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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
The Ride To Remember
Hi mom! I fell in with some new friends. I think it's ok because some of my old friends fell in with them too...
The Ride to Remember
On Saturday, September 25, at 8:00 a.m., a bicycle ride will be held to honor Dr. Kevin Rogers. The ride will be escorted by the Sioux Falls police and will leave Colorado Technical University's campus at 3901 West 59th Street.
The bicyclists will ride from the CTU campus to the location where Dr. Rogers was killed in a bicycling accident. The round trip distance for the ride is exactly five miles.
A moment of silence will be held prior to the ride at 7:45 a.m. to honor Dr. Rogers and others who have recently died as a result of bicycling accidents. Dr. Rogers was a valued faculty member at CTU for a number of years.
After the ride, at 9:00 a.m., CTU will host food and bicycling fun in the campus parking lot.
Bicycling Safety 101 - Mike Christensen, a certified bicycling safety instructor, will discuss topics such as increasing the safety of roadway users, the importance of helmets, strategies for in-city riding, and the dangers of impaired or distracted driving.
Bicycle Repair 101 - Spoke-n-Sport is sponsoring a fun event that will focus on the importance of safe bicycles and quick checks to make sure your bicycle is ready for the road.
Sam Trebilcock will also have mini-bike rodeo activities available for children at the post-ride event.
Please Plan to Attend! And Ride!
The Ride to Remember
On Saturday, September 25, at 8:00 a.m., a bicycle ride will be held to honor Dr. Kevin Rogers. The ride will be escorted by the Sioux Falls police and will leave Colorado Technical University's campus at 3901 West 59th Street.
The bicyclists will ride from the CTU campus to the location where Dr. Rogers was killed in a bicycling accident. The round trip distance for the ride is exactly five miles.
A moment of silence will be held prior to the ride at 7:45 a.m. to honor Dr. Rogers and others who have recently died as a result of bicycling accidents. Dr. Rogers was a valued faculty member at CTU for a number of years.
After the ride, at 9:00 a.m., CTU will host food and bicycling fun in the campus parking lot.
Bicycling Safety 101 - Mike Christensen, a certified bicycling safety instructor, will discuss topics such as increasing the safety of roadway users, the importance of helmets, strategies for in-city riding, and the dangers of impaired or distracted driving.
Bicycle Repair 101 - Spoke-n-Sport is sponsoring a fun event that will focus on the importance of safe bicycles and quick checks to make sure your bicycle is ready for the road.
Sam Trebilcock will also have mini-bike rodeo activities available for children at the post-ride event.
Please Plan to Attend! And Ride!
Graffiti Nay Vandalism
Friday, September 17, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Sorry Girlfriend...
...but when you shouted "hi" from the hole in your cage just a block and a half from that sensor actuated red light I thought it meant you were open to talking. So I hurried to catch up.
Imagine my surprise when I rolled up beside your open window and returned the greeting, you had to peel yourself off the ceiling.
I suppose it was dark and you coudn't see me coming. I was without lights, a terrible mistake to be sure, but sometimes it happens.
Anyway, I apprecitate you and your boyfriend's good humor throughout the encounter. It's nice when we can all smile and laugh together.
Cheers.
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Multi-occupant auto: 3 miles
Bike: 24.4 miles
Imagine my surprise when I rolled up beside your open window and returned the greeting, you had to peel yourself off the ceiling.
I suppose it was dark and you coudn't see me coming. I was without lights, a terrible mistake to be sure, but sometimes it happens.
Anyway, I apprecitate you and your boyfriend's good humor throughout the encounter. It's nice when we can all smile and laugh together.
Cheers.
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Multi-occupant auto: 3 miles
Bike: 24.4 miles
Monday, September 13, 2010
Going’s On
Holy cats this week there are so many bike events in the area you can’t toss a 40lb Huffy without hitting someone at a bike event!
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The Metropolitan Planning Organization Bicycle Plan is getting some huge attention right now as planners and consultants are visiting and looking and plotting and figuring out how in the world to connect our city with three neighboring towns via multi-use trails.
All day today they met in Brandon. Tomorrow is Harrisburg. Wednesday is Tea. I think they might even be going so far as to get their shoes dirty to find ways to go places. In each of these towns there is also a public input event from 5:30pm to 7:00pm on their respective days.
I helped with the bicycle plan. I haven’t been able to get involved in the current efforts. I wish I could. One of the consultants plays at the national level. The company name appears in print often – now that I know to pay attention for it.
