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Driving is a get out of jail for murder card in the Bay Area

The Center for Investigative Journalism confirms something many of us already suspect. The Berkeley based non-profit news agency analyzed five years worth of data from 434 pedestrian fatalities in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Francisco counties. Sixty percent of the 238 motorists found to be at fault or suspected of a read more »

The Levi Effect

You can’t help but wonder what the breaking doping scandals, confessions, and sackings have done for ticket sales for The Levi Effect, a movie and panel discussion about pro cyclist Levi Leipheimer. In response, the film promoters have promised “to keep up on current events as we edited this film and we can assure you read more »

Cross racing at Sea Otter 2012

The Sea Otter Bicycle Festival in Monterey, California adds cyclocross racing in 2012 to their mix of road and mountain bike action.

Hump Day

Happy Hump Day, and welcome to another bike news roundup.

Hump Day Hugs

True Story: I ride the bus from Santa Cruz with “Sharon.” She works at Adobe and recently attended SXSW in Austin, where she told me she rented a bicycle. “Austin has these wide one way streets,” she told me this morning. “I can’t go fast and I didn’t really know how to get across four read more »

Just an accident and prosecution

In 2009, Craig Munro was out for revenge after he saw his lover Brendan Gannaway kiss a woman. When Munro saw Gannaway biking to work outside of Brisbane, Queensland Australia, Munro hit the gas and plowed into Gannaway and his bike. Munro was arrested, found guilty and sentenced to four years in prison.