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Bike Love News #16 October 16, 2022

Hello and thank you for taking a moment to check out Bike Love News. It's a round up of interesting stories about bikes and how they just make life better. Hope you enjoy and please let me know what you think.  Community invited to finish painting bike friendly Kalamazoo mural via WWMT I shared a story about this mural last week and the story keeps getting better. Now the local residents have been invited to help finish painting the mural. Nice. It's intended to help create a more bike-friendly community, which of course is cool. Pop-up bike lanes in Kalamazoo via WWMT OK, Kalamazoo seems to be working toward becoming a very bike friendly city. As they're working through road construction, they're also installing pop-up bike lanes - new bike lanes that will eventually be protected by bollards. It's part of a pilot to track traffic patterns. The bike lanes will be plowed during winter - a big plus in our part of the world. Wonder what the gent at Not Just Bi...

Bike Love News #15, October 9, 2022

Hello and welcome to Bike Love News, a (mostly) weekly roundup of stories about how bikes just make life better. Thanks for reading, and please let me know what you think. Black-led bike club cycles for a more inclusive community in Kansas City, MO via WBUR Give a listen to this story featuring a man who refound his childhood love of cycling and used it to bring more folks to the sport. Thrift center helps women's shelter replace bicycles via Hillsdale Daily News Domestic Harmony, which provides services to survivors of domestic violence, received a truckload of bikes of all different sizes, for both children and adults.  “Women and children arrive there most often with nothing, sometimes without a vehicle,” Community Thrift officials said in a prepared statement. “Having the bikes gives the mothers and children a way to have outside therapy, exercise, and a way to get to the store or court.” The Bike Circus helps folks restore and  maintain their rides via RTE ...