Week in Review: Bicycle News & Opinions from Around the World
The wheels are in motion and helmet heads are a spinning – full of brilliant bicycle ideas! What are your thoughts on bike sharing, pothole tours and cycling delivery folks? Or ice “racing”, spinal cord helping helmets and Rollers? Not quite sure what we’re referring to? Check out this past week’s bicycles stories that were in the news!
• January 11, 2010: One frustrated citizen discusses the dangers of bicycling on ice – what she calls “Hood ornament racing”. A new winter sport, just in time for Olympics. (Jeanne Holden Cornwall, Standard Freeholder)
• January 11, 2010: A government study has recently found that while movies made for kids are getting better at portraying safety behaviors like wearing seatbelts and bike helmets, they’re still missing the mark about half the time. Seat Belts, Bike Helmets Go Unused in Movies Aimed at Kids. (Serena Gordon, BusinessWeek)
• January 11, 2010: A team of scientists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver have developed what they call a two-shell helmet design that adds extra protection to deflect the shock of an impact away from the spinal cord as well as the head. Canadian scientists designing helmet to prevent spinal cord injuries (Staff Writer, BrainandSpinalCord.org)
• January 12, 2010: Bicycling Diaries – Thoughts and opinions from one semi-competitive cyclist. Elbow Room: Pedal To The Mettle (Ben Spies, SuperBikePlanet.com)
• January 13, 2010: Virginia staple, The Bike Lane, donated 42 new bikes to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation last holiday season and collected over $8,500. Donating Joy of Biking (Allison Austin, The Connection)
• January 14, 2010: Don’t want to brave the cold weather, but miss your bike during the winter months? Get Rollers! They are a special indoor training device that allows you to ride your regular outdoor bicycle like a real bike inside. Rollers look like a set of three big metal rolling pins with a rubber band and an aluminum frame. Rollers: like learning to ride a bike (Tim Burke, The Palm Beach Post)
• January 14, 2010: Bike Delivery in Portland: They not only bring the market to you—they help alleviate the congestion and the smog that comes with it. Pedal Power: Portland’s Bike Delivery Services (Chad Walsh, Neighborhood Notes)
• January 14, 2010: On Saturday and Sunday, the City of Cape Coral’s 19th annual Tour de Cape (featuring running, walking and bicycling events) took place. Everyone’s a winner in Tour de Cape events (Staff Writer, News-Press)
• January 14, 2010: Following in the footsteps of places such as Paris and Amsterdam, LA looks into bicycle sharing. As Bicycle Sharing Plans Develop, LaBonge Would Rather See Bike Stations (Zach Behrens, LAist)
• January 15, 2010: A bicycle ride featuring a tour of the largest sinkholes in the High Springs area was held by the Yellow Bellied Sliders Bicycling Society at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 17. Bike ride to tour High Springs’ largest sinkholes (Staff Writer, The North Florida Herald)
