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 biking in San Francisco, maybe because I hadn’t seen it before.

Paul of Bike Intelligencer posted his faves from that list. Which videos do you like? What do you think of Bobby pulling those manuals right along side the cable car tracks?

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 peninsular hills and whistling down Sand Hill Road to the Caltrain station. They are themselves on wheels.

There is a deeply pleasing randomness about the campus cyclists, as though one morning university officials had assigned a bicycle to every member of the Stanford community, come as you are, without considering for a moment matters of fit — or fitness.

Read more in the New York Times.

Elsewhere: Biking at Stanford University.

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 the KidBike! photo pool at Flickr.

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 in Mandeville Canyon.

Murph has already posted the letter he sent. I’ll compose and send my own letter shortly after I post this note. Please feel free to leave a link in the comments to your own letter.

Related:
* Doctor in cuffs: What’s the lesson?
* GUILTY all seven counts.
* Those cyclists had it coming.
* LAPD arrests Thompson.

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 yet and his original Craigslist posting asking for volunteers has expired.

I don’t go up into San Francisco often, but when I do I see literally dozens of bicycles locked very poorly. It’s unfortunate that the newbies who don’t read bike blogs are the ones who often get burned.

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 be horrified, I’m sure, by this evolution of a busy motoring corridor, just like she is by the pedestrian friendly transformation of Times Square in New York City.