Imagine 30 years from now, when these cities have grown together the value of having a place to recreate where a person can go for miles and miles without crossing a road. It won’t matter so much then that Sioux Falls the town are connected by the trail. It will matter that that type of recreation is possible and it will be a big deal for those neighborhoods.
Here’s a bit of news about that effort - http://tinyurl.com/33ucmfp
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Tuesday morning The City makes a public splash of their Bike SmART program. This program finds support in the city’s bike plan. It seems like two years ago or more when the first call went out for artists to submit artsy designs for bike racks – and nobody responded, not even David Byrne (although I do know that some effort was put in to him submitting). A second similar request went out half a year later which resulted in some fruit. Now another year later and TWO racks are being placed (or maybe they’re in place) and The City marks the occurrence with a presentation at City Hall. Tomorrow. Ride your bike so you don’t have to park, pay and walk.
Here’s the official scoop on Bike SmART - http://tinyurl.com/2vcgbrb
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Friday is international Park(ing) Day. Sioux Falls Pedicab with the help of Landscape Garden Center will claim a metered parking spot near 9th and Phillips for the day with “grass”, a tree, and other fun items. From there free pedicab rides will be given to anyone who agrees to pull their bike out of the garage, dust it off, and go for a ride this week.
Another spot apparently will be claimed by a group from Architecture for Humanity. I’m not sure where but I’ll be looking for them.
Here’s some newsy bits about the pedicab rides - http://tinyurl.com/36eagja
Here’s the official scoop on International Park(ing) Day - http://parkingday.org/
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Does that seem like enough? How about today’s MinusCar statistics?
Single occupant automobile – 4.66 miles
Multi occupant automobile – 4.84 miles
Bus – 2.5 miles
Walk – 2.65 miles
I walked a 1/3 mile with The Boy 8 today to a bus stop. People really hate the inconvenience of not having a car. I really like spending time with my son with nothing to do but BE. While we waited for the bus The Dad came on his bike to tell us a few stories. That’s three generations at one bus stop – if you’re scoring at home.
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The Metropolitan Planning Organization Bicycle Plan is getting some huge attention right now as planners and consultants are visiting and looking and plotting and figuring out how in the world to connect our city with three neighboring towns via multi-use trails.
All day today they met in Brandon. Tomorrow is Harrisburg. Wednesday is Tea. I think they might even be going so far as to get their shoes dirty to find ways to go places. In each of these towns there is also a public input event from 5:30pm to 7:00pm on their respective days.
I helped with the bicycle plan. I haven’t been able to get involved in the current efforts. I wish I could. One of the consultants plays at the national level. The company name appears in print often – now that I know to pay attention for it.
Imagine 30 years from now, when these cities have grown together the value of having a place to recreate where a person can go for miles and miles without crossing a road. It won’t matter so much then that Sioux Falls the town are connected by the trail. It will matter that that type of recreation is possible and it will be a big deal for those neighborhoods.
Here’s a bit of news about that effort - http://tinyurl.com/33ucmfp
--
Tuesday morning The City makes a public splash of their Bike SmART program. This program finds support in the city’s bike plan. It seems like two years ago or more when the first call went out for artists to submit artsy designs for bike racks – and nobody responded, not even David Byrne (although I do know that some effort was put in to him submitting). A second similar request went out half a year later which resulted in some fruit. Now another year later and TWO racks are being placed (or maybe they’re in place) and The City marks the occurrence with a presentation at City Hall. Tomorrow. Ride your bike so you don’t have to park, pay and walk.
Here’s the official scoop on Bike SmART - http://tinyurl.com/2vcgbrb
--
Friday is international Park(ing) Day. Sioux Falls Pedicab with the help of Landscape Garden Center will claim a metered parking spot near 9th and Phillips for the day with “grass”, a tree, and other fun items. From there free pedicab rides will be given to anyone who agrees to pull their bike out of the garage, dust it off, and go for a ride this week.
Another spot apparently will be claimed by a group from Architecture for Humanity. I’m not sure where but I’ll be looking for them.
Here’s some newsy bits about the pedicab rides - http://tinyurl.com/36eagja
Here’s the official scoop on International Park(ing) Day - http://parkingday.org/
--
Does that seem like enough? How about today’s MinusCar statistics?
Single occupant automobile – 4.66 miles
Multi occupant automobile – 4.84 miles
Bus – 2.5 miles
Walk – 2.65 miles
I walked a 1/3 mile with The Boy 8 today to a bus stop. People really hate the inconvenience of not having a car. I really like spending time with my son with nothing to do but BE. While we waited for the bus The Dad came on his bike to tell us a few stories. That’s three generations at one bus stop – if you’re scoring at home.
