Posts tagged bikes

108.92 miles per hour

Skids

Love this artwork for Shane Perkins’ Keirin series on YouTube. Via PEDAL Consumption.

The Montreal Die - In.  A peaceful protest against cycling accidents. Moving and powerful. “It was in protest of the death of a cyclist on Montreal street who was hit by a motorist.It was incredible. Rue Ste. Catherine was shut down in the late afternoon on a Saturday. Closed the city for ten minutes.It was beautiful. ” Picture by Kreddible Trout. Prints available for purchase through Red Bubble.

npr:

A large study of 30,000 people in Copenhagen over 14 years found that those who biked to work lowered their risk of death by 40 percent compared to sedentary people. And in the short term, another study of 100 people in Perth, Australia, who replaced some car commutes with bike trips over the course of a year, found the bicycling improved aerobic fitness, cholesterol numbers, and lowered the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

That seems pretty straightforward. But what about the risk of getting crushed by a trash truck? Anyone who’s bicycled even a little bit knows all too well the fear of an encounter with a motor vehicle. Just yesterday the Washington Post reported on a 20-year-old bicyclist who was critically injured after being hit by a car in downtown D.C.

— Biking To Work: Healthful Until You Hit A Pothole : Shots - Health News 

Photo: John Rose/NPR

Massive hang time

Because

Vintage Bike with Vintage Soda Pop Signs 1938

Bicycle being reclaimed by two trees in a cherry orchard at Görsbach in Thuringia, Germany

Respect

In LA every lane’s a bike lane

via laist.com