RIP Botteccia
posted by steve at 9/09/2007 02:55:00 pm
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Halifax cycling sites
- Halifax Cycling Coalition website
- Halifax Cycling Coalition Wiki
- Halifax Cycling Coalition email list
- Cat Rescue Squad
Cycling blogs I read
- Ride year-round in Buffalo
- BikeLog
- Bikin' Bis
- Car Free Family
- Oil is for sissies
- SurlyBlog
- The adventures of crazy biker chick
- Bike Nerd
- Lunatic Biker
- Up in Alaska
- MinusCar
- Cyclelicious
- Commute By Bike
- Bicycles and Icicles
- Dan On Bike
- Chain Driven
- Wheel Revolution
- Sweet Chocolate Malted
- Bike Refugee
- Kent's Bike Blog
- Biking Toronto
- CycleFool
- Random Thoughts
- Squeaky Cyclist
- CycleDog
- monkeymartian
- Commute by bike
- Ride my handlebars
- 32 Spokes
- Bike Hugger
- Citizen Rider
- Cyclelicio
- Fat Cyclist
- Kimbofo
- Blasphemous Bicycler
- Tuco Rides
- U-C Commute
- Windy City Biker
- One Less Car
- Jerome's Bikes and other stuff
- The Bluebird Bicycle
- KC Bike Commuting
- Large Fella on a Bike
- Urban Velo
- Revrunner
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5 Comments:
Jesus, I fall behind on blogs for one week and you end up with compression fractures. I can't believe, with stories like this, that anyone would commute to work by bike. Perhaps you should take up something less dangerous, like naked lion-taming?
Get well soon, buddy.
How often the answer seems to be to retreat and give the roads to the autos. I've even had my own moments of fear. Who would think that blood battles for principle could be as close as one's road to work? But there it is.
In the US, cars kill about 40,000 people a year, a tiny fraction of whom are cyclists. Usually it's car-on-car violence or speed demons, with or without chemical enhancement, piling into stationary objects.
If your particular venue seems to be a death cage, perhaps discretion is the better part. Not riding there, I can't say. One would hope that motorists could and would be educated by some sort of organized campaign. That's better than a tire iron across the windshield, though that method can bring a certain amount of temporary emotional satisfaction.
Cafiend, I'm working with a group of other cyclists in Halifax to try to get some changes in place. Hopefully we'll be successful.
After being hit 5 times in the past year commuting to work I'm probably going to be walking to work - since we moved office it's close enough that it's barely worth riding into anyway. I'm stuck right now in taxis (since I can't walk far enough due to back injuries, and the bus seats are too low to support my back) and I'm remembering just why I dislike being in a car, especially when trapped in a long queue of them...
Hey...
My best to you.
I was hit today on my commute into the city. Clipped by a mirror and knocked down onto the curb. Not nearly as bad as yours it looks like, but also a habit that is too prevelant for me. That was number 3. Damage to the bike and myself was very minnor, but the two previous have sent me for medical help and my bike to heaven. All the best and take care
Glad you survived OK, Chambers! Did you get the driver's plate and file a police report?
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