Firefighter who shot cyclist pleads out, sentenced
By Yokota Fritz
Former firefighter Charles Alexander Diez pled guilty yesterday to assault with a deadly weapon with intent to killand was sentenced to 120 days in jail, according to news reports.
While Alan Ray Simons pulled his son in a child trailer behind a bike, Diez yelled at Simons telling him he put the boy's life in danger before shooting at Simons' head. The bullet passed through Simons' helmet but missed his head by a hair.
Diez testified that, “I was the one who felt truly, truly threatened” by the vicious cyclist out in the open as Diez sat inside of his car and pulled out his gun.
I haven't heard if Simons got a new bike helmet to replace his damaged one.
By Yokota Fritz
The San Francisco Bike Expo is tomorrow (Saturday, November 21) all day at the Cow Palace in Daly City. I'll be there taking photos and drinking coffee and meeting you. If you see me please feel free to say hello.
Also on Saturday: iMinusD Fixed Gear Boutique grand opening at noon. They're downtown San Jose on Paseo San Antonio.
Tonight: San Jose Bike Party "Where's Waldo" theme ride, rain or ... well, not "shine," since it starts at 8:30 PM. Let's call it "rain or dry." There's a pre-party at Hellyer Velodrome, a food donation drive (bring canned goods for Second Harvest), and other fun stuff. I'm staying later than usual in San Jose Friday night, but the ride goes way out to southeast San Jose so I'm not sure I can make it. I'll play it by ear.
By Yokota Fritz
Just in case you haven't checked the forecast, it's supposed to rain pretty much all day in the San Francisco Bay Area on Friday. You won't melt when you bike in the rain, but it helps to have fenders and wear rain gear. We're also supposed to have gusty winds out of the south, which means headwinds for my evening riding.
The blow up doll is perverse, but I kind of liked the clip from Fat Tire Fury of Bobby Root mountain biking in San Francisco, maybe because I hadn't seen it before.
Paul of Bike Intelligencer posted his faves from that list. Which videos do you like? What do you think of Bobby pulling those manuals right along side the cable car tracks?
By Yokota Fritz
Cute essay on cyclists on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. The students, staff and faculty just ride bikes there.
And what aids the differencing is that few people wear helmets, and everyone is wearing ordinary clothes — none of the sleek and gaudy costumes you see on cyclists pumping through the peninsular hills and whistling down Sand Hill Road to the Caltrain station. They are themselves on wheels.
There is a deeply pleasing randomness about the campus cyclists, as though one morning university officials had assigned a bicycle to every member of the Stanford community, come as you are, without considering for a moment matters of fit — or fitness.
Sexual locomotion
Does it go "Ahh" or "Unnnnh" with each pump? Seriously, unless this is being ridden at Burning Man I can't see anyone riding this wheeled sex toy though I would imagine it would really work your abs hard (hehe, I said hard!). I'mma gonna stop now.
=v= Apparently, it actually only takes one to tango.
does it go faster if you slap its ass?
Where is the tandem version? I'd be more interested in that model.
Firefighter who shot cyclist pleads out, sentenced
...120 days...that is sadly laughable & SICK !!!...
Turn the tables - a guy riding along feels threatened by a motorist, so pulls a gun and narrowly misses the driver's head.
The guy would be treated like the next incarnation of the DC sniper or Bernie Getz.
120 days. Un-be-freaking-lievable.
Never mind the jail time - is he getting some form of medication? Anyone who feels threatened by a father pulling his child in a bike trailer needs to be heavily sedated and removed from the general population. Val
Sadly laughable is right and so are each of the other comments. Dangerous people are those who take their children for a bike ride? A cultural sickness is obvious and widespread. Jack
I don't get how the firefighter could possible feel threatened by a father on his bicycle with his son. His words do not, in any way, excuse or even explain his actions. And a 120 day sentence is ridiculous. He should have been tried for attempted murder and locked up for years, not days.
Now that the assailant has plead guilty it is time to sue his ass for $4 million in civil court for emotional distress.
SF Bike Expo
Rain Friday
Thanks for the warning Richard. Being a Northwest temporary transplant to Palo Alto, we had almost forgotten what rain was like. In Seattle we alert riders when the sun is going to shine — be sure to bring sunglasses, beware of drivers blinded by the sun, and be careful of overbraking due to dry pavement ;^)
Ha ha ha! Funny guy!
Mountain Bike San Francisco
Sick!
Stanford cyclists
...nice simple unpretentious "cycling is good here" article...
Yeah I really liked it. I really should get some bike photos from the Stanford campus.
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of Bobby Root mountain biking in San Francisco, maybe because I hadn't seen it before.And what aids the differencing is that few people wear helmets, and everyone is wearing ordinary clothes — none of the sleek and gaudy costumes you see on cyclists pumping through the peninsular hills and whistling down Sand Hill Road to the Caltrain station. They are themselves on wheels.
