Gaining momentum
The Denton Record-Chronicle: Gaining momentum
More than 2,000 people sign petition against Bartonville ordinan...
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Joyride: Bicycling Our Way to Safe and Splendid Communities
The Huffngton Post: Joyride: Bicycling Our Way to Safe and Splendid Communities
My friend Mia Birk bicycled to m...
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The Biking Boom Breeds Discontent
The New York Times: The Biking Boom Breeds Discontent
By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF
Biking is booming in New ...
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Bicycling Trend Wheels Downtown
The Nevada Sagebrush: Bicycling Trend Wheels Downtown
New bike lanes show emerging partnership between cyclists a...
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Porter: Confessions of an ex-warrior cyclist
The Toronto Star: Porter: Confessions of an ex-warrior cyclist
Published On Tue Aug 31 2010
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City: Cyclists continue to improve Asheville's bike access
Asheville Citizen-Times: City: Cyclists continue to improve Asheville's bike access
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St. Petersburg police ticket 16 bicyclists as safety campaign be
The St. Petersburg Times: St. Petersburg police ticket 16 bicyclists as safety campaign begins
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Cycling: Help needed to spur bicycle service on trains
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Cycling: Help needed to spur bicycle service on trains
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One year later, cyclist killed in confrontation remembered
The Toronto Star: One year later, cyclist killed in confrontation remembered
Published On Sun Aug 29 2010
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Road Rights- Keep Your Cool
How to handle an encounter when you’re unjustly pulled over
By Bob Mionske
Most people don’t fol...
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Road Rights- The Messages We Send
If you ride near pedestrians, you may be doing the rest of us a disservice.
By Bob Mionske
I was returning ...
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Road Rights- Listen Up
Can you legally wear headphones while riding? The answer might surprise you.
By Bob Mionske
One of the more ...
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Road Rights- Buzz Kill
Three foot passing laws aim to give cyclists space on the road- but do they work?
By Bob Mionske
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By J. David Goodman, The New York Times
ON the matter of bicycling under the influence, Michael Dolan has known both pleasure and pain.
Mr. Dolan, a 33-year-old public relations strategist, reported some happy two-wheeled encounters while drunk involving the singers David Byrne and Björk — whom he witnessed “being pedaled around and screeching like a child” — as well as a “surreal” collision with a rider on a Penny Farthing.
But he also acknowledged the danger in trying to ride after downing enough alcohol to make a single speed look like a tandem. “I know one person who was killed drunk-biking, one who broke some bones crossing the Manhattan Bridge,” Mr. Dolan said. “Everyone I ride with has at least one story of hurting themselves booze-rolling.” (Mr. Byrne, for one, wrote on his blog about having broken his ribs in a drink-fueled 2008 fall.)
Still, many cyclists have dedicated “bar bikes” — cheap beaters that can be left overnight if a return trip by taxi becomes necessary — and sometimes there are so many bikes locked up near certain watering holes that it can be hard to find a place to park.
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KRNV Reno: Start of Tour de Nez bike race used to remind people of ongoing problem
Thursday June 17, 2010
Thursday was day one of the Tour de Nez bike race. Bicycle enthusiasts used it to highlight what they call an ongoing, dangerous problem. That is, that motorists and cyclists don't always share the road,
A forum at the Nugget in Sparks Thursday came after two recent bicycle accidents in town. One of those accidents was last week. A three year old girl was riding her bike on Lewis Street when she was hit by a truck. Last month, a Tour de Nez rider was in the bike lane on McCarran Boulevard when he was hit by a car from behind. Luckily, both survived.
A bike law expert said that with more people than ever before now riding bikes, there's now more conflicts than ever. Bob Mionske is a former Olympian and now lawyer and columnist for Bicycle Magazine. He says cyclists have every right to use the road, but often don't get justice on the roadways when they're blamed for accidents even if a motorist is equally to blame.
With the Tour de Nez in town, he says it's a good time to remind motorists and cyclists a simple lesson that can save lives -- slow down and pay attention.
"It's a societal thing, we're all in a hurry, we make too many apointments, we rush to get there, when you do that you make mistakes,” said Bob Mionske. “When you make a mistake against a car, maybe it's only a fender bender but when you do it against a bicyclist or pedestrian, you take their life; we need to put more importance on how we drive," he said.
A Reno PD Sargeant also spoke. Police have received a grant to target and ticket cyclists and pedestrians who disobey traffic laws, as well as cite motorists who do not share the road.
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Reno news & Review: Road warrior
Bike law expert and former Olympian Bob Mionske calls for more justice for cyclists
Bike law expert and former Olympian Bob Mionske rides with Lance Armstrong.
By Kat Kerlin
katk@newsreview.com
This article was published on 06.17.10.
On June 8, a 3-year-old girl was riding her bike on Lewis Street in Reno when she was hit by a Ford pickup. Though she was dragged for about 10 feet, she survived. Earlier, on May 12, a helmeted, former Tour de Nez racer was riding in the bike lane along South McCarran Boulevard and Caughlin Parkway when he was hit from behind by a vehicle and injured.
Inevitably, these sorts of stories spur comments from both motorists and cyclists about the lack of courtesy and often unsafe behavior each group demonstrates to the other. Comments on a Reno Gazette-Journal article about the May 12 accident ranged from complaints about distracted drivers to cyclists hogging lanes.
“Things have changed in the world in the last four years in terms of the number of people using bikes,” says bike law expert and former Olympic cyclist Bob Mionske. “It’s gotten better in that more people are riding, but it’s also put more pressure on conflict.”
On Tuesday, May 25, Richard Peck, the special prosecutor appointed to try former Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant on charges involving the death of Toronto messenger Darcy Allan Sheppard, withdrew the charges against Bryant, noting that "there is no reasonable prospect of conviction in relation to either of the charges before the Court. Accordingly, the charges must be withdrawn.”
Recently, BicycleLaw.com was contacted by a woman who lives near Frederick, Maryland. She was seeking advice about how to track down a hit and run driver who had seriously injured her husband, Keith Krombel, a long-distance cyclist and Race Across America veteran. The police had downplayed the extent of Krombel's injuries to the press, and a year later, seem to be uninterested in finding the driver, so Mary and Keith have created their own website, Yellow Springs Hit and Run, to publicize the incident, and hopefully generate some tips. They believe that the original news report may have led people who might know something about the hit and run to believe that the incident was not serious, and that if friends or acquaintances of the driver knew how seriously Keith had been injured, somebody might come forward with a tip.
