Sustainable Transportation Manager, MSU Bikes on the Mich. St. Univ. campus; co-founder of the Univ. Bike Programmer's Network in early '08; webmaster for Ride of Silence organization - http://www.rideofsilence.org/main.php
Bilingual (Japanese), father of three, married to Hiromi Potter, daughter of 1961 Japanese National Keirin (professional track racing) Champion Seiichi Nishiji.
Great National Campus Bike Summit to William Varney, Shane Tedder, Lance Broeking, Sandra Broadwill & everyone else involved. Thanks so much for putting it all together and making the experience so positive.
The home of Wildcat WheelsWill Varney showing us around their shop.Detail of the Wildcat Wheels’ shop.Very cool mural inside their secure bike parking facility.Panoramic of the Wildcat Wheels’ 20th anniversary party.Our hosts Shane Tedder & William VarneyCruising on the evening bike tour with Sandra BroadwillCruising around campusValet bike parking during the conference – awesome!Tim Potter grip n’ grin with Lance Broeking & Shane TedderSorry, didn’t note her nameArtist rendering of the new home of the Wildcat Wheels coming in early 2025!Conference session re: campus bike shopsTim Potter in front of the Wildcat Wheels shopParting shot of some of the attendees outside the WW shop.Hamming it up with Shane Tedder and John ShraderAround the dinner table with John Shrader and Steve SandersShane Tedder and Justin Mog (sorry, didn’t note the name of the middle guy)Will Varney w/ his WW crew who were helping with the bike valet bike parking service.John and Steve chatting outside the WW shop during the party.Will Varney explaining the new WW shop to his tour group.John Shrader of OSU on his way home
Thanks to the generosity of one of our founders, Tim Ledlie (founding manager of Harvard Quad Bikes, one of the early university-owned bike shops in the USA), he has created a new Google group, the Campus-Biking-Archive: https://groups.google.com/g/campus-biking-archive.
Here is a description of the group:
This is an archive of conversations over the campus-biking@lists.wisc.edu which existed from 2008 to 2020. This archive contains a selection of the ~1300 threads from that list that had 4 or more responses.
This new Google group is meant as an archive that can be searched by campus bike programmers who want to see what was previously discussed on a topic. No one can post new messages to the group, and there should never be anything to update with it.
– removed the menu link to “FAQ / Best Practices”, since the campus-biking-archive google group is replacing that
– updated the Resources page – update the Email List / Contact page to add information about the new campus-biking-archive and remove information about the old wisc list archive
Due to support for our prior listserv having gone away, we have converted to the same list name (now with an ending of @googlegroups.com, note that this ends in googlegroups.com): campus-biking@googlegroups.com
(Outgoing list: campus-biking@lists.wisc.edu)
All individuals on the outgoing list should now have been added by us to the above Google Group and you may begin using this. Please change your email contact for Campus-Biking to have the new email and switch your use to this.
Do let us know if you have any difficulties with this new list.
Thank you. Be healthy.
Tim Potter / Jim Rogers
Campus-biking Group Admins
Courtesy Amelia Neptune, LAB, October 17, 2019
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I’m very excited to share that the League of American Bicyclists has announced our 2019 Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) awards this morning, with 48 New and Renewing BFUs, and 4 Honorable Mentions.
A few highlights from the 2019 Round:
There are 3 new Platinum-level BFUs (for a new total of 8) with the addition of UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, and UW-Madison. Stanford, Portland State University, and Colorado State University all renewed their existing Platinum statuses this round as well.
We also added our first BFU in the state of West Virginia, so there are now 208 Bicycle Friendly Universities awarded in 47 states + DC. (We’re just missing Hawaii, North Dakota, and Delaware!)
The largest campus to be awarded this round was The Ohio State University, with over 61,000 students, which moved up from Bronze to Silver, and the smallest campus in this round was M State Fergus Falls, with 700 students, which is a new Bronze-level BFU.
