I’ve had my head in a book all day Saturday. I don’t know up from down. Go figure. Then I read about this.
Damn.
She was 22.
From: Cameron
Subject: [from DC...]
Hey big Johnny, thought about writing for a while. A friend from college, an absolutely great and amazing person, [...]

A Bend bicyclist died after his bicycle struck an SUV in southeast Bend late Wednesday afternoon, police said.
Callers to Deschutes County dispatch around 4:15 p.m. said a bicyclist was down near the corner of Southeast 2nd Street and Miller Avenue (north of Wilson Avenue) and was bleeding from the head and not breathing.
Late Wednesday night, [...]

Cyclist McCall dies in accident
One of Northern Ireland’s best known cyclists, Davy McCall, has been killed in a road crash outside Crumlin.
The 46-year-old, a member of the Maryland Wheelers club in Lisburn, was involved in a collision with a car on at Nutts Corner on Tuesday night.
McCall, who took part in the 1998 Commonwealth Games [...]

Leadville was off the hook this year, with a fallen record and another win (making 5 or 6 consecutive now?) for Wiens. Nice work to them all, including LA, and especially, the DC boys. Rubelt and Juan layed it down in good style:
From: John
Subject: DC Rock’s Leadville
check out these shots,  be proud about 5 shots [...]

Bad news out of Colorado Springs:
From: Patrick
Subject: Riders down
Big Man,
Here we go again — a two-fer this time, and maybe the hat trick, as the story says three riders were involved:
gazette.com/…street_killed.html
This is the same stretch of road where Ed Burke had his fatal heart attack and a friend of mine got nailed good and [...]

Is this old news yet?
From: A-town
Subject: Check the link
Man dead in Seattle crash involving van, pedicab, scooter
And the Dem’s overlooked bikes as if they’re not the most greenest thing ever… even more than the beloved Prius.
From: Shannon
Subject: Right…
No room for bikes at greenest convention in history
Now, I can’t say I’m surprised in the least.
From: Damage’s [...]

Oh hell…
Cops: Enraged motorist swerves into bicyclists, injures one
A cyclist was struck while riding his bicycle Saturday morning, and both the victim and law enforcement officials say it was no accident.
A 41-year-old Kamas man was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault after witnesses reported seeing him swerve at groups of eastbound [...]

Two years. One million beers. Today is my death day. It was two years ago that I woke up in the hospital. With a wife and a six month old daughter at home.
So much for being a cyclist.
Oddly enough, I’ve managed to collect even more bikes since that day. [...]

So, this guy Ryan sends Gnome and I a lot of emails. I post most, if not all, of them. This one was a complete and total kick in the nuts. I have asked him to start contributing to Drunkcyclist directly, enough with the me posting his emails routine. We’ll see [...]

I got an update on the grim LA road rage incident via email.
From: Eric
Subject: Fwd: charges in la road-rage case
latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bikecrash
‘course the local hotheads are claimin’ bullshit on felony reckless driving – apparently they don’t like the semantics and would prefer attempted murder or some such, but I for one am pleased to see [...]

Just got this one via email.

From: Brad
Subject: Hit and Run / Biker Down From DC…
Rolled up on this scene moments after it happened yesterday – a horrible thing on an otherwise spectacular SW Colorado day.
montrosepress.com

From the article:
The state patrol is seeking the driver of an SUV it says struck and killed a bicyclist Thursday [...]

From: Hank
Subject: Biker Down
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (accident yesterday and today)
Woman arrested in bicycle death
Authorities have arrested the 43-year-old woman suspected of crashing into and killing one bicyclist and injuring another Wednesday night on Five Mile Road in the Town of Raymond.
Janell D. Gehrke of the Town of Norway allegedly was driving drunk, [...]

Let the good times roll.

From: Flo
Subject: Reason to own a .40 cal.
it’s shit like this that makes me want to tote my .40cal with me on road rides. Too bad the damn thing weighs too much. Gotta find a lighter handgun to compliment all the carbon.
laist.com/2008/07/07/road_rage_motorist_vs_cyclists_on_m.php#comments
I summize that soon we will be reading about cyclists [...]

It just keeps coming.
It was a daring dream by an exceptional man. Daniel Hurtubise had spent two years organizing a bicycling trip across Canada with his two teen children that would raise money and increase awareness of Type 1 diabetes, the condition he lived with from age 15.
They left Vancouver in mid-June, joined by Robert [...]

Oh Christ…
SUV jumps sidewalk and strikes the girl, almost 2, and her family on a bike ride. Her mother, father and younger brother sustain broken bones and internal injuries. Suspect faces murder charge.
Unreal. They guy was running from the scene of a different accident he got into earlier.
A toddler was killed and her mother, [...]

From: Erik
Subject: biker down in NC
The driver swerved to miss a deer (his story), crossed the center line and hit a cyclist head on. This was like 3 miles from my house. I’m leaving the bike on the trainer.
abclocal.go.com

Oregon is contemplating a law to make killing a cyclist a felony when driving a motorized vehicle.
The local fear mongering ABC network has a poll where you can tell them how you feel about it: www.koin.com
Scroll down the right side of the screen and you will get a “Yes” “no” type of poll. [...]

These posts are never easy. But this one is real, real bad. I’ve gotten a few emails about it today. I copied the text and photo below from a flickr post.
Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico (Monday June-2-2008) Seven competitors from yesterday cyclist race were severely injured after being hit by a drunk driver, one [...]

I am remiss in not posting this earlier….
Early on Saturday morning May 10, Eric Davidson was riding home from a BBQ when a car speeding from a Safeway parking lot in Portland, OR struck him and fled the scene.
Read Here
Eric has been in the hospital since, is in a coma, and is in critical but [...]

This one is off the chart. The story is datelined May 8th, so it is a few weeks old now already. But I hadn’t posted anything on the site about it. ‘Bout time I did.

About 50 cyclists – including Australian racer Kate Nichols, who was injured in a 2005 German road [...]