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Bikes, blogs and the news: Monday roundup

Today: An Afghan women’s cycling team, maybe a bike bridge across the USA-Canada frontier, bike lane parking, adventures, rides, obstacles and opportunities.

MAP-21 performance measures and cycling fatalities

US DOT safety goals and the League of American Bicyclists petition The MAP-21 transportation funding bill passed by the US Congress in 2012 mandates the establishment by the US Department of Transportation of safety goals. Specifically, the law says the USDOT must track serious injuries and fatalities per VMT and set a national safety goal read more »

Sidewalk cyclist bites the dust

Update: I forgot to embed the video earlier! It’s now here. Act 1, Scene 1: A green bike lane busy with cyclists, including a pair of lycra-clad speed daemons on their spendy carbon fiber racing bikes. Enter Fred dressed in normal clothes and riding his heavy cruiser bike much faster than those racer poseurs. Instead read more »

Liars & Outliers 50% off today only

I’m still reading my copy of Bruce Schneier’s Liars and Outliers.

Nataliya Vasilyeva rides a bicycle

Nataliya Vasilyeva is a business reporter for the Associated Press is Moscow, Russia. She writes about the challenges of cycling in the Russian capital.

Public confessions

Several people involved in the USADA investigation against Lance Armstrong are now offering public apologies for their use of performance enhancing drugs from the late 90s to mid-aughts.