The 2020 BFU Application is already open for submissions, and the deadline to apply next year is August 25, 2020. (But it’s never too early to get started!) Find the online application and Word document preview here.
Outdoor bike clinic @ silver BFU Utah State University
Better late than never right? Right. Well, as of early November 2017, the “League of American Bicyclists announced 46 new and renewing Bicycle Friendly Universities℠ (BFUs), There are now 182 BFUs in 45 states and Washington, DC, a cutting-edge group of colleges and universities across the United States transforming their campuses and the communities around them.”
This was the first year for a get-together of University Bike Programmers at the ACT Conference, this year in New
Orleans, LA. This conference brought together about 500 people from all over the country and some from overseas to talk about how to get more people to commute to work via modes other than driving themselves in their own motor vehicle (Single-occupancy Vehicles or SOV’s). This is also known as “Transportation Demand Management” and many universities have full-time staff working hard on this to keep their campuses from being overrun with congestion on their roads searching for parking spots. Some universities, which were blessed with lots of property, are just beginning to discover that there are long-term and very expensive consequences to continue to build out that property with surface parking lots or multi-story ramps/ garages. You might consider joining ACT and beefing up the membership with people who believe in bicycling as one of the cheapest “dates” in the arsenal of ways to reduce the headaches related to SOV’s on our campuses.
Anyway, below are some photos I shot during our get-together of approx. 20 people. You might recognize some familiar faces!
Many more bike-related photos that I shot during the conference can be found on Facebook here.
Univ. Bike Programmer get together at Crescent City Brewing
Univ. Bike Programmer get together at Crescent City Brewing
Univ. Bike Programmer get together at Crescent City Brewing
Univ. Bike Programmer get together at Crescent City Brewing
Univ. Bike Programmer get together at Crescent City Brewing
Univ. Bike Programmer get together at Crescent City Brewing
Univ. Bike Programmer get together at Crescent City Brewing
Univ. Bike Programmer get together at Crescent City Brewing
Univ. Bike Programmer get together at Crescent City Brewing
Some photos from NBS 2017. Photos by Tim Potter except where noted.
These photos plus more on Facebook here.
Tim Potter showing off his posters about bike programs at MSU. 6 March 2017–Washington, DC–First day of National Bike Summit, afternoon sessions (photo courtesy League of American Bicyclists and Brian Palmer Photography)
Young leadership awards (center is Elizabeth Adamczyk, Campus Bike Programmer member from Northwestern Univ), 6 March 2017–Washington, DC–First day of National Bike Summit, evening; Banquet and awards dinner (photo courtesy League of American Bicyclists and Brian Palmer Photography)
Tim Potter receiving the Natl. Leadership Award, 6 March 2017–Washington, DC–First day of National Bike Summit, evening; Banquet and awards dinner (photo courtesy League of American Bicyclists and Brian Palmer Photography)
6 March 2017–Washington, DC–First day of National Bike Summit, evening; Banquet and awards dinner (photo courtesy League of American Bicyclists and Brian Palmer Photography)
Karen Jenkins, LAB Board Chair and Gail Spann, Vice Chair, hamming it up – 7 March 2017–Washington, DC–Second day of National Bike Summit (photo courtesy League of American Bicyclists and Brian Palmer Photography)
Center is Elizabeth Adamczyk, Campus Bike Programmer member from Northwestern Univ – 8 March 2017–Washington, DC–Lobby Day, National Bike Summit (photo courtesy League of American Bicyclists and Brian Palmer Photography)
Start of the UMD campus tour.
Discussing how some moped/ motorcycle parking spaces were created out of former handicap car parking spaces.
Tour of the UMD RecWell Bike Shop.
Tour of the UMD RecWell Bike Shop.
Tour of the UMD RecWell Bike Shop.
Detail from the UMD RecWell Bike Shop.
Detail from the UMD RecWell Bike Shop.
Detail from the UMD RecWell Bike Shop.
Aaron Goldbeck giving his UMD presentation.
Brandon Alvarado from San Jose St. Univ.
