Oh hi there. Welcome to Cycle Tracks, RIBike’s now bi-weekly newsletter. It was Labor Day, and we took that opportunity to skip a week and make this email officially every other week. Your overloaded email inbox can thank us by getting even more involved in RIBike. Today is your LAST CHANCE to participate in our September membership… read more
Advocacy
How to Maintain Your Bike Properly
This guest post on bike maintenance is by Patrick Philips. If you would like to write a piece for the RIBike blog, let us know! We’d love to work with you! Learning to care for your bike is something that we tend to learn the hard way, and usually involves incurring costly repair and service… read more
Introducing Bicyclists of Rhode Island
Guys, this is really exciting. We’re starting a series here on our blog and on social media called Bicyclists of Rhode Island. It’s inspired by the hugely popular Humans of New York series, and aims to highlight the diverse reasons why people bike and the broad range of people who bike in Lil’ Rhody. We’re… read more
Now is the time: RIBike membership campaign
[UPDATE: Two generous donors have offered to match dollar-for-dollar every membership contribution that comes in between now and September 14th. If you join at the $100 level, the Coalition gets $200! If you join at the $40 level, we get $80! Easy math. Hope you can join us today!] Happy September! As you may have… read more
Cycle Tracks – 8-31-15
The Rhode Island Bicycle Coalition sends regular email updates on our work to our members. Join today to get involved! This is the update from August 31st, 2015. This week at RIBike saw the launch of Get Your Bike On! This new event series is a safe, non-judgmental space where folks can get some basic pointers… read more
Personal Injury Claims, Part III: How to Win Your Claim
RIBike was approached recently by a writer from a Personal Injury Law website, with an offer to write content for us about what to do in case of a bike crash. Thanks to Deanna Power for submitting the pieces and to RIBike volunteer CJ for helping make the pieces work for Rhode Island bicyclists! The… read more
Personal Injury Claims, Part II: Getting Doored
RIBike was approached recently by a writer from a Personal Injury Law website, with an offer to write content for us about what to do in case of a bike crash. Thanks to Deanna Power for submitting the pieces and to RIBike volunteer CJ for helping make the pieces work for Rhode Island bicyclists! The… read more
RIPR named Bike-Friendly Business, first in Rhode Island
Rhode Island Public Radio named a Bronze-Level Bicycle Friendly BusinessSM by the League of American Bicyclists Rhode Island Public Radio, the NPR Member Station for Rhode Island, is the only Bicycle Friendly Business in the Ocean State. Today, the League of American Bicyclists recognized Rhode Island Public Radio (RIPR) with a Bronze-Level Bicycle Friendly Business (BFBSM)… read more
Personal Injury Claims, Part I: Filing Them
RIBike was approached recently by a writer from a Personal Injury Law website, with an offer to write content for us about what to do in case of a bike crash. Thanks to Deanna Power for submitting the pieces and to RIBike volunteer CJ for helping make the pieces work for Rhode Island bicyclists! The… read more
Cycle Tracks 8-24-15
The Rhode Island Bicycle Coalition sends regular email updates on our work to our members. Join today to get involved! This is the update from August 24th, 2015. On Monday RIDOT announced that construction to replace the Pleasant Valley Parkway bridge over the Woonasquatucket River in Providence will begin this coming spring. As this is… read more
Providence BPAC recommendations to Mayor Elorza
Last week, the Providence Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission submitted a formal letter to Mayor Elorza with recommendations for bike priorities around the city. We applaud the commission for taking this step, and encourage both they and city staff to continue the push for safer bicycling around Rhode Island’s capital city. Recommendations included the following:… read more
Meetings with RIDOT
We had two meetings last week with Deputy Director of RIDOT, Pete Garino. One was a roundtable with a number of other advocates for biking & transit, one was one-on-one. There are changes afoot at RIDOT, and we wanted to let you know what’s going on. First of all, the basic idea the new RIDOT… read more