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To be honest, I\u2019m pretty wrung out after writing about our third SoCal bicycling death in just three days.<\/p>\n
And I don\u2019t have a lot of time left to work tonight after dealing with all that before my last drop-dead deadline to get some sleep \u2014 hopefully not literally. So let\u2019s just see how much we can get done, and try to catch up on more tomorrow.<\/p>\n
And that includes the photos I promised you from Sunday\u2019s CicLAvia, so I hope you\u2019ll be patient with me for a few days.<\/p>\n
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Mark your calendar for at least two more CicLAvias this year, despite Metro\u2019s threats of cutbacks to future events that would only coincide with the World Cup and the \u201928 Olympics.<\/p>\n
Next up is a return to South LA with Leimert Park meets Expo Park<\/a> at the end of June.<\/p>\n We had a blast this Sunday exploring 3 miles of car-free streets on Santa Monica Blvd and Westwood Blvd. Thank you for joining us! <\/p>\n Next stop? South LA! Keep those bikes ready for June 28 as @ciclavia<\/a> takes over the Leimert Park meets Expo Park route! pic.twitter.com\/8ItNnsjL8s<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 LADOT (@LADOTofficial) April 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Streetblog\u2019s Joe Linton offers photos from Sunday\u2019s very busy West LA CicLAvia<\/a>, including the newly repaired bakery window at the 99 Ranch Market, where an elderly driver killed three people crashing into the building February 5th<\/a>.<\/p>\n Redditor johnnyshotit has some nice shots, too, while Michael Schneider offers video from the day.<\/p>\n CicLAvia Westside!!!<\/a> And speaking of Schneider, he spotted a new LA modal filter.<\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n Police in Santa Monica will conduct yet another of the LA area\u2019s traffic safety enforcement operations targeted at traffic violations that endanger pedestrians and bicyclists today.<\/p>\n The operation will be in force this afternoon and evening, from 2 pm to 8 pm<\/a>.<\/p>\n As usual, ride to the letter of the law until you cross the city limits, because the cops may be focused on motorists, but they\u2019re legally required to enforce any violations they see, regardless of who commits it.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, today may be your best day to ride a bike on a state roadway, as the CHP begins a 24-hour Maximum Enforcement Period focused on speeding drivers<\/a>. Unless you can top the posed speed limit on your bike, which was always a personal goal of mine.<\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n Once again, a driver has deliberately attacked bike riders for the simple crime of being in his way.<\/p>\n This time, the assault came in Cherokee County, Georgia, where a 72-year old man faces charges for deliberately driving into a pair of bicyclists<\/a> on a 33-mile group ride, after calling 911 and repeatedly honking his horn \u2014 even though the next lane was empty and he could have easily just gone around them.<\/p>\n The driver later told sheriff\u2019s deputies \u201cit wasn\u2019t \u2018reasonable\u2019 for cyclists to take a whole lane, so \u2018he drove into them.’\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI told him I had video of the incident and offered to show it to him, which he stated he didn\u2019t want to see because he knew he did nothing wrong,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Fortunately, no one was seriously injured.<\/p>\n He is now being held without bond on two counts of aggravated assault, hit and run, reckless driving, aggressive driving and failure to maintain a safe distance from a bicycle.<\/p>\n Which is a lot of charges for \u201cnot doing anything wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n ALERT: 72-year-old man arrested for hitting a group of cyclists after honking and heckling them for taking over the road in Georgia.<\/p>\n Jerry Ross was driving when he pulled up behind a group of 10 cyclists in the road.<\/p>\n He began honking and heckling the cyclists, and one of them\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/S456iK3IKQ<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 E X X \u27a0A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) April 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n UCLA will mark Bike Month with two days of pit stops<\/a>, and three bike repair days.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Pasadena announces a full month of Bike Month activities<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n The war on cars may be a myth, but the war on bikes just keeps on going.<\/p>\n Trash collection company Waste Management pinky swears they\u2019re going to stop leaving empty trash bins in the bike lane on LA\u2019s Reseda Blvd<\/a>.<\/p>\n A 73-year old Wisconsin man faces charges for pointing a gun at a 13-year old boy riding an ebike<\/a>, after the kid kept riding away when the older man tried to confront him; no word on whether the gun was loaded.<\/p>\n Waymo effectivesly tells London bike riders \u201cscrew you,\u201d arguing that it\u2019s just too high a bar to expect their autonomous cabs to keep out of bike lanes<\/a>, because customers want to be dropped off in them. Although the few times I\u2019ve used one, I can\u2019t recall ever being asked whether or not I want to be let out in a bike lane. I can recall getting extremely carsick, however.<\/p>\n But sometimes, it\u2019s the people on two wheels behaving badly.<\/p>\n A Binghampton, New York man faces charges for playing repo man with a baseball bat<\/a>, beating another man senseless when the victim didn\u2019t pay everything he owed after buying an ebike from him; he then rode off with the bike in question.