ElevenGear in Sebastopol, California has created the Traffic Master Bicycle Jersey for cycling in low visibility conditions.

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I was at the San Jose train station chatting with a sweet young thang when this kid walked by with his fully loaded Rivendell Bleriot 650B touring bike.

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Mayor of London Boris Johnson rides a geared Pinarello road bicycle around an under-construction velodrome. The velodrome is being built for the 2012 Olympics in Olympic Park in Stratford, London, England. Johnson joined British Olympic medalist Sir Chris Hoy for a visit to the velodrome.

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The Chelyabinsk police in Russia have recently launched a bike patrol, which is apparently pretty unusual in Russia. According to the captions provided by ITAR-TASS on these photos, this new bike patrol coincided with a record heat wave across Russia last week.

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Update: I dug into this a little and found this issue is a little more nuanced than what I originally reported. Updated information is now included below.

The city of Anchorage, Alaska has been working on a rewrite of their traffic code — “Title 9” — since last year. During this rewrite process, the Anchorage Police Department proposed a drastic change that would undermine the rights of some Anchorage cyclists.

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Happy Hump Day.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa fell off of his bike and broke his elbow after a cab driver pulled out abruptly in front of His Honor the other week.

The Mayor is now calling for a city Bike Summit to improve the city’s bike safety record.

In other news, Vancouver BC Mayor Gregor Robertson had his own brush with traffic death…. when he ran a red light without looking directly in front of a city bus. Don’t do that.

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