So in the print version, she doesn't really say clearly whether Bryce had brakes on his bike. I think we're supposed to infer that riders like him usually remove their brakes, if their bikes ever had them.

So if you see Erica, can you ask her, did he have a brake or didn't he? It's the key fact at the center of her whole story, and a few days ago she seemed to know.

That statement, "still not easy to stop" is pretty hilarious. It's funny how even after many many people tell you you don't know what you're talking about, you just plow ahead. Once you've made up your mind, that's it. Your ignorance is only equaled by your stubborness.

You write in your story that fixed gear bikes are "notoriously dangerous" or something like that. Oh really? Care to provide some statistics/data/facts? That is such sloppy journalism, it's pretty shocking. It sounds like something Joel Connolly would write.

Conclusion: the Stranger is anti-fixed gear bikes.

Fawking idiots.

Did you read ECBs article? It says she has ridden one, the people who sell them acknowledge that they're harder to stop.

This particular accident almost certainly happened because of the inherent foolishness of bike lanes. You simply can't ride on the right side of cars which can turn right at any time and think you have the right away - even though in a bike lane you do. The track bike apologist is right, on this at least, the only safe place is in the traffic lane.

Don't get me wrong... I'm all for bitching about work. With your significant other, your friends and relatives. On the phone, by email or in person.

When you blog about it, its kind of like bitching about a teacher while you're still at school... the teacher may be coming up behind you as you rant. And we all know how that scenario ends.

I also think that if you want to say something about someone and don't want to say it to their face (maybe because it's not work appropriate?) then you should only say it behind their back if you do it in a venue where it is fairly unlikely that the person will find out. Obviously in this case, using a pseudonym (but still your real picture!) and refraining from naming names (but giving recognizable physical descriptions!) was not good enough to conceal her identity.

Boo. Hoo.

I think that a bike lane to the right of traffic through an intersection like that problematic. Unfortunately all the things that could have gone wrong in that situation did.

Trust me. This is absolutely not under any circumstances the only reason she was fired.

It was more for the hate-mongering, atrociously discriminatory and racist/homophobic comments and she would make to co-workers on a daily basis.

No one should be allowed to ride a bike without brakes no matter how fun it is.

Did anyone else pay attention to Nick Licata's quote? Here is part of it again.

"How are we going to stop prostitution if we're not going after the johns?"

Does he really think that we can stop prostitution? Or, worse, that we should?