Robert ("Bob") Charles Mionske (born August 26, 1962) is a two-time American Olympic racing biker (1988 and 1992) and US National Champion (1990). In the 1988 Summer Olympics, held in Seoul, South Korea, he finished fourth in the Individual Road Race. He retired from professional cycling in 1993 and is now a lawyer based in Portland, Oregon, with practice in law bikes. He wrote Speaking Legally , the national column on bicycle law, between 2002 and 2009, and also wrote Cycling & amp; Law: Your Right as a Bicycle Rider , a book on bicycle laws published in August 2007. Mionske has written the Legally Speaking column on bicycle law for VeloNews and Rights The path is column about bicycle law for Bicycling Magazine . In February 2015, Mionske resumed writing the Speaking Legally column at VeloNews.
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Early life and education
Bob Mionske was born on August 26, 1962, in Evanston, Illinois. During Mionske's childhood, his family moved to Wisconsin. When Mionske was seventeen, he spent the summer working for his father; at the end of summer, he bought a new tour bike with his income. Mionske then spent hours in the saddle on a bike tour, exploring the jungles and lakes of Wisconsin. After graduating from Wilmot high school, Mionske enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he continued to ride old bikes - for transportation around the campus.
Bob's entry into competitive sport began during his college days, with ski racing. Mionske reported that one day in his Latin class at the University, he noticed that one of his classmates had a typical shorn leg of a cyclist. Mionske started a conversation about cycling with his classmate, who was an amateur cyclist and worked for Andy Muzi in Yellow Jersey, a bike shop in town. His classmate - Colin O'Brien, who then set a national clock record in 1981, before joining the national team - gave Mionske advice on bikes and racing.
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Career cycling
Mionske started cycling as a means to improve his fitness training for ski racing. However, he soon discovers that he is better at cycling, and directs his energy to cycling ever since. He started racing for amateur teams starting in 1986. Mionske won 8 races during the 1993 racing season. In 1987, Mionske raced for the Yellow Jersey team of Andy Muzi. In 1988, he tried for the U.S. Olympic cycling team. His third win in a road racing trial put Mionske in place in the US team. Racing for the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea, Mionske was 4th, reaching the same time as the 3rd winner, but lost a bronze medal with a long tire. His performance at the 1988 Olympics was the best performance by American cyclists at the "full participation" Olympic Games (ie, the never-boycotted Olympics) since 1912. In recognition of his achievements, the United States Cycling Federation honored Mionske by appointing him as the US Bicycle Amateur of the United States the Year.
After the 1988 Olympics, Mionske continued to race as an amateur. In 1990, he was a National Road Racing Champion, having won the US National Championships in Albany, New York. On the heels of victory, Mionske competed as a member of the US World Championship Team in the UCI Amateur World Championship at Utsonomiya, Japan. In 1991, Mionske competed in the Pan-American Games, held in Havana, Cuba, where he occupied the sixth position in the Male Individual Road Race as a member of the US Pan-American Championship Team.
The following year, Mionske again tried for the Olympic team, once again winning a place in the US Olympic Cycling Team. However, competing at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, ​​Spain, Mionske was unable to repeat his performance in 1988. Nevertheless, he and team-mate Timm Peddie were able to help their team mate Lance Armstrong to 14th.
In 1993, Mionske became a professional racer when the riding team, Saturn's Cycling Team, shifted from amateur teams to professional teams. Mionske won 8 races during the 1993 racing season. At the end of the 1993 season, Mionske retired from the race, but continued with Team Saturn as Team Director for the 1994 season. Mionske then left the race behind, entering law school at Willamette University College of Law.
Legal career
In 1999, Mionske opened his own legal practice, which focused exclusively on behalf of cyclists. Although bicycle law is now a well-established field of legal practice, and continues to grow as the popularity of cycling grows, Mionske pioneered the way as the world's first bicycle lawyer. With an extensive background in cycling, Mionske has represented amateur racers, bike commuters, couriers, and recreational cyclists. In describing the cycling center focus of his practice, Mionske coined the term "bicycle law".
In 2001, Mionske wrote a legal analysis section in Bicycle Accident Reconstruction for Forensic Engineers.
From 2002 to 2009 Mionske wrote the Speaking Legally field for VeloNews on bicycle law. In 2007, Mionske wrote the book Cycling & amp; Law: Your Right As A Bicycle Rider . In 2009 Mionske began writing Road Rules, the "Bicycling Magazine" column on bicycle law, and the social and political issues involved. Mionske re-wrote the Legally Speaking column for VeloNews in 2015.
Mionske is one of the founders of the Bike Law Network, a national network of bicycle accident lawyers.
Bicycling & amp; Law: Your Right as a Bicycle Rider
Mionske Book 2007 Cycling & amp; Law is primary in all aspects of US bicycle law as it relates to the average cyclist, and the first book on topics written for the average cyclist since the Right and Wheelboy , was published in 1895 In the Road Rights and Breeders' Obligations, cyclists were informed of their rights to the road, which had been secured in a series of court cases and laws in the 1880s and 1890s.
Mionske's book suggests cyclists on their legal rights developed in the next century. In "Bicycling & the Law," Mionske advances the argument that cyclists have the legal right to travel (ie, cycling is protected under the jurisprudence of Freedom of Movement, unlike licensed forms of transportation, such as driving, which are not by right but only by permission), a theme he first explored in the "Legally Speaking" column. Mionske is the first advocate of cyclists' rights to advance and explore this theory, which is now gaining wide acceptance by cyclists and cyclists.
Mionske's book also includes legal rights and cyclists' duties, as well as how to handle traffic tickets; common bicycle accidents and how to avoid them; what to do if a cyclist is involved in an accident; how cyclists can insure themselves; legal responses to cyclist harassment; law and lemon guarantee; how to protect against bicycle theft, and the contractual problems that cyclists are accustomed to.
PalmarÃÆ'¨s
Quotes
Lance Armstrong: "He will do anything to distract you from the race."
References
Further reading
- Cycling & amp; Law: Your Right as a Bicycle Rider, by Bob Mionske (Boulder, Colorado: VeloPress 2007) ISBN: 1-931382-99-9
External links
- BicycleLaw.com
- Bicycle Legal Network
- Blog BicycleLaw
- Speak Legally
- Right of Way
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