Bicyclist in fatal Mesa motorcycle collision identified

[South West Rides]

Woman was killed after being hit by a motorcycle Wednesday morning.

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This article courtesy of www.AZCentral.com

[Birdman]

In the past 14 days I have had 6 different situations where a bicyclist has decided to use the crosswalk to ride their bike across the street. In all of the incidents if I had not been keeping a wide view of the entire roadway and access to it I would have hit them.

One of the times a kid on a BMX bike actually was in a parking lot lower than the street and ran up a hill and directly into the crosswalk. He of course could not understand why I would have the right-of-way as a vehicle turning right, we he though he had a green light.

The issue is that you are not legally allowed to ride a bike across the street in a crosswalk.

Anyway, be careful because the snowbirds seem to be riding a lot of bikes this year. (The other 5 incidents were seemingly snow birds.)

[jimpope]

I lead a bike ride down the Scottsdale greenbelt to Tempe town lake and back almost every Thursday. We only cross two roads and neither is very busy

Here's a link if you want to go to the next one:
http://bike.meetup.com/170/calendar/11793860/