Geoffrey Racette was Just Riding Along in Minneapolis when he spotted a car tire sticking up through the brush by an ice covered pond.
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Winter cyclist saves a life
January 14, 2013Leave a Comment
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MAP-21, transportation funding and bicycles
January 11, 20131 Comment on MAP-21, transportation funding and bicycles
Happy Friday, everybody. The League of American Bicyclists created this handy-dandy infographic showing how US Federal transportation funds are divied up for bicycle projects.
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Santa Monica Apple bike parking update
January 8, 20131 Comment on Santa Monica Apple bike parking update
Last month I kind of panned Apple’s new store in Santa Monica, California for their back alley bike parking.
Ted, who actually lives near there and knows the local situation much better than I, looks at this in much more detail from the perspective of a local.
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Burry Stander RIP
January 3, 20131 Comment on Burry Stander RIP
25 year old South African mountain bike champion Burry Stander was hit by a taxi in Shelly Beach, South Africa and killed earlier today while he was on a training ride.
Stander was UCI Mountain Bike World Cup under-23 men’s cross-country 2009 world champion.
Stander leaves behind his wife Cherise Taylor Stander, who is also an elite cyclist. With condolences to those close to him and the mountain bike community he was a part of.
Via the UCI Overlord.
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Death Machines vs Turtles
December 29, 20123 Comments on Death Machines vs Turtles
Clemson University student places plastic turtles in the road to observe what people do. It turns out a bunch of you psychopaths swerve to intentionally kill them. Shame on you.
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Fighting Cancer
December 14, 2012Leave a Comment
The New York Post likened the expansion of bike lanes to a cancer the other day in an editorial by Steve Cuozzo. Normally I ignore such diatribes, but Christopher Robbins responds with brilliat snark at the Gothamist.
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