Saturday Morning Ride

According to CaBi, they've got 2800 members and have had 2500 one day memberships bought.

• "Bicycle borne crimes aren’t common in Alexandria"
• Every time a bike is stolen an angle drops the F-bomb. But when a bike is re-stolen (unstolen?), they follow it with "yeah".
• The Crystal City BID received a merit award from the International Downtown Association for promoting bicycling throughout the region. Congratulations.
• The Virginia Bicycling Federation would like to ask you to obey the law. "A final point to consider is that I’ve been hearing of more cases where motorists or their insurance companies have sought compensation from at fault cyclists following a crash."
• A call for more bicycle-friendly streets, because trails don't always cut it for cyclists.
• From a USAToday article about bike valets "In Washington, Bikestation provides 125 secure parking places for bicyclists at Union Station near the U.S. Capitol, says Andréa White-Kjoss, Bikestation president and CEO. The station opened in October 2009 and is nearly full many days, she says."
• Another option for CaBi - folding helmets.
• WABA Board Member Casey Anderson is moonlighting "Stevens said she enthusiastically supported a bike tour through the Long Branch community, an idea proposed by Casey Anderson, a board member and chair of the neighborhoods committee. The board set a tentative date of Oct. 30 for the tour.
• Bike lanes are going in place around Lincoln Park. Does that make the CaBi station safe now?
• UMD has a new bicycle coordinator
• Bob Mionske writes about the Nancy Pettigrew fatalitiy in a larger article about how easy it is to get away with hit and run. "Applying Ockham’s razor—the theory that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one—the explanation is that these drivers did feel the impact, but kept on driving. And again applying Ockham’s razor, the reason is that the driver didn’t want to face the consequences of hitting another human being."
• Halloween Allycat Race

Comments

[asuka]

Mionske hosts a pretty good site about bicycle law (bicyclelaw.com). His assessment of the Pettigrew manslaughter (negligent homicide?) is spot-on.

[washcycle]

I kind of hate Mionske because he's smarter than me, a better writer than me, a better cyclist than me and better looking than me. He's probably charming too. Jerk.

[asuka]

Don't be so hard on yourself! Your blog's title is so much more creative.

[Michael H.]

The folding helmet looks like it would be useful in collisions... with insects.

Doesn't seem like it would offer much protection. And even if it were made of stronger material, would that be a good thing? There would be a lot of sharp edges on that helmet.

Can you imagine getting knocked in the head while wearing something like that? Freddie Kruger might be pleased with the results but the rest of us wouldn't be.