Tips & Reviews
Biking
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Make Your Town a Better Bike Town
Mia Birk’s book Joyride: Pedaling toward a Healthier Planet, is a “how-to manual” for creating a first class bicycle community. Anyone in government or anyone interested in bicycle advocacy would benefit from reading Birk as a way to put their… Read full article
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ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours and Bicycles 4 Humanity
New Partnership Brings Mobility to Africa In Africa, girls are 70 percent more likely to attend school if their family owns a bike. Healthcare workers can visit up to four times as many patients if they have a bike and… Read full article
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Safe Cycling is Smart Cycling
The League of American Bicyclists is the nation’s premier bicycle advocacy group which, over the last forty years, has developed THE national standard in bicycle safety education. It is unfortunate that most people learned most of what they know about… Read full article
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Tour Sustainability and Performance Plan
ExperiencePlus! strives to consider the environmental and social impact of what we do. Travel is a powerful tool to connect people to new cultures and environments, however if folks are not responsible travelers, we know it can also negatively impact… Read full article
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A Brief Introduction to Cycling Lingo
There is no need to buy a plane ticket to experience a new world – just take up a new sport. Consider cycling for example: Ever been to the pain cave? Bombed down a gnarly, technical section full of babyheads?… Read full article
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How to teach a child to ride a bicycle
One popular lunchtime topic around the office here at ExperiencePlus! is “my first bike ride.” Rick told the story of his first day on a bike a couple months ago in our newsletter. There’s nothing like that first taste of… Read full article
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Critical Mass Cyclists Should Get Involved in Local Government, Too
Critical Mass Cyclists Should Get Involved in Local Government, Too Critical Mass Mentality Thoreau praised civil disobedience, and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ‚’ 60s validated it. But Critical Mass cyclists owe it to themselves and to… Read full article
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Are you a Bicycle or Walking Advocate?
Are you a Bicycle or Walking Advocate? Our friend, Verdiana Vandini, still bicycles to the gelateria for gelato (Italian ice cream) at age 75! Shown here in February 2005 in Italy Variables in your local bike and pedestrian advocacy program:… Read full article
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An Interview with Mountain Bike Legend Joe Breeze
An Interview with Mountain Bike Legend Joe Breeze Mountain bike pioneer Joe Breeze recently came through Fort Collins to promote the more utilitarian side of cycling. In a heavily attended presentation on “Healthy Transportation Choices Now” at the Fort Collins… Read full article
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Fort Collins Keeps Silver Medal as Bike Friendly Community
Fort Collins Keeps Silver Medal as Bike Friendly Community In a press release from LAB headquarters in Washington, D.C. May 16 the League wrote: “Sixteen cities across the United States can celebrate the start of national Bike to Work Week… Read full article