Bicycle Stories: Celebrating Life by Bike

Saturday, May 14, 2011

When I Bike I Learn So Much

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SWFBUD Lobbies For BAM (Bicycle Area Mobility) Network -- Unifying 3 Regional Trails Into 1 System

SWFBUD is lobbying Tampa and Hillsborough County to partner in building the BAM Network (Bicycle Area Mobility) by connecting the Tampa Bypass Canal Trail, the South Coast Greenway and the Selmon Greenway into one unified paved trail network. Click on photo for BAM story.

Thank You Bicycle Bash Participants and Attendees

The 2011 Bicycle Bash Festival on Nov. 6 at Flatwoods Park was a tremendous success. Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn led a bike ride that drew more than 125 cyclists, People for Bikes collected hundreds of pro-bike signatures and the Bash generated much media coverage.

Buy A Bicycle Bash Build the BAM T-shirt!

Support the Bicycle Bash and SWFBUD's BAM Plan -- Buy A T-shirt for $10. Contact alansnel@yahoo.com

Hillsborough County/SWFBUD Bicycle Safety PSA

SWFBUD worked with Hillsborough County government's TV station to create a bicycle safety video. It includes an important message from the daughters of Diane Vega, a bicyclist killed by a red-light-running motorist Oct. 1 in Tampa. Click on photo for PSA video.

Bicycle Safety Action Plan

SWFBUD prompted the Hillsborough County Commission and Tampa City Council to initiate a bicycle safety action plan in response to the many bicyclists deaths in the metro Tampa area. The MPO has prepared a bike plan proposal and there are workshops on Feb. 24, March 1 and March 2. Click on photo to see action plan proposed strategies.

SWFBUD Bicycle Safety Poster

SWFBUD on Facebook

SWFBUD is an award-winning and nationally-recognized alliance of 12 Tampa Bay retail bicycle stores and three bike advocacy lawyers united to grow bicycling in this region. Click on SWFBUD logo to get to SWFBUD's new Facebook group page.

SWFBUD Working For You

SWFBUD -- an alliance of Tampa Bay area bicycle dealers -- hires me to advocate bicycling. I work with Tampa Police Lt. John Newman to get this sign deployed with bike safety messages. Shop at SWFBUD bike stores: ABC Bicycles, Bicycle Outfitters, Carrollwood Bicycle Emporium, Chainwheel Drive, Just Ride Bicycles, Oliver's Cycle Sports, Street Fit 360, Suncoast Trailside Bicycles, Trek Bicycle Store, University Bicycle Center, The Ironman Store, Velo Champ. SWFBUD also includes three bicycle lawyer advocates -- Tom Singletary, J. Steele Olmstead and Mark Roman Law Group.

@bicyclebash

Want to pedal in 140 characters or less? I'm @bicyclebash in twitterland. And at Facebook, reach me at http://www.facebook.com/bicyclebash.

Laws For Bicycle Drivers

A cyclist not traveling as fast as the normal speed of traffic must ride as close as practicable to the right hand curb or edge of the road, EXCEPT in the following situations: 1. When passing another vehicle. 2. When making a left turn. 3. When reasonably necessary to avoid conditions such as a moving object, a parked or moving vehicle, pedestrian, animal or surface hazard. 4. When a lane is too narrow for a bicycle and another vehicle to travel safely side by side (a cyclist should maintain at least two feet of clearance from a curb or pavement edge and the minimum clearance for passing a bicylclist is three feet; a lane with less than 14 feet of usable width is usually too narrow for motor traffic to pass.)

City of Tampa: Please Be Proactive and Help Bicyclists With Lanes, Sharrows and Signs

Cyclist Ed Collins holds a photo of his dad, LeRoy Collins, and his mom. His father was killed while riding a bicycle in Tampa July 29. Click on photo for column.

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SWFBUD: United States; Alan Snel is director of SWFBUD, a purposeful play on words of the Tampa-area water agency called swiftmud. SWFBUD stands for South West Florida Bicycle United Dealers -- an alliance of 10 Tampa Bay area bike stores and three lawyers who have joined forces to grow bicycling as a healthy lifestyle and as an effective mode of transportation. The 10 stores and three lawyers are: Bicycle Outfitters in Seminole; Carrollwood Bicycle Emporium; Chainwheel Drive in Clearwater and Palm Harbor; University Bicycle Center in Tampa; Oliver's Cycle Sports in new Tampa; Street Fit 360 in south Tampa; ABC Bicycles in St. Petersburg; the Trek Store of St. Petersburg; The Trek Bicycle Store Tampa Bay - Clearwater; Velo Champ in Seminole Heights in Tampa. Lawyers are Thomas Singletary, J. Steele Olmstead and the Mark Roman Law Group. Alan is a former 25-year newspaper reporter who has worked in metro New York, South Florida, Denver, Seattle and Tampa Bay and co-founded the Seminole Heights Bicycle Club in Tampa.

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