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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Timothy M. Kaine admitted the state’s so-called abusive driver fees had failed and called for them to be repealed, Cornish was ordered to pay a fee of $1,050 for recklessly operating his 18-speed Huffy in an intersection during rush hour.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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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”” [...]