Tag Archives: Education

Minneapolis Bicycling Counts Art Installations

As a part of Bike/Walk Week here in the Twin Cities, The Minnesota Center for Energy and Environment, are running a pretty cool little program to help to provide some visualization to the number of cyclists in Minneapolis. How does it … Continue reading

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River Bottoms Part II By: Chris Chavie

Mountain Biking the Minnesota River Bottoms West Segment Part II Be sure to check out Part one of this series from earlier in the week.  Click on any of the photos to enlarge. From Shakopee on the west end you … Continue reading

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River Bottoms Part I By: Chris Chavie

Mountain Biking the Minnesota River Bottoms West Segment Part I One of my favorite areas in the Twin Cites to mountain bike is the stretch of the Minnesota River Bottoms from the 35W Bridge to the Bloomington Ferry Bridge.  These … Continue reading

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Introducing a New Feature: Ask the LCI

Fortunately, we have a miles and miles of good roads and trails for cycling here in the Twin Cities, but every now and then we can still encounter a challenging situation. Whether it’s negotiating a complicated, busy intersection, commuting downtown, riding in a … Continue reading

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Completing LCI Training: By Joe Reinemann

This is part two of our continuing series on League Certified Instructors.  Be sure to check out part one from yesterday, to learn more about the resources available to you here in the Twin Cities. I was one of nine … Continue reading

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Twin Cities Cycling Instruction Resources

Over the next three days we are going to be talking about League Certified Instructor’s! This is part one of our series, be sure to check back on Wednesday and Thursday to learn more about the people who teach us … Continue reading

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Cycling While Intoxicated – The Law

 We are quickly approaching the Fourth of July holiday weekend, and we figured that this would be a good time to discuss cycling while intoxicated.  It’s no secret that many cyclists here in the cities, enjoy a beer or two, … Continue reading

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Visibility and Liability

To the best of our recollection many of our childhood horror stories stated with some variation of this line, “It was a dark, dark night on a dark, dark road”.  Unfortunately this is also the horror story for many cyclists … Continue reading

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Weekend Comic Relief: Cycling Causes Heart Attacks

This doesn’t specifically have to do with the Twin Cities, but since we are sliding into the weekend we thought you could use a chuckle.  The UK “newspaper” The Daily Mail took a break from their normal hard-hitting tabloid journalism … Continue reading

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Hear Jim Oberstar Speak March 3rd

Former Congress member Jim Oberstar is a cycling advocacy legend.  Right up until the day he was defeated for re-election from Minnesota’s 8th congressional district, he worked to ensure bicycles got a fair shake in transportation funding. His loss last … Continue reading

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