Month: December 2005

What does it take to get speeds up to 81 miles per hour on a bicycle? Watch the video and find out.
Continue reading “The World Human Powered Speed Challenge”

<– What kind of trail would you rather ride? –>
(Please note the legal battle that needs your financial help in the comment below.)
The message below is from the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority which owns and operates the W&OD Trail. To convince the State Corporation Commission to approve a route for Dominion’s electric transmission line extension in western Loudoun that does NOT use (and degrade) the W&OD Trail, trail users must speak out against a transmission line extension within this regional park. Please take this simple action. Together, we WILL prevail.
Allen Muchnick
Continue reading “W&OD in VA needs your help”

This is what happens when a form of exercise that you can do indoors regardless of weather becomes so popular that people start wishing they could take it outdoors. So imagine for a sec that it
Continue reading “It”

November 28, 2005
Kentucky Supreme Court has struck down a decision blaming a cyclist for being on the road when a passing vehicle hit her. In reaching this decision, the Supreme Court specifically noted that a driver’s duty when passing a cyclist such as the plaintiff in this case requires that the driver not pass “unless he can do so without interfering with the safe operation of [the] bicycle, and that if, in fact he did pass [the cyclist] that he not drive to the right until he was reasonably clear of [the cyclist].”
Continue reading “An important victory for cyclists everywhere”