Vehicles Pass Closer to Helmeted Cyclists — PsyBlog: "Vehicles Pass Closer to Helmeted Cyclists
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Here's a subject close to my heart: cycling. Not least because I'm a keen cyclist myself but also because cycling is good in so many different ways - but I'm not going to bang on about that now. This study, however, has some counter-intuitive findings (the best kind!) about helmet wearing that seems to suggest cars pass closer if you've got a LID on. Also, and in stark contrast to conventional wisdom among experienced cyclists, riding further away from the curb does not cause road users to leave more space when over-taking."
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Sue Abbott fights bike helmets - YouTube
Sue Abbott fights bike helmets - YouTube: "By the way, if you want to see what happened in court to sue, recently, Go to the sequel, No Helmet, Please.
It all began when Sue Abbott got a ticket for not wearing a bike helmet. That's breaking the law in Australia. Instead of paying the small fine, she's going to court at the end of this month, Sept.
She believes that helmets are dangerous for her. I was intrigued by her opinion and made this video to explore the issue."
It all began when Sue Abbott got a ticket for not wearing a bike helmet. That's breaking the law in Australia. Instead of paying the small fine, she's going to court at the end of this month, Sept.
She believes that helmets are dangerous for her. I was intrigued by her opinion and made this video to explore the issue."
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Streetsblog New York City » Why Jessica Rides
Streetsblog New York City » Why Jessica Rides
Jessica is the fitness editor for Prevention magazine. She’s lived in New York for ten years, but has only been commuting from Brooklyn to Manhattan for the last couple of months. Not that she hasn’t been riding. She’s ticked up countless laps in Prospect Park on her road bike over the years, and even had a heavy old beater — a 1973 3-speed — that she’d take out occasionally. She was just never that comfortable riding in traffic.
Jessica is the fitness editor for Prevention magazine. She’s lived in New York for ten years, but has only been commuting from Brooklyn to Manhattan for the last couple of months. Not that she hasn’t been riding. She’s ticked up countless laps in Prospect Park on her road bike over the years, and even had a heavy old beater — a 1973 3-speed — that she’d take out occasionally. She was just never that comfortable riding in traffic.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Bicycle-sharing system incorporates app and GPS
"Some readers may be familiar with the car2go car-sharing system, which is now in use in several cities around the world. Users locate the closest available car via the internet or a telephone call, go to it, unlock it with a chip card, enter their PIN on its keypad, then drive it wherever they want (within its range). When done, they just leave it at the closest designated car2go parking spot, where the next user will pick it up. It's a pretty neat idea, so if it works for cars, why not bicycles? That's where the fledgling sobi (Social Bicycles) project comes in."
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Saturday, July 2, 2011
City aiming to be America's most bike friendly hands out $400 fines for unregistered bikes | road.cc | The website for pedal powered people: Road cycling, commuting, leisure cycling and racing. Voted the UK's number 1 cycling website at the 2010 BikeBiz awards.
City aiming to be America's most bike friendly hands out $400 fines for unregistered bikes | road.cc | The website for pedal powered people: Road cycling, commuting, leisure cycling and racing. Voted the UK's number 1 cycling website at the 2010 BikeBiz awards.: "Councillors in Long Beach, California, are urging their colleagues to back the scrapping of compulsory bicycle registration in the city if it is to achieve its goal of becoming 'the most bicycle-friendly city in America.'
Not only are many of those who have taken up cycling in recent years unaware of the requirement to register their bikes, claim the schemes critics, but fines for failing to do so are disproportionate, they maintain, according to a report in the LA Times.
The mother of one teenage boy found out the hard way about the law, when her son borrowed a bike from his cousin and came home with a ticket for $400 because the bike didn’t have a bell and was unregistered."
Not only are many of those who have taken up cycling in recent years unaware of the requirement to register their bikes, claim the schemes critics, but fines for failing to do so are disproportionate, they maintain, according to a report in the LA Times.
The mother of one teenage boy found out the hard way about the law, when her son borrowed a bike from his cousin and came home with a ticket for $400 because the bike didn’t have a bell and was unregistered."
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