John Clary

Dead cyclists in Edinburg and Parker County

Short article today. we had a death from a drunk driver hitting a cyclist in Edinburg TX and the ME report of a cyclist killed in rural Parker County earlier this month. Up first, a wrong way cyclist was...

Change of focus, let's keep you alive on your bicycle

Well for all my faithful readers, I'm back. There was a software glitch on my computer that took an act of Congress to get fixed, and now that it is fixed I'm going back to what...

Vulnerable Road Users bill passes House and Senate conference committees, on to Perry for signature

The Vulnerable Road Users bill has survived the Legislature gantlet, and is awaiting the Governor's signature to make it law. The full text of the bill as passed is reproduced here:AN ACT relating to the operation of a...

Gangs and outlaws emperil us all

We are all in peril of our lives because a lawless subset of society has taken over what used to be a public space and will not allow others to use it, indeed they have made it so dangerous that...

More bicycles than cars sold QTR1 2009

Yes, Americans bought more bicycles than cars in the first quarter of 2009 by almost 100,000. Even though bicycle sales are down more than 30% compared to a year ago, they still outsold cars. So, what does that...

The Ride of Silence from an honoree's viewpoint

The Ride of Silence is a bike ride that honors and remembers those who have been hit by cars while riding their bikes. I'm in the subset survivors of the set hit by cars of the superset bicycle riders...

To be at the birth of an international movement

How many of us can say we have been at the birth of an international movement? How many of us have been honored parts of that movement? How many cyclists can we squeeze around White Rock Lake for this year...

Tomorrow is Day One of Bike to Work Week, be safe

May 11th through the 15th is Bike to Work week in the US and I was looking for Dallas area activities to attend. After searching all the club sites and everything all I found was this DART gathering. Unfortunately it...

How not to cross an intersection with a bicycle, Houston version

There was a bike wreck in Houston a while back. In one sense it illustrates all the bad things that people say about bicycle riders, but in another sense it shows all the bad things that can happen when infrastructure...

I was ready to give this driver a break

I have been following this story in my Blog and as I wrote there, you really can't tell unless you see it if you hit things with big rigs. I have friends that are drivers and that used to...

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