Category: Biking in Baltimore

Giro de Birra Ride # 3 Mountain Bike @ Schaffer Farms and go to Dogfish Head Pub

Thanks for your interest in the Giro De Birra Mountain Bike Ride at Schaffer Farms. Here is the Location of the trail, we will meet here at 11 AM. Unfortunately, you will need a car to get to the trail head, AND to the brewpub, and then to get home. However, this ride is going to be excellent, and I think that everyone will have a lot of fun. We will do a beginner loop, and depending on how people feel we will run the trail twice. This ride is cyclocross bike friendly.

Please email josh.nadas(AT)gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns.

Hey, you probably know by now that we like to have fun. We are a planning a series of very low-key out and back rides that involve a stop at a brewery along the way. Mark your calendars now. The pace will be leisurely. Details will be posted as they become available on the EVENTS section of proteusbicycles.com

Make sure you bring a good lock!

Good news from Jessica Keller:

Nathan Evans, the City
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So following the giro de birra ride to duclaw, we happened upon a guy who was having bike problems. We stopped to help but he was riding a folder and we didn’t have what we needed to take care of him. Barry then showed one of the many amazing things you can do with an Xtracycle and gave the guy and his bike a ride to light street to get a new tube.

I made a helmet cam video of it and used music by wax & wane
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From the Downtown Partnership –

This will probably come as a shock to many drivers, but pedestrians rule under Maryland law, at least when it comes to crosswalks. By statute, drivers must stop for pedestrians in crosswalks and a new initiative from Mayor Dixon is helping remind motorists exactly who has the right of way.

Bright green signs have been cropping up at pedestrian crossings across Downtown, particularly those that occur mid-block where drivers don

Nice video from WBAL Baltimore on the virtues of bicycles in saving lives.
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Tomorrow, Riggs, Counselman, Michaels & Downes and Fireman

The 11th Annual Bicycle Symposium was a great success, but there was something missing . . . or rather, someone missing.

Many of us know Bob Moore of Baltimore City. He is a loooooong time member of the Baltimore Bicycling Club, a former member of the Maryland Bike/Ped Advisory Committee, and currently serves on the Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Committee, the Tour dem Parks Committee, and many others. He has dependably led BBC rides and is the prime mover behind Baltimore’s Moonlight Madness Rides in support of the recently reopened Baltimore Hostel. He has been a huge part of the improvement of biking conditions in Baltimore.

Unfortunately, Bob was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Like the trooper he is, he is undergoing treatment with his usual grace and good humor, but on Wednesday he was unable to attend the symposium because he was in Johns Hopkins Hospital with complications from the treatment.

Bob was being released from the hospital when I left him Thursday afternoon. His chemotherapy requires that he avoid contact with a lot of people, but I’m sure he would love to hear from his friends. His contact info can be found in the "yellow pages", the Bicycle and Pedestrian Directory you received at the symposium.

– Greg Hinchliffe

[Hmm, maybe we should look into doing something like this here.]

Speeding contributes to 1/3 of all traffic crashes. In neighborhoods throughout New York City, traffic crime is rampant. Speeding, red light running, failure to yield to pedestrians, and driving and parking in bike lanes, among other traffic violations, contribute significantly to the 12,000 pedestrians and cyclists injured and killed on New York City streets each year.

Each minute, NYC drivers run 1,712 red lights, according to a 2001 study by the NYC Comptroller. Speeding is rampant too, and a car traveling just 10 mph over NYC’s 30 mph speed limit has a 70% chance of killing a pedestrian if there is a collision. Left unchecked, traffic violations can disrupt the safety and comfort level of our streets and cause many more unnecessary injuries and deaths.

To raise the safety and comfort of city streets for all users, T.A. is working on a traffic violations study to expose the problem across the city and push for effective enforcement of traffic laws.
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We have gotten several requests about what we think about bicycling in the city and this is your chance to let us and some press know what you think. There are three new polls in the right column of the home page please take the time and let us know how you feel.
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– Mark C

Several weeks ago the BBJ editorialized about the recommendations in the city’s Southeast Area [dumb] Transportation Plan. To the plan’s credit, it includes ideas about bikes, pedestrians and transit, but the overwhelming theme, and those most likely to be implemented, are to further optimize the streets and intersections of Canton, Fells Point and Harbor East to handle increasing car commuter traffic.

The editorial, and the ethos around here, seems to be "since we don’t have better transit, and I drive everywhere anyway, we need more highways and parking." I hope that more and more people will speak out about these car oriented policies- but perhaps more importantly, Baltimore needs a lot more leadership by example!

Don’t let more traffic bog down development in city’s east side
Baltimore Business Journal

Editor:

The BBJ’s editorial "East-Side Success has its Downside" [Vol. 25, Jan. 25-31, Page 55] is based on the impossible assumption that you can build a vibrant city where everyone travels by car.
The editorial echoes recommendations of a study, the southeast area transportation plan, based on highway-oriented traffic models, inappropriate for an urban setting. The suggestion to widen roads and remove street parking values commuter traffic over neighborhood quality of life and safety.

Maryland has plenty of places where the car is king and walking is difficult or impossible. So why should we take some of Baltimore’s most charming urban neighborhoods and try to superimpose suburban-style highways and traffic? Why should inner neighborhoods suffer so long distance commuters can save some time?

Consider the damage done by turning Mount Vernon’s streets into high speed traffic sewers, or by building a lifeless canyon of parking garages on Lombard. Should we make those same mistakes in southeast Baltimore?

People flock to the city, especially vibrant waterfront neighborhoods, because it is possible to walk to lunch, people-watch from a sidewalk caf
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