Have you ever been out in the weeds and you get a flat tire? You forgot the spare tube, the patch kit glue is dried out, and the pump is broken. What do you do?

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Last night I ran into Carlos Babcock (Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition), Pat Giorini (Bike San Mateo County) and Shirley Johnson (San Francisco Bicycle Coalition) at a Caltrain station handing out bike tags and taking photos of people boarding the train bike car. Carlos seems amazed that he’s seen me all around Silicon Valley and the Peninsula over the past few weeks, although I live way over in Santa Cruz County. It just goes to show, I guess, that you can have plenty of mobility through public transportation and bikes.

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That’s the question Ed asks after he sees this news report.

Kathy Black, 26, called 911 as she cycled away from the 300-pound bear, which chased her for the length of at least six telephone poles.

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