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inrng: Adam Hansen documents the Lotto-Belisol team camp

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:47:53 -0400

inrng: Adam Hansen documents the Lotto-Belisol team camp:

One of the many reasons @HansenAdam has a huge fanclub:

After day one at @lotto_belisol training camp! twitter.com/HansenAdam/sta…
— Adam Hansen (@HansenAdam) December 9, 2012

After 2nd day at @lotto_belisol training camp twitter.com/HansenAdam/sta…
— Adam Hansen (@HansenAdam) December 10, 2012

After 3rd day of…

thedependentclause: Here is the bike Elyse Stern was riding on...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:17:08 -0400

thedependentclause:

Here is the bike Elyse Stern was riding on Friday night when she was hit by Juan Ricardo Hernandez-Campoceco, who was driving drunk.

I would like MPD Sgt. William Palmer to explain to us all how a helmet and lights would have prevented Hernandez-Campoceco from doing this to Stern’s bike with his car, killing her instantly, and continuing on his way without even slowing down.

I would like Palmer to explain to me why, when “one of the key lessons here is prevention,” he immediately mentions a helmet and lights, without saying anything about harsher drunk driving laws. Sure, let’s talk about bike safety, but let’s also talk about how physics, the legal system, and our culture ensures that, no matter who was at fault, motorized transportation will win out in terms of bodily harm, police reports, and a media that still portrays cyclists as outliers and freaks. Explain to me why that is.

I would like Palmer and, by extension, anyone beating the helmets / lights / get-off-the-road / cycling-is-inherently-unsafe drum, to explain how a helmet and lights would prevent Hernandez-Campoceco from getting behind the wheel drunk. Explain to me how a helmet and lights would prevent Stern from having to ride through one of the busiest and most dangerous intersections in town at 2 a.m., an intersection she nonetheless had every right to use.

Or perhaps you could explain how easily preventable tragedies like Elyse Stern’s death are maybe not the most appropriate time to point out what she was doing “wrong,” when the above photo makes clear that doing everything “right” and riding safely and being a Model Cyclist almost certainly wouldn’t have prevented her death.

Explain to the trolls in comments sections far and wide how a person has every right to ride her bike on a city street at 2 a.m., especially if that’s her primary mode of transportation, and how getting killed by a drunk driver should never be an acceptable risk of riding late at night.

Explain to them, to all of us, how her ride home would be safer if our city had more bike lanes and motorists understood what they mean. Explain why even responsible, conscientious motorists have revealed to me, through experience and in conversation, that they don’t understand basic laws governing bicycle use within traffic.

Explain how helmets and lights and encouraging cyclists to “follow the rules of the road” are supposed to prevent accidents when, in every fatal car/bike collision in the Twin Cities for at least the past five years, as near as anyone can tell, the cyclist involved was obeying the rules of the road, and in most cases wearing a helmet. The families of Dennis Dumm, Audrey Hull, Thomas Malloy, and Virginia Hauer are patiently awaiting your lecture about lights and helmets.

Explain why, in the majority of the countless instances where my safety on a bike was jeopardized by a motorist, it was by a “professional” motor-vehicle operator, such as a taxi or school-bus driver.

Explain how helmets and lights might not even be necessary if we had more bike paths; if motorists drove the speed limit and didn’t get behind the wheel drunk or take calls or text while driving; if motorists didn’t hate cyclists just for exercising their equal right to the roads (which cyclists pay taxes on too, so let me just save you the time of trotting that one out); if motorists didn’t intimidate cyclists by passing too close or tailgating or honking or yelling at them in order to “teach them a lesson,” always justifying their actions by saying they’ve seen some cyclists ride unsafely or illegally, so therefore apparently all cyclists should be afraid, all the time.

Explain how our culture has accepted all of that as the norm for a city that’s consistently ranked among the most bike-friendly cities in America.

Ha ha, April Fools—I know you’re not going to do any of that.

dothegreenthing: Spokesperson by Harriman Steel...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:30:38 -0500

dothegreenthing:

Spokesperson by Harriman Steel 6/23

‘Spokesperson’ was created by the bike-mad creative agency Harriman Steel, in order to inspire people to use more pedal power and less petrol power.

“We all cycle at HarrimanSteel. For us it’s about fitness, exploration, freedom and self-expression. It’s not just about getting from A to B. A bike is not only a mode of transportation, but an extension of one’s personality (in the same way a dog looks like its owner). ‘Spokespeople’ is a tongue in cheek expression of this thought and the simple idea that two wheels are better than four. Better for you. Better for the environment. Better for all.”

WHY?

Even a quick, four-mile round trip by bike instead of car keeps about 15 pounds of pollutants out of the air – as well as burning lots of calories.

HOW?

