From: Will
Another sad Biker Down incident to report in Flagstaff. 82 year old Bill McCoy crashed on his way home from the post office Saturday afternoon in his Swiss Manor neighborhood. My family was out for walk and came across the scene when I recognized a bike on the sidewalk surrounded multiple police [...]

This fell through the cracks…
Last july, we reported the incident involving two cyclists and an raging Doctor.
From: Bikedawg
Link to article about the LA Road Rage Doc arraignment for what should have been attempted murder of two cyclists last July 4th 2008.  It looks like his day in court might actually be sooner than reported, as [...]

I’ve received a couple of emails about  John Breaux’s death. He collected trash on the side of the road, and hung it on the handlebars of his bike, in shopping bags. Salt of the earth.
From Skunk_cabbage:
this guy was a regular sight around the Lafayette-Louisville area when i would be rolling back to Boulder after the [...]

I got my warm fuzzies.
Not happy happy joy joy news at all. I’m sitting here waiting for the rider’s name to be announced hoping it’s not someone I know or one of our customers. Just to put it into perspective 9pm here right now is just after sunset.
Driver charged over cyclist’s death
January 29, 2009 01:25am
POLICE [...]

Just say no to winter cycling? baseless solution. Serge Venne – 45, was taken down by an errant flatbed this winter in La Tuque. The accident as reported:
when it swerved back to regain the lane one of the hooks on the truck snagged the cyclist and pulled him under the truck’s wheels, according to Constable [...]

From: Erik
All –
Glenda Rumsey will be sentenced this coming Tuesday at 1:30 PM in the Board of Supervisor’s room at 130 W. Congress in downtown Tucson. Most of you know that she was driving with a blood alcohol content of .249 when she hit 14 year-old Jose Rincon, killing him and injuring his [...]

This slipped through the inbox cracks at the end of December…
From: Jeffery
biker down, bus driver ignores pleas of passengers to stop and render aid.
Story contains this great quote, “If he hadn’t realized he hit the victim, we would have probably not charged him, but we have several witnesses’ statements that say that they told him [...]

Been to Bootleg? It’s the home of the interbyke dirt demo, as well as a refuge for a ton of AZ DH heads (among others) who haven’t got a proper dh park in AZ (hello fucking snow bowl???). Yea, and they say it too; thank god Bootleg is just over the Nevada border, and ooooooh [...]

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.