Skillz
This past weekend I guided a group of bike riding people through the League of American Bicyclists Traffic Skills 101 materials. Thursday and Friday evening and Saturday morning was all about talking and doing bikes.
It's a beautiful thing to see the shifts in thinking as we work through the course. The course includes an hour on city roads to demonstrate the concepts put forth in the materials. During that ride someone commented that experiencing road riding isn't nearly as intimidating as it seemed. Beautiful.
Here's our route. We don't mess around too much.
The course evaluations reveal that 75% of the students indicate "yes" when asked "do you plan to bicycle more in the future than you did before taking this course?"
FTW!
It's a beautiful thing to see the shifts in thinking as we work through the course. The course includes an hour on city roads to demonstrate the concepts put forth in the materials. During that ride someone commented that experiencing road riding isn't nearly as intimidating as it seemed. Beautiful.
Here's our route. We don't mess around too much.
The course evaluations reveal that 75% of the students indicate "yes" when asked "do you plan to bicycle more in the future than you did before taking this course?"
FTW!
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Ghost Bike: Today We Are Sad
Before:
Today we are sad. We are sad because someone many here knew as friend has died in a collision with a motor vehicle doing something that many of us know to be a beautiful thing - simply riding a bicycle.
It’s been four years since Mike Seiverding fatally collided with a car in a crosswalk at the 28th & Minnesota Ave intersection. We would have liked for more time to have passed.
A lot has changed for the better in 4 years. We know this to be true simply by noticing this gathering of people who have come to mark this very sad day in this very sad spot. Cyclists. Friends. Neighbors. Family.
So together, for a little while we mark this spot as sacred. We place a Ghost Bike here where the unlikely but all too common convergence of time, space and behavior has resulted in terrible changes to the lives of so many.
We are terribly sorry for our bike riding friend - Kevin Rogers, his family and his friends. We know that this senseless occurrence shouldn't have happened. At the same time we know it could have happened to any of us. In fact yesterday it happened to all of us. Together.
After:
Today we are sad. We are sad because someone many here knew as friend has died in a collision with a motor vehicle doing something that many of us know to be a beautiful thing - simply riding a bicycle.
It’s been four years since Mike Seiverding fatally collided with a car in a crosswalk at the 28th & Minnesota Ave intersection. We would have liked for more time to have passed.
A lot has changed for the better in 4 years. We know this to be true simply by noticing this gathering of people who have come to mark this very sad day in this very sad spot. Cyclists. Friends. Neighbors. Family.
So together, for a little while we mark this spot as sacred. We place a Ghost Bike here where the unlikely but all too common convergence of time, space and behavior has resulted in terrible changes to the lives of so many.
We are terribly sorry for our bike riding friend - Kevin Rogers, his family and his friends. We know that this senseless occurrence shouldn't have happened. At the same time we know it could have happened to any of us. In fact yesterday it happened to all of us. Together.
After:
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
1+1+1=?
A parking ramp exit.
A fire fighter spraying down the adjacent sidewalk.
A bike in the trunk of a police cruiser.
Perhaps coincidence.
Bicyclists fare best when they act like and are treated as vehicles.
A fire fighter spraying down the adjacent sidewalk.
A bike in the trunk of a police cruiser.
Perhaps coincidence.
Bicyclists fare best when they act like and are treated as vehicles.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Two Firsts For Sioux Falls. Today!
Today. Two firsts for this city.
First, the park's board unanimously agreed to allow the parks department to enter into an agreement with Falls Area Singletrack, Inc. to build the first ever true singletrack trail inside the city. The venue is an under utilized and overgrown park in the core of the city know as Leaders Park.
It's been a long process and could easily be two years from the start before we turn over a shovel of dirt, but it's been pretty great to be in the middle of it all.
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Second, today Sioux Falls licensed it's first pedicab operator. Sioux Falls Pedicab Company will begin operation Friday in the downtown area. I'm hoping to jump on board as pedicab driver #2. I think the owner will hire me, he's my dad.
First, the park's board unanimously agreed to allow the parks department to enter into an agreement with Falls Area Singletrack, Inc. to build the first ever true singletrack trail inside the city. The venue is an under utilized and overgrown park in the core of the city know as Leaders Park.
It's been a long process and could easily be two years from the start before we turn over a shovel of dirt, but it's been pretty great to be in the middle of it all.
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Second, today Sioux Falls licensed it's first pedicab operator. Sioux Falls Pedicab Company will begin operation Friday in the downtown area. I'm hoping to jump on board as pedicab driver #2. I think the owner will hire me, he's my dad.
Monday, July 05, 2010
Sunday, July 04, 2010
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