Longmont Bike Night Blog

Longmont, Colorado's kindler, gentler version of a Critical Mass now has a blog. Riders meet at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays at Roosevelt Park in Longmont, Colorado for a casual ride for casual people on casual bikes wearing casual clothes. Longmont Bike Night photos here.

Bicycle news roundup

REI pledged $10 to the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition for each bicycle parked at the grand opening of its new store in Mountain View, California, with a cap of $5000. Volunteers parked 594 bicycles at the 3-day grand opening this last weekend, so the SVBC will receive the $5000 maximum amount. If you're looking for a fund-raising idea for your bike organization, bicycle parking can be a good way to raise funds.

Heather does Brighton on a bike.

Bikes Belong will award $40,000 in grants to five bicycling projects in the United States. Read BRaIN for details on facilities and education projects that will receive this money.

79 82 Dozens and dozens of blogs link to the story at BikePortland.org about the Portland brakeless fixie ruling in traffic court. Some of the funner reactions are these sticky 'brakes' and a t-shirt from Sacramento.

50 Los Angeles residents receive free bikes in Bicycling Magazine's "Bike Town" project.

Chicago Tribune Editorial: Bikes and cars can get along in traffic.

Cycling lawyer Bob Mionske gives the straight dope on the Landis case.

UK judge says "Get off the road!" But the police are also ticketing sidewalk cyclists.

Spanish Inquisition.

Big Jon (aka the infamous Drunk Cyclist) hit-and-run at 55 mph! (not a family-friendly link). Via BCMTB.