Mark you calendars for May 27th, as city of Dallas holds its first community open house for the 2011 Bike Plan. Full details can be found on the new Dallas Bike Plan website. The location will be at City Council Chambers (5E-South) & the Flag Room (6E-North) at Dallas City Hall. More to come soon!

With the recent win of bike friendly advocate Eric Cowan to DISD Board of Trustees, it’s important to note that what truly moves a city forward is electing officials who are passionate about changing the status quo. The video below shows Long Beach’s recent change to a major bicycle friendly community, all due to the […]

(New DISD Board of Trustee Eric Cowan, with wife Amy Cowan) As of 7PM today, BFOC member Eric Cowan has won the District 7 DISD Board of Trustee race. Several BFOC’ers helped manage the campaign and official word from the Dallas Morning News is that Eric “trounced” the competition. This is an exciting time for […]

Act II in the multimillion dollar production Riverfront Boulevard is scheduled to debut Monday, May 10 at 7 pm (a reception to meet the cast and crew starts at 6:30 pm) in the Conference Room Auditorium at City Hall, when the City of Dallas will host a “public involvement workshop” about the newly proposed Riverfront […]

(photo: Ange Fitzgerald) Oak Cliff Bicycle Company was nominated for the Best Bike Shop by D Magazine. Stop whatever it is you are doing right now and take a second to vote, pweeze. You can vote once a day through May 16. VOTE

We’re excited to present the Spring is Sprung group ride, May 23rd, and showcase five of the incredible gardens/urban farms setup by the Community Gardens of Oak Cliff. We’ll be starting this ride in the Bishop Arts District, and stops will include tours of the gardens, presentations about composting, bees, and other great stuff. It’s […]

(photo from Oak Cliff People) Click here to view the Oak Cliff People photo gallery of the Ninjas vs. Pirates ride.

Thanks to everyone who came out for the Pirates vs. Ninjas ride. Great turnout, great weather, and great times.

Just got word from our friend Myles, at Rat Trap Press, that Laura Crawford and Russ Roca of Path Less Pedaled fame, will be in Fort Worth to give a presentation at Trinity Bicycles at 7:30 PM (207 S. Main Street). For those unfamiliar with the couple, this is from their website: The Path Less […]

The block heard round the world. Go Oak Cliff finally wrapped-up the video outlining the Better Block event and posted to their site. View it to see how the new non-profit along with residents and members of BFOC took a street that was dominated by cars, and converted it to a place for pedestrians, bicyclists, […]