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  • Posted: Thu, Feb 5th
    Legally Speaking with Bob Mionske - Good night and good luck
    The first time I saw a copy of VeloNews, it was still a newspaper. It was the early 1980s and I had just 'discovered' the sport. A friend had an extensive collection of VeloNews, and I just pored over the back issues with a religious fervor in between rides, ...
  • Posted: Thu, Jan 22nd
    Legally Speaking with Bob Mionske - Stop as yield
    Ask any motorist what irritates them most about cyclists, and you’re likely to get an earful about cyclists who behave as if stop signs and red lights don’t apply to them. It’s a sore point in relations between motorists and cyclists, and is the single most cited ...
  • Posted: Thu, Jan 8th
    Legally Speaking with Bob Mionske - Turning with a blind eye
    Tracey Sparling, a 19-year old student at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, was returning to campus after a lunch-break trip to her apartment. As she approached the red light at an intersection, she slowed, coming to a stop next to the front tire of the cement truck in the ...
  • Posted: Wed, Dec 31st
    Legally Speaking with Bob Mionske - The 1-mile solution
    What if there was something you could do to improve your health and fitness, save money, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, improve air quality, and reduce your carbon footprint, all at the same time—would you do it?
  • Posted: Wed, Dec 24th
    Legally Speaking with Bob Mionske - A cyclists' Bill of Rights
    “Gaining the right to the road was the cycling cause of the late nineteenth century; securing that right will be the cycling cause of the early twenty-first century.” Those were my closing words in the introductory chapter of
  • Posted: Fri, Dec 19th
    Legally Speaking with Bob Mionske - Death, taxes and ... free riders?
    Benjamin Franklin once observed that there is nothing certain in this world but death and taxes. In our own time, we’ve observed that when it comes to the subject of cyclists, it’s all but certain that non-cyclists will bring up scofflaws and taxes.
  • Posted: Thu, Dec 11th
    Legally Speaking with Bob Mionske - Can't we all just get along?
    If you’re one of those readers who reads a book from cover to cover, you may have noticed that in the acknowledgements for Bicycling & the Law, I thanked
  • Posted: Fri, Dec 5th
    Legally Speaking with Bob Mionske - The real daily distraction
    A few weeks ago (see Can’t we do better?), I posed the question “What do you think can be done about cyclist safety?” in response to a question from C.S., who asked We as a club are going to do ...
  • Posted: Thu, Nov 27th
    Legally Speaking with Bob Mionske - A time for thanks
    As Americans pause to give thanks at the beginning of this holiday season, it’s a good time for us to look past some of the outrages we’ve experienced this past year and reflect on what we cyclists have to be thankful for.
  • Posted: Thu, Nov 20th
    Legally Speaking with Bob Mionske - Can't we do better?
    Two weeks ago, I wrote about the collision that hospitalized Dr. Ed Farrar (see Yet another collision). Since then, I’ve received a letter I’d like to share. First, C.S. wrote in to say: We held Ed's ...
  • Posted: Thu, Nov 6th
    Legally Speaking with Bob Mionske - Yet another collision
    Last week, I wrote “we all feel the pain when one of our own is injured.” As I wrote those words, one of our own, Dr. Ed Farrar, lay in critical condition at Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee, Washington, the ...
  • Posted: Thu, Oct 30th
    Legally Speaking with Bob Mionske - The aftermath
    I had just arrived in New York to visit Diana and we were finishing up a beautiful ride. I remember asking Diana how much further because the hunger pains were beginning to set in. It was only going to be 10km but I was ready to eat. We were climbing up a road ...
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