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	<title>Oregon Cycling Magazine</title>
	<link>http://www.oregoncycling.org</link>
	<description>The voice of cyclists in Oregon</description>
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		<title>Citizen prosecution of dangerous drivers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A users’ guide on how others have done it and how you can do it for yourself
by Ray Thomas
Some drivers are so dangerous that some action must be taken to protect others. It is usually the case that a bad driver will offend again and again and the most serious cases will often result in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oregoncycling.org/2008/07/citizen-prosecution-of-dangerous-drivers/</link>
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		<title>Get your kicks on a Kickbike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Karl Benedek
One, two, three, four, five, switch. Coast. One, two, three, switch&#8230; welcome to the world of kickbiking. Modern kickbikes have their roots in the velocipedes and draisines of the Victorian era, but the comparisons end quickly. These are no boneshakers—they are lightweight, maneuverable vehicles that can help provide you with a surprisingly good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oregoncycling.org/2008/07/get-your-kicks-on-a-kickbike/</link>
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		<title>Widow, BTA call for vehicular homicide law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bicycle Transportation Alliance has announced its intention to pursue a vehicular homicide law in the 2009 session of the Oregon State Legislature. Mary O’Donnell and the Bicycle Transportation Alliance are seeking to better protect roadway users by increasing penalties for drivers who cause deaths as a result of their habitual violation of traffic laws. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oregoncycling.org/2008/07/widow-bta-call-for-vehicular-homicide-law/</link>
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		<title>Candi and Kenji</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Lansing
It is long past time for a YHIHF tribute to Candi Murray.  Her service to cycling, as head of the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association for 25 years, defies description—thus accounting for the delay.
Anyone who raced here between 1982 and 2007 remembers her.  Fondly.  Early on, the U.S. Cycling Federation monopolized the market on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oregoncycling.org/2008/07/candi-and-kenji/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Perfection in the Process&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interview with Daimeon Shanks
by Dave Campbell
I met Daimeon Shanks as a student in my Freshman Science class at Newport High School in the fall of 1994.  He was a bright, energetic, and pudgy kid.  The next year he and a number of his friends got mountain bikes and joined my high school mountain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oregoncycling.org/2008/07/perfection-in-the-process/</link>
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		<title>Hero Worship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Lansing

One of YHIHF’s heroes from the Tour of California (featured two months ago), prologue winner Fabian Cancellara, recently topped that victory with a superb win at the 2008 Milan-San Remo bicycle race.
Almost 200 miles long, much of it along the beautiful Mediterranean coast of Italy, this is arguably the most classic of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oregoncycling.org/2008/06/hero-worship/</link>
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		<title>Catching up to Chris Horner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sonya Ewan
When his ProTour Team Astana held a training camp in Albuquerque, New Mexico earlier in the year, 36-year-old Bend, Oregon native Chris Horner took a few minutes off the bike to talk about training, his new team and goals, and fantasy cycling.
Surely the top-contending team in the Tour de France this year, were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oregoncycling.org/2008/06/catching-up-to-chris-horner/</link>
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		<title>Help save important Mt. Hood trails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oregon mountain bikers need to take action and ensure important trails around Mount Hood are protected with bicycle-friendly designations. Representative Earl Blumenauer has proposed a comprehensive plan for Mount Hood, one part of which would close the beloved Boulder Lake area to bicycling. This important detail is a key divergence from the proposed Lewis and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oregoncycling.org/2008/06/help-save-important-mt-hood-trails/</link>
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		<title>Getting our share</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rights to development of pedestrian/bicycle facilities
Background
The legal rights in Oregon to development of pedestrian/bicycle facilities were established in the 1971 Oregon Bicycle Bill. The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) describes the evolution of this important legislation on its website as follows:
ORS 366.514, aka the bike bill, was passed by the Oregon Legislature in 1971. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oregoncycling.org/2008/06/getting-our-share/</link>
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		<title>Eugene 08 Olympic Trials offers free valet bike parking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate Earth Day, the Eugene 08 organizers announced on April 22 that during the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Track &#38; Field, spectators and Festival patrons who ride their bikes (or scooters or skateboards) to Hayward Field will have free valet parking. The Center for Appropriate Transport will staff the bike parking area [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oregoncycling.org/2008/05/eugene-08-olympic-trials-offers-free-valet-bike-parking/</link>
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