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Minneapolis Community Education Wins Safe Routes to Schools Mini-Grant

Congratulations are in order to Minneapolis Community Education, who were awarded a coveted Safe Routes to Schools mini-grant for spring 2012 from the National Center for Safe Routes to School.

Via the grant, MCE is one of 26 organizations to receive a $1,000 grant for a project designed to encourage students and their families to safely walk and [...]

January 4th, 2012 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle commuting, bicycle maintenance, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, biking with kids, education, encouragement, fun, minneapolis, minnesota, roadway use, safe routes to schools, share the road, transportation options | Comments are closed

Uplifting Advice: Check Your Seat Height

The League of American Bicyclists teach the ABC quickCheck as though it were a religion. And, to be honest, it’s a good routine. It provides a solid basic bike check that can be customized to be used on nearly every bicycle by every rider, preschool age and up.

Something that is never mentioned explicitly in the ABC [...]

July 13th, 2011 | Category: bicycle frames, bicycle maintenance, bicycle recreation, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, carbon fiber, education, health, league of american bicyclists, physiology, riding position, steel is real | Comments are closed

Pre-Ride Safety Checks for High-End Bicycles

The League of American Bicyclists preaches the ABC QuickCheck via Traffic Skills 101 and other bicycle ed programs. It’s a great check-through that applies to nearly every kind of bicycle on the market.

Bicycling magazine has a series of maintenance videos, and created a video of a pre-ride safety check I found interesting. It’s a little more [...]

February 14th, 2011 | Category: bicycle frames, bicycle maintenance, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, education, video | Comments are closed

Bicycle Safety in the Sun

When bicycle advocates talk about safety, they frequently talk about engineering issues, defensive cycling and vehicular behavior, stopping at stop signs, etc. etc.

But cycling safety goes beyond those issues. Taking care of YOURSELF is also core to cycling safety, especially on sweltering summer days like the one we’re having today here in Minnesota.

There are a number [...]

June 23rd, 2009 | Category: bicycle maintenance, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, weather | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Spring Bicycle Maintenance Checklist

Bicycling Magazine provide a pretty solid maintenance checklist for those getting their fair-weather bike out of storage, whether because they didn’t ride this winter or because they rode a beater bike.

The League of American Bicyclists ABC QuickCheck, as taught in Bike Ed courses, is a good checklist to execute each and every time you take the [...]

April 21st, 2009 | Category: bicycle maintenance, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, league of american bicyclists | Comments are closed

Bicycling on the Rise: Need to Knows

Multiple sources — from bike shops to news sources to anecdotal observation — suggests that bicycling is way up in response to heinous gasoline prices. I suspect this means that people who don’t normally ride much are coming out.

If I could give them a few tips, here are the things I would put into place as [...]

June 19th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: bicycle commuting, bicycle gear, bicycle helmets, bicycle laws, bicycle maintenance, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, education, encouragement, roadway use, share the road, traffic calming, vehicular cycling | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
 
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