Great bicycling quotes Life is like a bicycle, to stay balanced you must keep moving When in double pedal it out Bicycling is life with the volume turned up Turn it off! Ride your bike Studies that show that Life is too short for traffic Bikes run on fat and save you money. Cars run on money and make you fat. Two wheels are better I don't ride a bike to add days to my life. I ride a bike to add life to my days See the world differently from a bicycle Turn it off. Ride your bike Cycling: side effects include sweating, euphoria and general awesomeness Work to eat. Eat to live…live to bike…bike to work My bike takes me places my car never will Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his

Bike parking rack designed for college campuses

When thousands of students bicycle on a college campus every day, as you can imagine, providing an adequate bike parking rack for each one can be a challenge.

The scale architects and planners face is just enormous. These are not a dozen bicyclists pedaling to classes. We're talking tens of thousands.

For example, at the University of California, Davis, there are approximately 20,000 bicycles on campus on any given day. (That's because the university and the town is probably the most bicycle-friendly place in America).

That's not an anomaly. When you think of the number of students enrolled at universities, the volume of cyclists is massive.

Colorado State University has 23,600 registered bicycles. More than 13,000 students bicycle on the Stanford University campus every day. The University of Minnesota

The newly popular position of city bicycle transportation engineer is responsible for everything from bike lanes to outdoor bike racks

By Gerald Dlubala

Bicycling and bike commuting are up overall across the nation. So are the number of bicycle transportation engineers.

Here's why. Bicycle ridership figures are up 60% over the last 15 years. But if you look at communities designated as "bicycle-friendly", meaning infrastructure, roads, outdoor bike racks and facilities conducive to bike riding and commuting, that figure jumps to more than a 100% increase. The willingness and desire to at least consider bicycling is there, given the opportunity through safe roads and ease of travel.

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Bicycle Friendly Business Bronze Sea

The Park and Facilities Catalog is proud to announce that it was recently recognized with a Bronze Bicycle Friendly Business award by the League of American Bicyclists for its bike parking rack advocacy and support for more bike lanes and other bicycling improvements in general.

Nearly 1,200 small businesses, government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies across the United States have earned the award for their commitment to bicycle advocacy.

Businesses range from local shops that host biking events all the way up to larger businesses like The Park Catalog and The Coca-Cola Company. Coca-Cola is also a new inductee, supporting bicycle infrastructure in Atlanta to help employees bike to their company headquarters.

"The business community's investment