Occasional incivility is par for the course, I guess (though I hope we’ll be changing that). Most of the time it is harmless noise that can be shrugged off. But there is one type of territorial noise that sickens me. That is the sound of a child’s voice from a car, yelling at me...
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Angie Ross writes today’s My Word column in the Orlando Sentinel: Recent articles in the Orlando Sentinel have highlighted the tensions between motorists and cyclists in Clermont, and I’m afraid my cycling team will feel the backlash. This is a problem because my team consists not of a pack of 60 roadies, but of...
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A friend recently shared a cute Yehuda Moon cartoon with me in which the driver of an SUV pulls up to a bakfiets cargobike and laments not walking her child to school, but blames the weather and all of the school gear.  The tiny bike passenger responds, “Just because ya’ can doesn’t mean ya’...
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Jesse and Angie Ross and their two daughters are a one-car family. In January, they traded their SUV for an SUB. The family rides bikes to the store, church and for family fun. Jesse’s vehicle is a Madsen Bucket bike. I asked him how he chose the Madsen. “We were looking at the Xtracycle...
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Totcycle.com has a wonderfully funny article about riding with the kiddos!  Mostly tongue-in-cheek humor, and the rest is just funny!
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New Mini-Grants Encourage Students to Walk and Ride to School Mini-grants totaling $30,150 have been approved by the Winter Park Health Foundation (WPHF) through its Community Health Policy Work Group to enable seven Winter Park, Maitland and Eatonville area schools to launch and expand programs that encourage students to walk and ride to school.
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This video has 3 of my favorite things: quiet-street connectivity, wayfinding signs and cyclists riding comfortably in the middle of the lane. In my years of riding around town, I’ve encountered 2 primary problems for slow-street bicycling in Orlando and Winter Park. One is the damned bricks. The other is you need a GPS...
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Here’s another cool multi-purpose kid-hauler. This one’s from an American company. From their website: The Company’s first product is the Zigo LEADER™, a lightweight, foldable bicycle with an integrated child carrier and four distinct operating modes:
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This is just one of 3 full bike-parking areas surrounding the Dommerich Elementary building. Photo by Julie Fletcher. This morning was the kick-off of Walk n’ Roll Wednesdays at Dommerich Elementary in Maitland. It was a sight to see! Despite the gloomy, sticky weather this morning, scores of students and parents walked, biked and...
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