“Who said riding a bike had to be a white thing?”
Here’s the bike news from around the world that caught my eye this week:
– As LA braces for the “Carmageddon” freeway closure next weekend, Santa Monica lifeguards have a different kind of traffic complaint — bumper-to-bumper bike traffic on the beachfront path.
– The true indicator of a bicycle-friendly city? It might be a bike-friendly transit system.
– A New York City reporter breaks the news that people riding bikes in bike lanes might be terrorists!
– Crash carnage continues to mar the Tour de France. Yesterday a French TV car accidentally brushed riders in a breakaway, causing a brutal crash that threw Johnny Hoogerland into a barbed-wire fence (scroll down for video). — JM
– The U.S. transportation bill currently on the table would significantly cut federal bike funding.
– New research focuses on the effects on heart health of bicycling in busy car traffic.
– “Who said riding a bike had to be a white thing?” asks one of the founders of a new group called Black Women Bike DC.
– Checking in on London’s “Boris Bikes” bike sharing system, now that it’s been operating for a year.
– The city of Murcia, Spain, is offering citizens a chance to trade in their cars for a lifetime pass for its new tram system.
– In the Netherlands, when people build tall bikes and have a Critical Mass ride, these foreign phenomena need to be explained.
– From Toronto, a lucid editorial on how cities are going about bike safety all wrong. In New York, the Bike Snob also has quite a bit to say on the topic.
– Sacha White of Portland-based Vanilla Bicycles, “a rock star in the elite, $100 million handmade-bicycle industry” gets a major profile in the Wall Street Journal.
– Where does your bike come from? A family tree of U.S. bike manufacturer’s supply chains (links to PDF).
– Video of the week: An introduction to Detroit’s burgeoning bike community:
Detroit Bike City from Alex Gallegos on Vimeo.