Reminders:

• You’re invited to the cyclist photo shoot tonight in downtown San Jose beginning at 5:30. We hope to have all kinds of people who ride there, so come on down and invite your friends.
• San Jose Bike Train rolls next Wednesday, October 15 2014, 8 AM from Diridon Station in San Jose for destinations north along the Guadalupe River Trail. There’s also a 6:30 ride led by Dan Burdick. RSVP isn’t necessary but it’s helpful so we know to look for you.

More bike news below this group of people seen biking down Stevens Creek Boulevard on a Friday night.

I’ve been meaning to post a report on the Levi’s Stadium Community meeting that took place earlier this week but haven’t gotten around to it yet. There’s a lot of commentary here from those who participated at the meeting if you’d like a gist of what happened there.

An avid cyclist with a windshield perspective warns those cyclists who shoot video of scofflaw motorists to stop it, or else they’ll get what’s coming to them.

Check it out: a three speed planetary gear crank that doesn’t require bottom bracket modifications. It’s been in development for at least five years but should be available Real Soon Now according to the developers.

City Lab: When harassment of cyclists is a crime.

Bike enthusiasts take part in L’Eroica, a retro cycling event on October 5, 2014 in Gaiole in Chianti near Siena. More than 5000 competitors from all over the world, wearing vintage cycling jerseys, took part in L’Eroica through the ‘Strade Bianche’, the gravel roads of the Chianti area of Tuscany. Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP/Getty Images.

Pinarello’s carbon commuter bike?

NACTO design guidelines now official policy in San Francisco.

Local bike guy Kickstarter: Veloloop to electronically trigger traffic lights. There’s even an LED indicator to show if you’ve been detected or not.

Sean Petty elected to USA Cycling Board.

Actress Amanda Bynes says she hopes to move from California to New York so she can ride a bike there.

She likes walking and riding her bike. In California, you have to drive everywhere. “I really do not enjoy driving,” Bynes said. “I don’t like the way I look in a car. The lighting is very bad.”

University of Iowa has a handbuilt bicycle program.

Steganography is the practice of hiding a secret message inside of another message or media such that it’s presence is not obvious to the casual observer, hiding it in plain sight, as it were. The trick of extracting a message by pulling the third word of every paragraph in a letter is a form of steganography. In the computer age, we encode secret messages inside of image files.

Now I will reveal a secret known only to the secret members of the All Powerful Bike Lobby: You can identify the key conspirators of this group through secret steganographic messages hidden in their GPS uploads to the various bike ride tracking services. Why else would we make our rides so public?

More bike news revealed below the photo of the cyclist on San Fernando Street in downtown San Jose, California.

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The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Regions, with temperatures expected well into the 90s today and through the weekend.

The high pressure system stalling out means traffic to area beaches will look like this tonight through Sunday.

Bikes will be a great way to get past all of that.

More bike news and links below.

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My Instagram feed is full of photos from the huge bicycle industry show at Las Vegas. I see a lot of interesting new stuff, but I’m not there.

Read below the striped socks dude for bicycle news, both local and far flung.

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For those in the USA, I hope you enjoyed the Labor Day holiday. Remember, San Jose Bike Train runs the first and third Wednesday of every month, which means we leave 8 AM tomorrow morning from Diridon Station. We meet by the Amtrak bus shelter.

Read through the smattering of bike news below to learn how you can find free coffee in Little Italy San Jose this week.

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Note: San Jose Bike Train rolls next Wednesday, February 3, 2014 at 8 AM from Diridon Station.

This last week I experienced my worst asthma attack in 30 years. It wasn’t particularly intense or scary, but it did lay me out for an extended period of time. After breathing treatments and some stronger medication with exciting new side effects, I’m finally feeling close to normal for the first time in about 10 days today.

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