I’ve been talking a lot about “bike train” lately as a group of us launch this group ride for commuters in San Jose. “Bike buddies” is another program used to encourage newcomers to try cycling to work. The Safe Routes to School people call the bike version of their Walking School Bus a bike train. […]
A group of five avid bike commuters had a great time launching San Jose Bike Train this morning.
Unlike many cases in which a cyclist fatality is dismissed as a tragic accident, justice may be on the way for Santa Cruz cyclist Joshua Alper, who was killed when Navindra Jain, also of Santa Cruz, allegedly fell asleep at the wheel of his Tesla last November 2013.
In May of 2011, Bahram Saghari was biking to work as a lecturer in Operations and Management Systems in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University when he was left-crossed by the unlicensed driver of a Ford Explorer SUV in Los Gatos, California. The collision resulted in a serious head injury for Mr. […]
If it bleeds, it leads, which is why I suppose so many helmet-cam videos feature close calls and idiots on the road. To try to skew the ratio back towards reality, I’ve started posting boring videos showing my carefree bike rides. This video shows the entire part of my seven mile daily commute between downtown […]
The city of San Jose, California has one of the largest urban trail networks in the nation, with over 50 miles of trails open to the public. Several “core” trails — Guadalupe River, Coyote Creek and Highway 87 Bikeway — extend for several miles and are suitable for commuters as well as recreational use. A […]