A few intrepid bicylists pedaled out from Miami's Bicentennial Park on Saturday to start the Cabot Community Tour, a 2,300-mile journey up the East Coast Greenway to Portland, Me. In this pre-ride photo by Suzanne Kores, the long-distance riders are in white jerseys. Cabot, the Vermont farmers' cheese cooperative, held a little fair for them on the edge of the Miami Race Village, part of the hoopla attending the Volvo Ocean Race stopover here. Special treat, tasting the fresh cheese curds, precursor to Cabot's popular cheddar.

     Hundreds of cyclists turned out on Sunday to honor cyclist Miguel Rocafort and appeal for the driver who struck him down on March 31 to surrender to police.
     "We'd like to encourage the guy who hit Miguel to turn himself in," said Eli Stiers, chairman of SafeStreetsMiami, a traffic safety campaign of Green Mobility Network. "It's the right thing to do."
     Stiers, above left, spoke at the start of the ride in West Kendall, where Rocafort's wife and stepson appealed for motorists to use caution when passing or meeting bicycles on the street.
     The ride was the latest public event organized by SafeStreetsMiami, a project that was launched after cyclist Aaron Cohen was killed by a hit-and-run driver in February. Cohen's riding partner, Enda Walsh, above center, was at Sunday's rally to underline the day's safety message.
     "I think there is a prevailing attitude with some people in Miami that it is OK to drive drunk, to run red lights, to hit cyclists and pedestrians and to keep going and not even stop, render aid or take care of them," Walsh said, "and we need to do everything we can to try and change that attitude."
     Anyone who knows who might have hit Rocafort should call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
     "We're going to do everything we can," Stiers said, "to get justice for Miguel."

As you probably heard, our memorial ride for Miguel Angel Rocafort was postponed because of Sunday's hard rain Rocafort, of course, was the cyclist who was fatally injured March 31 at SW 137th Avenue and Eureka Drive. The hit-and-run driver who ran him down still hasn't been identified, but there's probably someone out there who knows who it is.

What a day we had on Sunday at the Deering Seafood Festival! We parked 268 bikes, a record turnout. Thanks to wonderful volunteers Marc and Judith Bell, Ana Browne and son Gustavo, Stuart Grant, August Neal, and Eric Tullberg for their generous gifts of time and energy. They were a pleasure to work with. And August had an interesting thought: imagine all those riders had driven to Deering -- and parked along Old Cutler Road. Who would have liked that? So say a word of thanks to valet sponsor Heritage House, in Pinecrest. Better yet, go shop there.

Here we are busy right before the midday rush, when the racks filled to capacity just as early festival-goers started heading home. Our new location was larger than before, and just right for the need. Thanks, Deering Foundation!

Sharing is meant to be a two-way behavior. The writer of the note here understands it very well. Hers is the kind of awareness that we hope to build through the SafeStreetsMiami campaign. The note is shortened slightly and the author's name left out by request.
 

Just thought I would contact your organization regarding the tension between cyclists and pedestrians.  I have been in both circumstances being nearly run over by a cyclist on the sidewalk/paths and no warning they were coming as a pedestrian.
 
Today I encountered a jogger in Pinecrest while I was cycling west on the sidewalk along SW 111th/112th Street or Killian.  I used my bell to alert him of my approach as he was not wearing earbuds.  When I was not certain he heard the bell I politely warned "bike on your right" as he sort of moved to the left.  However, as I proceeded to pass him he intentionally pushed me and I fell off my bike and was then called a bitch. As always I was wearing a helmet.