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This weekend saw two serious bicycle crashes, one of which ended in death. 22-year-old Tracy Milillo died Friday after suffering serious head trauma during an accident with a car near Coolidge Corner. Brookline police have not determined if the driver was at fault in the accident. Milillo had not been wearing a helmet. A second accident on Saturday found a BU student pinned under his bicycle after crossing in front of an oncoming B-Line trolley. Despite tramautizing b0st0n.livejournal, the cyclist sustained minor injuries.

Fixies are a pain in Grandpa Bostonist's neck. Fixies are European fixed gear racing bikes that don't have back brakes, designed to teach racers "pedal discipline" in the velodrome. On the clogged streets of the big city, however, they are little more than a pathetic compensatory status marker—the bicycle equivalent of a sports car. They are bikes for racing, not for getting around.

We were all up in arms about Bike Week last year, interviewing everybody and their mother in local bikes. This year, we put the brakes on the interviews, since we found some super cool events for you to attend. This Saturday, try a literary tour of Cambridge.

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Boston is well-known as a walkable city, but that does it mean it's a safe and walkable city? In an excellent feature article on the relationship between drivers and pedestrians, the Globe calls us "a city where walking is the most dangerous form of transportation (over the last five years, the number of pedestrians killed by cars was double that of drivers and passengers killed in car accidents)."

In addition to that whole All Star Game thing, there are a couple other non-major league athletic events of note coming up. Participate, spectate, or ignore, based on your interest level.

This Bostonist attended Reed College, where communal (if tiny) bikes, distributed and "maintained" by the RKSK, are nothing new. Now, City Councilor John Connolly wants to bring the same idea to Boston. He filed legislation yesterday to order a hearing on bringing shared bikes to the city. It'll be like ZipCar for bikes. Though there are obviously lots of logistics--can anyone use the bikes? who will maintain them? how will we stop them from being stolen?--to be sorted out, we applaud the city taking steps toward enabling residents to get where they need to go in ways that will avoid additional cars and congestion.