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Bike Cleveland Business Partners and Membership Perks Series
Episode 3: Ryan Sheldon and Beat Cycles Written By Bike Cleveland Member and Events & Programming Co-chair Benjamin Stewart Everyday Membership Perk: 10% off accessories Beat Cycles is one of Bike Cleveland’s newest business partners. Ryan Sheldon opened for business at 15608 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood in May of 2014 after personally pouring a great deal…
Read MoreHB397 – Help Pass Brandon’s Law to increase the penalty for hit-&-run crashes
Hit-and-run crashes are a serious problem in Ohio, especially for people on bikes and pedestrians, the two most vulnerable road user groups. One reason for the high percentage is that in Ohio the penalty for impaired driving and causing the injury or death of someone in a crash is greater than the penalty for hit-and-run…
Read MoreBike Cleveland Business Partners and Membership Perks Series
Episode 2: Michael Hudecek and Forest City Portage Written By Bike Cleveland Member and Events & Programming Co-chair Benjamin Stewart Membership Perk: 10% off custom orders Michael’s studio, located in the Screw Factory building behind Madison Park in Lakewood, is a modest workspace bordered with an extensive variety of threads, fabrics, and sewing machines that his projects have…
Read MoreIssue 35: Traffic Safety Camera Facts
Bike Cleveland urges Cleveland residents to vote “no” on Issue 35, the ballot initiative that would ban the use of traffic safety cameras in the City of Cleveland. While the City of Cleveland’s traffic safety camera program may not be perfect Bike Cleveland supports the use of traffic safety cameras as a tool to improve the…
Read MoreRed light cameras: What your vote means for Issue 35
CLEVELAND — Demonstrators are not slowing down when it comes to protesting Cleveland’s speed and red light cameras. Many drivers honked in support as they went through the intersection of East 40th Street and Prospect Avenue in Cleveland during rush hour Monday evening. They are protesting the city’s traffic cameras. In two weeks, Cleveland voters…
Read MoreSupport Safer Streets by voting NO on Issue 35
Bike Cleveland supports the use of traffic safety cameras across the City of Cleveland, and encourage supporters of safer streets to vote no on Issue 35 this November. Cyclists and pedestrians are vulnerable road users – road users who are most at risk for serious injury or death when involved in a motor-vehicle collision. We…
Read MoreNew bike-sharing program expands today to more Cleveland neighborhoods
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The bike-sharing program that zipped into Cleveland less than six weeks ago is already expanding past its initial launch site of Ohio City. Sponsors of the Zagster bike rental stations will announce three new locations today: — A downtown station on West 6th Street sponsored by Barley House Cleveland — A Tremont…
Read MoreBike-sharing program is making a quick expansion into three more Cleveland neighborhoods
Just five weeks after its rollout, a bike-sharing program in Cleveland is expanding to three more city neighborhoods. Zagster, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company that provides the bike-sharing service, announced that “due to high demand for its existing service as well as funding from new sponsors,” it is expanding bike-sharing to downtown, Tremont and University Circle.…
Read Morewheels up: bike share plan aiming to make inroads throughout cleveland
If anyone wants proof that Cleveland needs a bicycle-share network, Platform Beer Co. co-owner Justin Carson has an anecdote for you. Carson, sponsor of a recently launched bike-sharing program that offers rental bikes at six self-serve locations in Ohio City, saw a man outside his Lorain Avenue brewery eyeing the lineup of bicycles locked to…
Read MoreAssaults, robberies of Cleveland cyclists a concern
CLEVELAND – Tuesday morning, a 24-year-old male was stabbed and robbed of his wallet, cellphone and bike on Huron Road in downtown Cleveland. Last Thursday afternoon, a man was robbed of his bike as he waited for a bus on Detroit Avenue. In August, an Ohio City man was robbed by a man with a…
Read MoreEastside Greenway is back for an encore public forum Tuesday at Nighttown in Cleveland Heights
After a series of public hearings in September, proponents of the Eastside Greenway in Cuyahoga County are bringing the project back for an encore public forumTuesday at Nighttown, 12387 Cedar Road in Cleveland Heights. The goal of the project, now in the early stages of planning, is to expand a bike and pedestrian network throughout the…
Read MoreCleveland Beats Pittsburgh: Brings Home the Rust Cup
Cleveland Beats Pittsburgh in the Rust Belt battle of the Bikes. Over 1,600 Cleveland area cyclists won the hard fought, five month long Rust Belt Battle of the Bikes. A local competition associated with the larger National Bike Challenge offered by the League of American Bicyclists. The competition is based on a points system that…
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