It’s that time of year again to celebrate all things bicycle related.  May 10-18 Bike Week will be the biggest ever. A large group of volunteers has put together a record setting 60-plus events that include virtually every aspect of bicycling – racing, mountain biking, commuting, recreation, and much more.
Some of the new events for [...]

KMBC-9 reports that yesterday a bicyclist was hit on 87th Street at I-35 in Johnson County, KS.  There are few details, but this intersection is notoriusly challenging for bicyclists and pedestrians.  A lot of the problem is KDOT’s use of Single Point Urban Interchange – a design that moves a lot of cars very quickly, [...]

[ May 3, 2008; 8:00 am to 9:30 am. ] Family Bicycles – www.familybicycleskc.com – 816-268-1757
7140 Wornall Road, Kansas City, MO 64114

Have you considered riding your bike to work, or thought about riding your bike more often on errands? Learn how at a clinic hosted by Family Bicycles.

Deb Ridgway, Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator for the city of Kansas City, Mo., will give an introduction to [...]

The latest issue of Camp Magazine includes a story titled “Bikes, Buses and Feet – How to Make Alternatives to the Car Work for Kansas City.” It covers some great info for getting around without an autombile. The story also lets slip a really important piece of news that will be formally announced during Bike [...]

The Missouri Bicycle Federation just released a “report card” on bicycling conditions in the Show-Me State. Our state’s overall grade is a disappointing D, but we did score better in many of the individual subjects.  And many initiatives are underway to raise that grade in the future.
“The overall grade for Missouri’s walking and bicycling environment [...]

Just in time for Bike Week, CBS affiliate KCTV-5 has a new blog all about biking to work.  It’s written by weather producer Amanda Graor and will chronicle her experiances riding to work.  You might have already seen the teasers on the air.
www.kctv5.com/amandasbikeblog

There is some sad news on the eve Bike Week, with the first bicyclist fatality of 2008. This evening a four year-old boy was killed by a delivery van while bicycling in the parking lot of his apartment complex in Blue Springs. Law enforcement is treating the death as an accident. One report notes [...]

New bike lanes
on 87th Street
Photo:MoBikeFed
The city’s implementation of the BikeKC network is seeing slow but steady progress in both the north and south of the city…
The infamously short bike lanes on NW Barry Road in front of Zona Rosa will be extended by one mile to the west as the road is widened between North [...]

[ May 10, 2008 to May 16, 2008. ] Mark you calendars now for the biggest bike week yet.  Stay tuned for more details near the end of March.

The Lenexa Commuter Convoy.
Photo by Noah Dunker.
If you watched the morning news on KSHB-TV 41 this morning, hopefully you saw the live report featuring Noah Dunker’s convoy of bicycle commuters heading from Lenexa to Downtown. It was one of five convoys offered for the first time this year, and kicked off Bike Week 2008. Here [...]