Announcing @chpfatal: In response to the recent fascination with bike accident map projects, I’ve created @chpfatal on Twitter. It’s a real time feed of fatal car crashes in California as reported by the California Highway Patrol. We had about 3,000 traffic fatalities in California in 2009, which is about eight lost lives everyday. The Twitter read more
So claims the attorney for Ricard Neiss, the guy who brutally ran down a crowd of Critical Mass cyclists last Friday with his VW Golf.
The North American Handmade Bicycle moves to Sacramento, California next year. Woo hoo!
It’s a little difficult to divine since the “Event Details” page doesn’t contain any actual event details, but the Heck of the North is apparently a bike race in Minnesota over gravel roads. It’s part of the “Almanzo Gravel Road Series, described as “taking place on some of the Upper Midwest’s finest backroads in some read more
We can always count on Calfee presenting interesting show bikes at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, and this year is no exception. This year, they have a carbon fiber tallbike with bamboo lugs and a big carbon fiber kickstand that Jonathon of Bike Portland describes as “the most expensive kickstand in the world.”
In case your green lifestyle leaves you feeling overly smug, there’s now a Nitrogen Footprint Calculator to abase yourself with.
