Category: Bike Law Alabama
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2 of the Best Bike Shops in Birmingham
Redemptive Cycles & Cahaba Cycles are very different bike shops, but Alabama cyclists are lucky to have both. Birmingham is blessed to have a number of great bike shops. Two of these shops, although very different, are the focus here. Future blog posts from Bike Law Alabama will focus on some of the other great shops in…
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Alabama Bike Advocate Jamie Miernik
Jamie promotes the growing Alabama Bike Community, even during COVID. When Alabama bike advocate Jamie Miernik was growing up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she dreamed of being an astronaut. And today, although she is not an astronaut, as a chemical engineer who worked for Boeing on the NASA space station project, she put her knowledge and…
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Alabama Bike Advocate Bruce Herbitter
Founder of the Selma to Montgomery Commemorative Civil Rights Ride This year, before COVID, over 600 bike riders from over 25 states retraced the steps of the Civil Rights Marchers from Selma to Montgomery. The event was about much more than just riding a bike, as participants toured historic sights and were led by civil…
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Olivia Hart: New ED of Redemptive Cycles
Carrying on the group’s proud legacy of improving lives — and Birmingham — through bicycling. Olivia Hart has just been introduced as the new (3rd ever) Executive Director of Redemptive Cycles, a non-profit organization in Birmingham, Alabama (www.redemptivecycles.com) which does many things – including, but by no means limited to: 1. running an “earn a…
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Alabama’s Billy Ritch
Read how a 32-year smoker transforms into a bike hero! Billy Ritch found health, community, and joy the day he ditched the cigarettes and bought a bike. Billy Ritch is well known in Alabama’s cycling community. Over the years he and his wife, Stephanie, founded and headed for 5 years the Restoration Ride, which was…
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The Hub for Cycling in Fairhope, AL
Katie Bolton’s Bike Shop is More than a Bike Shop. Katie Bolton and her husband Joseph are the proud owners of Fairhope Cycle and Tri in Fairhope, Alabama – the eastern shore. Their shop has been open for 8 years now and in addition to selling and servicing bicycles, the shop often is a “hub” for cycling…
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Cheaha Challenge Director Brooke Nelson
The biggest bike ride in Alabama! Brooke Nelson has been the ride director of the Cheaha Challenge (www.cheahachallange.com) since shortly after the 2014 ride and in the past 5 years, ride participation has increased 188%. Since 2017 when it became the only UCI Qualifier, Alabama’s biggest ride has become known nationally and internationally. The 2019…
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Montgomery Bike Advocate Robert Traphan
Robert Traphan, a native of Greenwich, Connecticut, settled in Montgomery, Alabama while serving on active duty in the Air Force from 1993 until 1996. He owned and operated a number of Internet companies for more than a decade until 2006, when he took a job as a software engineer with the Alabama Retirement System of…
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Birmingham Bike Advocate Kathryn Doornbos
Redemptive Cycles Redeems the Streets! Kathryn Doornbos is the executive director of Redemptive Cycles, a non-profit organization in Birmingham, Alabama operating since 2013. Redemptive’s mission is to “redeem the streets” by getting more people on bicycles to make Birmingham a “more connected, comfortable and livable city.” Redemptive works to achieve its goal by selling many refurbished and…
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Alabama Bike Law Reforms
Dead Red and Stop As Yield Laws Considered Alabama is considering 2 new laws which, if passed, will have a positive effect not only on bicyclists, but the public at large. The first of these is the “dead red” law. Under this proposed legislation, a cyclist or motorcyclist, neither of whom have enough steel and/or weight…
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Video Proves Harassment of Bicyclists
You may have already seen the video below. If you haven’t, please watch. On Tuesday, August 24th just before 7PM, Jeff McCord and approximately 20 other cyclists were stopped at the intersection of Karl Daly and Grants Mill Road in Irondale, Alabama, a town outside the city of Birmingham. As McCord waited for an ambulance…
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Three-Foot Passing Law in Alabama
Statutory Ambiguity, Double-Yellow Lines, and a Bicycle Unfriendly State I will not pretend to speak for all cyclists, but I feel pretty confident in saying that being passed by cars on the road is a primary area of concern. Most of the time there is no problem and the vehicle passes safely. Nevertheless, I personally…
