Dear Bob,
I live and bike in Texas. A few weeks ago friends in a cycling club were stopped and cited for failure to stop at a 4-way stop sign. Having ridden a few times with the group, I believe …
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A still from the dash cam footage used in a trial of a Michigan rider who had been wrongly cited for impeding traffic.
On a wet, humid Sunday morning last August, while I puttered around his driveway on his fat …
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
– George Orwell, “1984”
Think of a recent story about a rider or group of cyclists who were injured in a collision with a motor vehicle. This can be someone …
A new year is underway and so is a new season of bike racing. For most of us, racing is still a ways away, but group rides are already heating up.
For some of us, that can present a problem. …
