Author: Bike Law
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Find a Bike Shop that Works for You
Treated poorly in a bike shop? Find another one, and take a few steps to be a good customer. Bicycling Magazine recently published an article titled, “Hey, Bike Shops; Stop Treating Customers Like Garbage.” The story follows a heavy-set 59 year old’s sad tale of how he was treated poorly from a number of local…
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Disappearing Bike Lanes Disappear From Oregon’s Legal Landscape!
Bike lanes continue through the intersection, even if they are not painted onto the roadway, and drivers who don’t yield to a cyclist riding in a bike lane are violating the law. The big bike news out of the Oregon legislature this year was the passage of a Stop as Yield law. This was an enormous…
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Oregon’s Stop as Yield Law Hits the Final Stretch!
The Oregon Legislature made national news this past week, for all the wrong reasons. The State Senate, with a super-majority of Democrats in control, had been working on climate legislation which would have Oregon join a cap-and-trade market with California and Quebec. Unable to stop the legislation, Republican Senators fled the state en masse, preventing the…
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Two Cycling Safety Wins for Keystone State!
Both the state of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia score important wins for better biking. Thanks to some outstanding advocacy efforts, both the state of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia have recently scored two important wins for cycling safety. Pennsylvania: “Dutch Reach” in State Driver’s Manual The “Dutch Reach” method of opening a car door…
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River City/Bike Law Team Wins Again!
Race Report: The OBRA Criterium Championships 2019By Harrison Harb After a long, difficult Road Race the day before, turnout was small for the criterium. And since the RCB/Bike Law boys missed out on a result, we showed up gunning for a win. The squad was Jeremy Russell, Pat Lemieux, Timmy Reinhart, and yours truly. The…
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River City/Bike Law Team at the Hammer Velo Crit
Race Report by Colin Gibson It’s the second weekend of June, which means it’s crit season. The Real Critters head to Tulsa Tough. The second-tier critters go to Ballard Crit. And River City Bikes? We just went 1-2 at the Hammer Velo Crit in Portland, Oregon. It’s a flat course on wide open roads with a…
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Highway Rajneeshpuram Revisited
Team River City/Bike Law Ride Report By Harrison Harb May 2017 Two years ago—almost to the day—Colin Gibson and I headed east of the Cascades to a little town called Maupin. The plan was to get two epic days of training in before Colin became a father two weeks later. We only had vague ideas…
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Michigan Rides of Silence 2019
Tonight, multiple communities in Michigan will join in the Ride of Silence, an annual ride that happens around the world to honor people who have been killed or injured while riding a bicycle on a public highway or road. Additionally, the Ride of Silence is intended to serve as a reminder, or raise awareness, of…
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Oregon Rides of Silence 2019
This year marks the 17th anniversary of the Ride of Silence, which honors cyclists who have been killed by a motor vehicle collision. In 2003, Chris Phelan organized the first Ride of Silence in Dallas, Texas after Larry Schwartz was killed by a bus while riding. Larry’s death was horribly tragic for the Dallas cycling community.…
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Amsterdam: Not Cycling Paradise
Don’t look to Amsterdam for the future of better biking in the United States. As the train crossed from Belgium into the Netherlands my excitement grew. I sat forward to get a better look out of the window at the country side. Then I saw them, beautiful, clean, pale red ribbons stretching through the low…
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River City/Bike Law Team Racks Up Another Victory!
Race Report from The Montinore Road Race (By Harrison Harb) May 4, 2019. The team showed up with engines revved in close-to-full attendance for the Montinore Road Race, blessed with near-perfect racing conditions as temps pushed up into the 70’s. The race was 10 laps of 10 kilometers with a 3-minute climb to the finish…
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Michigan Moving on Distracted Driving
Law advancing quickly, but it’s too weak Michigan lawmakers appear to be moving at a blistering pace to revise Michigan’s distracted driving laws. Governor Gretchen Whitmer called for tougher distracted driving laws in her first State of the State address and the legislature quickly went to work. Bills proposing amendments to current distracted driving laws…
