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Here We Grow Again – Please Welcome Bike Friendly Deep Ellum
Please welcome the newest member to the Bike Friendly DFW family, Bike Friendly Deep Ellum. We’re not sure if they’ve gone public yet, but we are following each other on Twitter. You should follow them too. We hope to see some great group rides from down there.
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Ride And Make A Wish Come True – Wish 100 Ride This Weekend
I kept seeing the billboards and posters around town about the Wish 100 Ride, but forgot to post about it. It’s not too late to ride or donate. Here’s what the event is about: Ride for a great cause. The Jones Lang LaSalle Wish 100 is a 100K bike rally benefiting incredible children all over…
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Richardson’s Point-Of-View On Different Types of Bicycle Users
With all the new trails and bike lanes in Richardson, (which we love) one might think that the city is trying to get cyclists off the road. That’s not true. One of the things that impressed us about the City of Richardson is their open point-of-view towards bicycle users. Instead of focusing on one specific…
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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…
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Richardson Rider Commutes To Work
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,…
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2011 Dallas Bike Plan: Bikeway System Draft Network Maps now available online!
Here’s some exciting information from our neighbors to the south. From their email: On September 23, 2010 over 200 people participated in our second public meeting at Dallas City Hall. At this meeting, the maps showing the proposed draft network and facility type recommendations for the Dallas Bikeway System were presented. We received a lot…
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Dallas Bikes To City Hall – October 15, 2010
As part of Bike Friendly Oak Cliff’s Cyclesomatic 2010, cyclists are promoting bike advocacy with another Dallas Bike To City Hall ride. We hope to make it out to this one to support our neighbors and get a look at the Dallas Bikeway System Draft Network. Date: October 15, 2010 Time: 8:10 am Place: Union…
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It’s Back! BFOC’s Cyclesomatic
Our friends and the founders of the DFW Bike Friendly movement, Bike Friendly Oak Cliff, are having their second Cyclesomatic event. This year they’re packing all of the bike love into four days – October 14 – 17. Click over to the site to get more details. They are also hosting another Dallas Bikes To…
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More Trail Progress – Towards The Central Underpass
There is a bit more progress on the Spring Creek Trail extension that leads to one of the Central Expressway underpasses. In case you aren’t sure where this is, it branches off from the Spring Creek Trail rest area, at the southeast corner of Central and Renner Road. Here’s a shot from further down the…
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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…