LMB Blog
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Save these Dates:
Advocacy Day
May 23, 2012
Pedal and Paddle Bike Tour
June 2-3, 2012
Sunrise Bicycle Tour June 15-17, 2012
MUP Bicycle Tour - FULL
July 15-21, 2012
Shoreline West Bicycle Tour
August 5-11, 2012
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Lucinda Means Advocacy Day This Month!
Whether you enjoy riding on Michigan roads, trails or dirt single track, Advocacy Day is your opportunity to speak with one voice to help advance the interests of all cyclists in the state. We hope that casual riders and die-hards alike will join us in advancing the interests of all bicyclists by communicating the great importance of cycling to the Michigan Legislator.
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May is Bike Month - Put on Your Helmet and Saddle Up!
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League of Michigan Bicyclists (LMB) and Michigan Trails and Greenways Alliance (MTGA) announce that May is Bike Month, May 14-18th is Bike to Work Week, and Friday, May 18th is Bike to Work Day. New this year, May 9th is also the inaugural National Bike to School Day.
We are currently working with Representative Anthony Forlini (R - Harrison Township), a bicyclist himself, to introduce an official Bike Month resolution in the House of Representatives similar toyear's past.
Americans have been commemorating National Bike Month each May for 55 years. Timed to coincide with the arrival of warmer weather, the event has inspired countless bike rides, safety inspections, commuter challenges, ribbon cuttings, "share the road" promotions, and other celebrations of bicycling in communities across the nation.
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LMB Annual Awards Nominations Due May 15
LMB annually presents awards to deserving bicyclists and businesses across the state in the following categories:
- DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
- BICYCLE ADVOCATE
- BICYCLE EDUCATION
- LMB VOLUNTEER
- COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR BICYCLING
We need your help in nominating worthy candidates. Please visit our website to review the criteria and list of past recipients, then use the online form to make your nominations.
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2012 LMB Tours Filling Up Fast!
Have you been thinking about riding one of the four tours the LMB puts on every summer? Well, head on over to the LMB website and register soon! The tours are very popular this year, and the MUP tour is full. Call or email if you would to be placed on the waiting list for MUP, or to sign up for another of our great tours!
Register now to make sure we'll see you this summer!
MUP Tour: July 14-21, 2012 - FULL
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Talking Bicycling ....
by Rich Moeller
This winter I decided to upgrade my favorite bikes drive train from a Campagnolo Chorus 10 speed to a Campy Record 11 speed. I remember when we went from 5 speed freewheels to 6 speed and wondering why we need the extra cog. The same is true today and the best answer is that, "because we can." The interesting part of the project was the 11 speed chain tool.
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Note: None of the products being tested were paid for with LMB funds and the opinions expressed are mine and not necessarily LMB's.
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Things that make you go hmmm...
"In an Apr. 10th Slate article, Tom Vanderbilt wrote, "A few years ago, at a highway safety conference in Savannah, Ga., I drifted into a conference room where a sign told me a 'Pedestrian Safety' panel was being held. The speaker was Michael Ronkin, a French-born,Swiss-raised, Oregon-based transportation planner whose firm, as his website notes, 'specializes in creating walkable and bikeable streets.' Ronkin began with a simple observation that has stayed with me since. Taking stock of the event--one of the few focused on walking, which gets scant attention at traffic safety conferences--he wondered about that inescapable word: pedestrian. If we were to find ourselves out hiking on a forest trail and spied someone approaching at a distance, he wanted to know, would we think to ourselves, 'Here comes a pedestrian?' Of course we wouldn't. That approaching figure would simply be a person. Pedestrian is a word born from opposition to other modes of travel; the Latin pedester, on foot, gained currency by its semantic tension with equester, on horse. But there is an implied--indeed, synonymous--pejorative. This dates from Ancient Greece. As the Oxford English Dictionary notes, the Greek ????? meant 'prosaic, plain, commonplace, uninspired (sometimes contrasted with the winged flight of Pegasus).' Or, in the Latin, pedester could refer to foot soldiers (e.g, peons), 'rather than cavalry..."
-- Authored by Tom Vanderbilt
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