Jeremy Balousek wins Ride the Drive raffle
Thanks to all of you who joined us at
Ride the Drive in Madison on August 29. We're grateful to everyone who became a Bike Fed member. Congratulations to Jeremy Basoulek of McFarland, who won the new member raffle for a Burley Travoy trailer and will now be picking up his groceries by bike!
At the opening ceremonies, Lance Armstrong hit home with a lot of children in the crowd when he talked about the freedom he felt when he first lost his training wheels as a kid and was allowed to bike around the block by himself. We've never forgotten the freedom that bicycling brings to both kids and adults, and love helping more people experience that freedom in our day-to-day work here at the Bike Fed.
Share & Be Aware
Do you have questions about how to ride your bike on the road? When you drive, are you unsure how to interact with people on bicycles?
Check out the
Share & Be Aware section of our Web site for a quick orientation to the rules of the road.
Looking for answers in Allen Belonger's death
Recently, the Spring City Spinners cycling club and the Bike Fed
wrote to Iowa County District Attorney Larry Nelson asking why no traffic citations have been issued in the year since Allen Belonger, 61, was killed in a truck-bicycle collision while he was cycling in Iowa County on July 11, 2009. A
state trooper's report completed in October 2009 found that the driver of the passenger truck had failed to yield and that Belonger's behavior did not contribute to the collision. We thank Mr. Nelson for taking the time to write to us in response to our questions. However, we are disappointed by the content of that response.
Click here to read our complete statement on Mr. Nelson's response.
Bicycling hugely important in Wisconsin...
Of course we already knew that!
A report released by UW-Madison estimates that Wisconsin recreational bicycling combined with Wisconsin's share of bicycling manufacturing, services, and sales
contributes $1.5 billion annually to support Wisconsin's economy.
Click here to read the full report and press release.
To read specifically about the economic impacts of trails on local communities, you can download
Trails and Their Gateway Communities from the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension.
