Gold Member dragged me out for a pre-dawn assault. It was my first ski of the season. It was past due. This is pretty much how it went down:
5am. No cheese but the cheezits. Improvise. by 6am, the coffee had yet to kick in. I felt like my boy looks.
Gold Member drops the hammer on [...]
From: Prairie Jean
FYI: Gary was injured in El Tour, the most critical in the pack of 10 hit by a 91 yr old driver that left the scene on 11/22/08. He has been in a drug induced coma, has had three brain surgery’s, seizures, and a Trekiodmey to name just a few and [...]
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 County Attorney [...]
K-Camp EPic Happened down south of Tucson this past weekend while I was on a rideabout. Chad and the AES crew saw over 50 starters. An impressive turnout for AZ underground epicness.
The Super Prestige from the BKW point. Some hard riding even if it’s old news and more important than the race, look at the [...]
From: Dimitri
I do not know this person, but I know plenty of riders who are getting close calls with cars on every ride. It just seems to be getting worse every week.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/36086554.html
Paul was riding “legally” yet they determined “the death was ruled an accident.”
How is that even possible?
Story here…
Some great comments here as well…
Boom. Another one down. At some point, you’ll have to be kidding.
From: Kt
Subject: Biker Down (yet again)
I work at Raleigh bicycles in Kent, WA. (just south of Seattle).
We just heard about this, this morning:
http://www.kirotv.com/news/18254072/detail.html
Renton is just a few miles from here, and the route in for about half of
our riders. We had to do a [...]
Car swerves into oncoming lane & wipes out Mark @ 49. Nice work car driver.
But on the good note, he only had two sons.
Good times.
From: UgliYeti
Subject: Biker Down
Nelson used to be a regular at the shop I worked at 15 years ago. He had the most tricked out Huffy that ever hit the streets. Not tricked out in a typical hopped-up Huffy kind of way, but how the rest of us would have tricked out a P-21, [...]
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 County Attorney’s Office to take action [...]
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 [...]
More Awesome.
From: Mike
Another biker down in the Chicago area (NW Suburbs).
I wonder what happened about enforcing the new 3 foot rule? How far out would a biker have to sweve to be struck and killed if some 23 yr old kid was actually following the law (and common sense)?
3 Foot Rule? Never knew about it.
From: UgliYeti
Nelson used to be a regular at the shop I worked at 15 years ago. He had the most tricked out Huffy that ever hit the streets. Not tricked out in a typical hopped-up Huffy kind of way, but how the rest of us would have tricked out a P-21, Fat, or Stumpy at [...]
From: Jonathan
Subject: One down in TO
I guess this is what it takes to get some justice. Awful.
theglobeandmail.com/…TPNational/Ontario
Cheers.
From: Brian
Subject: Biker Down again - Only it took ~one year this time…
In this case, the rider was the victim of a notorious bridge with a dated design here in Seattle.
seattlepi.nwsource.com
Excerpt below:
Bicyclist injured in 2007 Ballard Bridge crash dies
Father of three had been in constant pain, wife says
By LEVI PULKKINEN
A bicyclist gravely injured [...]
If not for BMX, there would be clowns everywhere. It’s good to see Aitken’s embrace the helmet. It’s sad to see he had to take a hit to get there…
From: Hevi Kevi
Subject: Mike is about the Helmet
I haven’t seen a posting on DC regarding Mike Aitken, one of the best BMXer’s in the world, who [...]
