Blogs

 A clever idea from Australia:

THEY cost about 7¢ and could save someone's life.

Now, with door-collision incidents on the rise, cycling groups are urging VicRoads to step up a near-forgotten 10-year-old program offering drivers stickers urging them to ''Look out for cyclists'', which can be stuck on side mirrors.

 I really like this video. It somehow captures the mood of a late night ride in the northwest really well. 

Seattle Randonneurs Trailer from Dan McComb on Vimeo.

I think I found this cool European city bike project before Eric! It'll appear on our Facebook page soon though I bet. And if you haven't friended us, liked us, or whatever you do on Facebook these days, do so! If you can't tell I'm not really a Facebook user...

And if you aren't familiar with Bike Works, check them out.

 I really liked this very balanced BBC article on bikes & cars in the USA

As American cities attempt to make their streets more bicycle friendly, some tensions arise between cyclists and motorists.

Check out this slideshow. 

Glad to see that the velodrome is such a cool building, and they have created a space in it for BMX--and maybe a Mt Bike park after the games?--while the basketball arena is just a temporary building. 

London has its priorities right!

The PI requested some data from SDOT.  The number one spot surprised me at first, mainly because I just avoid 45th whenever possible so I didn't think about it. The others don't surprise me at all.

Dicks Drive-In on 45th in Wallingford
15th Avenue NE & NE Pacific Street in the University District
25th Avenue NE and NE Blakely (the Burke-Gilman crossing)
Bellevue Avenue and East Pine Street on Capitol Hill
Eastlake Avenue East and Furhman Avenue East just south of the University Bridge

I'm glad we have them, but I really don't like a lot of the bike lanes in Seattle because they put the cyclist right in the way of opening doors. I often feel safer on a street without bike lanes so I can ride a good 5-6 feet away from the parked cars. I've never had a driver be agressive towards me when I'm riding like that.  I wonder if it's because I am being treated more like another car than a cyclist?

Have a look at what happens when a driver opens their door onto a cyclist and you'll understand why I get scared:

 By now everyone has seen this awesome video, but what you don't know is it's JRA's own Ben S running by with the big arse.

Yes, he told me to post this!

More Seattle cross race info here & here.

Well, that's according to this little spreadsheet from the League of American Bicyclists. 
Up 93% in the decade 2000-2010, and 22% from 2009 to 2010.
Of course that's the share of all commuters that are riding bikes in Seattle not the total number, so somewhere like NYC beats us in total numbers. 

Have a  look at the project page for more information, or download the detour turn-by-turn directions (.pdf), here.