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Dear Motorist

From Coyote:

Dear Motorist;

I am a cyclist. As the weather warms and cycling season approaches, I find myself considering the open animosity with which some of you regard me. I hope that most of this animosity stems from a lack of understanding. So maybe if I can help you to understand me a bit better, you won
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System Clean up

I am going to be cleaning up the member database. I am going to remove anyone who has registered on the site but never logged in. This is to clean up fake accounts that were created in an attempt to post spam messages to the site. So If you are getting the email updates but have never logged into the site I recommend doing it before April 15th.

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Velocipede on the radio!!!!

Hello bicycle lovers!!

Velocipede will be featured tomorrow, Friday, March 30th, on The Signal on 88.1 WYPR. They will also be talking to the new director of One Less Car about what bicycling can add to the health and social fabric of city neighborhoods. It should be a really great show!! There will be an airing at noon and then again at 7pm. Tune in!! You can also see pictures and a listen to a podcast of the program at [link:]www.signalradio.org

check it out!!!!!

-the folks at velocipede
www.velocipedebikeproject.org
voicemail #: 410-244-5585

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Bike Racks

I was reading a post on FAAB about bikes racks. The links I found most interesting were for DC DOT that describes acceptable bike rack and Placement Guidelines which came from the DC Bike Program Page
FAAB says that you can get an Cycle Safe inverted U Rack for about $170 plus installation.

I wondered if Baltimore City has anything similar since I have seen a number of bikes racks that fall into the unacceptable designs round the inner harbor. I did find something similar in the Bicycling Toolkit and Guide but is still marked as draft, so I guess the city is still looking for new Bike Coordinator before those are finished an published.