Yeah, f**k you too.

Like this, two days going now. Drunken attempt at parking your Saab, anyone? Ok, this can also be a prank as the doors of the car are unlocked.

Crystal Ruiz Mills Relief Fund

Some very sad news from Florida, which also puts THIS into very strange light, not the same city or anything but still this makes me wonder what's going on in the Sunshine State?

Anyhow, click HERE and help out if can.

"Crystal Ruiz-Mills, was struck by a motorist at this past weekends Broward County Critical Mass.

She is in the hospital with broken vertebrates and has already had surgery to replace the shattered L1 bone in her back. She is suffering through a lot of pain and discomfort. On top of all that. Crystal has a family. Two sons and a really cool husband, Andy. I have set up a donation through the PayPal link below. We can help them through these tough times. Like most of us, Crystal is not covered under any insurance plan. So anything will help.

Crystal has most likely brewed your espresso shots, or poured your morning coffee once or twice if you live in the Fort Lauderdale area. She works at Brew Urban Cafe in Victoria Park. She and her family ride their bikes everywhere because they don't have a car. She is local artist and photographer. She is an unselfish, caring woman with a giant heart.

Anything helps. Thank you"

RE: Fight Back

If you read Prolly's blog and read about this stupidity here, you might want to buy the t-shirt above from HERE. The same seller has more of them, just look into their sale page here. 

Cars on Helsinki Velorome ...

Now, information on this is very limited at the time of writing but:

Jarkko discovered today that in the brand new issue of Tuulilasi magazine, 'Finland's Only Car Magazine' as their slogan goes, there's some kind of car test. And some of the photos of the feature have been shot on the Käpylä Velodrome here in Helsinki.

With the cars driving ON the velodrome.

I haven't seen the issue or any more photos than the one above and don't know more about this but the Helsinki velodrome is a publicly-owned municipal sports facility and the Tuulilasi magazine needed to ask someone at the City for a permission to conduct this stupidity. And someone somewhere in the City administration has actually granted them the permission. And probably for free. One would think that the City is supposed to maintain, not destroy, the velodrome with the tax money, right?

Another thing is that to my knowledge the Käpylä velodrome has the status of an official historical preserved monument (or something like) that due to being of certain architectural value. As a cycling velodrome, not as a car racing track.

Now let's see where this goes next when the word spreads because I certainly hope that we're not the only people seeing the fucked-upness of all this.

Signal Your Turn

Stole this from Bike Jerks.

Fight Back

'Man Gets 120 Days for Shooting Cyclist in the Head'

"While driving down the road one day, Charles Diaz grew upset at seeing a man riding his bike on a busy street with his 3 year-old son. So he shot him in the head. Thankfully, the bullet narrowly missed his skull, instead getting lodged in the cyclists' helmet. Well, Diaz has just been sentenced for admitting to nearly murdering a man by firing a gun towards his head--and he's received a paltry 4 months in jail.

120 days. For coming as close to killing someone in cold blood as you possibly can without actually doing so."

From Treehugger.

Road Rage: The Danish Style

Denmark is often considered as a true urban cyclists' paradise and rightly so. However, the reality might -sometimes- be bit different. Here's a translated news bit from a Danish newspaper, which does NOT tell how this incident came about. Police is searching for the attacker:

"At the final stop on Ønsbækvej offender came into the bus and the driver assigned several punched in the face. As shown in the photograph from the bus surveillance camera was the perpetrator dressed as a cyclist. "

Sniper Vision

Artwork by tnts.

Download and print the bigger version from HERE.

Nasty!

Now, I'm against all types of violence, aggression or damaging property, be it your own or someone else's. But yeah, these are those unfortunate moments everyone experiences while riding a city in the city traffic... 

So, check out what some crafty & clever art students came up with:

"Bikers Revenge

This clever little intention is by two devilishly brilliant students at University of the Arts here in Philadelphia. Keying up your enemy's car just got way more fun. This may also prevent asshole drivers to think twice before cutting you off or driving too close when they have plenty of room!"

Taxis = The Enemy? In Toronto...

Everyone, please try to be nice to each other out there, all right? This is just too harsh. 

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Taxi Driver Severs Cyclists' Leg in Violent Hit-and-Run
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 11.17.08

Last night in Toronto, a cyclist had a loud argument with a cab driver and the next thing residents heard was a sickening crunch and a man screaming for help- the cabbie rammed the cyclist against a pole and severed his leg. Doctors couldn't fix it and the leg was amputated.

The cabbie took off and then three hours later called police and said he was defending himself against a robbery attempt

Constable Burrows: "We're trying to determine the sequence of events and how this escalated from the sound of voices to what we have right now, a male in hospital with fairly significant injuries fighting for his life".

Sprocket Man says: Think Bicycle Safety

Sprocket Man says: Think Bicycle Safety.

Click that, read and learn. Even if he has more gears than necessary and his bike coasts, it's all good.