[Bikies] biking while black in the Southland

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-16/examining-dijon-kizzee-bike-stop-police-shootings -- S. Rose ___ Bikies mailing list Bikies@lists.danenet.org http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org

[Bikies] NYT: ‘Lionhearted’ Girl Bikes Dad Across India, Inspiring a Nation

TLDR: this teenager bought a $20 bike and used it to carry her injured father 1200km from Delhi to their village. True grit. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/world/asia/india-bicycle-girl-migrants.html -- S. Rose ___ Bikies mailing list

Re: [Bikies] Fwd: Monday Update: Bike Elevator Down, Transpo Commission, Cyclocross, and more!

Some folks - self an example - aren't comfortable with facebook given certain... recent developments. There needs to be an alternative for those people, and bikies is currently the only greyhound chasing the rabbit. The information you posted is both useful and welcome here. On Mon, Nov 18, 2019

Re: [Bikies] E-Bikes

Respect to John for cheerfully making good. I'm also concerned about cell phone use on moving bicycles, which is not the same as saying that I've never done it. As far as I can tell, it's legal pretty much everywhere save Holland. Let's guess that that's a recognition that a distracted cyclist is

Re: [Bikies] E-Bikes

I too, at times, would like to attack the integrity of another poster. But I don't, because... well, actually, I often do. Case in point, in fact. But I enjoyed this particular discussion regardless any overblown claims. What actually lights my fuse is reasoned, measured comments - tolerance of

[Bikies] Ars: Bike lanes need physical protection from car traffic, study shows

Data shows that painted bike lanes (and/or parked cars) cause... murderists... to pass cyclists substantially closer than their absence. Lobbying for a marked bike lane? Maybe reconsider. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/05/bike-lanes-need-physical-protection-from-car-traffic-study-shows/ --

Re: [Bikies] Opinions wanted re: Surveillance Cameras on the Bike Path

Two questions that come immediately to mind are these: (1) what's the rationale for installations of the cameras and (2) will the streams be public? For those who missed it, the NYT recently published an article about the application of cheap commodity facial recognition technology to a public

[Bikies] CityThe Great Divide in How Americans Commute to Work

This article looks at primarily geographic determinants of how USA gets to work. Madison gets a mention in the 'bike to work' section. But my favourite part is this: Education is another piece in the picture of how Americans get to work. People are less likely to drive to work alone and to use

[Bikies] Motorists Punish Helmet-Wearing Cyclists With Close Passes, Confirms Data Recrunch

This isn't entirely new - in fact, the data is from 2007 and was published before - but it's another science-based look at the efficacy of bicycle helmets in preventing cyclist injury. The conclusion of the authors - then and now - is “Wearing a [cycle] helmet might make a collision [with a motor

Re: [Bikies] Sharing a cool tire hack: a dollar bill to fix a sidewall tear

Canadian bills - made of plastic - work even better. But the smallest denomination is a fiver. On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 11:20 AM Harry Read via Bikies < bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote: > Yesterday I found that one of the Gatorskin tires on my commuter bike has > a small tear in the sidewall. I

Re: [Bikies] loose pit bulls outside of Evansville on highway M

I like to think that bear spray would require no license, be less lethal (a goal?), be just as effective, be cheaper, and be lighter to carry, but I haven't tried it yet. I've had enough close calls in rural areas to seriously consider it. On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 7:59 AM, William Hauda via

[Bikies] Veemo

Here's Vancouver-based Velometro Mobility with their "Veemo" service, yet another take on dockless bike share programs. This one is based on fully-enclosed, electric-assist velomobiles. This article in the Kitsilano blog announces the start of the public deployment of five vehicles - evidently the

[Bikies] dockless e-bikes in Seattle

In this longish article, a Seattle Bike Blog writer (but not Tom Fucoloro) gives his first-hand take on the new Lime e-bikes currently deployed in Seattle: https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2018/02/12/howell-going-steady-with-lime-e/ Lime plans to switch 40% of their Seattle deployment -

