Get Your Bike Lanes! FDOT needs to hear from you

Bike Lanes promote a safer environment for cyclists on on roads and the Florida Department of Transportation is considering including new bicycle lanes in three upcoming projects located in Miami Beach. Here’s the scoop:
FDOT District 6 will conduct a public information meeting regarding three roadway enhancement projects on: 1) 71 Street from East Bay Drive to [...]

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BikeTown Invites You to a Block Party at Bayfront Park

Bicycling Magazine gets it. 
With the understanding that “the gift of a bike unifies communities and improves lives,” Bicycling Magazine and MetLife are coming to Bayfront Park on Thursday to give you a brand-new Jamis Commuter bicycle. And they are bringing friends.
So, if you love your bike, need a bike or just want to understand why [...]

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News, Events, Free Bicycles & more!

Friends of Bike Miami Days: The next two weeks are filled with free events for friends of cycling and those just getting interested in this fun, green, free form of transportation.

8/19: Miami Bicycle Summit (Public Meeting on Master Plan)
8/23: Bike Miami Ride (monthly community ride geared towards new cyclists)
8/27: BikeTown (Bike Miami Block Party at [...]

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Monthly Ride Photos in the Miami Herald

Thanks to Herald photographer Allison Diaz for taking some great pictures during our July Bike Miami Ride. You can see the photo gallery here.
Join us for our next ride – through the City of Miami’s Little Havana, Coconut Grove, Brickell and Shenandoah neighborhoods – on Sunday, August 23rd at 8:30am. Details to follow. Sign up here [...]

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Bike Miami Ride: First Success

The Bike Miami Days Team thanks team member volunteers and City of Miami Police Officers who rode with local recreational riders interested in commuting or, at least, becoming better, safer cyclists. Our first “Bike Miami Ride” brought about 20 people into the street and taught them how to share the road, take the lane when [...]

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Bike Summit Re-cap

- with people from around South Florida sharing their thoughts, ideas, concerns and experiences with City staff. We were happy to see involvement from all sorts of city departments: transportation, sustainable initiatives, capital improvements, parks, planning… plus officials like Commission Chair Joe Sanchez and the Mayor’s Chief of Staff (Mayor Diaz was at the US [...]

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Bike Summit and Ride TONIGHT

Miami:
Our first ever Bike Summit is tonight, from 6:00 – 8:00pm. Please see below for full details.
The 305 Critical Mass group will be riding to the Summit from the  University Metrorail Station. They will leave by 5:35pm. You can also catch up with them at SoFlo House or Vizcaya Metrorail Station. For a map and times of [...]

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Bike Miami Rides Scheduled! Sunday, JUNE 21 9am-12noon

Do you love to ride your bike and want to learn how to ride in the street more safely?? Bike Miami Summer Rides are free, family-friendly group rides that will explore a new Miami neighborhood each month. Starting on Sunday, June 21 in Downtown/Little Havana, Bike Miami Rides will offer Miami residents an opportunity to [...]

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Can we get any more FREE at Bike Miami Days?

“In these tough economic times, I really appreciated all the free activities for my kids and all the store promotions at Bike Miami Days” – a mom/participant from the last BMD
Bike Miami Days is a completely FREE and Family-Friendly event. There is no registration, no start or end point. What is free?

Free to Rent a Bicycle, Win a [...]

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Bike Miami Days & Safety

Riding safely is about more than wearing a helmet correctly – but that is a very good place to start! Visit Bike Miami Days Team members this Saturday at “The Taste of Little Havana” and Safety/Health Fair at West End Park (250 SW 60 Avenue) and learn about properly fitting your helmet, riding safely in the [...]

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(ARCHIVES) Profile of Your Neighbors: Bike Miami Days Fans

Bike Miami Days wants to share your stories! Here is a profile of some of our friends: A Tandem Riding Through Downtown. Many thanks to Jennifer Lane of ELEVATE Miami for contributing this great story and photos.
A bicycle for two is called a tandem. Melanie Ashby and Wayne Phelps ride their tandem, together as a married couple, throughout the streets of southern Florida. They have been riding bicycles for 12 years and together on a tandem since 2005.

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