November 11, 2011Leave a Comment
Gwen Lutz organizes the Pedal Savvy bike fashion show for SF Bike Expo. She and her show scored a mention in the New York Times. Yay Gwen!
November 11, 2011Leave a Comment
November 11, 2011Leave a Comment
11-11-11
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
With sincere gratitude to the men and women who serve and have served. They include both brothers, my father, several uncles, my grandfather (now deceased), a few in-laws, and many close friends. Besides the physical casualties (50,000 Americans, anywhere from 60,000 to one million on Iraq depending on who you ask, 11,000 to 50,000 in Afghanistan) war has a tremendous psychological cost on all involved.
November 10, 20111 Comment on Tern at LA Opportunity Green
Tern has their folding bikes at the Opportunity Green business conference in Los Angeles today and tomorrow.
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The Sea Otter Bicycle Festival in Monterey, California adds cyclocross racing in 2012 to their mix of road and mountain bike action.
November 10, 20119 Comments on Bike paths, personal safety and MAP-21
This is the time of year when we start to hear occasional reports of strong arm attacks against evening bike commuters on remote, isolated bike paths. Thugs with baseball bats and pipes loiter along the side of the path. When a lone target zips by, the bad guys swing their bat, knock the cyclist from his or her bike, steal the cyclist’s backpack and ride away on the bike.
I know a few women who don’t ride on bike paths after dark because of personal safety concerns. Bike paths are usually not lit well at night and are generally unpopulated. In many areas, bike trails aren’t even officially open to the public at night. Only rarely are bike trails patrolled at night.
Senators Barbara Boxer and James Inhofe would force these women to ride on dark, potentially unsafe trails should their MAP-21 highway authorization bill become law. MAP-21 is the spending bill that would ban bikes from certain roads under Federal jurisdiction under the guise of “bicycle safety.”