It’s a light news day, so let’s get right to it.
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Frequent contributor David Drexler sends a brief note asking for a mention of this weekend’s Tour de Tucson.
One of the best road bike rides/races in the USA that everyone can participate in, Tour de Tucson, is this Saturday.
Last minute registration is allowed on site on Friday I did that last year, can’t go this year.
I have raced it 4 times over the years.
100 miles, everyone get a timing chip and you can race/ride in your age class so it’s possible to come in 1st, 2nd or 3rd.
Tucson really turns out for it, broadcasting it, shutting down all roads, driveways, tons of police, raised over a million for charity.
At the front start are pros some from Olympics, Amgen, and the WorldTour.
Your name is published with finishing time.
Today is the last day for online registration for the Tour de Tucson. You can learn more about the race — a lot more — here.
Photo by Markus Spiske via Pexels.com.
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Ride long enough, and you develop a sixth sense for when you’re about to get right hooked, long before a belated turn signal.
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Local
CiclaValley looks at the before and after images of the tragic Woolsey fire, comparing the aftermath to the scenes from some of his previous rides.
What could be more LA than watching a bike rider get hit by a car in the background as TMZ interviews comedian Mike Ross as he steps out of a WeHo bar?
State
An Op-Ed in the Orange County Register says lawsuits against scooter makers threaten innovation.
The San Diego Bicycle Coalition invites you to join them for the opening of a new bike art exhibition this Thursday, as I Love To Ride My Bicycle opens at San Diego’s SDSU Downtown Gallery.
They’re onto us, comrades. A Palo Alto writer says a plan to add bus lanes and protected bike lanes on a major street is just a scheme to increase congestion.
National
Bicycling takes a photographic look at the “long and glorious” history of cycling.
A Seattle website says it’s time to take #MeToo to the streets because planners need to listen to women who walk and bike.
Houston residents argue that public safety isn’t a public health issue, even though public health experts disagree.
International
A local magazine offers ten reasons why an Ontario town is a car-first community.
A new report says ebikes could replace up to 813,000 trips in London every day, reducing CO2 emissions by 184 metric tons.
A British county is raising funds to buy five children’s ebikes in an effort to fight childhood obesity.
A Scottish bike advocacy group calls for dropping speeds on rural roads to 40 mph to improve safety for people on bicycles.
Life is cheap in Ireland, where a careless bus driver loses his license — and probably his job — for four years for killing a woman as she rode her bike, but won’t spend a day behind bars.
Another one to add to your bike bucket list, as a bicyclist photographs her way through Crete.
Founders of Moscow’s massively popular bike parades say the city’s Department of Transport is muscling in on them with a goal of taking them over and shutting them down; the three-times a year rides attract as many as 30,000 people each time.
An Aussie website recommends using an ebike to pull yourself out of a rut.
Kyoto, Japan is addressing climate change by setting itself on a path to become the Copenhagen of Asia.
Competitive Cycling
Transgender world masters track champ Rachel McKinnon is still facing a backlash — including death threats — a month after winning the title. I’ll leave it up to others to determine if being born male gives her an advantage or not — but she followed the rules, and beat cyclists who had previously beaten her. And no one deserves that crap, especially over a damn bike race.
Finally…
When your ride is interrupted by wild Alaskan cows. If you’re going to get drunk and trash a bar, try not to crash into a police car as you pedal away.
And now we have to worry about airborne bike thieves.
Or not.
Because that doesn’t look staged at all.
No, really.
