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Motorcycle awareness month

May 20, 2013 – 11:22 am

May is both national bike month and Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. In California, this means Caltrans posts “Watch for motorcycles” messages on their electronic Sigalert highway signs. What’s the impact of this enhanced safety awareness?

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Bikes and April Fools jokes

April 1, 2013 – 10:47 am

Here are the bike related April Fools blog posts I’ve seen so far…

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California Assemblyman Steven Bradford introduces 3 foot passing bill

March 27, 2013 – 10:17 am

Will the third time be the charm? Steven Bradford of Gardena, California introduced Yet Another Attempt at a safe passing law by amending AB 1371. It has the usual safe passing with a minimum of three feet language we’ve seen in the previous two attempts introduced before by then-State-Senator Alan Lowenthal (who has moved on read more »

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Figueroa & 11th, Los Angeles, California

March 25, 2013 – 4:20 pm

Today, Figueroa Street in Los Angeles is kind of your typical six lane traffic sewer. As Steve Hymon writes for The (LA Metro) Source: Figueroa is one of those big, wide Los Angeles streets that resembles a freeway stuffed into the midst of a city. Los Angeles Councilwoman Jan Perry and the city’s Department of read more »

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Amending Arizona’s 3 Foot Passing Law

March 4, 2013 – 11:47 am

Arizona’s safe passing law — ARS 28-735 — has the usual text that a motorist “shall exercise due care by leaving a safe distance between the motor vehicle and the bicycle of not less than three feet until the motor vehicle is safely past the overtaken bicycle.” ARS 28-735 infamously contains a get out of read more »

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Who said, “You guys drove here? You’re crazy”?

December 21, 2012 – 9:00 am

That would be Miami Heat small forward LeBron James, who is seen biking to and from home games and practices. He’s no bike ninja, either. “I got lights on my bike,” says James to the Sun Sentinel. “I’m serious. This isn’t a joke. Of course, safety first.” For my complete archive of celebrities on bicycles, read more »

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