Gregg @ MTBR posted his Top 10 Mountain Bike YouTube video list. He didn’t choose any of my short Santa Cruz trail videos, and thankfully none of those lame-o Xtranormal movies made the cut. The blow up doll is perverse, but I kind of liked the clip from Fat Tire Fury of Bobby Root mountain read more
Cute essay on cyclists on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. The students, staff and faculty just ride bikes there. And what aids the differencing is that few people wear helmets, and everyone is wearing ordinary clothes — none of the sleek and gaudy costumes you see on cyclists pumping through the read more
Sarah Goodyear wants your Kids on Bikes photos for her next Streetsblog slide show. Kids on their own bikes, kids in cargo bikes, kids on trailer bikes — show them what you’ve got. Tag your photos with “streetsblog” and “kidbikes” in Flickr. Get them to her by Tuesday, November 24. The slideshow below is from read more
Dr. Christopher Thompson’s defense apparently will present a large pile of letters as character references to the judge during Thompson’s sentencing. Cyclist Dave Zabriskie has organized a letter writing campaign to help Los Angeles prosecuting attorney Mary Stone give her own evidence at the level of interest and outrage among cyclists nationally about Thompson’s assault read more
Malcolm McMahon, a student at City College in San Francisco, had his bike stolen. He was upset enough about it to talk to police about a bait bike program run and financed by a volunteer posse. More –> Bike vigilantes: Victims strike back. It doesn’t look like McMahon’s “Concerned Cyclists Community Program” has gotten anywhere read more
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency reports that their Market Street experiment to restrict cars has, so far, resulted in faster Muni service along Market. Bicycles are now 75% of traffic on Market Street, up from 60%. More at San Francisco Examiner. The infamously sassy Veronica Moss of the Automobile User Trade Organization (A.U.T.O.) would read more
