Category: Culture
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Ride Guide NY: Five Boro Bike Tour
This coming Saturday is the annual Five Boro Bike Tour through New York. 40 car free miles with 32,000 new bike loving friends! Bike Law New York is entering its 4th year of supporting the TD Five Boro Bike Tour, the world’s largest charity ride with over 32,000 riders. We are honored to help raise money to…
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Ride Guide: 2017 BIKE! Charlotte Mayor’s Ride
A celebrated annual event in Charlotte is the annual Mayor’s Ride that kicks off two weeks of bicycling events around Charlotte, NC called BIKE! Charlotte. This morning Bike Law North Carolina helped kick off the ride in style. 2017 BIKE! Charlotte Events There are dozens of events over the next 2 weeks to motivate and educate bicyclists across Charlotte. Events you’ll…
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The First 14 Days of 30 Days of Biking
Our network has been riding our way into April for 30 Days of Biking. From California, Utah, and Colorado to Michigan, New York, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Louisiana. We’ve ridden to court, for Bike to Work Day, a bike tour up the C&O canal, mountain bike rides, rides with kids, Kidical Mass, and the list goes…
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Packs of Cars Are Always in the Way
It never fails. I’m trying to ride my bike to work through my neighborhood and these packs of cars always get in the way. They take up the whole road and won’t let me pass! Should cars be allowed on neighborhood streets? Last week, I wrote the above post on my personal Facebook timeline. It…
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Bike Law Commits to the 30 Days of Biking Pledge
Riding your bike is a joyous event and one worth celebrating. We often get stuck in the everyday events of life and forget about this joy and beautiful act of freedom. To get back in the habit of riding this spring we are committing to the 30 Days of Biking pledge where we ride our bikes (almost)…
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Announcing the 2017 Bike Law Michigan Mechanic of the Year Award
We weren’t able to narrow it down to 1 mechanic so we picked 3 mechanics as this year’s Bike Law Michigan Mechanic of the Year! Your winners of the 2017 Bike Law Michigan Mechanic of the Year award are: Vince Cirilo: Bicycle Village Scagana Al Schlutow: Motorless City in Detroit Shawn Hoffman : American Cycle and Fitness Bike Law
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Get Your Bike Ready for Spring Riding
Read our in-house mechanic’s top tips for getting your bike ready for spring riding. When the East Coast is hit by that one last snow storm right as the Cherry Blossom trees are blooming we know that spring is truly around the corner. This is a great time to provide our annual public service announcement…
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Victim Blaming in Bike Crashes
Bike Law network members, Lauri Boxer-Macomber (Maine) and Brian Weiss (Colorado) talk about how the media and law enforcement should treat crash reporting more fairly. Read Lauri’s article on victim blaming: http://bit.ly/2mdciWs This isn’t our first time speaking out about bad crash reporting. Here is another article on our experience in Canada: http://bit.ly/2myIWV7 and why we call them Bicycle Crash and not Bicycle…
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Bike Law Manifesto 02
In the start of this new year we think it’s a good time to go back to our roots, our guiding principles – the Bike Law Manifesto. Our second principle is a gentle reminder of why we always turn to the bike. “Nothing else allows us the independence, pleasure, and power to move so far, so…
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Bike Law Manifesto 01
Do you love to ride? So do we. In the start of this new year we think it’s a good time to go back to our roots, our guiding principles – the Bike Law Manifesto. The first guiding principle is simple. “We are cyclists because we love to ride, and everybody who loves to ride is…
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New Kit Day!
It’s new Kit Day at Bike Law HQ! The one and only Joni Taylor from Texmarket has come through yet again on version 4.0. At this point in our jersey game, the new improvements are tiny, because our 3.0 was pretty darn good. But this is our best yet. The fabrics, the cut, the details, and the…
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Bike Law at RAGBRAI
Since I have returned home from riding across Iowa, a lot of people have asked, “What’s RAGBRAI like?” Well, it’s a lot like riding your bike for the fun of it with your friends and meeting lots of like-minded folks along the route—kind of like when you were a kid. It’s also like a choose-your-adventure book with…
