So the Cordish Co. just spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a snazzy new entertainment district Downtown, and the city spent over $100 million in taxpayers’ money to subsidize the construction. But a recent KC returnee notices that they couldn’t be bothered to spend a few hundred dollars on bike parking.
Fortunately, the situation [...]

[ April 1, 2008; 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. April 3, 2008; 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] The city of KCMO is working on a plan for a network of trails across the entire city. In the first week of April the city hold two open houses to give the public a chance to see and comment on the latest draft of that plan. Learn more at kcmotrails.org

Midtown Meeting
Tuesday, April 1
4:00 p.m. [...]

Attendance was good at tonight’s City-Wide Trails plan update.  If you missed this one, there is still one more on Thursday at the Shoal Creek police station. Here are the highlights.
256 miles of trails are planned for key city-wide corridors. 90% are multi-use trails and 10% are on-street bike routes.  Several high-priority segments are already [...]

The EarthRiders Mountain Bike Club and Epic Bike are hosting a movie night and Demo Days for tying out all kinds of Specialized bikes.

EarthRiders MOVIE NIGHT and SPECIALIZED DEMO DAYS at Epic Bike and Sport.
Epic Bike & Sport is having DEMO DAYS with Specialized April 3-6. The
Specialized trailer will be there with all kinds of [...]

The Missouri Bicycle Federation reports that a bill has been introduced in the Missouri House of Representatives to allow the Missouri side of the Kansas City metro area to create a regional funding source for trails and other bicycle/pedestrian intrastructure. Northland Representative Trent Skaggs is sponsoring HB 2572, which would allow voters in Jackson, Clay, [...]

The 816 Bike Collective is a new organization that has been forming over the last several months.  Tomorrow they are opening their new space for the first time.  It’s in the Creative Minds Arts Center at 3109 Troost in KCMO. The Collective works to refurbish old bikes and sell/give/barter them to folks. After the demise [...]

[ April 5, 2008; 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Location: Inside the Creative Minds Arts Center
3109 Troost Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64109

[ April 5, 2008 to April 6, 2008. ] Epic Bike and Sport
6000 NW 63rd Terrace, Kansas City, MO 64151
(Tuilleries Plaza, NW 64th Street just west of I-29)

Try out many of Specialized’s latest and greatest bikes.

[ April 5, 2008; 7:00 pm; ] Epic Bike and Sport
6000 NW 63rd Terrace, Kansas City, MO 64151
(Tuilleries Plaza, NW 64th Street just west of I-29)

EarthRiders MOVIE NIGHT and SPECIALIZED DEMO DAYS at Epic Bike and Sport.
Epic Bike & Sport is having DEMO DAYS with Specialized April 3-6. The
Specialized trailer will be there with all kinds of bikes to try out,
and folks [...]

©Chris Thomas
Local photographer and cyclist Chris Thomas has just posted the third set in a series of photos documenting urban cyclists in Kansas City. It’s really great work, and worth some time checking it out.  Don’t miss the first and second sets as well.