On Saturday The Wheel Cyclery is celebrating 15 years with a big party, food, special deals and sales, etc.  The Wheel is also making some big changes to become an environmentally sustainable business, and will have exhibitors from local environmental and neighborhood groups on Saturday.  Yours truly will be there pimping Bike Week 2009.
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OutSpokin’, the city’s gay and lesbian bicycle club, has a great series of rides planned for 2009. Everything from urban exploration to mountain biking.  Check out this recent article in Camp Magazine for all the details.

During negotiations over a bicycle and pedestrian path on the new Paseo Bridge, the Missouri Department of Transportation committed to building such a path on the Heart of America Bridge (Route 9, Oak St., Burlington). The original commitment was to retrofit the HOA bridge by 2012, but the federal economic stimulus bill has provided funds [...]

This request comes from Deb Ridgway, the KCMO Bike/Ped Coordinator. Getting an accurate measure of bicycle and pedestrian traffic is a critical first step for efforts to build more bike lanes, trails, and other facilities for bicyclists and pedestrians.  Please volunteer if you can.  The first count will occur in KCMO, and hopefully suburban cities [...]

On Monday the 20th join the Missouri Bicycle Federation in Jefferson City for a Katy Trail ride with members of the Missouri General Assembly.  And be sure to invite your own legislators. This is a great way to get to know them in an informal setting doing something fun.  MBF will even supply bicycles for [...]

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Chris Thomas
If you haven’t seen the KCSprints roller racing yet, there is another another chance Friday night in Midtown. It’s a lot of fun to watch, and inexpensive to participate.
8:00 p.m. at Harling’s Upstairs Bar & Grill, corner of Main Street and Westport Road, KCMO (map).  Details on Facebook.

Today the KCMO City Council’s Planning and Zoning Committee approved a new development code that includes bicycle parking requirements. This would mean most new businesses and apartments would have to provide parking for customers, employees, tenants, and visitors.
It is anticipated that the full City Council might vote on April 30th, and the law will [...]

Over the last few years the Lenexa Midnight Ride has become a very popular event for bicyclists of types.  Unfortunately there are some big changes this year that might not be so great.  In the past the ride has started in Old Town Lenexa and traveled closed city streets and an underground business park.  This [...]

Wilfredo Pujols has been sentenced to 15 years in the hit-and-run death of teen bicyclist Chris Cooper in Independence in November 2007. Pujols had pleaded guilty to second degree murder in December of 2008, and was finally sentenced this week.
Meanwhile, the Cooper family is pursuing a civil case against the Independence Police Department with the [...]

Columbia, MO has just been named a Silver level Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists.  Bicycle Friendly Communities is a national program that measures things like policies, facilities, bike lanes, trails, educational programs, etc. and awards cities four levels of achievement – Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum. Columbia’s designation recognizes their unprecedented [...]