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
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.
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!
Northwestern Univ. in Evanston, IL, was one of the new BFUs this round.
Fantastic news to see so many of our members getting national recognition for their hard work making their campuses more bike friendly! 164 universities are recognized now!? Wow!
Here’s an excerpt from the League of American Bicyclists’ press release on Nov. 28, 2016:
“Today, the League of American Bicyclists announced 51 new and renewing Bicycle Friendly Universities℠ (BFUs) from 25 states, There are now 164 BFUs in 44 states and Washington, DC, a cutting-edge group of colleges and universities across the United States transforming their campuses and the communities around them.”
The Tour de MSU group poses in front of MSU’s mascot Sparty statue.
As members of the MSU’s Bike Advisory Committee analyzed what made the country’s five platinum-level Bike Friendly Universities so successful it became apparent that MSU needed to get their neighboring communities on board with the same vision to pursue becoming a platinum-level Bike Friendly Community. This led to reaching out to the League of American Bicyclists and deciding to bring one of their staff to the university to meet with the committee and facilitate meetings with neighboring community leaders.
Steve Sanders, Alternative Transportation Manager of U of MN, presented the UMN story.
As the cost estimates climbed the idea of turning the visit into a day conference started to come together. Eventually a new concept for a conference, a Bike Friendly America Conference, was hatched and after months of planning and seeking out sponsors, presenters and attendees the 1st ever conference of its type is now history.
The MSU team is now beginning to think about next year and whether to continue the conference on its campus or to encourage other universities to host it. Please contact Tim Potter if you’re interested in possibly hosting the event in 2017.
It’s an exciting morning for 49 universities and colleges around the country who are new and renewing Bicycle Friendly Universities. This new list of BFUs represents a tremendous amount of work by hundreds if not thousands of people in these universities not to mention the monetary investments too in the effort to make campuses more bike friendly and educate the next generation on safe bicycling habits.
Excellent examples from 3 universities (U of WI-Milwaukee, UC- Berkeley, NCSU) that are doing some great work to make their campuses safer for everyone moving around.