[Bikies] The Guardian: Chinese bike share graveyard a monument to industry's 'arrogance'

These photos of piles of discarded bikes from various Chinese dockless bike share platforms in this article are terrifying https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/25/chinas-bike-share-graveyard-a-monument-to-industrys-arrogance -- S. Rose ___

[Bikies] Study: 90% Of Bike Accidents Preventable By Buying Car Like A Normal Person

"Gafferty went on to say that people who biked for exercise should consider driving to a gym and using a stationary bike facing a wall of televisions like everyone else." https://www.theonion.com/study-90-of-bike-accidents-preventable-by-buying-car-1820403123 -- S. Rose

Re: [Bikies] new middle school bike program

Nice. Recently the NYT reported on research linking exercise and learning. The specific study they looked at here is a small-scale one that demonstrated that college students exposed to foreign language instruction while riding stationary bicycles learned better than those sitting at desks, but

[Bikies] CBC: Victoria, B.C. to introduce dock-free bike sharing service

Victoria BC - a city of about 80K - is getting a dockless bicycle share system: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bike-sharing-victoria-1.4292987 And it's a different company than the four that have announced or are deployed in Seattle - U-Bicycle. The initial deployment, at 150

[Bikies] Citi Bike Operator Is Developing A Dockless Bike

Even Motivate (NYC Citi Bike operator) is looking into dockless bikes: http://gothamist.com/2017/08/30/citi_bike_dockless.php Also, here is a Washington Post article that looks at the Chinese operators currently metasticizing^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hexpanding into US markets.

[Bikies] As Bike-Sharing Brings Out Bad Manners, China Asks, What’s Wrong With Us?

The Times looks at how the Chinese bike sharing phenomenon has exposed low suzhi as a national characteristic. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/world/asia/china-beijing-dockless-bike-share.html -- S. Rose ___ Bikies mailing list

[Bikies] Double standard

This is an interesting and disturbing case: a cyclist traveling in London at 18mph on a track bike who struck a pedestrian who stepped into his path, later succumbing to a brain injury. The cyclist was charged with manslaughter, in part because regulations required his bike to have a front brake,

Re: [Bikies] dockless bike share

ng it to the same spot to use the next day. >>>> >>>> With a standard bike-sharing system, you pay a flat price and use the >>>> bike whenever you want. If you keep your one-way trips under 1/2 hour (one >>>> hour in some locations) there is no fu

Re: [Bikies] dockless bike share

>>> hour in some locations) there is no further charge to use the bikes in the >>> system. >>> >>> Dockless seems to favor the occasional user, standard dock system with >>> flat rate seems to favor the power user. Sort of like having a monthly pass >>>

[Bikies] Single Bicycle Crashes at Skewed Rail Crossing (YouTube)

Dozens of crashes - many right into the path of oncoming motor vehicles - at a single skewed crossing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfeQvbIFBks -- S. Rose ___ Bikies mailing list Bikies@lists.danenet.org

Re: [Bikies] dockless bike share

ansportation geek >> All opinions are my own, and not necessarily those of any group or >> organization with which I am affiliated. >> >> Founding member, Madison Bikes <http://www.madisonbikes.org/> >> *...where anyone can ride a bicycle conveniently and comfortably

[Bikies] NYTimes: More New Yorkers Opting for Life in the Bike Lane

Here's a fluffy piece with some nice photos about the rise of bicycle use in Le Grosse Pomme: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/nyregion/new-yorkers-bike-lanes-commuting.html I happen to have briefly been in Paris recently, and it was interesting to observe the way bicycles are used there -

Re: [Bikies] dockless bike share

Evidently the bikies list supports not the attachment. Here's stock images to stand in: https://assets.fastcompany.com/image/upload/w_596,c_limit,q_auto:best,f_auto,fl_lossy/fc/3068900-inline-i-1-with-this-stationless-bike-share-system-you-can-park-your-bike-anywhere.jpg

