Daily Cycling News

Here's the (near) daily post of cycling news from across the country, and sometimes interesting things from around the world. If I missed a worthy piece, please pass it on to me. Comments welcome.

Local Articles

• Doff Your Top-Hat at Bike Polo (blogTO, Aug 13)
• Registering bicycle may help if it's stolen (Toronto Star, Aug 13)
  If only this were true more often.
• Worry Over Distracted Drivers Up Across The Country (CityNews, Aug 13)
  This should be a worry to all of us who share the roads, crosswalks, sidewalks...
• Tour For Kids Riding Towards $1 Million (Press release, Aug 23)

Regional

• Kids of Steel run, bike, swim for hospice care (The Windsor Star, Aug 11)
• Cycling their way to Montreal; Four men raising funds for two causes (Welland Tribune , Aug 13)
• Green candidate tours on bicycle (Bayshore Broadcasting, Aug 14)

More..

Canada

• Trail is a capital asset, but 'you have to be cautious' (Times Colonist, Aug 12)
• Bring water bottles (Times Colonist, Aug 12)
• Cyclists raise 209K (Vancouver 24 hours, Aug 14)

Away

• As in car, follow rules on bike (Arizona Daily Star, Aug 12)
• Ban the cyclists (Oxford Mail, Aug 13)
  One death and they're calling for a ban of cyclists. Every days cars kill but we don't read letters asking for a ban of motorists! I do like this as a rebuttal
• Bicycle Film Festival (metromix.com, undated)
  Also: Kick-stands Up for Bicycle Film Festival (chicagoist, Aug 12)
  It's too bad I'll be away when this arrives here :-(
• Cycle City? (The Sacramento Bee, Aug 12) and
• Pasadena Pedaling Towards Bicycle Unfriendly Status (LAist, Aug 13)
• On the mean streets of L.A. (Los Angeles Times, Aug 13)
• Teen cyclists tout safety to their peers (Chicago Tribune, Aug 13)
• Cyclists toast pub where they can park their bikes (Islington Tribune, Aug 10)
• London set for 'bicycle hire scheme' (24dash.com , Aug 10)
• Cyclists, drivers duel over value of Critical Mass (Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug 11)
• When bikes rule the road, motorists fume (Los Angeles Times, Aug 12)
  Cute pun, NOT! Where's the rebuttal story about "Cyclists rage the rest of the time because cars rule the road"?
• Spoke in the wheel (socotsman.com, Aug 14)
• Drivers' stops prompts Beach to rethink bicycle stop signs (The Virginian-Pilot, Aug 14)
• Cyclists urged to sign up to "code" (Watford Observer, Aug 14)