Before we start, a quick thanks to the Century City Apple Store for great service in getting my laptop back up and running — and me back online — quickly.
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Santa Monica’s bike-friendly Mayor Pam O’Connor will be honored at a re-election fundraiser hosted by LACBC board member Greg Laemmle in Century City tonight. The free event is open to the public, but RSVPs are encouraged, with a suggested $50 donation.
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A same sex couple is physically attacked in what appears to be a combination road rage and hate crime while they were riding in Long Beach.
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KPCC examines CicLAvia’s first visit outside the LA city limits from Echo Park to Boyle Heights, while Curbed offers a guide to this Sunday’s event. Download a printable map (pdf) and schedule of planned activities; multiple feeder rides are scheduled from points around the city.
Meanwhile, the Bodacious Bike Babes are bringing back DanceLAvia at 2nd and Broadway, so stop by when it’s time to get out of the saddle and move to the beat. And MOM Ridazz host a post-CicLAvia Sock for the Homeless fundraiser on Sunday.
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Recently we offered a rave review of prescription riding glasses from San Diego’s Sport Rx; while the Oakley glasses with proprietary have become my default eyewear, I was even more impressed with company’s exceptional service and bike-focused culture.
So it comes as no surprise that Outside Magazine has ranked them 10th on a list of the best places to work in America, only a few notches behind Colorado’s notoriously employee-friendly — and employee owned — New Belgium Brewing.
It’s a lot easier to do a great job and treat customers right when you’re happy with your work. And it sounds like Sport Rx’s employees have every reason to be happy, indeed.
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LocalLA’s most challenging hill climb competition, the 9th annual Feel My Legs, I’m a Racer, will take place on Sunday, November 9th. Thanks to Urban Velo for the link.
Flying Pigeon calls out the city’s disjointed and disconnected bikeways.
Santa Monica students gear up for next week’s Bike It! Walk It! Week.
The Santa Monica Helen’s Cycles is hosting its monthly group ride, along with a Pinarello demo this Saturday.
The LA Weekly names Spokes N Stuff on Melrose as the city’s best bike shop for 2014.
Bike riders tour Glendale on CICLE’s Jewel City Tour.
The Sheriff’s Department talks bike safety with the LACBC in Calabasas, even if their deputies can’t agree on when to take the lane. Once there’s a new sheriff in town following the November election, we need to engage them in a serious discussion of cyclist’s rights, safe riding and officer training.
State
Calbike offers their monthly update.
Long Beachize explains the state’s new protected bikeways act. However, not everyone agrees it’s a good idea.
A Cathedral City cyclist suffers serious injuries in a collision; for a change, it was the victim who appeared to be drunk or high, not the driver.
A Mill Valley bike path will get a roundabout to slow riders and improve safety following a bike on ped collision that left a nine-year old boy and a 31-year old woman injured.
Two-thousand bikes abandoned on-site by carless Burning Man visitors.
National
A bike-hating past comes back to haunt a Portland-area city council candidate.
It’s now legal to ride your bike through a drive-through in Salt Lake City.
If you’re going to grab a Minnesota cyclist and drag him alongside your speeding car, don’t brag about it to the police.
Boston is asking truck drivers to install side guards and curved mirrors to protect cyclists, something that should be required nationwide.
No criminality indeed. A bizarre rule keeps New York police from charging drivers who hit pedestrians (and cyclists).
Kerri Russell and son ride a bike in New York, and justifiably look highly annoyed at the invasion of their privacy.
In a horrible case, a North Carolina man is charged with robbing and murdering a bike tourist from New York after promising to help him find a hotel room. There’s not a pit in hell deep enough.
Bankruptcy court awards a whopping $21 million dollars to a German cyclist permanently injured in a collision with a Twinkie delivery truck; thanks to Stanley E. Goldich for the heads-up.
The movement is spreading, as New Orleans bike advocates call for Vision Zero for cyclists and pedestrians in the city.
International
A UK bike magazine editor says irresponsible drivers are creating chaos for cyclists; then again, more than a few motorists would claim just the opposite.
Here’s a good idea. A Brit bike training company is offering a course on how to drive around cyclists.
After his wife is run down by an apparently uncaring bike rider, a British man calls for compulsory insurance for all cyclists. Chances are US riders are covered by their car insurance, assuming you own a car.
A Norwegian town pays a reverse toll to cyclists and pedestrians for the impact they don’t have on the roads.
New Zealand proposes fining drivers who violate the metric equivalent of a three-foot passing law.
Finally…
A detailed guide to bicycle-shaped objects. The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay shaves his legs. And it’s crappy enough when something blocks the bike lanes, even worse when that’s what they’re full of.
Sort of like some governors I could name.
