Do you have bikes and/or bike helmets, in good shape, that your kids have long outgrown? Are they taking up space in your garage or basement? Problem Solved! Donate them to Fairfax Elementary School in Cleveland Heights and help kids who are just learning to ride and do not have a bicycle of their own. [...]
Schools in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District were invited to participate in the inaugural National Bike to School Day on Wednesday, May 9 – a beautiful day for walking or biking to school! Many joined in the fun. At Gearity Professional Development School in University Heights, students filled both bike racks. Many attached their [...]
The annual report for Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) celebrates examples of research that are advancing knowledge in perhaps surprising ways. It includes information about a study by CWRU MBA students of the potential benefits of increased bicycling for University Circle and surrounding areas. Here’s a link to the part of the annual report that [...]
The Sustainable Heights Network 2nd Annual Sustainability Week is offering No Impact Week, a one-week personal “carbon cleanse” from October 16 – 23, and the Cleveland Heights Bicycle Coalition will be a part of it. Overall, the goal of No Impact Week is to enable participants to experience the difference that lowering their impact can have [...]
Holland is a much smaller country than the United States, but there’s more to the Dutch embrace of bicycling and public transportation as ways to get around than size. Read this story to learn why bicycling is so pervasive and popular in Holland: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/opinion/sunday/the-dutch-way-bicycles-and-fresh-bread.html?src=me&ref=general Share on Facebook
With more people riding bicycles in the summer, more bicycles get stolen. Many are stolen because they are not locked up. Here’s a link to good advice on how to avoid having a bicycle stolen: people locking up their bikes Besides taking precautions, it’s essential that you register every bicycle your family owns with the [...]
The CHBC quarterly meeting on July 20, 7 pm at Dennison Park (corner of Monticello Boulevard and S, Belvoir Blvd) will feature presentations by three experienced bike commuters. The riders, including Andrea Joki (pictured at right) will talk about how they commute to work by bike – their process, equipment and routes. The event will [...]
On May 2, when City Council declared May Bike Month in Cleveland Heights, Council also endorsed Walk or Bike to School or Work Day on May 18. Elementary School Physical Education Teachers Julia Lustic at Canterbury, Alice Stratton at Fairfax, Fiona Connor-Kuntz at Gearity, Rich Wright at Nobel and James Dubsky at Oxford have agreed [...]
Very few bicycle brands remain independently owned. Trek is one exception, dominating much of the US market with bikes ranging from the highly coveted Madone to the Classic Cruiser; and Vanilla Bicycles is another company has carved out a niche for itself by crafting beautiful, hand-made frames in Portland, OR without corporate oversight. The vast majority of mass-market bicycles, [...]
We LOVE maps at the CHBC. Whether it’s to share cycling data, or to organize a bike ride, maps are some of our passions in life. Since this winter, we’ve been working on one map in particular: Bicycle Parking in Cleveland Heights. We’ve attempted to take photos, categorize, and map every bicycle parking rack in our city, [...]
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