Posts Tagged ‘Bicycle Safety’

The article I posted earlier today, Effectiveness of helmets and the culture of fear, has generated an interesting conversation in the comments section about how dangerous cycling really is. My article pointed out that many more people die from auto crashes every year than bikes yet there is a concerted effort to make cycling appear [...]

Last weeks, Copenhagenize author Mikael Colville-Andersen gave a brilliant speech at the TEDx Copenhagen conference about the effect our culture of fear has on reducing bicycle use. He takes on several assumptions about the protective quality of helmets and our curious exemption of automobiles, the leading cause of accidental death in the Western world, from [...]

Should you wear a bike helmet every time you ride or not? The helmet debates have been ranging in the cycling community for years and seem to be as entrenched and as bitter as the Israelis and the Arabs. One side says helmets save lives and make us safer. The other says the science behind [...]

Recently, the New York City cycling advocacy group Biking Rules had a bike safety PSA contest to come up with more creative way to inform cyclists how to be safe on the road. There were three 30 second spot winners that were pretty good, but I have to say I’m a big fan of the [...]

Editor Note: Bike Noob is a local blog covering road riding in Austin with ride and race reports, useful tips, and long term product testing. The Noob recently wrote about his experience at the Bike Fest at Kiker Elementary School in southwest Austin and agreed to let us re-post here. I wanted to share this [...]

Fixie rider, pedicab, group riders needed for bike safety PSA this Saturday This Sunday morning, local film maker Adam Pruitt will be shooting footage for a bicycle safety video to be shown at Interbike this fall. To make this happen, Adam needs your help to fill the screen with various local cyclists. He’s also needing [...]

The Austin Cycling Association will be holding condensed, cycling safety class Thursday night at the Wells Branch Community Library in far north Austin. It will be a one hour class based on the League of American Bicyclists Traffic 101 program ACA regularly hosts, but this one is free. The program will focus primarily on safety [...]

I came across this story from a Wisconsin Fox affiliate about one of their photojournalists who is a cyclists and decided to start video taping his rides so police would believe him when he claimed motorists were acting aggressively. He was successful in getting a motorist ticketed in one instance but had the police try to [...]

I’m not usually much for dorky cycling jerseys, but when they call attention to a problem that needs fixing as well as possibly saving your life, I’m on-board. Enterprising cyclist, Joe Mizereck, is now selling a safety yellow jersey online with a huge statement calling for 3 feet of passing space from drivers. It is [...]

Last week, I started a series I hope to bring you each week highlighting the silly, useless things being brought to you, the American consumer, in a fleeting chance that we might all think about what we are doing before we buy one more thing. If I don’t accomplish that, at the least this is [...]