[Bikies] dockless bike share

I was a founding member of Seattle's "Pronto!" bike share program - a conventional system with docks - but it lost a lot of money and the city, which subsidized it, put a fork in it after briefly considering replacing it with a different subsidized system with electric-assist bikes. From the

[Bikies] NPR: Bikes May Have To Talk To Self-Driving Cars For Safety's Sake

Again, the responsibility for staying safe on a bicycle is shifted to the cyclist rather than the... ah... murderist. http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/07/24/ 537746346/bikes-may-have-to-talk-to-self-driving-cars-for-safetys-sake -- S. Rose

Re: [Bikies] Tim Wong

Bummer. He was already one of the grey heads of bicycle advocacy when I arrived in Madison in '87. He, along with Mark Shahan and Lisa Goodman, was a founding member of the BTA and of whatever organization preceded it, the name of which I forget. Madison used to have a Bike/Ped Commission, of

[Bikies] 'Part of an evolution': [Vancouver] Downtown business partners with cycling group

What a long strange trip it's been. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/downtown-bia-moves-from-disapproving-to-supporting-cycling-1.4173921 -- S. Rose ___ Bikies mailing list Bikies@lists.danenet.org

[Bikies] The bicycle turns 200

We are reminded in this treehugger article that (the precursor to) the bicycle turns 200 years old this month: https://www.treehugger.com/bikes/happy-200th-birthday-bicycle-timely-response-environmental-crisis.html Is it a bicycle if it doesn't have pedals or cranks or a way to drive the wheels

[Bikies] Eighty Years of New York City (8:30 film)

The New Yorker has created this 8:30 split-screen YouTube video putting 1930's film shot from moving vehicles next to quite synchronous video from the modern day. It's interesting to see how many more cyclists - transortation and recreation both - there are today than there were then. Also, the

Re: [Bikies] Bus Crash Kills Cyclist in First Citi Bike Fatality

Better coverage: https://www.transalt.org/bike-forecast/2017/12/june-13th-2017-emerging-narratives On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Scott Morris Rose wrote: > After 43 million trips over four years, the first fatality in the > NYC-based Citi Bike program. Not too bad a

[Bikies] Bus Crash Kills Cyclist in First Citi Bike Fatality

After 43 million trips over four years, the first fatality in the NYC-based Citi Bike program. Not too bad a record... unless you are his wife or one of his children. http://www.bicycling.com/culture/citi-bike-death -- S. Rose ___ Bikies mailing

[Bikies] How bicycles boosted the women's rights movement

This is worth the 4:09 it takes to watch it, and then some: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPLJgkVsXpE >From Vox. -- S. Rose ___ Bikies mailing list Bikies@lists.danenet.org http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org

[Bikies] Guardian on Bicycle Helmets

I enjoyed - and learned some stuff from - this lengthy, well-written article about the use of bicycle helmets and also the conversation thereof, probably because the UK is considering writing new law. It's an edited extract from the author's book. He's a political correspondent for the Guardian.

Re: [Bikies] Uber admits to self-driving car 'problem' in bike lanes as safety concerns mount (The Guardian)

Uber has now canceled their unauthorized trial of autonomous vehicles in San Francisco, offering the hope that known flaws in their algorithms will be fixed before the vehicles are next deployed. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/21/uber-

[Bikies] Uber admits to self-driving car 'problem' in bike lanes as safety concerns mount (The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/19/uber-self-driving-cars-bike-lanes-safety-san-francisco The rush to market for self-driving vehicles seems poised to lead to a rush to the morgue for other road users, in particular for any cyclist who stumble into the path of an Uber making a

[Bikies] Mercedes-Benz has a algorithmic solution to the "trolley problem" in the age of self-driving cars

In a variant of "the customer is always right" principle, they code to - surprise, surprise, surprise! - save the occupants of the vehicle in favour of any number of pedestrians or other road users.

