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If you want to confront the issue of bicycle safety, Florida, unfortunately, is the right place to go. The Sunshine State has had 534 cyclist fatalities between 2006 and 2010,…
Read More →The future of federal transportation policy may be summarized in two words: Performance Measures. Will states be required to set safety goals for people on bikes — or will we…
Read More →When Wayne Byrd came up with the concept for Bicycle Friendly Communities (BFC) and the League took that idea to the national level, we knew it would be a powerful…
Read More →In 2012, more than 30,000 Americans joined the National Bike Challenge and rode more 12 million miles between May 1 and August 31. During that time, the Challenge’s online community blossomed…
Read More →Often when we use a term, we fail to grasp its full impact or the significance of the context in which it is being used. To get a sense of…
Read More →In the March-April 2013 issue of American Bicyclist, we mark a major milestone for the League: the 10th Anniversary of the Bicycle Friendly America program. Since its inception, the initiative…
Read More →Even before the start of the National Women’s Bicycling Forum in March mountain bike legend Jacquie Phelan was all fired up. Sure, she was psyched to participate in our national…
Read More →The latest issue of our American Bicyclist magazine is a transformation on two fronts. At the National Bike Summit this year, we revealed the new face of the League —…
Read More →Kit Hodge wrote the book on family cycling — or, at least, the Family Biking Guide from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. Martina Fahrner started one of the first bike…
Read More →It looks like the age-old rivalries among the Ivy League are taking a new shape: the race for gold in bike-friendliness. Harvard University now joins the likes of Princeton and…
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