Tag: bikewise

October 6, 2010

Yet another Burke-Gilman missing link broken jaw

The Burke-Gilman missing link has caused another serious injury, according to a recent report on BikeWise. An experienced 33-year-old biker broke her jaw in two places and broke some teeth after her wheel got caught in the tracks riding on NW 45th a block after the Burke-Gilman abruptly ends. She was riding a road bike…
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tagged: bikewise, burke-gilman, missing link
August 11, 2010

Recent bike vs motor vehicle collisions

Here’s a short roundup of some bike collisions involving motor vehicles, as reported recently to BikeWise.org. Some of the collisions are up to a month old, but the reports are new: July 10, 30th Ave NE and 125th NE. “I was riding southbound on 30th St. traveling at approx. 20 mph. The car passed me…
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tagged: bikewise, collisions, wrecks
August 3, 2010

StolenBicycleRegistry.com now streaming in the sidebar

Check it out over there on the right. Nope, scroll down a little bit further… there you go. OK, I know the side bar is not totally easy and dynamic to use. It’s on the list (boy, that list keeps getting longer…) If you have not been to StolenBicycleRegistry.com before (here are the Seattle listings),…
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tagged: bike thefts, bikewise, stolenbicycleregistry.com
July 14, 2010

Why we need to be cautious when installing new trolley tracks

I was poking around on Bike Wise and noticed that the reported crashes seem to line the South Lake Union Streetcar tracks with blue bubbles indicating a “solo” collision. They are mostly people’s wheels getting stuck in the tracks and throwing them.
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tagged: bikewise, broadway, cycle tracks, first hill, jackson, slut, streetcars, westlake
July 9, 2010

This week’s bike theft map (July 2-9)

View Bike Thefts 7/2 – 7/9 in a larger map Use a U-lock, folks. Here’s a map of bike thefts from the past week that were reported to the Seattle Police Department. Bike thefts are notoriously underreported, so this map is very likely incomplete.
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tagged: bike thefts, bikewise, cascade, maps, spd, u-locks