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VTA funds Homestead ‘Safe Routes’
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) board of directors recently approved funding for the Homestead Safe Routes to School project. The funding will advance planned pedestrian and bicycle improvements on Homestead Road in Cupertino, Sunnyvale and Los...
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Cities are Transforming as Electric bike sales skyrocket
Skip to main content Bicyclists on the Rue de Rivoli as Parisians emerge from lockdown. Returning to a car-dominated city after the pandemic lockdown is ‘out of the question’By Thomas Ricker and Andrew J. Hawkins May 14, 2020, 10:14am EDT...
Regnart Creek Trail Project Continues to Progress
Regnart Creek Trail Project Updates Date: 04/22/2020 11:35 am The Cupertino Environmental Committee met on April 15th and unanimously accepted the negative environmental declaration for the Regnart Creek Trail project. The next step will be the submission of...
This Young Cyclist Rode His Bike to School Every Day for 1,000 Days
BY JORDAN SMITHApr 3, 2020 Bodhi Linde, an avid cyclist, has been riding his bike to school every day since kindergarten. So when his school switched to online learning because of the COVID-19 outbreak, threatening to get in the way of him reaching the...
Bafang’s new M200 mid-drive motor set to help lower e-bike prices
Micah Toll - Apr. 1st 2020 1:47 am ET @MicahToll Bafang, one of the leading electric bicycle component manufacturers in China, has a long history of undercutting European competition to reduce e-bike pricing. Now the new Bafang M200 e-bike motor system could help the...
How to Ride Safely Right Now During Coronavirus Concerns
YES, YOU CAN GET OUTSIDE, BUT THERE ARE A SOME THINGS YOU SHOULD ADJUST.BY JOE LINDSEY Mar 19, 2020 Brian Barnhart, Bicycle Magazine This is a rapidly developing situation. For the most up-to-date information, check resources like the Centers for Disease...
Is an Electric Bike Worth the $$$?
Posted by Shoptimized Support on May 14, 2019 Is an electric bike worth it, you ask. Well that’s a very good question and an important one to consider before forking over the money for an electric bicycle. Much like buying a car, buying a...
How an E-Bike Changed My Life
Riding grew harder as I grew older. Then I got an electric bicycle. By Jennifer Finney Boylan Contributing Opinion Writer BELGRADE, Me. — You might have heard by now that 1969 was the summer of Apollo 11, and Woodstock, and Chappaquiddick. But in my neighborhood,...
Blackberry Farms Redesign Project Meeting – Byrne Avenue Bike/Ped Entrance
Byrne Entrance to Blackberry Farms Reprint: By ANNE GELHAUS | agelhaus@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News GroupFebruary 5, 2020 at 7:34 am Cupertino is looking for residents’ feedback on planned pedestrian and bike pathway improvements at the...
Action Alert: Support Safer San Jose Streets on Feb. 3 and Feb. 11
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Friends of Stevens Creek Trail 2019 Update
2019 in Review Thanks to the support of our Friends here are some highlights of progress made last year: ● The City of Mountain View has funded $600K of local seed money to apply for Measure B funding of $6M for detailed design to extend the trail southward from Dale/...
Electric bicycle hub motors vs mid-drive motors: Which should be on your next e-bike?
Electric bicycle hub motors vs mid-drive motors: Which should be on your next e-bike? Micah Toll - Jun. 7th 2018 9:25 am ET @MicahToll
Motorheads: How Electric Bike Motors are Made
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CicLAvia open streets festival comes to South L.A. on Sunday
By KIERA FELDMANSTAFF WRITER FEB. 22, 2020 9:03 PM Six miles of Central Avenue in South Los Angeles will be closed to cars on Sunday as walkers, joggers and bicyclists take to the streets for CicLAvia. The open streets festival will run from East...
Carmen Road Bridge: A post-script
Where is Carmen Road and Hoo-Hoo Way? The Carmen Road Bridge project begs the big question: Where is it? And why a bridge there? You’ll see in the following descriptions, that Carmen Road has been in existence for over 100 years. Before the 1970's it connected...
Safe Routes November Newsletter
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What’s wrong with parking in bike lanes?
What’s wrong with parking in bike lanes? A lot, actually From BICYCLING By Stephen Hudson (Contributor) August 9, 2018 The Washington Post recently published a letter to the editor from someone who parked in a bike lane arguing that blocking a bike lane isn’t really...
Using bike Turn Boxes
-This article and links are published by the City of Edmonton, Canada. It has relevant and specific advice for cyclists and motorists using separated bike lanes, bike boxes, and marked intersections. With the newly configured McClellan/Bubb and McClellan/Stelling...
