The Virginia Bicycling Federation would like to acknowledge and thank these generous people and organizations for their donations in  memory of Lanie Kruszewki.

Andrew Duncan
Audrey Yeager
Association for the Preservation of Henrico Antiquities
Beverley Lane
Cheryl Emory
Christine A. Schneider
Christine Englehart
Darci Kelley
David & Carol Ridderhof
Elizabeth Vaughan
Emily Tombes
Galen Fisher, MD – Laser & Skin Surgery Center of Richmond
Heather Higgins
Jane Helfrich
Jeanne McNeil
Jennifer Farinholt
Johanna Peet
John Booker
John Old
Joyce Hann
Stephen G. Martin
Julie May
Julie Miller
Kathy Ingram
Kappa Sigma, Nu Chapter
Leah N. Ziegler
Richmond MORE(Mid-Atlantic Off-Road Enthusiasts)
Sande Snead
Sharon D. Fuller
Sierra Club – Falls of the James Group
Steven Young
Tyndall Ellis
U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Assn., Richmond Chapter
Village Publishing
Wayland Hundley
Western Henrico Rotary Club

Henrico General District Judge Archer L. Yeatts will send charges of a felony hit-and-run to a grand jury next month in the hit and run death of  18 year old Kara Rivers-Lengyel, a Godwin High School graduate, who’d been walking along the eastbound lanes of the road to her apartment.

According to news reports,  the woman was walking home from a friends house on May 29  and was hit from the back.  She was  thrown 113 feet and killed instantly.   Rivers-Lengyel didn’t own a car.

The alleged driver,  33 year old Reginald Addo, was located by police lying face down near a trash bin in a patch of woods nearby.  According to police accounts, Addo told them how a bug had flown into his eye and the car swerved.

He was charged with felony hit and run and run and driving without a license.  He is free on a $25,000 bond.

Addo was convicted in April of 2012 on driving without a license in Chesterfield County.

Join us for “Confident City Cycling,” a class led by League of American Bicyclists certified instructors that gives bike riders the confidence they need to ride safely and legally in traffic and on the trail. This class is combination of classroom instruction, parking lot drills, and on-road practice.

Cost: $24 / person
When: Fri Sept 7 (6pm-10pm) & Sat Sept 8 (9am-3pm)
(must attend both sessions)

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Shared lane markings or “sharrows” serve as a guide for good lane positioning, here in the presence of parked cars and the accompanying danger of being “doored.”

Here in Richmond, it’s not hard to find cyclists doing all sorts of things – whether they be smart and safe, or dangerous and dumb. Rarely a week goes by that we don’t drive our bicycles around someone riding the wrong way on a one-way street (salmoning), riding on the sidewalk, or being a gutter-hugger and riding too far to the right.

One of the simplest and easiest ways to correctly drive your bicycle is to be aware of your lane positioning and adjust it as necessary. Don’t play Russian roulette by riding in the door zone. Running into an open door is bad enough, but even if you avoid the door, you could still swerve into the path of a moving car (or worse a bus, truck, or semi as has happened in various cities throughout the US, at times resulting in a fatality).

Positioning problems exist across all ages and levels of riders. Even professional cyclists often ride in the wrong portion of the lane. It’s like a lot of other bad habits: if it hasn’t caused you harm yet, what are the odds it will? If it’s not broken, why fix it? There are many reasons to change lane positioning habits, keep reading to learn more.

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