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Annual Bike Count Seeks Volunteers

Every fall Bike Walk Twin Cities and Transit for Livable Communities conducts a bicycle/pedestrian count. These counts are a major contributing factor in coming up with modeshare data. It’s also a core reporting element for the Non-Motorized Transportation Pilot Program.

This fall, the bike count will take place at 42 locations on September 13 and 14 from [...]

August 30th, 2011 | Category: bicycle commuting, bicycle routes, bicyclists, bike events, Bike Walk Twin Cities, evaluation, federal funds, minneapolis, minnesota, non-motorized transportation pilot program, roadway use, statistics | Comments are closed

Your Butt & The Multi-Day Bike Tour: A User’s Guide

Mid-June is here, and in the midwest that is the prime season for multi-day bicycling events. These events can range from 2 days (like the already-complete MS150) to a week or more (events like Bike Across Minnesota, TRAM, CANDISC, RAGBRAI, etc.).

And if you’re doing an event such as these or similar, your butt wants to talk [...]

June 21st, 2011 | Category: bicycle clothes, bicycle gear, bicycle recreation, bicyclists, bike events, bike tours, common sense, fun, health | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Nature Valley Grand Prix Starts June 15

Tomorrow, the first two stages of the 2011 Nature Valley Bicycle Festival will hit St. Paul, and wander around the area (including Wisconsin) through Sunday. This is a fun pro event, offering a variety of disciplines and opportunities to watch race action. The criterium stages are especially good events to attend with children, as unlike a [...]

June 14th, 2011 | Category: bicycle event calendar, bicycle racing, bicycle recreation, bicycle routes, bicyclists, bike events, fun, midtown greenway, minnesota, st. paul, wisconsin | Comments are closed

RiverLake Greenway Grand Opening Gala

As previously mentioned this week, Minneapolis’ new RiverLake Greenway will be having a grand opening celebration this Saturday. The events planned look to be lots of fun, and provide a good chance to bring out the kids and have some family cycling fun. I will be hosting the children’s bike rodeo at Calvary Lutheran as a [...]

June 10th, 2011 | Category: bicycle alliance of minnesota, bicycle event calendar, bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike events, Bike Walk Twin Cities, education, encouragement, engineering, federal funds, minneapolis, minnesota, pedestrian access, roadway design, share the road, traffic calming, transportation options, urban planning | Comments are closed

Openings & Closings

Big week here in the cities for dedicated bicycling opportunities.

After years and years, the Cedar Lake Trail is now finished to the river. The project took 20 years, and was interrupted by the building of a ballpark. However, the slightly weird routing through downtown from the river to the CLT is now a thing of the [...]

June 6th, 2011 | Category: bicycle alliance of minnesota, bicycle event calendar, bicycle facilities, bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bike events, bike lanes, biking with kids, cedar lake trail, encouragement, engineering, fun, minneapolis, minnesota, pedestrian access, share the road, transportation options | Comments are closed

Bike Events & “Obeying the Law”

There’s been a bit of kerfuffle in Oregon this week over a charity bike event gone somewhat awry. It’s been covered over on BikePortland quite a bit. Essentially, as the story goes, law enforcement in a small town on the route of a large charity ride had complained to the organizers in past year that cyclists [...]

May 26th, 2011 | Category: bicycle laws, bicycle safety, bike events, common sense, oregon, roadway use, share the road | Comments are closed
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