Bicycle Riders #2

[Bazza]

An 85-year-old retired London doctor completed 85 laps at the velodrome over the weekend with no plans to slow down. CTV’s Brent Lale reports.

 

[92tide]

our neighbor was moving out yesterday and gave us this out of her storage closet. its a barely ridden gt road bike from 2012. full shimano ultegra, carbon fork, rear triangle, and seatpost.

 

[Bazza]

Can a 30-year-old Cannondale become the perfect everyday bike?

 

[bamacpa]

As a terribly casual cyclist, I'm hurt by the death this week in Birmingham of Stuart Roberts. He was one of the nicest people I've met on a bike and tireless safety advocate.

And then the criminal act today in TN resulting in 2 more deaths. Ugh. So sad for youne people to lose their lives.

 

[Bazza]

A day late but worth posting -

Bill Clinton turns 80 today. Most of the tribute coverage will run the same photograph: Clinton in the Rose Garden in August 1999, holding up a US Postal jersey Lance Armstrong had just handed him. That image has aged poorly for reasons every cycling reader already knows.
The more interesting cycling story from the Clinton presidency is one almost no one is running.
In 1998, Clinton signed the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, better known as TEA-21. It expanded a piece of legislation from the previous administration, ISTEA, which had already begun redirecting federal transport money toward bike and pedestrian projects. Before ISTEA passed in 1992, the total federal spend on cycling and walking infrastructure across the entire history of US surface transport funding was roughly 40.7 million dollars, according to the League of American Bicyclists. By 1996, annual spending had climbed to 200 million. TEA-21 kept the pipeline open and widened it.
Almost every rail trail, protected lane, and pedestrian safety project built in the US over the last quarter century traces some part of its funding back to that legal framework. It is the reason a small town in Idaho or New Jersey could build a trail at all.
Clinton was a recreational cyclist himself, documented on rides through the Treasury corridor and on holiday in Martha's Vineyard. But the legacy that mattered for US cycling was signed in an office, not photographed on a bike.

 

[Bazza]

Unsettling past of driver accused of mowing down Milligan University cyclists revealed

The North Carolina senior accused of fatally striking two college cyclists with his car and injuring five others made no effort to avoid the deadly collision — and has an extensive criminal h…

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