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Author Archives: Dave Schlabowske, Communications Director
Madison 5th Best Cycling City in US … so far
According to the new site Bike Score, Madison is ranked the 5th most “bikeable” city in the US. Announced during bike to work week, the new rankings comes from the creators the creators of Walk Score and Transit Score. Bike Score launched the new site with rankings for ten major (populations more than 200,000) U.S. cities: To request Bike [...]
Posted in Bike facilities, Featured, Statistics
Tagged bike score, bike score Madison, Madison 5th best city, walk score
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Milwaukee’s Schlitz Park Gets Tenant Bike Share And More
Downtown Milwaukee’s already bicycle friendly Schlitz Park office community picked bike to work week to launch a free bike share program. The tenant bike share program utilizes a fleet of vintage Schwinn Collegiates and Suburbans restored by DreamBikes Milwaukee, the non-profit bike shop on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, just up the hill from the [...]
Landmark Open House in Milwaukee
Yesterday many communities across Wisconsin celebrated the first “official” day of National Bike to Work Week with glorious sunshine and unseasonably warm spring weather. The Bike Fed were able to celebrate the day with a ride from City Hall in downtown, to our new office just off the Hank Aaron State Trail. About 100 people [...]
Washington Park Bike Blitz, an oasis in the bicycle desert
Many urban neighborhoods are virtual bicycle deserts with nowhere to get a bike repaired. On Saturday the 6th annual Washington Park Bike Blitz created a temporary oasis on Milwaukee’s west side where residents could get basic bike repairs and purchase inexpensive bicycles. The neighborhood event is organized by Keith Holt of Milwaukee Bicycle Works. Milwaukee Bicycle Works has [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Events, Featured
Tagged Dreambikes, Milwaukee Bicycle Works, Washington Heights, Wheel and Sprocket
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Best Tail Light on the Planet?
Our friends at Planet Bike have every reason to be proud of their quiver of blinkie lights. Their 1/2 watt Superflash is pretty much the industry benchmark by which all other battery-powered tail lights are judged. I have Superflash tail lights on all our family bikes that don’t have dynamo powered lighting. So, clearly I [...]
Did You?
Posted in Advocacy, Featured
Tagged biking to vote, cycling to vote, I bike and I vote, Wisconsin recall election
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A Trail Runs Through My Life
The post below comes from Todd Jensen of Tri Faster. Todd kindly offered to write about some of the trails he rides in his area of Southeast Wisconsin. I was happy to take him up on the offer since Wisconsin has too many great trails for me to cover all on my own. If you [...]
Posted in Bicycle Touring, Featured, Rides, Trails
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The 250,000 Donut Challenge
Last year, just shy of 4,500 people logged a bit more than 1.2 million miles in the Wisconsin Bike Challenge. You can see those results here (you need an Endomondo account). That is a lot of gas and money saved, or if your mind works like mine, about 137, 551 donuts that could be eaten [...]
Ring My Bell (please): Planet Bike Courtesy Bell Review
I have a different bell each of the 5 commuter bikes in our family stable because I dislike yelling ON YOUR LEFT at people on trails or WATCH OUT to pedestrians stepping off the curb. Yelling ON YOUR LEFT has an implied instruction “you need to move to the right,” that I find is often [...]
Posted in Equipment Review, Featured
Tagged Bicycle Bells, Crane bell, Dring Dring Bells, Pin Bells, Planet Bike Courtesy Bell.
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