Posts under ‘Safety’

Early Sunday morning, the dwindling hours of South by Southwest combined with Saint Patrick’s Day, in addition to the last official night of Spring Break. I awake in the darkness, the birds are still sleeping, but this poor baby is awake. To shake of the sleepiness in the morning I read the latest news. I [...]

I know a few months ago I shared my critique of the current load of roadie bloggers who think part of their “culture” is fetishizing rules on clothing and equipment. While I see these rules as a reflection of the writers’ personal insecurities, they are off putting and do not serve us well. So at [...]

Commuting by bike with the time change equals your commute ride home in the evenings is going to be in the dark. In the summer show up at work with one pant leg rolled up, and as a red-faced sweaty version of yourself. On the rare day of temperatures in the 50s, I make sure [...]

Through riding my bicycle I’ve met some of the coolest people I know. Although the two aren’t mutually exclusive, riding a bicycle and being cool. Maybe if riding a bicycle and cool were connected exclusively then helmet and bicycle would form together in a single thought bubble above riders’ heads at the thought of pedaling [...]

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced to large recalls that effect Specialized cyclocross and hybrid bikes as well as NEXT brand bikes, a low cost mountain bike hybrid sold in big box retailers like Walmart. The Specialized recall is in regards to the Advanced Group carbon forks on their Sirrus Expert, Sirrus Comp, [...]

This morning I attended an exciting meeting at my children’s elementary school put on by the City of Austin’s Safe Routes to School program. We have been chosen as one of 6 campuses to receive support from the program designed to encourage parents to skip being a juvenile’s chauffeur and let kids do what they [...]

UPDATE: While it is still not a done deal, cyclists looking for safer streets got a victory tonight. From the LOBV: Good news! The CNA LUT Committee approved the Original Proposal, by a vote of approximately 15-5. Thanks so much to the regular attendees and newbies (both including several LOBV members) who came out to [...]

Throughout most of Austin, the Austin Master Bicycle Plan marches forward with new bike lanes added monthly as major neighborhood streets are paved. While there has been great progress, there is a potential setback on Cherrywood Road in the Cherrywood neighborhood. The Master Bicycle Plan calls for eventually no vehicle parking in bike lanes throughout [...]

When returning from the Bike Share briefing at the Downtown Austin Alliance on Monday, I had a chance to try out the newly installed bike lanes on South Congress just south of the river. Before this project was done where there was any bicycle infrastructure at all on this section of South Congress, it was [...]

Every few months, I get an e-mail from a reader about how the police are cracking down on cyclists and how unfair it is. Usually, APD has ticketed someone for an actual violation of the law, like running stop sign or more recently failing to have brakes on your bike. Whether you think law enforcement [...]