The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed the appeal filed by Floyd Landis. Landis has also been ordered to pay $100,000 to the US Anti Doping Agency for the costs incurred by his appeals. The full details are posted everywhere; Trust But Verify is dedicated to tracking Floyd Landis and his doping appeals […]
From a comment at CCCP blog: A 14-year-old girl riding in a mountain bike race was attacked in the dark of night by a bear Sunday and severely injured, but she was able to make a brief 911 call that eventually resulted in her rescue. The girl suffered head, neck, torso and leg wounds. She […]
The campfire smell seems to have gone away, but there was a layer of ash on my bicycle this morning. California’s new handsfree mobile phone law goes into effect tomorrow. The law does not ban texting while driving. I even saw this last Friday in moving traffic. The handsfree law doesn’t specifically exempt bicyclists, but […]
The bike safety town hall meeting starts in just a few hours at 12:30 PM, at San Jose city council chambers on East Santa Clara Street between 4th and 6th Streets in downtown. In this ABC 7 news video about the bike safety town hall meeting, reporter Heather Ishimaru talks with SVBC Executive Director Corinne […]
If you’re stuck indoors because of poor air quality, maybe you can at least read about bike stuff over the weekend. This started out as a dump of links around the blogosphere, but there’s so much Bay Area news I’m sitting on I need to get that out of my system first. But first of […]
It’s pretty bizarre reading forecasts this week and reading “partly smoky.” Here’s the graphic from the National Weather Service forecast for Monterey this weekend. With over 1,000 wildfires burning around the state of California, bike riding is a little bit tough. I’m avoiding long distance riding, but even my short bike commute leaves me choking […]