Archive for September 2012

Bike Cleveland encourages you to BIKE THE VOTE with us on Tuesday, October 9.Regardless of your political views, join us for early voting alongside other Cleveland-area cyclists. We will meet at the Free Stamp at Willard Park at 6pm and ride together as a group to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections at 6:30pm. The…

The Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial board agrees that the city could do more to make cycling in the city less stressful and more safe. The welcome zeitgeist of cycling that continues to pedal its way into the Cleveland consciousness brings to mind a variation of that transcendent line in “Animal Farm”: “Four legs good, two…

The Cleveland Metroparks is building a route finder app for the Greater Cleveland area to help users identify and use trails and bikeable roads in the region both for transportation and recreation. Cleveland Metroparks is interested in getting GPS traces and other representations of favored commute routes and recreational rides in order to “feed” the…

On Thursday, Setpember 13th during the Mike Trivisonno show on WTAM 1100, radio personality, and show namesake, Mike Trivisonno broadcast some anti-bicycle sentiments that were inappropriate and intolerable. In response Bike Cleveland drafted a letter to Clear Channel, the owners of the station, asking for a public apology and dedicated billboard space and air time…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIKE CLEVELAND! One year ago this September, 125 bicycle advocates, business leaders, and community residents gathered at Windows on the River in the Flats of Cleveland with one mission: to develop a strategy for making our region more bike-friendly. At that gathering, known as the Bike Cleveland Summit (which was facilitated by the…

We need help counting bikes for NOACA’s biannual bike count. Volunteers are needed on: Tuesday September 25th from 5:00 – 7:00 pm AND Wednesday September 26th from 5:00 – 7:00 pm -and- Thursday September 27th from 5:00 – 7:00 pm AND Saturday September 29th from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Show the demand for more…

On Friday, September 14th at 7:30pm, as part of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Explorer Series, cyclist, political journalist and author of Pedaling Revolution Jeff Mappes will be speaking about the biking revolution he is seeing around the country. In Cleveland he will talk about how the growth of the cycling movement (like the…