If you come to an empty intersection while riding, no vehicles or pedestrians in sight, do you make a complete stop and do a track stand for the audience of passing birds? Slow to a crawl and then stand up …
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Pro rider Ellen Watters died tragically last December, but her legacy may be safer cycling for Canadians with 1-meter to pass laws.
“If I had to die for the roads to be safer for other cyclists, then I would be …
The glare caused by a setting or rising sun can blind you or drivers on the road. Here’s what you should know about this hazard.
Roadies are used to hardship; it comes with the territory. We ride countless base miles, …
“I was riding one day, and police were out in the town of Hygiene, Colorado ticketing cyclists that didn’t come to a complete stop at an intersection. They ticketed some cyclists that came to a stop, but didn’t put their …
Jason, a 41-year-old husband and father of two young boys, was riding lead. His father-in-law and two friends were behind. As they approached a T-intersection, Jason signaled and began to make the left turn. That’s the moment a Toyota Tacoma …
As the peloton rolled out of Limoges in the fifth stage of this year’s Tour, the teams and riders were focused on the challenge they faced. And they had to be — as physically prepared as the pros are, they …
Cyclists in Louisiana won’t be receiving legal protection as “Vulnerable Road Users” (VRU) anytime soon, after a vulnerable user bill was shot down in the Louisiana legislature last week. Headlining the opposition to the bill? State Rep. Kenny Havard, tireless …
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. …
