Somehow, I left the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition’s Sunday Funday ride off Friday’s list of coming bike events.
If you hurry, you may still be able to make it to the North Hollywood Red Line station in time for today’s ride exploring the hidden bowls of Burbank.
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This is why police need better training in investigating bike collisions.
Spokane police bend over backwards to blame the victim when a 15-year old bike rider was killed in an apparent crash with a speeding patrol car.
Citing physical evidence, investigators concluded that the car never actually made contact with the victim. Instead, they say he went over the handlebars while — get this — attempting a wheelie a split second before the patrol car passed inches away.
Never mind that it’s far more likely that the victim fell while trying to avoid a collision with a police car racing to respond to an emergency.
Or that he was unlikely to go over the handlebars unless he was doing a wheelie on the wrong damn wheel.
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Local
The east part of Venice Blvd is finally getting some, but not all, of the bike lanes promised in the 2010 bike lane.
Flying Pigeon interviews participants in the LACBC’s recent Operation Firefly bike light giveaway on North Figueroa.
Ciclavalley attends the first community meeting for the March CicLAvia.
The Times offers a nice remembrance of 106-year old Long Beach bike rider Octavio Orduño, who passed away earlier this month.
State
A Laguna Beach resident says it’s a great place to live, as long as you don’t want to walk or ride a bike.
The long delayed bike share is officially open in San Diego.
Now that’s something worth contributing to. San Diego’s Major Taylor Cycling Club is raising funds to get a blind tandem-riding cyclist back on his bike.
San Bernardino sheriff’s deputies allegedly shocked a Victorville bike rider with a Taser at least 25 times, then hog-tied face down in the back of a patrol car before he died in the 100 degree heat.
An alleged Santa Cruz hit-and-run driver turns himself in over a month after the collision that took the life of a bike rider — but only after police had identified him as a suspect. He reportedly tried to disguise his damaged truck to avoid detection.
Five cyclists are injured, one seriously, when a Mendocino County driver plows into them from behind with no warning; a photo of the aftermath shows the bikes strewn in a ditch. The 18-year old driver was later arrested on suspicion of DUI.
National
Eight ways last year was the year of bike fashion.
Sound familiar? Anchorage, Alaska has installed less than 1% of the bikeways promised in their 2010 bike plan.
Evidently, life is cheap in my hometown, as a 73-year old driver gets probation for fleeing the scene after right-hooking a cyclist.
Kidical Mass gains popularity in Gotham.
International
It’s nice that London cyclists get to see what it’s like to drive a truck. But it would be even better for the drivers to try riding a bike surrounded by big ass trucks with impatient drivers.
A Kiwi driver may learn the hard way not to post video of his own road-raging anti-bike tirade on Facebook.
Bikes come to Japanese actions figures.
Finally…
A bill in the Wyoming legislature would require cyclists to wear 200 square inches of reflective hi-viz; evidently, dark colored cars are still okay, though. A Manhattan bike map plots routes by degree of stress as measured by mindreading bike helmets.
And there is nothing quite so humiliating to Chinese workers as when their boss bikes to work.
