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FREE Confident Cycling Class on 4/2

The Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota is serious about delivering bicycle education. So serious, in fact, that they are putting on a free half-day of Confident Cycling this Saturday, April 2, from 9:30am – 1:30 pm at the Midtown Bicycle Center. Local LCI (and sometime Ride Boldly! commenter) Hokan will be leading the course.

Pre-registration is essential, but [...]

March 29th, 2011 | Category: bicycle alliance of minnesota, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, bike events, education, encouragement, fun, midtown greenway, minneapolis, minnesota | Comments are closed

Upcoming: Bicycle Safety Event at REI Bloomington (MN)

I will be co-presenting a free seminar on bicycle safety at the REI in Bloomington on March 25, starting at 7:00PM. The title is “Bicycle Safety is a Two-Way Street,” and fellow Minnesota LCI Lisa Austin and I will be covering Minnesota bicycle laws, principles of driving your bicycle in traffic, and other road-sharing concepts for [...]

March 15th, 2011 | Category: bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, bike events, education, encouragement, minneapolis, minnesota, share the road, TCBC | Comments are closed

Bike Events This Week (March 13-19, 2011)

This week’s pretty quiet on the Minnesota Bicycle Event Calendar. The big event to be aware of is the Lifestyle Bicycle Event at the Mall of America Friday-Sunday. It’s put on by HaveFunBiking.com with participation from the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota to provide a variety of educational experiences to encourage people to ride their bicycles this [...]

March 13th, 2011 | Category: bicycle alliance of minnesota, bicycle commuting, bicycle event calendar, bicycle recreation, bicyclists, bike education, bike events, education, encouragement, minnesota, suburbs, twitter | Comments are closed

Data: Cycling in Minneapolis/St. Paul Up 33% 2007-2010

Right on the heels of my recent complaint about non-contextual use of data comes some really useful data: Bike Walk Twin Cities reports a 33% increase in bicyclists in Minneapolis and Saint Paul between 2007 and 2010.

The organization conducts annual cyclist counts in the central Twin Cities core as part of the attempt to measure the [...]

March 10th, 2011 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle commuting, bicycle facilities, bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bike education, bike lanes, bike sharing, Bike Walk Twin Cities, education, encouragement, engineering, evaluation, federal funds, legislation, minneapolis, minnesota, non-motorized transportation pilot program, politics, roadway design, roadway use, share the road, st. paul, statistics, suburbs, transportation options, urban planning | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Women & Bicycles

On this International Women’s Day, I thought I’d address one of the skeletons in the room when we discuss bicycle-friendly infrastructure and the interested-but-hesitant cyclist: A pretty good portion of that 60% is female.

Data suggests that men outnumber women on bicycles in the United States by a ratio of two-to-one. In many European nations, the ratio [...]

March 8th, 2011 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle facilities, bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, bike lanes, bike trails, biking with kids, children on bikes, common sense, complete streets, distracted driving, education, encouragement, enforcement, environmentalism, europe, evaluation, health, minneapolis, minnesota, pedestrian access, roadway design, roadway use, safe routes to schools, statistics, survey, transportation options, urban planning, vehicular cycling, women | Comments are closed

Riding With Kids: Teaching Children to Ride

A friend Tweeted this video the other day, and I feel the need to share. This is an excellent video about teaching a child to ride a bicycle on his/her own. The techniques shown would work equally well as part of an adult education class oriented to adults who never learned to ride as children for [...]

March 5th, 2011 | Category: bicycle helmets, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, bike rides, biking with kids, children on bikes, education, video | Comments are closed
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