Something to think about when you assert your right to ride.
Be safe out there.
—bp
(jonny needs to fix the embedded video shit. If I can do it half in the bag the morning after, he can get it right with cactus in his nuts.)

From: Martin
Subject: Save the Date – Bike to Work Week – Kick-Off Commuter Ride
Save the date! The wind is starting to blow, the really big snow banks are almost melted, spring is right around the corner and so is Flagstaff’s seventh annual Bike to Work Week.
Please plan to join us for the [...]

Hi all,
We should have gorgeous weather in Sedona this weekend! Our official YMBP ride will be Sunday, leaving Flagstaff at 11 and riding from the Absolute Bikes in Village of Oak Creek (Sedona) around noon. If you (or your kids) are planning to carpool from Flagstaff, please arrive at the new Absolute Bikes [...]

I don’t even know what to say about something like this.
After parents get in touch, police arrest young woman in Fircrest hit-and-run
Fircrest police have arrested an 18-year-old woman suspected in a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a bicyclist earlier this month, Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said Thursday.
The woman’s parents contacted investigators through an [...]

From: Hurl
Subject: Rad.
actual footage from Frostbündt, QBP’s annual winter bike orgy, 16-February-2008. The rumored Texas Twins Race never materialized, but the combination of not one, but two, steering wheel-equipped rides provides hours of derby enjoyment for the awestruck bystanders. This is rock-n-roll bicycle action when adults on bicycles can revel in the combination [...]

At first blush, this story is infuriating:
A Glenn County sheriff’s deputy shot a man with a Taser gun for allegedly riding his bike at night without proper lighting.
Then you get to this part:
According to a sheriff’s spokesman, the bicyclist ignored warnings from the deputy he would use the stun gun, then fled on foot.
Not using [...]

From: Big Shorty
Subject: St. Louis isn’t too bike friendly lately
St. Louis has one of it’s major interstates closed pushing a ton of cars
onto surface streets and they aren’t playing too nice.
www.stltoday.com

More from St. Louis -
From: Mark
Subject: Another cyclist hit
Big Jonny,
My friend’s boss, who rides centuries for fun and does all those [...]

From: Marc
Subject: Ride fight
Hey Big J;
Now that I’m living back in sunny Newport Beach, I’ve been riding Pacific Coast Hwy a bit. One day I got completely shelled by the group after 25 miles. I’m stuck about a 1/4 mile back by myself playing catch up and praying they hit red lights or [...]

The Tour de Fat is not going to happen in Flagstaff this year. And it may not ever happen again.
I’ve known this for a few weeks now, but wasn’t sure what to say about it. Or how.
But, Melissa with FBO has put up a post that lays it all out:
Our friends at [...]

Oh my…
With their habit of racing along pedestrian-filled sidewalks and ignoring the rules of the road, bicycles have long been a scourge of Japan’s city streets.
But perhaps no longer. The National Police Agency (NPA) — never mind the nation’s pedestrians and motorists — has had enough, according to Weekly Playboy. This spring, cops nationwide are [...]

From: ScoreKeeper Scott
Subject: I am laughing at the bitch
Woman with prior DUI strikes and kills cyclists. Scumbag defense lawyer claims she is remorseful, she cries. Then this shite comes out at sentencing, maybe it should have come out at trial.
www.azstarnet.com/metro/221764
keep on flowing my friend
scorekeeper out
Erik has a post up on this [...]

File this one under You Gotta Be Shitting Me.
One day after Gov. Timothy M. Kaine admitted the state’s so-called abusive driver fees had failed and called for them to be repealed, Cornish was ordered to pay a fee of $1,050 for recklessly operating his 18-speed Huffy in an intersection during rush hour.
“A bike with [...]

251 Tips that Suck
1. Ride your bicycle piss-drunk. Fun will rain upon you like blood from your forehead. You may run down a pedestrian, engage in fisticuffs with a motorist, lose a big gamble or even invent your own particular style of a good time. Or you might crash and burn on the median, losing [...]

I read this one a week or so back in the New York Times. Here’s a short teaser quote:
Outdoor enthusiasts are flocking in record numbers to lesser-known forests, deserts and mountains, where the rules of use have been lax and enforcement infrequent.
The federal government has been struggling to come up with plans to accommodate [...]

If you live in and around the Flagstaff area (Verde Valley, Sedona, Cottonwood, etc) and your kids like to mountain bike, this one is for you.
From: Neil Ross
Subject: Sedona ride January 12
I’m planning our third FBO Youth Mountain Biking Program Sedona kids’ ride of the winter for Saturday January 12, leaving Flagstaff at [...]

Saw this and thought I’d share: Even Cadel Evans feels it out on the road.
Evans notes training fears in Australia
By Susan Westemeyer
Cadel Evans of Team Silence-Lotto is a road racer, but admits that sometimes training on the road can be scary and dangerous. “Honestly, the scariest part of my job is riding on the [...]

From: 40 Hands
Subject: favor
Jonny,
I’m not sure how many readers you get from the great state of Montana, but we have a new group of folks up here trying to protect some of the states best riding over at the Montana Mountain Bike Alliance (www.montanamountainbikealliance.com). If youre not too busy being depressed because the Eagles [...]

This is cool beyond words:
Paris Rental Bike Scheme Goes Global
A growing number of cities are setting up self-service rental bike schemes. A French advertising company has hit upon the most simple scheme, one that has won over thousands of Parisians and is now being exported across the world.

Parisians have taken the “Velib”” bicycles to their [...]

Warren John Wilson, 52, faces a single felony count of vandalism, police Sgt. Linda King said Friday.
King said nearly 50 holes measuring about 1 foot by 2 feet (30 centimeters by 60 centimeters) have been found since June along a trail at Laguna Lake Park, and in some cases attempts had been made to hide [...]

Great tag line. Gotta love it.
What’s smug and deserves to be decapitated?
Matthew Parris: My Week
A festive custom we could do worse than foster would be stringing piano wire across country lanes to decapitate cyclists. It’s not just the Lycra, though Heaven knows this atrocity alone should be a capital offence; nor the helmets, though [...]