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A small group of us were at the National Bike Summit last week for the first round of Bike Friendly University awards.  Ariadne Scott from Stanford, David Takemoto-Weerts from UC- Davis, Beverly Malone from U-Maryland and Gus Gosselin from MSU (co-founder of the MSU Bike Project which evolved into MSU Bikes).

 There were some others representing some of the other universities but I didn’t know them and unfortunately we didn’t talk or have a gathering.

Here are some pics I took related to the BFU and a video of the presentation.

Also, here’s the League’s blog about the BFU awards. The official press release from the League is here.

Ariadne and I are now on the League’s Bike Friendly America advisory group and attended their annual meeting while in DC.  The group is very interested in reaching out to more universities to encourage more of them to pursue the 5 “E”s of a Bike Friendly University.  I plan to organize a phone conference soon to discuss this and other issues.

Photo courtesy Chris Eichler, League of American Bicyclists

Article by Tim Potter, MSU Bikes.

A small group of our network members had a very info-packed meeting on Sept. 13 before the Pro-Walk/ Pro-Bike conferencegot started in Chattanooga, TN.  Our notes from that meeting are here.  Other files from the conference have been added to our Yahoo group Files section in a folder named ‘ProWalk-ProBike Conference’.

Photos that I took during the conference can be viewed here:

• Campus Bike Programmer’s Meeting 
• Chattanooga Riverfront Park Ride
• Gala event
• Misc. People & Bikes
• Riding Around Chattanooga
• Other Highlights (new products, other vendors, etc.)

One of the more impactful sessions I attended that would be of special interest to our network was about the dearth of college level course work in the field of Bicycle and Pedestrian Design or any aspect of bicycle and pedestrian issues.  Here are some links to more info. for the presenters of that session plus a link to a longer list of other instructors around the country:

–         Bicycle and Pedestrian Design Curriculum Expansion – http://www.otrec.us/project/279
Contact: Lynn Weigand, Director, IBPI, Portland State University

–         Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning Course for Graduate Students
–         Federal Highway Administration’s University Course on Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation
Contact: Laura Sandt, Associate Director, sandt@hsrc.unc.edu , UNC Highway Safety Research Center in Chapel Hill, NC

–         Bob Schneider and Rebecca Sanders, University of California — Berkeley, City and Regional Planning: rschneider@berkeley.edu and rebeccasanders@berkeley.edu
o   Draft Course Syllabus, Spring 2010 

Other university Course Instructor Contacts
http://www.walkinginfo.org/training/university-courses/contacts.cfm

That weekend was selected for our conference due to two other big bike events happening at Davis: 1st, the City of Davis is celebrating their Centennial with some very coolhistorical bike displays and programming, and 2nd, Davis hosted the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony for the Class of 2008 & banquet on Sun. Nov. 2nd. This was the first time the induction ceremony was held in the western United States. The keynote speaker was none other than one of America’s strongest (current) bike racers, Levi Leipheimer.

Keynote speaker Levi Leipheimer giving his remarks at the HOF ceremony/ banquet. Click the pic or here for more pics from that event.

Click here or the pic for more from the California Bicycle Museum’s Davis exhibit.

 

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