Biker Down: Cindie Holub

From Ray out of Phoenix:
SCOTTSDALE, AZ – A bicyclist has died days after being hit by a garbage truck in Scottsdale.
Police said 53-year-old Cindie Holub was riding a bicycle east on Dynamite Boulevard along the far right side of the roadway around 1:10 p.m. on February 24th.
A 50-year-old man driving a Waste Management garbage truck [...]

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Fuckface: If this was your objective, you got what you wanted.

Some fucking asshole decided to sabotage the bike path by sprinkling a lot of broken glass in little piles for 30 feet, all over the path, and then cover it with leaves. I called the police and reported this behavior last week. They sent someone out to clean up the graffiti but left [...]

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Biker Down – Driver sentenced to probation

A driver whose van struck and killed a bicyclist in Pittsfield Township in July was sentenced today to two years of probation.
Nicholas Wahl, 20, of Clinton, pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in a sentencing agreement that allowed him to avoid jail time in the death of Tim Pincikowski, 45, of Saline.
Judge Melinda Morris sentenced Wahl [...]

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Cyclists That Can: Randy and the Three Foot Law

Last week, for the second time in the past two months, I had another altercation with a car. The first incident occurred on San Fransisco street when I was harassed for taking my lane to ensure my safety as an asshole in a mustang rev’d and tailgated me in a hasty attempt to pass unsafely, [...]

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Carlos going down…

DC reported over the past few months on the death of Floridian Christophe Le Canne. As many of you know, he was struck and killed by a driver who left the scene that was later identified as Carlos Bertonatti: Pop Star Shit Bag. The following update was just past through the tubes by Gary in [...]

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Grocery outlet sherry – how to make.

Put a helmet on when doing fast, dumb, or unusual shit. Your hands might catch the street but your bike can smack your skull. (I found out)

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Christophe Le Canne Memorial Ride in Miami

From: Gary
Just an update on the Christophe Le Canne Memorial Ride in Miami. The largest turnout ever of cyclist in South Florida. Cyclist from all different groups: Roadies, recreational, fixie and families with children in trailer all attended. Not one cyclist made a scene as the route did take us by the residence of Carlos [...]

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Carlos Bertonatti: pop star, shit bag

We’ve all heard about the recent ugliness out of Miami. But, did you know guy is a freaking pop star?
An up-and-coming Miami pop singer with slick looks and a Sony recording contract has been charged with vehicular homicide in a horrific hit-and-run crash near Key Biscayne. . .
Officers say Bertonatti was drunk when he [...]

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Miami Cyclist Memorial Ride

From: Gary
Below are a couple of links that go into a bit more detail of the response time to the site and for the memorial ride this Sunday for the victim. I read some comments on the story posted on your site and a couple of people mentioned how there is too much anger directed [...]

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Cyclist Killed in Miami

From: dan
I don’t know who reads these emails, and at the moment I don’t care too much who reads it, but I want it to be read. Today, near Key Biscayne, a cyclist riding in a bike lane was hit from behind by a driver. It is currently being discussed by another cyclist involved in [...]

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Chattanooga drops the ball

From: Jiblogs
Subject: Sometimes my city really sucks
Bicyclist Hit, No Charges Against Car Driver
Traffic Investigators with the Chattanooga Police Department have finished their investigation of a bicyclist hit at 100 W 20th Street Monday.
Louis Oscar Milton, 65, was hit by a car as he rode his bike along the steet, suffering serious injuries to [...]

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Wanna bet?

Chrissie Wellington trains w/ a cast just days after a crash.

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Five years

Dr. Thompson faces his destiny.
The culmination of it all fell upon this man like a ton of bricks. And I, having seen a man likewise sentenced to five years incarceration for what he did to me with his automobile… I have little sympathy.

A doctor convicted of assaulting two bicyclists by slamming on his car [...]

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Biker Down

David Longdon was injured doing what he loves – biking – when a minivan forced him off of Highway 202 and into a ditch.
“I’m broken up and I can’t sleep. And the pain is pretty severe right now,” he said.
Longdon was riding with the Starbucks Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Racing Team when he and others [...]

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City of Flagstaff Transit vs. Cyclist

Because it never ends…
From: BGR
Riding to work early Saturday morning 12-19-09. I was “buzzed” by a City of Flagstaff transit bus. I had moved to the left side of the bicycle lane to avoid a pile of snow. The bus chose to come within a foot of me, even though their was no other traffic [...]

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The Monday Delivery

You’re saying it’s time for work? God Dam It. I’d rather be Bike Camping.

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Let the gavels drop

It’s about time that a court is recognizing a car as a weapon.
We just need some appeals now, and higher court rulings, and then, maybe, the head-out-of-your ass notion wlll dawn on some heads that cars are dangerous, not just a hide-out from the world around you. (we are raising kids to think and [...]

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Biker Down

Keep it safe out there.
Texting driver arrested after hitting bicyclist
Police say a bicyclist was hit by a car on Route 70 while the driver was texting about a drug deal.
Robert J. Sharrer, 28, of New Jersey Avenue in Pemberton Township, has been charged with drug possession with the intent to distribute after an undisclosed [...]

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Biker Down Fatality Today in Flagstaff

I got a few emails on this accident that happened today here in Flag over by the recycling center. I caught more detail from various people around town. The kid was 23 year old vis-com student at NAU, named Joshua Pete.
From: Mike
Not sure if you have seen it yet, but at 11:30 this morning a [...]

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The fruits of rendition

First & again, never forget the people of wal-mart. One divine tragedy after another. Conspicuously housed. Simple. Beautiful. Coincidence. Yea. Once bored, try the people of mass transit. My personal fav? Homemade Spiderman:

Onward. We will live together in harmony. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.

Second out of the gate and perhaps with more clout [...]

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