Somehow I’m guessing the driver will be found at fault. And the badge/uniform thing is just a coincidence. A “civilian” gets run over, big deal. We’re too busy to even look for the car let alone actually cite somebody. Cyclist must have been in the way, holding up traffic, you know [...]

From: Ralph
Subject: Helmets…
Yes wear your helmet, cause you just don’t know. If you knew you’d have
already won the lottery!
I was leaving a traffic light when my right pedal snapped off. (Picture 1)
Yea, I should have run it:-) Landed on one side, that left a mark. That is
also when I started to remember things, [...]

Online Petition for equal prize money for female cyclists.
You can even use it as a pick-up line after at the bar. “Hey I just signed a petition to get y’all ladies equal prize money when y’all do your 20 mile loop. Howz about we go get a bit crazy in my pick-em-up truck?”
‘Well, sure [...]

Saw this over at tucsonbikelawyer.com
Car-head: New York victim of hit-and-run calls 911, gets ticket for not having a bell on his bike.
I’m not kidding.
My friend Joy sent me this under the subject heading “it’s not just Tucson.”
The victim has had little luck getting the police to act, even though he has the vehicle’s license [...]

A reasonable question. With no clear answer.
One of the major questions the community is grappling with after the deaths of both Tracey Sparling and Brett Jarolimek is; why were the truck drivers not given a citation for failure to yield to a bicycle in a bike lane?
Read bikeportland.org

A four intersection, but a three way stop. The road I’m on is one way once you pass through. Traffic to my left, up the hill and in front of me at the stop sign. Nothing to the right, which is essentially a parking lot.
Girl to my left goes, turning left on [...]

This could spell trouble for one of the nations finest bicycle events:
More Iowa counties are considering a ban on Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa.
Crawford County made the move recently after settling a $350,000 lawsuit in which a biker was killed when his tire hit a gap in the road.
Supervisors in Carroll County on [...]

The Flagstaff Biking Organization’s online store is now open for business. Hit it like an eight ball in the corner pocket: flagstaffbiking.org/products-page

From: wilde bike
Subject: Marin Independent Journal: Fairfax man defends himself against illegal mountain biking charges
“…’gravy’ gets ripped for poaching an illegal trial but he got the chance to express some thoughts in federal court about the lack of cooperation & the dangers of cycling in Marin… …the judge showed a lot of empathy towards [...]

There is a lot of writing out there of late concerning accidents involving automobiles and bicycles, and the charges brought (or not brought) against drivers who were at fault. Some of these incidents are quite serious, resulting in severe injury and death to the cyclist end of the equation. It goes without saying [...]

This shit is off the chain:
Police have arrested a man in connection with a road-rage incident last week in which a cyclist stabbed a motorist with a screwdriver.
According to police, a cyclist was cut off by a driver turning left onto College St. from La Plante Ave., at about 9:45 a.m. on Friday. An escalated [...]

Is this a step in the right direction? God I hope so. Something has got to change.
Banning right hand turns may not be the only change made at North Interstate and Greeley, the scene of two bicycle crashes in two weeks.
The City may install bike sensors, additional signage and the bike lanes [...]

I like to bust the balls of my co-workers about them not wearing helmets to work. One assclown (love ya, Malibu) brought his helmet in his backpack instead of on his head.
From: Wear a helmet!
Subject: Michael
Hey J-
Just wanted to pass along a tip to all readers. WEAR A FUCK’N HELMET!
Check out [...]

Crawford County goes big.
RAGBRAI has been banned from rolling through Crawford County.
Stinging from a $350,000 settlement paid to the widow of a RAGBRAI rider who died in Crawford County, the board of supervisors on Tuesday passed a resolution that prohibits the bicycle ride or “any event of like kind and nature.”
Crawford County officials [...]

The lunch post – Pad Thai #3 w/ deep fried tofu. Bangin’. All that and a pic. Good times.

Well said, sister.

This one is out of Seattle:
One bicyclist was killed and another was injured Friday afternoon in a collision with a dump truck in the city’s Eastlake neighborhood.
Two men in their 20s were apparently riding north on Eastlake Avenue toward the University Bridge when a dump truck making a right turn onto Fuhrman Avenue East crashed [...]

The neighborhood I live in has these big landscaped medians that separate traffic going one way from traffic going the other. I’m riding up the hill back to my place the other day, and this guys coming straight down the hill at me on another bicycle. He’s weaving around and I soon realize [...]

This just in via email.
Des Moines police and detectives are investigating a car-bicycle accident that occurred around 9:20 a.m. today at 13th Street and University Avenue.
The motorist appears to have made a U-turn in a parking lot and deliberately drove down a sidewalk on the south side of University, hitting the man on the [...]

From: Lopo
Subject: ha ha ha..silly boys
Ok, so finally a story where the cyclist triumphs over the big truck. Kind of funny. Happened right on main street here in Bozeman. So…there I was…riding along. Light turns red. I stop, of course. I am sittin there waiting for the [...]

This is beginning to get really depressing. There have been a lot of emails and subsequent posts regarding accidents involving cyclists today. Looks like it’s about time to mix up a cocktail at the Drunkcyclist World Headquarters.
From: dano
Subject: this is worthy of your attention
Jonny,
This is so terribly sad and horribly [...]