July 10, 20131 Comment on Man arrested in Seth Vidal hit & run
An update on the sad news of Seth Vidal’s passing at the hands of a hit and run driver.
27 year old Maceo Christopher Kemp Jr turned himself in. Durham police charged Kemp with felony hit-and-run and driving without a license.
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* Durham Herald-Sun: Driver arrested in cyclist hit-and-run.
* WRAL.com: Man charged in Durham hit-and-run that killed bicyclist.
July 9, 20138 Comments on Seth Vidal killed by hit & run driver
Seth Vidal, a well known open source software contributor, was cycling near his home in Durham, NC last night when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver. The 36 year old software developer was pronounced dead after he was taken to Duke hospital.
Witnesses describe a late 90s or early 2000s dark colored sedan that slowed then swerved before hitting Vidal on Hillendale Road near I-85. Police are asking the public for help in identifying the suspect.
Vidal was a emeritus board member of the Fedora Project and an employee at Red Hat, Inc. where he developed the Yellowdog Updater Modified (yum), a command-line tool to manage software packages for Linux distributions.
Although Vidal is known around the world for his contributions to open source software, local friends describe him as a valuable and giving member of the local cycling community who worked to improve cycling and walking conditions in his area.
Elsewhere:
Russ Roca and Laura Crawford met with Vidal when they traveled through Durham. Vidal describes the local cycling in this video.
Photo taken from Seth Vidal’s Twitter profile.
July 3, 2013Leave a Comment
From How Doug Engelbart taught kids to ride a bike (without training wheels):
When Doug Engelbart was a kid [in Portland, OR], he and his brother used to practice trick bike riding. They got so they could bend over and scoop something off the ground while riding (without losing speed and without squatting down), ride their bikes backwards seated on their handlebars, and other fancy feats.
The inventor of the computer mouse passed away at age 88.
July 3, 2013Leave a Comment
Happy Day before Independence Day.
You know how the pros swerve all over the road as they approach the finish line to block their opponents? This move frustrates commuters on the trail, too.
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July 2, 2013Leave a Comment
A pair of journalists at the Mercury-News raced from Fremont BART to Market & Montgomery in San Francisco. Josh Richman drove solo up I-880 and across the Bay Bridge; Thomas Peele rode Amtrak Capital Corridor the SF ferry from Jack London Square, in Oakland.
July 1, 2013Leave a Comment
Happy first day of July and happy Monday. I hope your bike ride this morning was as pleasant as mine.
Enjoy the collection of bike news below.