There are loads of useful bike route planners out there, including this one for London.

You can see more in the series of ‘Spokespeople’ at HarrimanSteel’s website.

We’re selling 23 limited editions of this poster printed on FSC paper with sustainable ink for £23 plus VAT, postage and packing with all proceeds going back to the Do The Green Thing charity. You can buy this one here.

So apparently Pulp Fiction foreshadowed Kill Bill....

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:06:08 -0500

So apparently Pulp Fiction foreshadowed Kill Bill. #what

yeahapparently:

patrickcotnoir:

MY HEAD JUST EXPLODED

I just I can’t I don’t even I what

womenscycling: Siri (Hitec Products) cooks omelette on the...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:03:35 -0500

womenscycling:

Siri (Hitec Products) cooks omelette on the rollers (by @Karl_Lima_Hitec)

Hahahahahaha, bet Sven Nys can’t do this! Go Siri!

Video response to this, perhaps?

http://www.cyclo-cross.info/cyclocross/2013/01/28/nys-steelt-de-show-en-drinkbus-op-de-rollen/

“Do you know who I used to be?” cyclocosm: Spotted:...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:52:25 -0500

“Do you know who I used to be?”

cyclocosm:

Spotted: (at Galt House Hotel)

“If you don’t want to get boo’d, don’t...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:16:40 -0500

“If you don’t want to get boo’d, don’t be shitty.” ~ @ryantkelly

cyclocosm:

Every time you read a story about sock height, UCI equipment stickers, or lawyer tabs, play this video.

An online college course in doodling? Yes,...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:22:06 -0500

An online college course in doodling? Yes, please!

explore-blog:

Beloved cartoonist Lynda Barry is teaching a university-level course on doodling and neuroscience that you can audit remotely for free. She’s posting the weekly assignments on her Tumblr – this is the first one.

(↬ @kirstinbutler)

sufferfaces: Hecklestream! Yell insults at your computer and on...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:21:23 -0500

sufferfaces:

Hecklestream! Yell insults at your computer and on the other side of the Interwebs, a speaker stuck in the mud blares it out at CX racers. Where that lies in the uncanny valley, we’ll leave to the sociologists.

Those Minnesotans sure know how to have fun in the winter on...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:07:33 -0500

Those Minnesotans sure know how to have fun in the winter on bikes.

helmeteering:

Ice racing.

WHARE’S MY COFEETS? cxhairs: @AnonCX meets Minnesotans...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:20:44 -0500

WHARE’S MY COFEETS?

cxhairs:

@AnonCX meets Minnesotans IRL.

amourdevelo: Best of the 2012 le Tour de France. You’re...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:49:51 -0500

amourdevelo:

Best of the 2012 le Tour de France. You’re welcome.

Really great montage. Make the condensed memories of le Tour seem better than watching all three weeks of it…

The Spirit of Pisgah “Watch! American chaps riding bikes!...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:21:13 -0500

The Spirit of Pisgah

“Watch! American chaps riding bikes! They have moustaches! They’re wearing Vulpine from @dundeecycles! Yes!”

~ Nick Hussey, Vulpine Head Honcho

Sharing this so I have the recipe on hand....

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:36:54 -0500

Sharing this so I have the recipe on hand. Delish!

cubicle17:

What I’m drinking tonight: a Bitter Mai Tai. And it’s every bit as delicious as it looks…maybe more.

Bitter Mai Tai
(via Jeremy Oertel at Dram in Brooklyn, NY)

1.5oz Campari

1oz freshly squeezed lime juice

0.75oz Jamaican rum (substitute aged Caribbean rum, if necessary)

0.75oz orgeat

0.5oz orange curaçao

Shake, strain.

Glass: old fashioned
Ice: crushed
Garnish: fresh mint sprig

The Massachusetts Bicyclist's Bill of Rights

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:17:32 -0500

The Massachusetts Bicyclist's Bill of Rights:

L’Ultimo Chilometro - A cycling documentary The Last...

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:56:47 -0500

L’Ultimo Chilometro - A cycling documentary

The Last Kilometer is a film totally dedicated to what is passion, emotion, sport: Cycling.

The movie follows the story and an entire cycling season of “the old” Davide Rebellin,
41 years old and still fighting in the peloton after many victories and scandals, and “the
young” Ignazio Moser, promising 20 years old son of cycling champion Francesco Moser.

The famous italian journalist Gianni Mura, Tour de France correspondent since 1967, helps
us to discover what cycling was and what it has become today, after doping scandals,
passion, epic, richness and decadence.

Finally, a bit of madness and insane joy is brought into the movie by Didi Senft, better known as “El Diablo”, a living and metaphorical symbol of all cycling fans, with their passion and their enthusiasm.

The Last Kilometer is a portrait of cycling. Available here.