Hi all,
We should have gorgeous weather in Sedona this weekend! Our official YMBP ride will be Sunday, leaving Flagstaff at 11 and riding from the Absolute Bikes in Village of Oak Creek (Sedona) around noon. If you (or your kids) are planning to carpool from Flagstaff, please arrive at the new Absolute Bikes [...]
Youth Mountain Bike Rides
By: big jonny at 8:15 am
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Tagged: Advocacy, Cycling
Biker Down Update: Sandy Johnston
By: big jonny at 8:46 pm
Commentary: 12 Comments
Tagged: Advocacy, Biker Down, Cycling
I don’t even know what to say about something like this.
After parents get in touch, police arrest young woman in Fircrest hit-and-run
Fircrest police have arrested an 18-year-old woman suspected in a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a bicyclist earlier this month, Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said Thursday.
The woman’s parents contacted investigators through an [...]
Frostbündt 2008
By: big jonny at 9:10 am
Commentary: 6 Comments
Tagged: Advocacy, Bike Tech, Bikes, Cycling, Event Calendar, Life
From: Hurl
Subject: Rad.
actual footage from Frostbündt, QBP’s annual winter bike orgy, 16-February-2008. The rumoured Texas Twins Race never materialized, but the combination of not one, but two, steering wheel-equipped rides provides hours of derby enjoyment for the awestruck bystanders. This is rock-n-roll bicycle action when adults on bicycles can revel in the combination [...]
At first blush, this story is infuriating:
A Glenn County sheriff’s deputy shot a man with a Taser gun for allegedly riding his bike at night without proper lighting.
Then you get to this part:
According to a sheriff’s spokesman, the bicyclist ignored warnings from the deputy he would use the stun gun, then fled on foot.
Not using [...]
Bad news outta St. Louis
By: big jonny at 1:10 pm
Commentary: 9 Comments
Tagged: Advocacy, Biker Down, Email
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 fun and does all those [...]
Keeping it old school
By: big jonny at 9:29 am
Commentary: 15 Comments
Tagged: Advocacy, Cycling, Email
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 or [...]
Tour de Fat is Cancelled for 2008
By: big jonny at 12:14 pm
Commentary: 5 Comments
Tagged: Advocacy, Cycling, News
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 [...]
Cops to collar careless cyclists - big jonny still looking for a dollar
By: big jonny at 9:46 am
Commentary: 4 Comments
Tagged: Advocacy, Cycling
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 nationwide are [...]
Tucson woman gets 10.5 years for killing cyclist
By: big jonny at 8:10 am
Commentary: 12 Comments
Tagged: Advocacy, Biker Down, Cycling, Email
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 on this [...]
Coming to a town near you: Reckless driving on a bicycle
By: big jonny at 9:02 am
Commentary: 6 Comments
Tagged: Advocacy, Cycling
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 with [...]





