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Category Archives: Advocacy
Bike share
Change is hard, and anytime the neighborhood changes, people are disrupted and someone is bound to disagree with it. That doesn’t mean that change isn’t GOOD. We strongly support bike lanes and bike share in the city. Our Community Board … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Bicycle Habitat, News
Tagged bike share, citibike, community board
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Source Two, give one.
The power of the bicycle is real. It can increase an individual’s carrying capacity by five times, allow an individual to travel four times the distance of someone walking, and save valuable time and energy. That’s why both of our … Continue reading
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CYCLE Kids program coming to Brooklyn
Good news on the community homefront: After years of effort, the bike education program CYCLE Kids is finally coming to Brooklyn! With New York City’s own Evie Stevens as the Director of Outreach for this awesome Boston-based organization, we look forward to … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Bicycle Habitat
Tagged bedstuy, bikes, brooklyn, children, cyclekids, education, evelyn stevens, kids, NYC
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Bike share race in 2013
At our women’s cycling event with the pro team from Specialized-lululemon, we were honored to have NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan as one of our guests! … where she announced this spring will host the first ever bike share race. … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Bicycle Habitat, Events, News
Tagged 2013, advocacy, bike share, community, janette sadik-khan, jsk, NYC, specialized-lululemon
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A Miracle on Joralemon Street
A few weeks ago, a young woman named Phoenix Res stopped a bike theft. When we came across the story, we offered to help Phoenix reunite the bike with its owner through our network of industry folks. The owner? Joshua … Continue reading
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Brooklyn youth go by bike
This week we were proud to be invited to MS 51 to present an assembly on bike safety in preparation for yesterday’s third annual bike to school day. Nothing requires more hutzpah than agreeing to speak to large, unfettered rooms … Continue reading
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Bicycle Lawyers and The Accident Report Card
If you’ve stopped into the shop recently, you may have seen the Bicyclist’s Accident Report cards. The cards are a clever idea from Josh Zisson, a bicycle lawyer from Boston, MA. They were designed with New York City in mind. On the back … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, News
Tagged accident report card, adam white, bicycle, cyclist rights, rankin & taylor, steve vaccaro
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Live longer: Go by bike?
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison have confirmed: Bicycling is good for your health. That’s not exactly new. The most interesting aspect of the study is that they were able to quantify the benefits. The researchers found that 20% of … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Bicycle Habitat, News
Tagged advocacy, bicycling, health, research, safe streets
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Kids love bikes love kids
Last weekend, we partnered with Andree Sanders and Trips for Kids NY to co-host family bike rides as part of IMBA‘s “Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day”. We don’t know who had more fun – the kids, or the grown-ups. … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Bicycle Habitat, Events, News
Tagged community, cycle kids, imba, kids, NYC, trips for kids
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Not so long ago: Yellow skies and roads made for cars
Last weekend, together with Transportation Alternatives and the Little Cupcake Bakeshop, we participated in a ride for Moving Planet Day, an international day to support moving our planet away from fossil fuels and toward renewable resources. The ride yielded an … Continue reading
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Tagged advocacy, bikes, Charlie, community, events, NYC
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