Here is an interesting short from 1955. If this had caught on back then, things would be very different now. 11 minutes Drive Your Bike, 1955
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I’ve been recording lunch-time observations of bicyclist behavior in downtown Orlando (maybe a better term is “people on bicycles”).  A few days ago I brought my camera along. These photos of illegal and unsafe bicycling behavior were shot in a little over a half-hour in a one-block stretch of Central Blvd. in downtown Orlando,...
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Some good stuff in here. I particularly like the emphasis on crash reporting and treating bicycles as vehicles. There’s good footage of cyclists riding assertively. I also like the humanizing touch at the end. Informed officers and equitable law enforcement are essential to taking back the streets for the use of all humans, not...
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Many of you have posted here or in our Forums of drivers that have accosted you in some way.  Sometimes it’s a honk.  Sometimes a yelled comment (“get on the sidewalk!”).  Sometimes, hopefully rarely, it’s something more serious than that (a verbalized threat, or using their car in a deliberately dangerous manner). We’ve all...
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We the undersigned are Iowa residents who urge our Legislature to support a ballot initiative for the November 2010 election which will prohibit bicyclists from using state and county defined farm-to-market roads.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them. — George Bernard Shaw Making Cycling Better in Lake County...
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From The Columbine (CO) Courier: Amid the controversy over a proposed charity bicycle event on Deer Creek Canyon Road, the Jeffco commissioners will propose state legislation that would give them more authority to bar cyclists from some county roads altogether. Conflict between motorists and cyclists is nothing new on the canyon roads west of...
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In June, the city of Columbia, MO passed an anti-harassment ordinance to address problems of motorists intimidating cyclists. The law would make it a misdemeanor to: throw an object in the direction of a cyclist, threaten or purposely frighten or disturb a cyclist, honk or shout at a cyclist in an attempt to frighten...
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In Florida there is one type of vehicle which may not pass within the same lane as a bicycle. Do you know which vehicle must change lanes to pass?
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Hearing that more and more members of our highest levels of government are bicyclists is encouraging.  From the Associated Press, news that Supreme Court candidate Sonia Sotomayor is a bicyclist: “She’s a very human person,” Schumer told reporters after their meeting. They talked New York, he said. “She’s a bicycle rider, I’m...
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