When I was a kid, I rode my green 1969 Schwinn Pea Picker with a big sissy bar all over Milwaukee and West Allis with my friends. We never had a safety class other than what our dads taught us, and we didn’t even know there were helmets. We left in the morning and knew [...]
The Wisconsin Bike Fed is happy to report that our Share & Be Aware logo, along with some important road safety messages, are being displayed on Wisconsin’s DMV Monitors in major locations with the highest counter traffic. The Wisconsin DMV monitors are part of WisDOT’s Motor Vehicle Network(MVN). MVN allows WisDOT to promote timely and [...]
In the previous blog post, we were happy to report that 2014 has been one of the safest years on record for bicycling in Wisconsin. One of the ways the Bike Fed contributes to safer cycling is through our youth education programs like Safe Routes to School, summer bike camps and our Valid Bike Shop. [...]
To date, only four people have been killed riding bicycles in Wisconsin, despite the fact that about half of the 5,742,713 residents ride bicycles. No matter how you cut it, statistics like those makes riding a bike an incredibly safe thing to do for recreation or transportation, even more so if you factor in the [...]
We lost a cherished community member, athlete, and teacher when Cheri Uelmen died after a bicycle crash in Eau Claire in September. Cheri was racing in the Cleghorn Harvest Fest Bike Race on September 7 when she was in a serious crash involving at least three racers. Apparently a rider went down in front of [...]
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