Bike Retailers Head to Capitol Hill to Advocate for Bike Infrastructure Funding
March 22, 2018
Kicking off another year of bike business leader advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill, PeopleForBikes hosted the National Bicycle Dealers Association executive fly-in on March 20 and 21. ...
Four Ways to Go Beyond Bike Friendly
March 20, 2018
Mobility and smart connections are more than just buzzwords. Even as many social and business transactions have moved online, transporting goods and people will always be fundamental to commerce. The limitations of geometry are clear: only so many cars can use highways and streets at peak hours, and ...
eMTB Demo Program Part Three: Todd Seliga, Grand Canyon National Park
March 13, 2018
Tucked into a far western corner of Grand Canyon National Park lies the Tuweep area, a place for remote experiences and uncrowded landscapes. Similar to the rest of the park, it offers a combination of magnificent scenery and rich history, something well worth the effort to get there. ...
Closer to Bike Share is Better for Business
March 13, 2018
A new study from researchers at New York University (NYU) shows that restaurants closer to bike share stations do more business than those farther away. Stansilav Sobolevsky and Constantine E. Kontokosta led the research team, using anonymized transaction data from Mastercard’s Retail Location Insig ...
‘Buffalo is Missing Out’: When Good Bike Cities Get Better, It Helps Everyone
March 12, 2018
If you live in an important, underrated but perhaps economically beleaguered U.S. city, you’ve probably seen a local news website like Buffalo Rising: upbeat, opinionated and really, really into its hometown. ...
How Should Speed Limits be Set? A Powerful Committee is Asking
March 9, 2018
This doesn’t happen very often: The obscure but hugely influential National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices is asking for direct feedback from ordinary transportation pros. ...
Bike to the Future: Portland Uses Bikes to Rethink 70 years of Strip Malls
March 7, 2018
Portland built its fame as a U.S. bike capital on one crucial discovery: It is fairly cheap and easy to make biking desirable in neighborhoods that were originally built for horses and streetcars. ...
How Better Biking Conditions Can Help Bike Shops
March 1, 2018
“It is super simple to jump on your bike and literally ride six blocks to downtown,” says Tom Johnson, Shop Manager at Owenhouse Cycling in Bozeman, Montana. He credits a strong downtown, a small urban grid, low traffic volumes, friendly people, and the Gallagator Linear Trail with Bozeman’s easy ri ...
Five Tips from SF’s Lightning-Fast, Dirt-Cheap Protected Bike Lane Projects
February 26, 2018
If you’d like to cut the project time of a new protected bike lane by 90 percent and the cost by 75 percent, Mike Sallaberry has some advice. ...
A Secret Strength of Sevilla’s Amazing Bike Network: Legibility
February 18, 2018
Bike wonks know Sevilla, Spain, as home to one of the fastest bike-infrastructure investments in world history. But installation speed isn’t the only lesson U.S. cities can draw from this wildly successful low-stress biking network. ...
Don’t Let Anyone Tell You that Biking Can’t be Increased in a City
February 14, 2018
Anyone who says no one knows how to rapidly boost the use of bicycles for transportation is wrong. ...
Don’t Let Anyone Tell You that Biking Can’t Be Increased in a City
February 14, 2018
Anyone who says no one knows how to rapidly boost the use of bicycles for transportation is wrong. ...
Show Your Bike Some Love
February 14, 2018
Valentine’s Day isn’t everyone’s favorite. If you don’t have that special someone, you spend the whole day bombarded with lovey dovey imagery wherever you look. And if you’re lucky enough to be in a relationship, you’re under pressure to get the right gift or plan the perfect day. Our suggestion? Sk ...
Trump and Congress Differ on Infrastructure Spending
February 12, 2018
Today the Trump Administration rolled out its Fiscal Year 2019 budget proposal, which includes the elimination of the TIGER Program and a transportation infrastructure package that largely leaves bicycle infrastructure on the sidelines. Both proposals are expected to face significant opposition in C ...
Bikes Have Helped Puerto Ricans Survive Maria. Will the Habit Stick?
January 31, 2018
The hurricane that tore across Puerto Rico on Sept. 20 led to hundreds of deaths and billions in damage. But a band of local biking advocates say one change, at least, has been for the better: It’s opened people’s minds. ...
‘Floating’ Bus Stops Made of Plastic Panels Hit the Street in Oakland
January 26, 2018
The “floating bus stop” has been part of streets around the world for years. This month, a new twist is helping it spread in the United States, too: mass production. ...
To Elevate the Sport, Lower the Bar
January 25, 2018
“We broker suffering.” That’s one way Todd Sadow describes Epic Rides, the company he founded to produce mountain biking events. Epic is now in its nineteenth year of sharing the joy, as well as the pain, of mountain biking. “We give people the chance to show up at a start line where they know they ...
A Dozen Bucket List Bike Rides for 2018
January 16, 2018
We know that sometimes the best bike ride of your life can take place right outside your front door, on your local neighborhood streets and trails. Then there are those other times—when the wanderlust kicks in and the need to travel with your bike just overwhelms you. For those moments, here are a d ...
2017: The Year America’s Institutions Got Into All-Ages Bike Networks
December 29, 2017
Almost all cultural change relies on a three-step process: ...