Alfred locks his Cannondale up outside the cafe where he’s eating. He sees a guy pull out a drill and start drilling out his u lock! Alfred and his friends run out and this is what happens [some language and violence].

Via Prolly.

I think almost all of us speed and have made mistakes while driving, but this guy takes the cake: Chris Christie was driving the wrong way down a wrong way street when he hit a motorcyclist. He told the reporting police officer that he’s a U.S. Attorney, and the police officer decided not to cite Christie. What a guy. I’m not sure what the worse problem is — the obvious corruption of the Elizabeth, NJ P.D., or a man with influence getting his way.

Christie reminds me of former South Dakota Attorney General, Governor and Representative Bill Janklow who blew through a stop sign at 70 mph in a 55 zone and killed motorcyclist Randolph Scott. Janklow was convicted of manslaughter and served a whopping 30 days in jail. Unbelievably, Janklow’s license to practice law was reinstated in 2006. Probably part of the reason the local attorney even charged Janklow was because motorcyclists are a noticeable crowd in South Dakota politics, and they made sure their collective voice was heard in this case.

What do you bet that Toronto attorney Michael Bryant, who killed a bicyclist last week with his Saab, will be acquitted?

* The world’s largest bike show is done, and Specialized Bicycles marketing guy Chris Matthews posted his show summary to his blog, along with some lovely photos of the show (and they’e not all Specialized bike shots).

* Bike Biz reports more vendors, more booth rentals, and more show visitors for the 2009 Eurobike show over last year.

* Shimano announced their intentions to enter the growing eBike market. There’s still a lot of resistance to electric bicycles in the United States, but in Europe sales are growing.

* Carlton has a photoset of just electric bikes from Eurobike.

Watch the 2009 Tour of Missouri live online with streaming video and other updates provided via the Tour of Missouri Tour Tracker. The last couple of hours are also broadcast live online at Universal Sports

I knew Universal Sports was covering the Tour of Missouri live on their cable TV channel, but I totally missed the news about the Tour Of Missouri Tour Tracker. There’s live streaming video and updates.

Today is a great day to be a cyclist. Not only does the Vuelta a España continue with a close race, with Cadel Evans leading Alejandro Valverde by two seconds, but the Tour of Missouri starts today. According to the Tour of Missouri site, the race will be airing online on multiple outlets including Universal Sports and the Tour of Missouri site. Air times will start approximately two hours before each stage finish.

On a lighter note, French prankster Remi Gaillard created one of the greatest cyclist pranks ever seen, by organizing a stage race finish around an unsuspecting cyclist:

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This is not his first cycling-related prank either, back in 2001, he crashed an interview at the conclusion of one of the Tour de France stages: