Month: July 2009

Resources for bicycle advocacy

One Street is an international non profit working worldwide to help cycling advocates achieve their goals to increase bicycling.

One Street has a number of resources on their website for bicycling and motorist education, bikes and transit, city planning and design, Ciclovia type events, school programs and more.

One Street is founded by Sue Knaup, former Director of the Thunderhead Alliance.

More -> OneStreet.org.

Running red lights

Here’s a video of a cyclist running a red light. Naughty naughty, cyclist! Shame on you!

Now watch video of a pickup truck running a red light.

I don’t run red lights as a cyclist and don’t condone it at all, but tell me: Where should law enforcement focus its safety efforts? And where do motorists get off on telling cyclists to clean up our act and obey the rules of the road? Motorists have a huge beam to dig out of their eyes before they can even begin to whine about the mote in the cyclist’s eye.

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TdF Stage 11: Conspiracy?

The GC standings are really starting to freak me out. Ever since Stage 7, the top three rankings have invariably looked like this:

    NOCENTINI Rinaldo (Italy) Agr2-La Mondial
    CONTADOR Alberto  (Spain) Astana          +00’06”
    ARMSTRGONG Lance  (USA)   Astana          +00’08”

With the exception of Stage 10 when Andreas Kloden briefly bested him, American Levi Leipheimer has been consistently in 4th place at 39 seconds behind NOCENTINI.

What’s up with that?

Spoilers in the links out…

You’ll see race details in the race reports but Cavendish’s win moved him up one place in the GC from 135th place to 134th at 1 hour 14 minutes behind race leader Rinaldo Nocentini.

KWC: Cav unbeatable.

Bike Rumor: Cavendish Continues.

Bike World News: Stage 11 results.

VN: Cav leaps uphill.

CN: Cavendish ties British record with his 4th Stage win

John Franklin’s Cyclecraft North American Edition

I recently learned that John Franklin’s Cyclecraft is now available in a North American edition.

Cyclecraft is the principal reference for the National Cycle Training Standard in the UK and the basis for training programs in an increasing number of other countries. This North American edition of Cyclecraft has been specially adapted to reflect conditions, laws and best practice in the United States and Canada. It’s kind of like John Forester’s Effective Cycling but more readable.