Hey kids! Ride your bikes to school on Flagstaff Bike to School Day, Tuesday, May 24th! (Teachers, click here to learn how you can win fabulous prizes for encouraging your students to ride! Click here to register your classroom!) After school, (at 4:00 pm), we’ll be meeting up at Sechrist Elementary for fun bike games, a Kidical Mass Ride, (fun ride with your friends and families), followed by an Ice
Join us for our 15th year promoting Flagstaff Bike to Work & School Week! We have tons of fun events and activities throughout the week! Log your rides each day and you could win fabulous prizes. Ride all of our 5 Days of Biking Challenge or participate in the Worksite Challenge and you could win even fabulouser prizes! Scroll for the entire week’s events… May 22 – 27, 2016 New this
Flagstaff Bike to Work and School Week starts soon! Here is the schedule, complete with links to reserve a table for the Bike Bazaar bike swap, details on Bike to Breakfast Day, our first “Kidical Mass Ride” with the Coconino County Health Services District, and much more! May 22 – 27, 2016 New this year! 5 Days of Biking Challenge. Win prizes for everday you commute or ride. Ride all five
Thanks to our friends at REI, Inc. who granted FBO a $10,000 grant, Flagstaff Biking Organization was able to provide 72 bike racks at 27 FUSD, charter, and private schools in Flagstaff (see list below), and will help make sure that that every school in Flagstaff has convenient, functional, secure bicycle parking. Although many schools in Flagstaff have some bike racks, almost all of them are either a not very
On October 1st, FBO, Flagstaff Police Department, Flagstaff Metropolitan Planning Organization, (FMPO), and Coconino County Public Health Services District, (CCPHSD), met with Kinlani Dorms Student Council leaders and faculty members to assist them in making a case for allowing bicycles to be used by students living at the dorms. At that time students were prohibited from using bicycles because the Kinlani Dorms leadership believed that bicycles are unsafe. FBO then
Jack and Martin’s Excellent Adventure, tonight, 5:30, Downtown Public Library Meet us this evening at 5:30 pm, City Hall, downtown Flagstaff for a short fun cruise on the Flagstaff Urban Trail System. Martin Ince, the Flagstaff Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Multi-modal Planner will be your guide. He’ll point out interesting things you might not know about Flagstaff’s cycling infrastructure along the way. Ice Cream Social, bike games, crafts and ice cream
Bike to School Results are in! The Golden Sprocket Awards go to… The bike to school day numbers have been tallied, and here are the results… (HS) Flagstaff High School 2% (400+) Marshall Magnet School 51% (200-400) Pine Forest School 12% (under 200) Mountain School 31% Congratulations to all of the winners, as well as all of those who rode yesterday!! More important is the total number of kids who
Recap of Bike to Work Week So Far: Thanks to everyone who came out to the Bike Bazaar, Monday’s Kick-Off Ride and especially to those of you who have been braving the wind over the past couple of days! Remember it is super important to log your commutes all week! It’s Bike to School Day! We are hoping to see at least a thousand Flagstaff kids ride to school today!
Flagstaff Bike to Work Week isn’t all business! We have plenty of fun events for the whole family and kids of all ages! Bike to School Day, Tuesday May 20th! Bike to School Challenge 6:30 – 9am Win the Golden Sprocket award for your school. The Golden Sprocket trophies will be awarded to the schools with the highest percentage of kids riding, (by size of school). Mega Rodeo at Ft.
Bike Bazaar – Heritage Square Downtown Flagstaff 8am – noon, this Sunday, May 18th Join us for our annual kick-off event for Flagstaff Bike to Work Week! 12th Annual Human-Powered Parade (CASH Prizes will be awarded). Bike & Gear Swap ~Reserve your table. Tables are available for a $20 donation to set up your bike wares for sale. (You can split tables with friends.) Table are 6 feet in length. $10