Bicycles, Rolling Stops, and the Idaho Stop from Spencer Boomhower on Vimeo.

... created this video (from the writing to the narration to the art to the editing) to support the Bicycle Transportation Alliance‘s effort to pass a law that would allow people on bikes to treat stop signs like yield signs: carefully, and if and only if they have the right of way. Blowing through a stop would still be illegal, and under this law would have carried an even stiffer penalty….

Surprisingly enough, this video that was mainly intended to educate a few state legislators about a relatively obscure law managed to go a little bit viral, at least by bicycle activism standards. 67k views at last count! It showed me the potential for this medium’s ability to explain things that are otherwise difficult to convey.





An early test image of the chameleon-like Idaho Stop guy:

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