Very, very clever!
12.27.2010
1.05.2010
11.23.2009
3.16.2009
Buffer Zone a good idea for cyclists, even the irksome ones.
funny title to this editorial about a three foot buffer for cyclists...
3.09.2009
This wasn't a "bike accident"
A Chattanooga man died on Friday in what reporters are apparently calling a "bicycle accident." David Meek, a bike shop owner (cyclist, friend, husband and father) was killed when a truck passed him on the left so close that the passing truck caught on his bag and pulled him under. It is not evident that any bicycle accidents were involved. A bike accident is when a cyclist makes a mistake. This was a collision caused by a criminally negligent truck driver. When you get behind the wheel of a multi-thousand pound vehicle, it is your duty to control that vehicle in such a way as that it doesn't hurt or kill anybody else. This is no different than if a person wielding a chain saw decided to cut down a tree that another person was leaning on. Or a man wielding a gun decided to shoot into a crowd because he thought there was enough room for the bullet to get through. This wasn't a bike accident. Unfortunately it was JUST a cyclist. Not a cop. Not the mayor's daughter or wife. Not anybody the law cares about. So it'll just be labelled an "accident" and forgotten. story
2.25.2009
Amazing Race host to ride across America.
Phil Keogan, host of The Amazing Race is planning on riding his bike across America to inspire people to ride their bikes more. "I feel like where we're at in the economy, the bicycle is a pretty good solution to helping people's waistlines, wallets and the environment," Keoghan said....
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2.24.2009
Dave Zabriskie's house robbed.
They took EVERYTHING. His bikes, his cars, his trophies, his comic books, his electronics, everything. Even his underwear. More info here. Mr. Zabriskie just placed second in America's biggest bike race, the Tour of California. He is an amazing athlete and a nice guy to par so keep your eyes out for his stolen undies and report anything suspicious to the authorities. Lance Armstrong got his stolen bike back, let's make sure Dave gets his too.
1.19.2009
60 days in jail for murder.
This guy was driving on the wrong side of the highway, passing cars on the wrong side, kills a cyclist, says "Oops, I didn't see it", and only gets 60 days in jail. Had it been a police officer on the side of the road that he killed, he would have received YEARS in the slammer, but for a cyclist... link
1.16.2009
1.11.2009
Fuel Cell Bicycle
Coming to the US later this year, a steal at only $3,000, as long as you can find a fueling station. link
1.02.2009
12.26.2008
12.17.2008
12.15.2008
Cop who attacked cyclist indicted...
Cop who attacked cyclist indicted using youtube video. Good for cyclists, good for cops that aren't shit-heads.
12.14.2008
12.11.2008
11.29.2008
Something to think about as you shop for Xmas.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi, quoted in E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. ~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. ~Mahatma Gandhi
U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks. ~Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, Christian Science Monitor, 1990
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. ~Author Unknown
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. ~Eric Hoffer
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ~Vernon Howard
The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. ~Mad Magazine
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~Henry David Thoreau
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. ~John Berger
Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. ~Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. ~Elwyn Brooks White
I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world. ~Adriano Tilgher
There must be more to life than having everything! ~Maurice Sendak
Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion. ~Ambrose Bierce
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. ~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. ~Author Unknown
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. ~Unknown
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ~Edward Abbey
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. ~Kin Hubbard
In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. ~Richard Bach
Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised. ~Adriano Tilgher
Who covets more, is evermore a slave. ~Robert Herrick
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one. ~Paul Heyne
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. ~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. ~Mahatma Gandhi
U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks. ~Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, Christian Science Monitor, 1990
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. ~Author Unknown
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. ~Eric Hoffer
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ~Vernon Howard
The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. ~Mad Magazine
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~Henry David Thoreau
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. ~John Berger
Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. ~Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. ~Elwyn Brooks White
I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world. ~Adriano Tilgher
There must be more to life than having everything! ~Maurice Sendak
Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion. ~Ambrose Bierce
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. ~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. ~Author Unknown
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. ~Unknown
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ~Edward Abbey
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. ~Kin Hubbard
In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. ~Richard Bach
Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised. ~Adriano Tilgher
Who covets more, is evermore a slave. ~Robert Herrick
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one. ~Paul Heyne
11.24.2008
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