Courier Mail: Hit and run maniacs
A cyclist has been seriously injured in a hit and run incident in south-east Queensland after a passenger in a passing car opened their door and hit the bike rider. Police said the 38-year-old man was riding his mountain bike on Bellini Road at Burpengary on the Sunshine […]

Daily Nexus: Truck Driver Gets Penalty for Fatal Bicycle CollisionThirteen months after UCSB triathlete Kendra Payne was struck and killed by a truck while riding her bicycle, driver Marcos Almaguer has been sentenced on charges of trespass by a motor vehicle. During a triathlon team-training ride on Jan. 11, 2006, Payne and a teammate were […]

Mercury News: DUI driver sentenced to 19 years in prison for death of Mtn. View cyclist
Santa Clara County Judge Rise Jones Pichon gave 19 years in prison to a Fremont felon today who capped a meth binge by lethally smashing his Oldsmobile head-on into an engineer who was spinning his bike through the sunny Palo […]

New West.net: Tension on the streets - Kyoto Ride Conflict Calls for New Transport
Last Friday, over 130 cyclists rode together through Missoula to support the Kyoto Protocol, to raise awareness of the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to show that bicycle riding is part of the solution. The ride was organized by GlobalWarmingSolution.org […]

Hawke’s Bay Today: Ewe lost, we won: Yule told
Hastings Mayor Lawrence Yule yesterday handed over one ewe, ready for the barbecue, to his Central Hawke’s Bay counterpart, Tim Gilbertson, following a slim defeat in the Mayoral Challenge bike ride on Sunday. The two mayors made the wager last week - whichever mayor had the […]

Port Lincoln Times: Optimism - buying a new bike at 91 years of age
For so many people hooked on it, the love of cycling is so strong that the determination of some older cyclists to keep cycling when other forms of exercise have become impossible for them, is quite amazing. Buying a new bike […]

Adelaide Now: On yer bike, SA MP urges
Politicians are often told where to go, but not often how to get there. Enter South Australian Greens MP Mark Parnell, who wants his parliamentary colleagues to travel by bike.
The former environmental lawyer today launched the Parliament House Bicycle Users’ Group, which will encourage MPs to use […]

Adelaide Now: Hit-run cyclist ‘was over the limit’
An elite cyclist accused of the hit and run of another elite rider was allegedly driving with a blood alcohol reading almost twice the legal limit. Chris Chad Jongewaard, 27, of Para Hills, appeared in Adelaide Magistrates Court yesterday over an accident on February 10 that left rider […]