This weekend the city of Lawrence, Kansas will hold its first professional bicycle race.  The Tour of Lawrence is a three stage race July 3-5th in downtown and on the Kansas University campus.
Get all the details at www.touroflawrence.com

The suburb of Leawood, KS is looking to become more bike friendly and is planning to apply to the League of American Bicyclists for a Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) designation. Leawood’s goal is part of growing local movement. Lee’s Summit, MO is also working towards a BFC application.  Shawnee, KS already has a Bronze BFC [...]

The most recent edition of Urban Velo features Chris Thomas’ Kansas City Urban Cyclist Project, an ongoing project to photograph the city’s cyclists and their bikes. If you don’t subscribe to Urban Velo you can read it online or purchase a single issue. Congrats to Chris! Check out the Urban Cyclist Project on Facebook and [...]

The highly successful Tour of Missouri could be in jeopardy as the State of Missouri struggles to balance its budget in the Great Recession.  The state’s tourism agency provides $1.5 million of the Tour’s $3.3 million budget, and that subsidy is being consider among the many cuts that Governor Jay Nixon must make to close [...]

As predicted, the Lenexa’s decision move their big Midnight Bike Ride from closed and well-lit city streets to the dark wilderness of a park was a bust.  The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the supposedly family-friendly move had the opposite effect, while drastically cutting participation.
Meanwhile, Noah Dunker’s Un-Lenexa Midnight Ride provided a nice alternative for the [...]

It looks like last month we spoke too soon about De Soto, KS lifting the infamous ban on bicycles on 83rd Street. At the last minute the town’s City Council decided to delay lifting the ban until after the road is repaved this summer.  It sounds like there is enough support on the City Council [...]

The Johnson County Sun reports that Kansas Department of Transportation and the city of Lenexa, KS are working to close a gap in the trail along 95th Street.  KDOT will soon add a barrier to the 95th Street bridge over I-435, and Lenexa will construct connections to the bridge with trails on either side.

July 26th track bike racing comes to KC on a new grass track in Shawnee. Tonight there is a special clinic for folks who want to learn more and get ready for the race.
Details on July 26th Race
Info on tonight’s clinic

Beardsley Road in Downtown is re-opened after being closed for several weeks due to construction on the 12th Street Viaduct above the road.  Beardsley is a popular, low-traffic bicycle route between the Westside, River Market, and West Bottoms neighborhoods that skirts around the Downtown Loop and the bluff – so this is welcome new for [...]

National bike/ped expert Mark Fenton will be the featured speaker at the first in a series of discussions on how the Kansas City region can become healthier by designing more walkable and bikeable communities.  Mark Fenton hosts America’s Walking on PBS and is expert on the connection between urban planning, public health, and the built [...]