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Well this is going to be a busy year. I’ve got a book deal! I’ve teamed up with amazing bike culture photographer: We’re writing the definitive travel guide to biking in NYC loaded with information, bike rides, history and fascinating characters who make up our unique cycling community. We are [...] Eric Bull sent me this info on the launch of a new website that is trying to get a million people to unite for one step closer to WORLD BICYCLE DOMINATION! If you haven’t heard, this week we launched a great new website and initiative to promote bicycling that I think will be right up your [...] google maps now includes directions for bikes. Interesting graphic on how people commute. Check out the precentage of people who drive, carpool, take public transport or bike, here. Los Angeles ER doctor Christopher Thompson, has a new place to practice medicine…a jail cell. He was sentenced to five years in prison for deciding to use his car as a weapon and slam on the brakes in front of two road cyclists. One of those, who suffered severe injuries is Ron Peterson, recently spoke [...] Ok, I can understand the police kicking someone out of private space where people are skateboarding, doing grinds on a bmx bike or in this case playing bike polo. But arresting a practicing bike polo team who’d been coming out for years and having them spend 11 hours in jail? Excessive. Sad [...] James Hook is hosting debates in a series called: Open City Dialogue (OCD) Short (35-40 minute) lectures are woven together from the common thread of people’s obsessions, with guests coming from all over Greater [...] Jeffeson Siegel reporter and photographer sent me this link which identifies the woman killed on her bicycle last week: 35 year old, Fuen Bai of the East Village. Read more here. Not more than 2 days after the 5th annual memorial ride in NYC which occurred last Sunday, I get tragic news from Bill DiPaola executive director of Time’s Up who was on the scene of an accident. Looks as if a woman was killed by a large yellow school bus Eastbound on Delancey Street which [...] January 4th, 2010. It’s a new year and the decade of the bicycle is moving into it’s next phase. There is always a sentimental and reflective kick off to each year here in NYC, with the annual memorial ride and walk which pays tribute to our fallen bikers. With so many more people [...] |
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