Bad drivers hate everyone equally

As regular cyclists, we often find ourselves the victims of bad driving and baditudes from ignorant drivers; but they don't just save it for cyclists. Jeff over at bikecommuters.com shares...

Which candidates are taking oil money???

Some very interesting infographics to be found here.

Mission Impossible III: Kentucky K-Mart Kaper

A man accused of rappelling into a Kentucky K-Mart after hours is currently in jail despite a trial that seemed to be going well, before he punched his lawyer in the face in front of the judge. As the defendant eloquently stated it,
"Them are just accusations. They don't got no physical evidence whatsoever, just some guy, got caught up accusing me of being in there, and they don't have nothing else." This has nothing to do with bikes, but it's amazing news.

Share the road, or pay the price

"Reckless drivers who endanger bicycle riders would pay fines of $150 -- $500 if there's a bike crash -- under a crackdown proposed Wednesday by Chicago's No. 1 cyclist.

Mayor Daley, who once scraped the skin off his kneecap during a marathon bike ride in Michigan, has been there and done that...." link

Frozen Grand Central

Life on two wheels

Thanks to Symbiosis for the image.
In the Weekly Dig today, an editorial about the Car-Bicycle-Pedestrian-Hierarchy. Basically, don't be a dick while you're riding your bike or you're no better than the drivers. Except maybe this one, who attacked an 11 year old boy on a bicycle yesterday. Looks like he isn't concerned with earning his town a Bicycle Friendly Community award like that given to NYC a couple days ago. They are at bronze level, along with Sacramento. Ogden, Utah should be at gold level after the mayor tackled a bike thief.

R.I.P. Sheldon Brown

Sheldon Brown passed away last night of a massive heart attack. If you don't know who he is, you'd better ask somebody. Though I never met him in person, I (like thousands of others) have conversed with him on several occasions over email and he was always happy to answer a stranger's bike question, no matter how asinine the question may have been. May he rest in piece.

Canucks buy Cannondale

Dorel, the Canadian company responsible for such monstrosities as Pacific and NEXT "Bicycles", those $60 pieces of self-destructing crap sold at Walmart, has purchased Connecticut based Cannondale Bicycle Corp. in a 200 million dollar deal announced today. Expect Cannondale to start sucking in the near future. Story here.

Danger in the bike lane

From the Seattle Times, a story about the danger of getting "right-hooked" at intersections. Read up, and ride carefully.

Random acts of Thriller

Tom Cat

Best Superbowl Commercial.

Bridgestone makes bike tires too...

Two cyclists hit by truck with no driver.

A friend and co-worker of Kent Peterson's was hit by a truck on her way to work at the Bicycle Alliance the other day. She and another cyclist were stopped at a red light (ahem) when they were hit from behind by a truck. Not terribly uncommon an accident until you consider that the truck had no driver. Read about it here and at Kent's blog.

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The Yuba Mundo is here...

The Yuba Mundo utility-bike is finally available for order in the US. For information on features, specs, and ordering info, go to rockthebike.com or yubaride.com. There's also a couple of child seat options being offered.