Daily Cycling News
Here's the (near) daily post of cycling news from across the country, and sometimes interesting things from around the world. If I missed a worthy piece, please pass it on to me. Comments welcome.
Local
- Bikes take centre stage at the Toronto Bicycle Film Festival (canada.com, Aug 21)
- Rules of the road apply to cyclists, too (National Post, Aug 21)
You just know that there was going to be a rebuttal. Can motorists get defensive or what!?
Regional
- Cyclists support kids with cancer (simcoe.com, Aug 21)
- RONA MS Bike Tour (Hamilton Spectator, Aug 21) and...
- Fair-weather biker rides for a cause (Hamilton Spectator, Aug 21)
Canada
- City aims to maximize bicycle parking space with new two-sided racks (Westmount Examiner, Aug 21)
Away
- Tracking Cyclists, Avid and Otherwise (WorldChanging, Aug 21)
- Trek president launches ambitious advocacy campaign (BikePortland.org, Aug 21)
Toronto's own Bike Plan goal isn't even that ambitious!, see also here and BTAC's announcement here - More of us are getting on our bikes as popularity of cycle holidays soars (Scotsman, UK, Aug 21)
- Cyclists support Cambridge congestion charge (Cambridge, UK, Aug 21)
- Giving Abandoned Bikes New Life So Students Can Ride (New York Times, Aug 21)
- Leave the training wheels (ASU Web Devil, Aug 21)
- More Copenhageners cycle to work (Copenhagen Capacity, Denmark, Aug 22)
- Sidecar for Munnabhai sidekick- Add-on to bicycles, designed by IIT Guwahati, heads for Bollywood debut (The Telegraph, Calcutta, India, Aug 21)
- How Many People Are on the Street? - Li Heini (NY Arts, NY, Aug 21)
- Letter: PMC thanks Dover (Dover-Sherborn Press, MA , Aug 21)
- Pedal power (al.com, AL, Aug 21)
- Biker ballad (The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA, Aug 21)
- Getting Around Berkeley on Your Bike (Berkeley Daily Planet, CA, Aug 21)
- Cruzbike puts an even healthier spin on cycling (Houston Chronicle, TX, Aug 20)
- London bike shops get new TfL maps (BikeBiz.com, UK, Aug 21)
- Road-Right (Williamstown, Altona, Laverton Star, Australia, Aug 21)
A national program designed to increase new drivers’ awareness of cyclists... Canada needs this too! - Cycling in Malaysia (Malaysia Star, Malaysia, Aug 21)
- Memorial plans set for cyclist (Alameda Times-Star. Aug 22) also here
- Family of four takes 500-mile bicycle trek (Tampa Bay Newspapers, FL, Aug 22)
- iZip Express electric bicycle amplifies your pedaling effort (Gizmag, Australia, Aug 22)
Comments
To writers of letters National Post decided were more important that views of cyclists:
Do you want to know why I follow the rules of the road 90% of the time but don't the other 10%?
Because I don't want to get killed.
a) When I'm making a left hand turn at an intersection and you decide to drive through the intersection and not notice me.
b) When you're nudging me onto the side walk to get ahead of me to make your right hand turn. Or you're just too busy talking on your phone to look.
c) When I'm taking up a good portion of the right hand lane and you just "sneak" by and I feel your mirror brush against me (or worse which I saw last week to the man in front of me).
etc. etc. etc.
I just needed to vent. I hate the National (Com)post.
Hi. You might want to check this out.
http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/08/09/congressman-ridicule...
I saw the video, and wished I hadn't.
The Automobile is no less a 19th century invention than the bicycle. But, like too many politicians, he seems to like to hear his own voice. McHenry is best ignored.
But I did read a few good rebuttals, which are more intersting and better articulated than I could do.