Our site is getting hammered by spambots at the moment, so we have turned off anonymous commenting for the time being. We will try to figure this out and then tweak the comment settings again.
In the meantime, please feel free to create an account on the site, or leave a message in the contact form at the bottom of every page. SVBC can't fulfill its mission without your feedback. ^_^
Another "pro" thief caught. Anyone lose a bike near BART?
Investigators are hoping the items' owners will come forward to identify and claim their property.
BART would then seek additional charges against Major through the district attorney's office and return stolen property to its rightful owners. Photos of the recovered bicycle frames can be viewed at http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2012/news20120612.aspx.
Well, this is horrific:
Witnesses called police around 3:45 p.m. Sunday to report that a gold-color pickup was trying to run down the boys near Fourth Avenue and Grant Street. One of the youths had to jump off his bike to avoid being hit, and when he did, the driver ran over the bike and onto the sidewalk, said police Sgt. Dave Norris.
Read more at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/19/BAI11P421T.DTL.
Originally posted at http://interi.org/2012/06/bay-area-public-transportation-map/, by maiki, and licensed under CC-BY-SA. Comments are closed here, please discuss on the original post. ^_^
Here is a cool mapping project:
From SFGate:
Officers from Ingleside station following a tip went to the home of Irving Sanchez on the 200 block of Charter Oak Avenue in Silver Terrace, where they found eight allegedly stolen bikes in his kitchen, police said. A subsequent search of two Oakland storage lockers he had rented turned up 81 bicycles in one and 25 in another, along with 80 bike tires and a frame.
Originally posted at http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2012/04/28/ban-human-drivers/, by Mike Linksvayer, and graciously dedicated to the public domain. Comments are closed here, please discuss on the original post. ^_^
Image is from Wikipedia Commons.
Cyclist appears to be fine, but of course it could have been a lot worse!
Prior to the upgrade, we had a page that listed a whole bunch of different feeds to which one could subscribe. It was kinda overkill, and we are deprecating most of the types of content we posted back then. This simplifies it for the folks who write on the site, as well as for visitors trying to get the info they need.
We do have a feed at http://bikesiliconvalley.org/feed. It contains the latest news and blog posts.
One of the design goals for the new site is to incorporate more media in the presentation, and to make it easy for everyone to share.
We hope to include a lot more photos in posts, so everyone can see how vibrant and diverse the cycling community is in Silicon Valley (and it doesn't hurt that nearly everyone has a camera on them at all times!). ^_^
This will be the inaugural changelog. I am not going to follow any particular standard; rather, I will try to make it as readable as possible, so folks at home can play along.
Feel free to leave comments if you want clarification on anything. ^_^
It has been too long. This one is much better than the Dahon, which in hindsight was much too small for me.
First impressions and run-ins with irrational motorists abound!
Our calendar is looking kinda bare for this next month. Here is a friendly reminder that if you have information to share with the cycling community you can submit it directly to the site (by logging in) or by sending your info to submissions@bikesiliconvalley.org.
If you follow the general RSS feed you may have noticed some spam popping up. That is because the forums are included there, and that is the one place that posts are added to the site without a moderator looking at them first.
I just activated reCAPTCHA, which will hopefully curb the amount of spam accounts that get created. The CAPTCHA will only show up on the create accounts form, so if you are all ready logged in and have an account you shouldn't see it.
Well, I didn't have any to begin with, so there are no old cards to compare to. But you get two photos anyway!
Business cards are hard to take photos of!
This video is a continuous stream of amazing. The cyclist is dancing, using her bike more as a partner than a tool. To the very end it is utterly fascinating. So, watch it.
