Category: Bicycle News

Shelter-in-place is not a lockdown, and you may still leave your home to ride a bicycle for exercise or for transportation, so long as you maintain social distancing and follow other rules. You an see the order here. The order is in place to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus, aka COVID-19. Here are some…

Students at Sac State will soon be allowed to zip around campus on rentable e-scooters. On January 21, 2020, Sacramento State said it will work with the company Spin to bring 200 e-scooters to the college’s campus. Each of these devices will be equipped with advanced motion sensors that will shut them off once they…

In the wake of two battery fires on its ebikes, Lyft has announced that it is pulling its pink bikes, operating under the name Bay Wheels. One fire happened today, Wednesday, July 31, 2019, four days after the first fire. In the first fire that took place Saturday, July 27, at Folsom and Second streets,…

It appears San Francisco’s leaders are warming up to rentable e-scooters. At a meeting held on July 16, 2019, members of the San Francisco Transportation Agency (SFMTA) agreed to keep their e-scooter program and welcome new applicants. Initially, only Scoot and Skip were allowed to place 2,500 e-scooters on San Francisco’s streets beginning in October…

From 2015 through 2018, there were 228 pedestrian-bicycle injury accidents in Santa Monica, according to police records and tragically, six of those resulted in fatalities. To combat this, the city received a grant of $385,000 to increase safety for pedestrians and cyclists. The grant came from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to help…

The Bay Area is becoming more bike friendly by the day. The long-term goal is to reduce motor vehicle use and increase alternative forms of travel such as walking and bike riding. The City of Palo Alto is the latest to contribute to those goals by opening a bike and pedestrian bridge over U.S. 101….

Cyclist are getting more of what they want and need from Caltrain, which carries commuters up and down the San Francisco Peninsula. The main line takes riders from San Jose to northern San Francisco and runs through Silicon Valley where a substantial number of cyclists commute. Each day, Caltrain carried over 6,000 bicycles which is…