Tour de Links

Maillot Jaune: San Francisco has been installing bike lanes - after a four year lag - now that they've finished their court-ordered Environmental Assessment. Meanwhile a clean tech company may not build an HQ in Santa Monica because they are required to build a bike lane on the road through the site.

podium: Bicycling and health

podium: New York gets a safe-passing distance law that doesn't define the safe distance.

Maillot Vert: A positive cyclist-driver interaction ends with the driver deciding to buy a bike.

Maillot a Pois Rouge: A drunk driver who injured a cyclist got 18 months in jail. Another drunk driver who killed a cyclist was "sentenced to concurrent, enhanced, partially aggravated terms of fourteen and thirteen years for manslaughter and aggravated assault respectively and to 180 days in jail for the DUI offenses." She tried to argue that her blood test violated her right to counsel because the first blood draw occurred before she talked to him.

Maillot Blanc: BikePortland asks whether an expansion of highway funding could help cyclists.

Lanterne Rouge: Naked may be indecent, but what's wrong with pants and pasties? Whoever called this in, may want to stay away from Philadelphia's Lemon Hill.

Laurent Fignon, a two time Tour de France winner, has passed away. They all look weird without their helmets on in the above photo.

Former astronaut, and former DC area resident, William Lenoir died last week in what appears to be a single-bike crash.

Comments

[Tom]

Actually, they look pretty normal to me. That '89 time trial on the last day is, in my opinion, one of the most dramatic moments in sport. The funny thing is that LeMond was wearing one of those funny time trial helmets and had aero bars. Many French considered it cheating.

I watch a VHS recording of it from time to time.

I think I'll dust off the ol' VCR tonight.

[j]

Adieu Professeur! RIP. To some of us, its the helmets that look strange. Back in the day, it just wasn't done for the most part. The helmet requirement is fairly
recent.

[Blue-eyed Devil]

Perhaps they look weird because you can actually *see* them without the Giger-esque buckets on their heads, ha. No mistaking either of the two of them in that shot.

RIP Fignon.

[Jonathan Krall]

Indeed. They do look great without their helmets. ;)

Thanks for the news summary.

[washcycle]

I didn't start watching the tour until after they started wearing helmets and wrap-around sunglasses. Seeing a guy wear no helmet and wire rim glasses looks weird to me. I'm from Austin, so weird is not an insult.