Our Year End Wrap Up and… A BIKE MAP!
We are too excited to spend hours trying to think of a pithy introduction to this newsletter, so here we go! Drum Roll Please…. A BIKE MAP! Bend Bikes spent …
Call to Action: Final Push for the Transportation Bond Oversight Committee Recommendations!
It has been a long road since Bend Bikes endorsed the GO bond over a year ago. We had a lot of complicated feelings about the package of projects, but …
Donate to Bend Bikes and have a chance to win a signed copy of Dune!
Here is a chance to win a signed copy of Dune and support Bend Bikes! Ariel MĂ©ndez, former Bend Bikes Board President and current Bend Park and Recreation Board Chair, …
TBOC Recommendations to Council – Call for Support and Other November News!
With cold crisp days settling in, it’s time to break out the studded bike tires (we love the Schwalbe Ice Spiker Pros for those truly snowy, icey, slushy days), balaclavas, …
Call to Action: Revised Draft Transportation Bond Project Sequencing Feedback!
City staff spent the last month creating more readable and robust materials breaking down the rationale behind the draft transportation GO bond project sequencing for the first 5 years of …
DLCD Call to Action, Bond Project Sequencing Feedback, Fall E-Bike Joy, Behind the Scenes of Bend Bikes, and Frankenbells!
It’s time to put fenders back on bikes and start splashing through puddles and it’s almost time to dig out the studded bike tires for winter commuting! While we wait …
Go Bond Draft Project List: East-West Connectivity or Bust
Aerial rendering of Hawthorne Overcrossing from Bend’s downtown (at left) to midtown (at right). Courtesy of Ashley Vance Engineering and 10 Over Studio. For years, Bendites have bemoaned the fact …
DPL Bike Repair Kits, Draft Bond Project List, DLCD Listening Sessions, and Bike Parking!
With glorious rain, clear skies, and crisp fall air, we are frantically trying to ride our bikes as much as possible before winter sets in! We have a flurry of …
So many August bikey things!
While August is a notoriously hard month to get anything done with frantic vacations taken chasing green dots on the AQI map, Bend Bikes welcomes new board member Maryam Mirahmadi. …
Join Bend Bikes at the Wilson Corridor Open House, TBOC updates, and other July news!
July brings some bittersweet changes to our board as we bid farewell to Morgan Crowell in August. Over the last 3 years, Morgan transformed our signature events like Bike the …
Bend Bikes Board President Elected as Chair of the Transportation Bond Oversight Committee!
We aren’t sure how it is already almost July, but here we are, chugging along. It’s too hot for us to think of a pithy introduction to this month’s newsletter, …
Updates on GO Bond, East-West Connectivity, the Bend Bike Map, and Neighborhood Association Outreach
We hope everyone survived our wintery May weather! With sunny warm days actually here now (thank goodness), we are seeing more and more folks around town on their bicycles. It’s …
Midtown Crossings: Bridges to Better
There are some things in the active transportation world that can lead to despair. But, only if you focus on what’s dispiriting – chiefly, why haven’t we made more progress …
May is Bike Month! What are you doing to celebrate?
Bike sales rocketed in the early months of the pandemic. According to the N.P.D. Group, a market research company, nationwide sales of commuter and fitness bikes increased 66%, kid bike …
Goal Setting For The Next Year!
Path from Sunriver to Lava Lands [photo credit: Visit Central Oregon] As the days get warmer and sunnier, we are enjoying seeing so many more folks out biking around town! …