<\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n Local\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Bike thefts in West Hollywood surged a whopping 250% last year,<\/a> ten times the increase in shoplifting, though the overall numbers are relatively small.<\/p>\n You\u2019ll now find a new conservation mural facing the Ballona Creek Bike Path<\/a> on the ima Members Lounge building on Sepulveda Blvd; created by Victor Ving with support from the League of Conservation Voters, the mural calls for protecting our public lands.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n State<\/strong><\/p>\n Streetsblog\u2019s Melanie Curry reviews Calbike\u2019s California Bike Summit in Sacramento last week, with the first installment focused on advice for living with Caltrans<\/a>.<\/p>\n A Eureka father and son made just their 5th stop at a Major League ballpark in San Diego Monday<\/a>, after roughly one month and 1,500 miles on the road in their journey to visit all 30 American and National League parks in support of St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n A 26-year old Stockton man was lucky to escape injury when a car pulled up next to him as he was riding his bike, and someone fired a gun out the window<\/a>.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a new king of the hill in San Francisco, where British hillclimb champ Harry MacFarlane set a new KOM for the city\u2019s steepest hill<\/a>, with a ridiculous 41% average gradient.<\/p>\n Streetsblog says San Francisco\u2019s two-mile linear Sunset Dunes park is an unqualified success<\/a> on it\u2019s first anniversary, as the city\u2019s traffic safety has improved, merchants are doing better and the park is more popular than ever.<\/p>\n Sacramento\u2019s CapRadio explains why California\u2019s crackdown on ebikes may not solve the biggest safety risks<\/a>, which are caused by e-motorbikes and dirt bikes, often of questionable legality.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n National<\/strong><\/p>\n Governing writes that ebike regulations are proliferating across the US<\/a>, while advocates warn \u201csome laws risk over-regulating low-speed bikes while ignoring high-speed e-motos.\u201d No shit.\u00a0<\/p>\n There\u2019s not a pit in hell deep enough for a Pennsylvania man accused of fleeing the scene after killing a third grader riding a bicycle<\/a>, while driving under the influence; when police smelled alcohol on his breath after tracking him to his home, he first asked \u201cHow can I get a DUI if I have been drinking at my house all day?\u201d, before admitting he\u2019d felt \u201ca bump\u201d while he was driving home.<\/p>\n Heartbreaking news from North Carolina, where a 51-year old man faces multiple charges<\/a> after he \u201cveered off\u201d a roadway while under the influence of coke, opiates and benzodiazepines, and slammed into a nine-year old boy as he sat on a bike in his own driveway, knocking the kid into retaining wall and severing his leg. Speaking of that pit in hell\u2026<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n International<\/strong><\/p>\n Residents of Liverpool, England say they don\u2019t think plans for a five-mile bike lane connecting two other bikeways is popular with locals due to a loss of parking<\/a>, even though 77% of respondents support it, and 69% say they\u2019ll use it.<\/p>\n Velo looks at \u201cjaw-dropping\u201d custom road and gravel bikes at London\u2019s Bespoked Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bicycling deaths climbed nearly 4% in Germany last year<\/a>, with over 61% of the victims aged 65 or more, while nearly half involved ebikes.<\/p>\n Katmandu, meet Los Angeles. Asian News Network says bicycling used to be central to life in Nepal, but now it\u2019s done mainly for sport<\/a>, as \u201cpoor infrastructure, unsafe roads, and status-driven attitudes continue to keep cycling from becoming a mode of commuting.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Competitive Cycling<\/strong><\/p>\n Tadej Poga\u010dar and French wunderkind Paul Seixas battled back and forth before Poga\u010dar pulled away to wrap up his third consecutive Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge<\/a>; Remco Evenepoel settled for third, his day doomed by a badly timed breakaway.<\/p>\n Dutch cyclist Demi Vollering ran away with a solo win at Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge<\/a>, demonstrating her mastery of women\u2019s cycling following her uphill victory on Wednesday in Fl\u00e8che Wallonne.<\/p>\n Tragic news from Spain, where former WorldTour pro Cristian Mu\u00f1oz died in Spain Thursday night<\/a> from complications due to a knee infection following a crash at France\u2019s Tour du Jura Cycliste on April 18; the Colombian cyclist was just 30 years old<\/a>.<\/p>\n More tragic news, this time from Belgium, where U-23 cyclist Milan Bral was killed when he was struck while training<\/a> for next month\u2019s Gent-Wevelgem under-23 race; Bral is the nephew of Soudal-Quickstep sports director and former pro cyclist Sep Vanmarcke.<\/p>\n Former WorldTour pro Mike Woods asks the burning question we\u2019d all like to know, what the hell happened to North American bike racing<\/a> in the decade-plus since he competed on the circuit.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Finally\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Your next ebike could be a weird little solar powered, 75 mph car<\/a> \u2014 but yes, you still have to pedal it. If you\u2019re going to try to run down someone on a bicycle, try to make sure it\u2019s not a bike cop first<\/a>.<\/p>\n And yes, it\u2019s true<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n Be safe, and stay healthy. And get vaccinated, already.<\/p>\n Oh, and fuck Putin.\u00a0<\/p>\n Related posts<\/p>\n Like this:<\/p>\n Like Loading…<\/p>\n\n
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