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 [...]
Biker Down: Cindie Holub
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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)
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wanna bet?
Chrissie Wellington trains w/ a cast just days after a crash.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Monday Delivery
You’re saying it’s time for work? God Dam It. I’d rather be Bike Camping.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]