Monthly Archives: May 2010

S24O: Family bike camping

S24O bike camping with a family of four: Like car camping, except with bikes.

Bike to LARP

Katherine (in the background) uses her bicycle and public transportation to get to herself and her and weapons and accessories to Alliance Live Action Role Playing gatherings. Katherine plays the part of a mystic elf.

LAPD attacks CM cyclists

  Several people are tweeting about police running police cruisers and tackling cyclists who are riding lawfully on the right side of the road during the Critical Mass Ride tonight in Los Angeles.

1800 Oil Spills Per Day

  Some thoughts for the Memorial Day Holiday weekend as an estimated 32 million people will travel over this holiday weekend. Maybe the ‘top kill’ effort to slow the Deepwater Horizon well will work, maybe not, but a month and a week of at least 200,000 gallons per day spewing into the Gulf of Mexico read more »

Helmet cams are cool

Lots of people talking about this video of cyclist Luke Rae in St. Johns, Newfoundland. He uses a helmet cam to show his encounters with scofflaw, law breaking motorists. When motorists can learn to obey the rules of the road, I’ll recognize their privilege to use those roads. So yeah, there are the occasional idiots read more »

Don’t recover your stolen bike, Bro

Man shot at after recovering stolen bike. A man was driving home from the Capitola Mall when he saw a man riding what he believed was his older son’s bike on Portola Drive. He turned his vehicle around to chase the bike thief. When he confronted the bike thief, the thief dropped the bike and read more »