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.
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.”
