January is already over, and it’s time for another First Friday ride! As always, we roll out from Loch Haven Park at 6:00 p.m. for a casual, family-friendly, law-abiding, hour-long ride around Orlando. All bikes and all bicyclists are welcome! Front and rear lights are required; helmets are required for kids under 16, and are...
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Thanks to Greg Bailey for setting up a CaringBridge site for Nick Vollman. Greg posted a link in the comments to our post calling for prayers. You can visit that site for updates on Nick’s recovery and send messages of love and support to Nick and his family in the guestbook. Also, David’s World Cycle is...
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If you travel the Little Econ Greenway at night, the bridge that crosses the Little Econ river near Econlockhatchee Trail will be closed from sunset to sunrise for the next week. The guard rails have weakened and become unsafe. In addition, they are replacing the wooden deck to make it a smoother ride. This...
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Join Bike Walk Central Florida and CommuteOrlando this Sunday morning to the Maitland Farmers Market. We’ll ride a scenic route there at an easy pace, and the weather is forecast to be perfect! The Maitland Farmers Market has fresh produce and related stuff, as well as food trucks. Whoohoo! Food Trucks! Feel free to...
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I can’t wait for the e-Book! In the meantime, the website offers some rich reading and fascinating collection of historical images. Roads Were Not Built for Cars Motorists are the johnny-come-latelies of highway history. The coming of the railways in the 1830s killed off the stage-coach trade; almost all rural roads reverted to low-level...
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Join Bike/Walk Central Florida at 7 p.m., March 1st, at the Garden Theatre (160 W. Plant St. in Winter Garden, 34787) for a the Central Florida premiere of Bicycle Dreams, the award-winning documentary chronicling the high drama, tragedy and adrenaline of Race Across America, a phenomenal 10-day sprint across the country by bicycle. This...
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I’m passing on this announcement from the David’s World Cycle family: We are sending out a huge prayer request for our very own Nick Vollman from the College Park store. Please please pray for Nick. He was involved in a terrible bicycle accident. There is tremendous power in prayers and we are asking that...
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This post isn’t about cycling. Though, the last visit I paid to the Senator was on a bike ride, last October. Big Tree Park is a destination on the Cross-Seminole Trail. Lisa and I took a couple friends from California to see Central Florida’s oldest landmark. The photo is from that trip. Early this morning,...
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I think I am on pretty safe ground when I say that eleven pages shouldn’t be necessary to explain a single, tiny aspect of traffic design to drivers. Yet, that is exactly how many pages the City of Minneapolis used when they published “Bike Lane Basics” complete with diagrams just in case the text...
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Here is a beautiful, poetic description of what makes The Dance work… and why it’s so easy for a self-assured woman. From the new blog, own the road: Role-models of distinction Confidence in their own status enables them to claim a share of the common land we call streets. They know they own the road. Their...
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