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What to Know to Attend Ciclovia de Dallas!

*A Ciclovia de Dallas FYI: The Houston St Viaduct is NOT the old bridge parallel with the new Calatrava. It’s the old bridge connecting Zang Blvd on the Oak Cliff Side and Houston St. on the Downtown side. There is another bridge directly parallel to it called the Jefferson Viaduct *WEATHER UPDATE:  SKYS ARE LOOKING […]

Third day of iBike Rosemont and the bike riders grows!

95 riders on day 3!!! This morning we had 95 riders between upper and lower campuses. There is great music rocking at lower campus and wonderful student support at upper campus. Big shout out to Jennifer Pickert who got the t-shirts together this year. They’re a big hit. And the $1 Bike Friendly Rosemont stickers […]

What to Know to Attend Ciclovia de Dallas!

A Ciclovia de Dallas FYI: The Houston St Viaduct is NOT the old bridge parallel with the new Calatrava. It’s the old bridge connecting Zang Blvd on the Oak Cliff Side and Houston St. on the Downtown side. There is another bridge directly parallel to it called the Jefferson Viaduct DALLAS – On Saturday, April […]

iBike Rosemont is Back for it’s 5th Installment

April 9-13th marks the fifth, semi-annual I Bike Rosemont week at Rosemont Elementary.   I Bike Rosemont is a combined effort between Rosemont Elementary, parents, students and neighbors. The week consists of morning bike rides to school by parents and students. The riders get a card that is punched each day they ride their bike to […]

Check out Tour Dallas this weekend!

Taken from http://www.tourdallas.org:   START at Young & Field – Finish at City Hall Plaza Routes of 8, 20 and 30 miles Start Time: 8:00am Download a Site Map for the Start/Finish Area here More FUN at the Finish Line Celebration Who’s first? Who cares! This is a TOUR – not a race. No need […]

Updated: Looks Who’s Coming to Ciclovia de Dallas!

We’re planning a huge Car-Free event for Dallas on April 14, 2012 from 9:00 am -3:00 pm on the Houston St. Viaduct.  Here’s our second published listing of the vendors who are confirmed and will be attending our event, along with a list of activities for the day.  We will update this listing as we […]

DFW.com on Fort Worth’s Booming Bicycle Scene

Are you paying attention, Dallas City Halll?  Ft. Worth is kicking our $%@#%%’s in bicycle infrastructure!  And thanks to great groups like Bike Friendly Ft. Worth and the site FortWorthology.com it’s only getting better!  Check out this great story below: Re-posted from Fort Worthology Photo by Richard Rodriguez, DFW.com Eric Griffey has been exploring Fort […]

Another bridge party: Perhaps Ciclovia de Dallas will get something rolling

Reposted from The Dallas Morning News by Roy Appleton A century ago, the Houston Street bridge officially opened with speeches, cannon fire and a parade of wagons, carriages and those new-fangled things called automobiles. Earlier this month there was some serious celebrating on the still-not-open Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. For six hours next month, the […]

Bike Friendly Oak Cliff’s recommendation to the Oak Cliff Gateway Committee as published in today’s Oak Cliff People

 As written in today’s   It has been brought to our attention that the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce is recommending a change to the 2011 Dallas Bike Plan that would directly endanger the lives of pedestrians, bicyclists, and drivers by removing safety buffers originally developed by roadway engineering experts, the community, and city leaders. […]

Converting a Road Bike to a Commuter Bike

Below is a post that was originally made on May 7th, 2009.  Since then it has received over 17,633 page views to date, doubling the second place page and trouncing any other post we’ve made since then.  It continues to be a popular daily  page view, so we thought we’d re post!  On a personal […]