Stories by Bob Mionske

• Posted: Thu, Nov 8th
  Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: A fatal bias?
  Dear Bob,Thank you for penning the column. I read with interest your notes on cycling deaths notes on cycling deaths . You raise an interesting point: many cycling deaths result in no criminal legal accountability. I think we all know cyclist who have died on the road. In every ...
• Posted: Thu, Oct 25th
  Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: The lawful (?) order
  Dear Readers;It’s been a beautiful autumn here lately; blue skies, sunny days, the leaves turning beautiful hues of yellow, orange, and red before falling. The leaves haven’t been alone in falling this autumn. In the past few weeks, we’ve lost too many cyclists to ...
• Posted: Thu, Oct 18th
  Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: The break-down lane
  Dear Bob,I have a question about getting harassed by police here in the NewYork/New Jersey area, and wanted to ask what you would do in that situation.First incident, I am waiting at a light, it turns green, and as I proceedthrough the intersection, I drop my chain. No cars ...
• Posted: Thu, Oct 11th
  Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: Free Bird
  Dear Readers;In my last column, "Themthere's fightin' words, boy," we looked at two cases—Chaplinskyv. New Hampshire and Cohen v. California—as backgroundfor revisiting the question of whether “flipping the bird” is constitutionallyprotected speech. To recap ...
• Posted: Thu, Oct 4th
  Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: Them there's fightin' words, boy
  Dear Readers,In Deliveranceof the bird man, a reader wrote in to ask about an incident in which his group ride was buzzed, and in response, the ride leader flipped the offending driver “the bird.” As you may recall, this immediately led to an altercation between the ...
• Posted: Thu, Sep 20th
  Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: More thoughts on the bird man
  Dear Readers,Last column (Deliveranceof the bird man), we had a letter from C.W. in “deepest darkestWest Virginia” asking about self-defense, after his club ride was buzzedby “the clan from deliverance.” In response to the buzzing, the club’sfearless leader extended a ...
• Posted: Thu, Sep 13th
  Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: Deliverance of the bird man
  Dear Bob,I thought you might like to address this in your column. We were ona group ride in deepest darkest West Virginia and a car passed with oncomingtraffic, mere inches from our handlebars.This yahoo move was obviously for the purpose of aggression in thatthere was a stop ...
• Posted: Thu, Aug 2nd
  Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: Your papers, please
  Dear BobI live and bike in Texas. A few weeks ago friends in a cycling club were stopped and cited for failure to stop at a 4-way stop sign. Having ridden a few times with the group, I believe the officer to be correct, as the group rarely stopped at 4-way stop signs. However, ...
• Posted: Thu, Jul 12th
  Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: Two-by-two - Part 2
  Dear Readers,In mylast Legally Speaking column, we had a question from R.H. about ridingtwo abreast while pacelining in Pennsylvania. In this column, we have afew more questions about pacelining. First up is a question from readerG.F., who writes from Wisconsin to ask:Dear ...
• Posted: Thu, Jun 21st
  Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: Two-by-two?
  Hi Bob,First of all thanks for the "Legally Speaking" column. It's informative, sometimes empowering and always interesting. On a group ride last week on a country road with no auto traffic about 10 of us were pace-lining. As we came around a bend we startled a man walking ...
• Posted: Thu, May 24th
  Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: Insurance for commuters?
  Greetings Bob,Coming from Germany and now cycling in Atlanta, mostly as a commuter, I havethe following question: Would you know of an insurance I could enroll in that covers two example situations:Aa car hits me and my bike - I am injured, the bike is damaged and the driver ...
• Posted: Fri, Mar 16th
  Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: Points is Points
  Dear Bob,I always enjoy reading your column. Lately though, I haven’t seen your column, which has been kind of disappointing for me. Where have you been? Are you still writing your column? I hope so.Anyway, last weekend, I had the pleasant surprise of seeing you speak at the ...