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But Howard is still representing BFR on his mailbox. By the way, Happy Birthday, Howard.
Opening Soon! Switching Gears Cyclery
There’s a new bike shop coming to the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. It’s called Switching Gears Cyclery. If you’ve been on any of the 75208 or BFOC rides, you might have met local bike enthusiasts Colin Clark or Andee Pittman. Colin and Andee have decided to join the ranks of other great Dallas bike shops like Oak Cliff Bicycle Company and Transit Bikes and offer a more personalized bike shopping experience.
Their shop will be located in between Fallout Lounge & Amsterdam Bar in Expo Park across the street from Fair Park (just off the DART Green Line). To find out more about Switching Gears Cyclery and what they will be offering, jump over to their Facebook page and Like them. We can’t wait to visit the shop as soon as they are open.
Switching Gears Cyclery
833 Exposition Ave
Dallas, TX, 75226
Also, please remember to support your neighborhood bike shops and buy local. You might be able to save a few bucks online, but it will be at the cost of our city’s bike culture. As with all the DFW bike shops, we wish Switching Gears Cycley great success.
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Sculpture
I’m impressed with all the random art that I come across while riding around town. I’m inspired to host a sculpture group ride around town. Stay tuned this spring for details.
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Speak Up Richardson Cyclists
We’re having a lot of fun with the Bike Friendly Richardson blog, and we’ve gotten a few good suggestions and comments along the way. One of our goals with BFR, especially this year, was to bring in more voices for Richardson bicycling. If you have something to say about biking in Richardson (or any of our neighboring towns), please feel free to write something up and send it our way. We’ll probably post it.
If you would like to participate more regularly, contact us through email or phone, and we’ll see about setting you up as a guest blogger.
We welcome any ideas, tips, suggestions, opinions and constructive criticism that are geared towards biking in Richardson. Please remember that as much as well love all aspects of bicycling, we’d like to concentrate our focus on increasing the ridership of the average commuter, and those wanting to ride for transportation and pleasure over sport.
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Happy New Year 2011 From Suburban Assault
We just wanted to say Happy New Year! We hope 2011 is a great one for you.
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Happy Birthday Bike Friendly Richardson
One year ago, we officially launched as Bike Friendly Richardson, taking inspiration and guidance from our friends over at Bike Friendly Oak Cliff. We were the first of many offshoots to a great idea – to promote the creation of better cycling facilities and improved infrastructure throughout DFW – with a focus on the average commuter, and those wanting to ride for transportation and pleasure over sport.
Our goal last year was to get organized, generate awareness to our group and build a following of like minded cyclists. It’s been slow, but we are starting to get a good following on Facebook and Twitter. The traffic on this site has increased significantly and we even managed to squeeze in a few rides.
We have more things planned for this year:
– Increasing awareness – to both BFR and cycling
– More ride events – inspired by other local events
– Bring in the voice of more Richardson cyclists – you’ll be reading posts from guest writers with different perspectives about riding in Richardson.
– Take a closer look at the great Richardson Bike Plan – to see if there is room for improvement – from a rider’s perspective.
– Discuss route options for safe rides around town – while highlighting some great, local destinations.
– Step up our efforts of bringing in more retail partners – giving folks more reasons to ride to their destinations.
– BFR swag – stay tuned.
Please tell your friends about our group. We’d love to see more of you riding around town this year.
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DFW Bike Shops Recognized By Size
I stumbled across this while reading the Bike Monkey blog this morning. It was syndicated from the Bicycle Retailer site. Apparently our local bike shops are recognized because we “Build Them Big in Dallas.”
Click here to read about their tour of DFW bike shops (day 1).
Although I love these shops, I’d love to see them do a tour of some of the smaller shops like Villy Customs, Oak Cliff Bicycle Company, Panther City Bicycles, Querencia, The Bike Shop, Transit Bicycle Company, Trinity Bicycles to name a few.
UPDATE: Looks like the visited a few shops in Fort Worth (including Trinity) on day 2. ALSO: here’s another post about other shops in Dallas.
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You Should Ride To The Cottonwood Art Festival
It’s the last day of the Cottonwood Art Festival and a PERFECT day to ride to it. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the time to commit to another Cruise To The Cottonwood Art Festival ride this time around. That shouldn’t stop you. Considering how horrible the parking situation is, riding a bike seems to make the most sense.
There are lots of great routes to Cottonwood Park. You could always catch the new Waterview Drive bike lanes to Dumont Drive (one block south of Belt Line Road). Go east on Dumont Drive until you reach the south side of the park.
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Richardson Rider Commutes To Work
Image From Suburban Shift
I love reading stories about Richardson folks commuting to work. It’s good to know that the bike friendly efforts of our city are being utilized by its residents.
Bob, a guest writer for BFR, has an amazing blog about sustainability while living in the suburbs called Suburban Shift.
Suburban Shift covers stuff like organic gardening, bike commuting, home energy efficiency, alternative transportation, alternative energy, minimalism, simplicity, recycling and personal finance. It inspires me to become more responsible with my life and the world I live in – even from my little corner.
Today, Bob wrote about returning to his bike commute routine. Here’s a snippet from his post that made me smile:
That’s right folks. North Dallas Suburbs are making bicycle progress, and I’m tremendously proud that my town of Richardson is really leading the way. The bike trail system in Richardson will be one of the city’s nicest and most useful amentities. Read more.
As you can see, Bob is also a big fan of what’s going on with Richardson biking. We love the city’s momentum and want to see it continue – making Richardson a truly bike friendly city.
If you have a bike commute story to tell, please contact us at [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you and share it with other riders.
Find Bike Friendly Richardson Everywhere
We’ve got a few new readers here on the blog, and traffic is way up from last year. If you want to extend your Bike Friendly Richardson experience, please feel free to add us to your RSS reader, or subscribe via email (link to the right). You can also join our Facebook group, follow us on Twitter and contribute to our Flickr pool.
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