Cars and Bikes Can Mix, When the Rules of the Road Are Clear

By JANE E. BRODY
Published: June 5, 2007
New York Times

A journalist who regularly bicycled to work in Washington was killed when he rode headlong into the door of a truck as the driver opened it.

A physician riding with his wife on an off-road path in New York was killed when a tow truck turned, crossed the path and struck him.

I was lucky. In 2005, I was knocked down by a car that passed me, then cut me off as the driver turned into a parking spot. I landed on one of my newly replaced knees, and was so concerned about it that I failed to notice a dislocated finger. But what scared me most was the fact that the driver didn

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Picking bike trail site no walk in the park

by Bob Allen

It is looking more and more like a proposed pedestrian and bicycle path along the Cromwell Bridge Road corridor will not go through Cromwell Valley Park.

"We're keeping all options open," 5th District county Councilman Vince Gardina said of the various routes that have been proposed.

"One of our concerns is that we have to be sensitive to Cromwell Valley Park, which is a passive park and an environmentally sensitive area."

A resolution sponsored by Gardina and passed by the County Council earlier this month gave the green light to the Department of Recreation and Parks and the Office of Planning to determine a route for the trail and figure out how to pay for it.

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Federal Bike Caucus member in the news

Kennedy (D-R.I.) has been spotted repeatedly lately riding his bicycle - without a helmet - to and from House votes, including on one occasion in which he was riding down a one-way street, the wrong way, one-handed, talking on his cell phone with the other.

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Driving ourselves SICK

By Eric M. Weiss, Washington Post

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"You tell someone they need to exercise or go to physical therapy, but how can they? They leave at 5 a.m. and get home at 7 or 8 p.m. at night," said Robert Squillante, an orthopedic surgeon in Fredericksburg, Va., who has treated patients for back pain and other commuting-related problems.

Constant road vibrations and sitting in the same position for a long time are bad for the neck and spine, he said, and put special pressure on the bottom disc in the lower back, the one most likely to deteriorate over time.

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A Healthy Mix of Rest and Motion

By PETER JARET
Published: May 3, 2007

SOME gymgoers are tortoises. They prefer to take their sweet time, leisurely pedaling or ambling along on a treadmill. Others are hares, impatiently racing through miles at high intensity.

Each approach offers similar health benefits: lower risk of heart disease, protection against Type 2 diabetes, and weight loss.

But new findings suggest that for at least one workout a week it pays to be both tortoise and hare

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It's All in the Hips

If you regularly experience knee, shoulder, or lower back pain, you may be suffering from the effects of tight hip muscles.

By Alisa Bauman

Stan urban, 48, a competitive cyclist, turned to yoga three years ago when he began to experience lower back pain, a very common ailment among cyclists, who spend the majority of their time hunched forward over the bike. Though Urban thought his problem centered in his lower back, his coach and yoga instructor, Dario Fredrick, had a different theory. Shortened hamstring muscles along the backs of Urban's legs coupled with tight hip flexors along the front of his thighs, as well as tight groin muscles and hip rotators, were preventing him from riding his bike in the proper form.

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