Hey California, you can now trade in your old car for an electric bike!
Micah Toll - Sep. 14th 2019 8:57 pm ET @MicahToll Good news, Californians! Do you have an old gas car laying around that you don’t use, and would rather turn it into an electric bicycle? Well now you can, with a trade-in program that includes e-bikes! California’s...
Cycle Like a Dutchman
How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman Dan KoisSeptember 13, 2019 In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrilling—and terrifying. The eighteen million residents of Holland own, in total,...
Announcing the WBC Bike/Ped Advocate of the Year
Walk-Bike Cupertino advocacy group, will recognize the first ever “Bike Advocate of the Year” in December of 2019. A Cupertino resident, the selected individual will have demonstrated high commitment and efforts to make Cupertino “Safe and Easy to Walk and Bike”. In...
ACTC Event News
Well the summer is almost gone already, and what do we have to show for it, dear readers? Russ & Sheila Stevens, fresh from their ice cream social last month, kick off our newsletter with a blurb for their "Bay In 2 Days" tour in late October....
RadRunner review: The first test of Rad Power Bikes’ new $1,299 mini-bike style electric commuter
RadRunner review: The first test of Rad Power Bikes’ new $1,299 mini-bike style electric commuter Micah Toll - Aug. 22nd 2019 11:02 am ET @MicahToll 11 Comments Rad Power Bikes has just released its newest electric bicycle, the RadRunner. And of course Electrek made...
Safe Routes to School August Newsletter
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Cupertino: Ride 4 Diabetes!
Which is Safest? A quick guide to Bike Boulevards, Trails and Bike lanes
When you hear terms like "Class I trail", "Class IV bike lanes", or "Bike Boulevard", the level of protection--in other words, safety-- from cars may not be obvious. Confusingly, these classes do not go from least to most safe, or even least road work (and money) to...
Mayor Scharf Can Now Vote on the Regnart Creek Trail
Update: Mayor Scharf Can Now Vote on the Regnart Creek Trail In a positive development, the city heard back from the CFPPC (California Fair Political Practices Commission) that Mayor Scharf does not need to recuse himself from votes about the trail in the city...
WVCS Free Community Bike Repair 7/13
e-JOE KODA 3.0 electric commuter bike review – an affordable long range e-bike
Micah Toll - May. 26th 2019 7:40 am ET @MicahToll The e-JOE KODA 3.0 electric bike looks a bit like a standard hardtail mount bike. However, it’s really an all-terrain commuter with plenty of battery to spare. And for well under $2k, you’ll want to check this e-bike...
The best electric scooters, e-bikes ….. we’ve tested
The best way to test e-bikes and electric scooters is to navigate the mean streets of New York. JOSEPH KAMINSKI MAY 26, 2019 4:00 AM PDT Poor rear wheel. Video by Mark Licea It was a rare sunny day during an otherwise rainy spring season. I was cruising down...
How Bike Lanes Benefit Businesses
June 4, 2018 Strong Towns by Rachel Quednau Kenmore Boulevard in Akron, Ohio is in the process of a street redesign which may involve the loss of some on-street parking spots in order to create protected bike lanes. This sort of transition is happening all...
How to Turn a Car Town into a Cycling City
This story was made possible by our members. Join today. STORY BY Melissa and Chris BrunlettTwitter Lessons from the Dutch, where the number of bikes exceeds the number of people. EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is excerpted from “Building the Cycling City,” by Melissa...
Davis – The Small California City Responsible for America’s First Bike Lane
THE CYCLE LIFE Mar 8, 2017Photo: Seattle Municipal Archives/Flickr In 1967, Davis broke ground on the country's first true bike lane. Fifty years later, we look back on the inaugural system's impact—and how more work remains to be done to protect cyclists...
SRTS October Update
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From Rubble to Refuge: The Remarkable Story of Albany Shoreline
After we visited the Berkeley Waterfront Park this summer, we planned another day trip in the autumn to walk around Albany Shoreline Park, which is nestled along the edge of the San Francisco Bay. We were amazed by some of the most dramatic views in the East Bay....
Great Local Trails to Bike and Mountain Bike On
We all know the danger of being hit while cycling on most city streets, and frankly, it can be kind of monotonous, too, with all that concrete. Instead, here’s a collection of some great trails in or near Cupertino that provide the opportunity for exercise and fun...
Bike Friendly Business of the Month: Philz on Stevens Creek
Today, let’s go to Philz Coffee! The coffee shop is located along Stevens Creek Boulevard, but is not very visible from the outside. You have to enter the shopping mall “The Crossroads” to be able to see it. Watch this video to see my visit to this friendly and...