File this under WTF

From: mike a. Subject: Olympic champion arrested not sure if you have seen this yet. Now you have to look out for cars and the cops, messed up cyclingnews.com/news/olympic-champion-perez-arrested-while-training the video: youtube.com/watch?v=2W2RpjzRxWc&feature=player_embedded

Everyday

Everyday I read a few blogs. Most of them are about nothing, some are just old friends that I try and stay up to date in their lives. One of these blogs kills me. Everyday I come into work, sit down, turn on the computer and go to this one. With a sort of grace, [...]

Biker Down Update: Brett Saks

Subject: Fwd: Trial Date August 4th 2009 From: Prairiejean This is the trial date for the man that killed Brett Saks (google him, amazing), 33 1/2 weeks ago on the Casa Grande HWY, please help all you can with court support. Stay safe always, Jean Subject: Trial Date Hi, everyone. I have information about the [...]

Wide Fucking Open

I’ll not be in attendance at this Friday’s summit in Flagstaff as we’re taking the kids to Sea World over the weekend. It will be interesting to see what transpires. I am hoping that cooler heads will prevail and kick ass bike racing will continue to prosper in and around Flagstaff. I have not said [...]

Federal bailout for bicycles?

Wait a sec… money for riding your bike? This can’t be true. Can it? Well, according to the super fine print we mentioned in a previous post, it is. The Feds are giving out a $20 dollar tax credit per month to anyone who rides their bike to work. Read the rest: blogs.citypages.com

Tucson Driver Indicted

This’ll probably be covered soon in more detail by the Tucson Lawyering Crew, but with Gnome at the P.E.E. and this in the paper, I wanted to make sure it got out: A 91-year-old man accused of driving off after his car struck a group of bicyclists last month in Tucson has been indicted. Pima [...]

The latest out of Tucson

A follow up to the Bike Down post on Saturday: —– Original Message —– From: Barbara LaWall To: pyramidcoaching Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 12:36 PM Subject: e-mail message to cycling community … Dear Mr. Blanchard: Your recent e-mail to the cycling community asking them to write letters in “an attempt to persuade the Pima [...]

Biker down

Let’s start at the beginning: There was an accident during El Tour de Tucson this year. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is looking for a car that hit a group of bicyclists this morning near the Westward Look Resort before leaving the scene. About 60 bicyclists were traveling westbound on Ina Road, east of Oracle [...]

Bush to open national parks to mountain bikes

File this under: You gotta be shitting me. Oct 14th, 2008 | WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is taking steps to make it easier for mountain bikers to gain access to national parks and other public lands before the president — an avid cyclist himself — leaves office. The National Park Service confirmed Tuesday that [...]

Less Talkie more Doie

My dad told me a story one time. Here goes, One day a man goes to a conference talking about how to be a better this and that. People talking about how you need to feel good about yourself in order to have a positive impact on the world. That type of stuff. Well the [...]

Coming to a town near you

I only hope so… Bicyclists to get own day on Chicago streets Parkways will be closed to autos What would streets be like without cars? You’ll have a chance to find out on two Sundays in October. A network of inner-city boulevards will be closed to automobile traffic from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on [...]

My Man Lopez Lomong to bear Olympic Flag!

This story just came out (AFP) – former Northern Arizona University runner – qualified in the 1500: will be the U.S. flag bearer at the Olympic opening ceremonies. I had the pleasure of speaking with Lopez back in April and I can tell you this guy is so gracious and down to earth, just a [...]

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