Tim Potter, MSU (photo by Brandon Alvarado)
Selfie w/ Lily.
The brains of the Campus Bike Programmer Network at work!
Aaron Madrid, Purdue Univ.
Lily Wilcock from U of IL
Charles Faulkner chatting with ? (help?).
Mackenzie Jarvis from Virginia Tech.
Steve Sanders from U-Minnesota chatting with (help!?)
Tim and Elizabeth w/ their hardware. (photo by unknown person – sorry!)
The panel for the BFU session.
The informal BFU discussion session at UMD.
The informal BFU discussion session at UMD.
The informal BFU discussion session at UMD.
The informal BFU discussion session at UMD.
The informal BFU discussion session at UMD.
Tim and Aaron Goldbeck, UMD. (photo by unknown person – sorry!)
Steve Sanders enjoying the center-running separated bike lanes on Pennslvania Ave.
Steve Sanders enjoying the center-running separated bike lanes on Pennslvania Ave.
Tim @ the Wash. Monument (photo by Steve Sanders)
Steve Sanders Tim @ the Wash. Monument
Steve Sanders Tim @ the US Capitol.
Brandon Alvarado from San Jose St. Univ.
Riding around Wash. DC with some engineering consultants from TN (I think) w/ Brandon Alvarado from San Jose St. Univ.
Riding up the contra-flow bike lane on 15th Ave (I think)
Riding up the contra-flow bike lane on 15th Ave (I think)
At the WWII monument – just happened to capture this kid wheely-ing around the whole thing. Skills!
Happened across this guy elsewhere in DC; one man bike party!
Monday – Bicycle Friendly Univ. Mobile Workshop at the U of Maryland A first-time BFU focused mobile workshop offering at the Summit. Unfortunately, it’s full (as of 3/1/17). Will be posting photos and notes after returning from the Summit.
Lunch time afterwards with Steve Sanders, Jacob Adams, Aaron Goldbeck, Aaron Madrid and John Shrader – We promise: 2017 will be much more fun & diverse!
Tuesday evening Social get-together – Time – place TBD
We’re planning an informal after all the other parties, so if you’d like to meet and network with other higher ed bike people adding your name/ email to the poll below and we’ll make sure you get the info. on where/ when we’ll be getting together when everyone else is emailed.
Pano of the 2016 BFU round-table session
Wed. Campus Bike Programmer Round-table Brunch – 10 am – 1pm Rm. 3300 – Symons Hall, College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, UMD (ask once inside the bldg. for further directions)
For those of you unable to participate in lobbying your legislators during the National Bike Summit 2017, get together with your fellow campus bike programmer – coordinator during brunch and enjoy an informal round-table discussion time. Pls. include your email address w/ your name so we can update you on meeting location, etc. http://doodle.com/poll/geruikckyg98qbsu
According to our host, Aaron Goldbeck, Bicycle Coordinator UMD, “Probably the best way to get there is to take the Metro to College Park and then use our bikeshare to get to campus. That is exactly what we are doing for the mobile workshop, so assuming that everyone coming to this meeting has done the workshop it should be pretty easy.”
Bicycle Friendly University Showcase Poster Sessions
The 2017 National Bike Summit will highlight innovative transportation research and bicycle-friendly programs and initiatives from bicycle-friendly campuses across the country. Colleges and Universities that participate in the League’s Bicycle Friendly University program are invited to present a poster showcasing their efforts and achievements.
POSTER SESSION DETAILS
All posters will be presented twice during the 2017 National Bike Summit:
Monday, March 6, 3:30-5:00pm
Renaissance Hotel & Conference Center (Room TBA)
RSVP: http://sched.co/9cgt Poster set up: 3:15-3:30pm
Wednesday, March 8, 1:30-2:30pm
Rayburn Foyer, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
RSVP: http://sched.co/95Ri Poster set up: 1-1:30pm
Questions? Contact AMELIA NEPTUNE Program Manager, Bicycle Friendly Business & University AMELIA@BIKELEAGUE.ORG | 202-621-5457
