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Where are these ‘legal’ drivers, anyway?

April 11, 2012 – 2:13 pm

Happy Distracted Driving Awareness Month, everybody. Here’s an Internet trope that frequently pops up whenever bicycles are mentioned in the news. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

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Caltrain 233

January 5, 2011 – 11:17 am

Where: Northbound Caltrain #233 just north of the California Avenue station in Palo Alto. When: 9:10 AM this morning. What: A disturbing metallic *clank* shudders through the train

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Santa Clara County to vote on bike restrictions

June 21, 2010 – 10:58 am

Update 8/25/2010: The Santa Clara County Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) and cycling event organizers met with San Antonio Valley residents for a roundtable discussion. These two groups together worked out compromise language for the Special Events ordinance that are acceptable to both groups. The important changes: Under the San Antonio Valley “Good Neighbor” Standards, read more »

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We are "cyclists"

November 2, 2009 – 9:00 am

Mikael Colville-Anderson of Copenhagenize was in San Francisco last week to talk about his out five ways that cycling should be promoted in the United States. Among his other proposals, Mikael suggests that we don’t focus so much on the subculture of cyclists. The bikes we wore. I knew I’d be at the meeting with read more »

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Google Social and bikes

October 26, 2009 – 3:20 pm

I’ve enabled Google Social and Google now (occasionally) returns results from my “social circle” to, theoretically, get the latest dirt on what my friends are talking about. I typed in “Tour of California” for example, and Google Social returned Steephill’s 2007 AToC dashboard, my Sacramento photoset from earlier this year, and a call for volunteers read more »

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Should the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition sue San Mateo County Sheriff?

July 10, 2009 – 1:52 pm

TIME’S UP sent a press release about Christopher Long’s $1.5 Million lawsuit against the New York Police Department. You may remember that Christopher Long was the guy who was Just Riding Along when NYPD Officer Pogan bodyslammed Long, and then arrested him for assault. When a video popped up showing what really happened, Pogan was read more »

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