If you hit another car in traffic, it’s probably just another fender bender. If you hit a cyclist, you might cause a death or serious injury. Austin Murphy pleads with motorists to “Open your eyes!” in his Sports Illustrated column. I was at the far right edge of the road. The car didn’t stop. I […]
From the San Francisco Chronicle: The number of bicyclists killed in collisions with motor vehicles has increased 28 percent over the past decade – from 18 to 23 deaths per year, according to a Chronicle analysis of data collected by the California Highway Patrol. That increase is despite a 22 percent drop in the number […]
Jill Hamilton is the “Bike Biz Babe” and she’s brand manager for Haro Bicycles in southern California. She rode one of the new 650B bicycles Haro is offering this year: the steel, fully rigid, 650B Beasely. Don’t get me wrong…I love my 29ers. But for a “little” person like me (at 5’7″), a 29er is […]
I make an appearance on this week’s edition of The Spokesmen cycling podcast. We talked about the local fatalities, the Tuscon Shootout, the baseball incident in Tuscon, the first prosecution using the new 3 foot law in Utah, Dave Zabriskie’s Yield To Life campaign, the mess with Perry Nees and ASO and UCI and Astana, […]
Oakland cyclist was world champion athlete. Kristianna Gough of Oakland, the 31-year-old cyclist struck and killed Sunday along with a San Francisco rider, Matt Peterson, 30, was an Olympic candidate and the third-fastest, non-professional women’s triathlete in the world, her mother said today. “People who knew her will tell you, she was a phenomenon. She […]
This is German cyclist Gunter Mai on a custom-everything seven pound bicycle. His clothes, shoes, hat, gloves and shades probably weigh more than his bike does. One of the more popular search phrases for Cyclelicious is lightest bicycle or “lightest bike.” James at Bicycle Design just posted about a new lightweight contender, a seven pound […]