June 30, 20085 Comments on Jennifer Love Hewitt rides a bicycle
Jennifer Love Hewitt was spotted this weekend riding a pink Paul Frank cruiser bicycle from Nirve.
More at Celebrity gossip, Hollywood Rag, Gossip Girls and all of the usual celebrity photo places.
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SF Chron Sunday Style section: Commuters ditching cars for bikes, foot power includes several paragraphs on cycling fashionably.
Graduate student Lisa Foster refuses to let the peddling keep her from wearing her pumps. “I really think bikes are made for people who wear heels,” she said. “You don’t have to walk in them. It’s so much better.”
Judy B. (her full, legal name), lives in the Fillmore and commutes to her job as a legal assistant in the Financial District. “Short tight skirts are easier to wear,” she says. “Sometimes I wear bike shorts or leggings or tights under them. Knee-length skirts blow up and catch the wind like a sail, depending on the weather.”
Product Manager Cheryl Brinkman tucks her skirt into a band of elastic that she wraps around one thigh, a homemade garter belt solution, as it were. And, she said, “I always have a small binder clip in my handbag, as well, to keep wrap skirts or dresses closed while pedaling.”
Via Soma Fabrications, because the article features a photo of Ms. Brinkman riding a sweet Soma Mixte bicycle. My wife has the same Basil panniers, too. Sanfranciscoize the planet 🙂
June 30, 20088 Comments on Floyd Landis loses CAS appeal
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeal filed by Floyd Landis. Landis has also been ordered to pay $100,000 to the US Anti Doping Agency for the costs incurred by his appeals.
The full details are posted everywhere; Trust But Verify is dedicated to tracking Floyd Landis and his doping appeals so it seems like as good a place as any to following the discussion.
Moving forward, the Tour de France starts this Saturday! Woo hoo!
June 30, 200812 Comments on Another bicyclist vs bear encounter
From a comment at CCCP blog:
A 14-year-old girl riding in a mountain bike race was attacked in the dark of night by a bear Sunday and severely injured, but she was able to make a brief 911 call that eventually resulted in her rescue.
The girl suffered head, neck, torso and leg wounds. She underwent surgery and was in critical condition Sunday afternoon at Providence Alaska Medical Center, police said.
Update: Jill in Alaska is a friend of a friend of the girl who was attacked. A 14 year girl in an all night endurance race — they build ’em tough up in Alaska. I hope this girl recovers from the mauling. Wow.
June 30, 20086 Comments on Texting and laptop use still legal
The campfire smell seems to have gone away, but there was a layer of ash on my bicycle this morning.
California’s new handsfree mobile phone law goes into effect tomorrow. The law does not ban texting while driving. I even saw this last Friday in moving traffic.
The handsfree law doesn’t specifically exempt bicyclists, but Mr Roadshow says it doesn’t apply to cyclists. Neither he nor I are lawyers. YMMV.
June 28, 20082 Comments on San Jose bike safety forum this afternoon
The bike safety town hall meeting starts in just a few hours at 12:30 PM, at San Jose city council chambers on East Santa Clara Street between 4th and 6th Streets in downtown.
In this ABC 7 news video about the bike safety town hall meeting, reporter Heather Ishimaru talks with SVBC Executive Director Corinne Winter and San Jose bike program coordinator John Brazil, while showing video of cyclists riding on the sidewalk with the voiceover that Santa Clara has the highest per capita rate of cycling deaths in the 9 county San Francisco Bay Area.