Re: [Bikies] SkunkLock

IANAL, but I suspect that the owner of such a lock faces substantial liability if a government worker is injured removing such a lock, and that will be enough to keep this from coming to market and will see it soon pulled from the market even if it does. Then there is the issue of leakage as the

[Bikies] SkunkLock

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/21/bike-lock-developed-that-makes-thieves-immediately-vomit -- S. Rose ___ Bikies mailing list Bikies@lists.danenet.org http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org

Re: [Bikies] crosswalk diagram and explanation of rules

Don't recall and cannot locate that post, but here's a consolation prize: "elephant feet." http://www.mapleridgenews.com/community/292716091.html In BC, riding a bicycle on a sidewalk is not legal (unless explicit signage or local regulation allows it), nor is cycling in a crosswalk, even when

Re: [Bikies] Make Your Own Bike Lane

Nice. I found Montreal to be a strange place to ride a bicycle the one time I did, several years ago. It's an old city, and streets are narrow. Cyclists - generallly unhelmeted - ride surprisingly close to parked cars, as if being doored was not a thing. And maybe it isn't so much there - it sure

[Bikies] Bicycle helmets reduce risk of serious head injury by nearly 70%, study finds

The Guardian reports on a paper given at the Safety 2016 conference which reports on results of a large-scale study of bicycle helmet use in the Australian state of New South Wales (which is where Sidney is).

Re: [Bikies] Make Your Own Bike Lane

Nice. Having cycled in San Francisco quite a bit late last year, I can confirm that it's a nasty, nasty place to ride a bike - mostly due to the culture of frustrated motorists (and cyclists, it must be said) behaving horribly, but also suffering some horrible design (I'm looking at you, Market

[Bikies] NPR: U.S. Gasoline Use Hits A Record

http://www.npr.org/2016/09/02/492271953/u-s-gasoline-use-hits-a-record-but-that-may-not-last Increasing highway fatalities, a return to SUVs, and now record gasoline consumption - America is great again already. I kid America. America knows I kid. -- S. Rose

Re: [Bikies] Bikie apartments

I differ from your self-criticism. The poster provides no fullname and so I didn't click on it either. The standard for whether to follow a link can't be "is likely to be a spam," but should be "smells even a little dodgy." This one did. For whatever reason, Arthur chose to follow it and confirms

[Bikies] Is urban cycling worth the risk?

The Financial Times looks at urban cycling in terms of health benefits and risks. Oddly, they don't consider the financial impact. They are mostly focused on London, which has generally poor infrastructure and pretty lousy air, but it can be generalized. Not a great article but provokes a little

[Bikies] NYT: Cycling Matches the Pace and Pitches of Tech

Cringeworthy reporting on the way recreational cycling has replaced golf amongst the dealmakers. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/business/dealbook/cycling-matches-the-pace-and-pitches-of-tech.html Sorry... -- S. Rose ___ Bikies mailing list

[Bikies] Traffic fatalities continued to surge in first half of 2016

Traffic deaths are up sharply in the US, with Wisconsin, at a 29% increase over the first six months of last year, one of the worst. http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/traffic-fatalities-continued-to-surge-in-first-half-of-2016/ -- S. Rose

Re: [Bikies] A New Take on the Old Graphic from Munster

They say "...driverless cars don't solve the problem" but of course that understates the problem by a large margin. The expectation is that driverless cars will worsen the space problem by making it more palatable for folks to lengthen their commutes. McMansion time again. As for Uber, I don't

[Bikies] NYTimes/Gretchen Reynolds: The Surprising Health Benefits of an Electric Bike

Reporting on a small-scale health study in Boulder of electric-assist bicycles, part of an initiative to formulate policy on whether to allow them on bike paths. They conclude that these bikes are a good way to get sedentary folks into better shape. The article comments are (mostly) also worth a