevel Virginia parking garage.

 

Finally…

That feeling when a major consumer magazine suggests that a 14 buck ebike cover will somehow protect it from thieves. Now drivers aren’t even waiting for real bicycles to crash into.

And throwing your bicycle at the cops to make an escape is not one of the many recommended uses for it. And if they your bike, just hand over your backpack full of illegal weed.

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

Oh, and fuck Putin. 

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