Grieving husband: think before you drink-drive
By Selma Milovanovic. May 30, 2006
Before dawn on Sunday, Peter Thomson was asleep at a campsite deep in the South Gippsland bush when two police came to deliver the grim news that would change his life forever — his wife had died and his stepdaughter and sister-in-law had been seriously […]

The following mp3 is from Channel Nine’s “The Footy Show”, on May 25th 2006. It’s from about the 58min mark, and we’ll kindly spare you the visuals. There’s nothing wrong with a joke or the occasional off-colour remark, but these comments from Mr S. Newman are beyond the pale. As far as we know, no […]

Spinning life’s pedal delights
May 27, 2006
Stephen Lacey’s love affair with bicycles started aged four with a blue Cyclops complete with handlebar streamers. Be it a Speedwell Dragster, Cyclops, English Raleigh racer or mountain bike, the two-wheeled escape to independence has punctuated life, writes Stephen Lacey.
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of […]

At last Wheels of Justice have a ‘proper’ website and url address. The Bicycle Justice blog will remain as the main information archive for the McGee case and related issues.
This site is still being loaded up with content and links, so please check regularly.
2006. A year later. Despite the public protests of May 2005 and […]

Lawyer fails to have hit-run dismissed NEWS.com.au. By Verity Edwards May 25, 2006
A LAWYER who killed a cyclist in a hit-and-run accident has failed in his bid to have a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice dismissed. Eugene McGee and his brother Craig yesterday entered not guilty pleas in the Adelaide Magistrates […]

The high-profile Adelaide lawyer Eugene McGee and his brother have pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice. But it could be months before the brothers are committed to stand trial in the District Court. McGee hit and killed cyclist Ian Humphrey in November 2003. He was convicted of driving […]

Not guilty plea on conspiracy From: AAP. May 24, 2006
A prominent Adelaide lawyer and his brother have pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Lawyer Eugene Norman McGee and his brother Craig Patrick McGee entered their pleas in the Adelaide Magistrates Court today after the court refused to accept […]

League of American Bicyclists: Oklahoma Passes Strong New Bike Law
May 22, 2006: Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry signed a powerful new bicycle law on Friday, May 19.
The law:
1. Re-defines ‘bicycle’ for the purposes of the state’s vehicle code, eliminating restricting wheel sizes and configurations
2. Eliminates confusing language as to where bicyclists should ride on the […]

Bicycling craze swept city in 19th century
May 22, 2006
They had practiced all that winter of 1879-80, these Rochester Bicycle Club members, learning to ride their new contraptions. Late in April, “nine hardy men emerged and rode boldly through the streets,” Rochester historian Blake McKelvey wrote.
It was a small beginning, to be sure. And yet by […]

On Yer Bike!
Friday, 19 May 2006. Reporter: Rina Garner
Bike usage in Melbourne is on the increase. The next time you’re stopped at traffic lights, take a look around and you’ll notice the jostling throng of pedallers vying for position – if you’re in the CBD, chances are you’re one of them.
Hard stats show that […]

Driver sent for trial over hit-run death of cyclist
By Jamie Berry. May 18, 2006
On the football field, Damian Cupido was brilliant but erratic. He showed that inconsistency again yesterday, failing to show at Melbourne Magistrates Court to give evidence on behalf of a good friend charged over the hit-run death of a cyclist last year. […]

Cricketer’s family may face charge over hit-run hide-out
By Jamie Berry May 17, 2006
The family of a former state cricketer accused of the hit-run death of a cyclist last year could also face charges over the collision, a court was told yesterday. David Plumpton, 29, of Mill Park, a batsman for Fitzroy Doncaster in Victorian […]

Cycling ‘keeps Danes, Dutch thin’
By Peter Jean. 16 May 06
The humble bicycle may be a key to solving the obesity crisis sweeping much of the world, a NSW parliamentary inquiry has been told. The inquiry into children, young people and the built environment heard obesity rates were increasing in almost all parts of the world […]

Pedal-pushing councils break pollution cycle
Picture: On your bike: City of Port Phillip Mayor Janet Bolitho, left, and her City of Yarra counterpart Jackie Fristacky take their official council-supplied vehicles for a spin.
Concern over soaring petrol prices and global warming has led the mayors of three city councils to adopt a radical approach to the council […]

Chain gang popularity at top of cycle
Social bike riding is experiencing a boom, writes Geoff Maslen.

Dressed in their skin-tight, multicoloured lycra outfits, the weekend warriors race down Beach Road in their thousands on bikes that can cost up to $10,000 each.

The cyclists ride in groups of 100 or more. They call the fast-flowing journey that […]

Deej Eszenyi: Investigators with wide-ranging powers 15may06
DOWN at West Lakes recently, I found myself gazing up the lights of the football arena, thinking about Royal Commissions. Many South Australians will remember that we held a Royal Commission into the Football Park lights back in 1979.
More recently, in South Australia, we have had the Kapunda […]

Funds to get Victorians on their bikes
Sunday, 14 May 2006. 08:10 (AEDT)
The Victorian Government is spending $70 million to increase the number of bicycle lanes around Melbourne and regional cities.
The money will be spent over 10 years, and is part of a larger transport package that will be announced by the Government later this week.
Transport […]

DPP insults victims of crime, says MP By Craig Bildstien 06may06
THE self-confessed “villain” of Parliament, Nick Xenophon, yesterday demanded the State Government appoint an independent regulator to oversee the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
In an address to the SA Press Club, Mr Xenophon described the behaviour of chief prosecutor Stephen Pallaras, QC, towards […]

Teacher dies after road crash

A Bendigo secondary school teacher has died in hospital, a week after being badly injured in a road crash. Tim Ledwidge had been in a critical condition in the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, after his bicycle and a car collided in Eaglehawk last Friday.
Mr Ledwidge had been a teacher at […]

Sydney Ride of Silence has now been organised. Contact Michael McGrath: accent@swiftdsl.com.au
:: Leaflet here ::
Assemble: 10am Hyde park
Departure: (estimate) 10.15am
Destination: (approx) 11.30am
Macquarie Street, Parliament House

UPDATE: Forwarded message from Michael in Sydney:
The Sydney Ride of Silence is all set for Saturday, 20 May, 2006, 10 am at Hyde Park.
If you have any friends who can print […]