Monthly Archives: August 2010

Boston Dawna

“Cuts hair by day and crime by night.” The motto on the business card pretty much sums up Boston Dawna, who for many years has been a one-woman, bicycle-riding, crime-fighting machine in Venice. By her own estimate, she has initiated thousands of private citizen’s arrests of “thieves, burglars and robbers,” pouncing on them from bushes read more »

45 MPH!

Maybe I should try this competitive Strava stuff all of the middle aged cyclists I know are into. Last week, I hit 45 MPH on a flat straightaway on Central Expressway, and kept it above 40 mph for the one mile from Shoreline Boulevard to about Whisman Road. That’s Mark Cavendish’s speed when he sprints read more »

Darcy Allan Sheppard – One year later

Toronto cyclists remember bike messenger Darcy Allan Sheppard a year after he was run down by a former Ontario attorney general, Michael Bryant.

Winning Transit Referenda

The late Paul Weyrich founded the conservative Heritage Foundation and The Free Congress Foundation think tanks. He was also one of the architects of the Religious Right in the 1970s. Weyrich was a man who knew how to organize activists and get out the vote. Weyrich honed his political activism through rail transit advocacy. In read more »

P!nk (still) rides a bicycle

We’ve seen Pink before in tights and bike shoes on a Giant TCR road bike. She even tweets about her road rides. She also rides around Venice in flip flops on a fat tire cruiser with her pal Carey Hart. She Tweeted about that too.

President Obama rides a bicycle

President Barack Obama smiles as he and his family take a six mile bicycle ride along a path in Correllus State Forest at Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.