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A bike demo, hill sprints, and oh my aching legs

May 6, 2013 – 11:22 am

Whatever doesn’t kill me only makes me cry “Uncle!”: I overdid things with an extended demo on Specialized’s latest Roubaix bike and then hill sprints on a fixed gear bike. I’m in some real pain today. Ow.

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California AB 738 hearing scheduled

April 10, 2013 – 10:57 am

AB 738- Absolute bike lane design immunity.

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Turn your bike horizontal to trigger the green light

April 2, 2013 – 8:00 am

Nobody who drives a car ever has to think about the various technologies used to trigger traffic signals. You just drive up to the intersection, and within at most 120 seconds (but probably less) you’ll have a green light. Anybody who rides a motorcycle or bicycle on the road has encountered “defective” traffic lights — read more »

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Electric car horn for bicycles

January 9, 2013 – 10:00 am

I occasionally talk a big game in the various social media sites, but I’m generally a pussycat on the road and big believer in cooperating with other traffic when I’m on my bike. I’m assertive about my road rights, but I won’t be a complete jackass just to make a point. Hence, I’m not a read more »

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Random thoughts on Level of Service

March 16, 2012 – 2:26 pm

Can you be “pro-bike” and not also be “anti-car”? I’ve never really thought of myself as anti-car — I just like to ride my bike. But some thoughts about encouraging bike use have been swimming around my head. These thoughts are still trying to gel, but the gist is that it doesn’t really matter how read more »

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Armored vehicle crushes bike lane parking scofflaw

August 1, 2011 – 1:31 pm

Update: Video! Vilnius, Lithuania apparently has a problem with entitled luxury car owners who use bike lanes as their personal free parking. It’s become so widespread that the mass media have picked up on the meme of people posting photos of these parking scofflaws to social media networks. Vilnius Mayor Artūras Zuokas decided to take read more »

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