Bike Fun
@bikefun.bsky.social
Bike Fun creates joyful bicycle riders in Middle Tennessee through classes, workshops, events, & one-on-one lessons. Find us at nashvillebikefun.org.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Support Bike Fun year round by enrolling in Kroger Community Rewards & selecting us as your partner! www.nashvillebikefun.org/kroger for more info on how
December 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Support Bike Fun year round by enrolling in Kroger Community Rewards & selecting us as your partner! www.nashvillebikefun.org/kroger for more info on how
New ranking system @neilkornutick.bsky.social
Pizza by the slice is an indicator species of a walkable neighborhood.
December 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
New ranking system @neilkornutick.bsky.social
THIS
The commodification of play is a scandal. Indoor play areas that have to be driven to, soft play, trampoline parks, expensive 'experiences' that have to be booked & organised, & attended by adults for the duration.
When all kids actually need is green space and a safe way to get to it.
When all kids actually need is green space and a safe way to get to it.
parent eventually drives child to park for the always exciting pre-organized play date.
"Go have fun for 27 minutes then we'll drive back home, come on go have fun....."
"Go have fun for 27 minutes then we'll drive back home, come on go have fun....."
December 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
THIS
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Do you work downtown? Don’t forget to take the NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP downtown employee survey www.surveymonkey.com/r/SZHQZFG
December 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Do you work downtown? Don’t forget to take the NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP downtown employee survey www.surveymonkey.com/r/SZHQZFG
Woot!
Nashville BCycle’s 2025 Wrapped is here. Let’s recap a great year of bike share!
December 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Woot!
Join us tomorrow for the holiday lights ride! Tentatively bringing hot chocolate to share & DEFINITELY bringing cookies
RSVP here events.humanitix.com/holiday-ligh... or just show up!
RSVP here events.humanitix.com/holiday-ligh... or just show up!
December 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Join us tomorrow for the holiday lights ride! Tentatively bringing hot chocolate to share & DEFINITELY bringing cookies
RSVP here events.humanitix.com/holiday-ligh... or just show up!
RSVP here events.humanitix.com/holiday-ligh... or just show up!
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Another way to look at it: for every $1 a bike causes, an SUV causes *$55k* worth of damage to a road
When mad drivers tell you that you, a cyclist, don't belong on roads because you don't pay registration and the gas tax, show them the Road Damage Calculator. Compare, for example, the damage made by a small SUV and a longtail cargo e-bike. Very different orders of magnitude roaddamagecalculator.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Another way to look at it: for every $1 a bike causes, an SUV causes *$55k* worth of damage to a road
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[mounts well-worn soapbox] The fanciest predictive ped safety analysis would fall short of just taking a dang inventory of the crossings at every bus stop pair systemwide.
There’s not a single big correlate to ped fatalities that isn’t addressed by focusing on/around bus stop pairs.
There’s not a single big correlate to ped fatalities that isn’t addressed by focusing on/around bus stop pairs.
A 5-lane road with no marked crossings and bus stops on both sides is just a recipe for transit users getting killed.
This is criminally bad design, and yet it's the standard practice across much of the US.
This is criminally bad design, and yet it's the standard practice across much of the US.
December 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
[mounts well-worn soapbox] The fanciest predictive ped safety analysis would fall short of just taking a dang inventory of the crossings at every bus stop pair systemwide.
There’s not a single big correlate to ped fatalities that isn’t addressed by focusing on/around bus stop pairs.
There’s not a single big correlate to ped fatalities that isn’t addressed by focusing on/around bus stop pairs.
Today in the Gulch - stop in for a hello & a warm beverage.
Contribute to our holiday FUN-drive & join us on Sun 12/14 at Rivian for a party! Gently used lights or bells are great - new helmets preferred. See nashvillebikefun.org/event/holida... for more info
December 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Today in the Gulch - stop in for a hello & a warm beverage.
Contribute to our holiday FUN-drive & join us on Sun 12/14 at Rivian for a party! Gently used lights or bells are great - new helmets preferred. See nashvillebikefun.org/event/holida... for more info
December 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Contribute to our holiday FUN-drive & join us on Sun 12/14 at Rivian for a party! Gently used lights or bells are great - new helmets preferred. See nashvillebikefun.org/event/holida... for more info
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Ban right on red.
Yesterday, I was very minorly hit by a driver turning right on red from Greenfield Ave onto Gallatin because he simply didn’t look to his left to see me in the crosswalk before letting off the brake, which was the second time this year I’ve had a close call AT JUST THIS ONE INTERSECTION
More than half of Toronto drivers in a Universtiy of Toronto study didn't look for people walking or on bikes before turning right. Study used eye-tracking tech.
Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed.
www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...
Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed.
www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Ban right on red.
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took the lane on gallatin running yesterday in front of the new whataburger. disgusting that we allow developers to destroy the sidewalk without fixing it the next day or something. in montreal if this was the case, they'd mark off the right lane as a sidewalk until the sidewalk is open again.
December 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
took the lane on gallatin running yesterday in front of the new whataburger. disgusting that we allow developers to destroy the sidewalk without fixing it the next day or something. in montreal if this was the case, they'd mark off the right lane as a sidewalk until the sidewalk is open again.
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East Nashville Cyclists — go ride Greenfield Ave this week! NDOTs LiDAR trailer will be out this week and we should show our numbers!
Correction: will be replaced Monday. LiDAR will also be placed then.
December 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
East Nashville Cyclists — go ride Greenfield Ave this week! NDOTs LiDAR trailer will be out this week and we should show our numbers!
Couching those sit down scooterbikes in accessibility framing changes the dialogue ^kj cc @benvaught.bsky.social @careyrogers.bsky.social @kemcdonell.bsky.social
"Veo’s...latest rider survey found that nearly one in four users (24%) identify as having a disability"
"A separate year-long accessibility study showed that seated and throttle-assisted vehicles could double adoption among adults over 45 and riders with mobility challenges"
Cool to see this focus
"A separate year-long accessibility study showed that seated and throttle-assisted vehicles could double adoption among adults over 45 and riders with mobility challenges"
Cool to see this focus
The Veo Trike: Accessibility as a priority, not an afterthought.
Zag unpacks Veo’s upcoming seated electric Trike, crafted through years of co-design with the people the shared micromobility industry has traditionally left behind.
Read more: zagdaily.com/featured/the...
Zag unpacks Veo’s upcoming seated electric Trike, crafted through years of co-design with the people the shared micromobility industry has traditionally left behind.
Read more: zagdaily.com/featured/the...
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Couching those sit down scooterbikes in accessibility framing changes the dialogue ^kj cc @benvaught.bsky.social @careyrogers.bsky.social @kemcdonell.bsky.social
When you contribute to Bike Fun for Giving Tuesday, you
🚲 Help create more confident riders
🚲 Help refurbish used bikes & get them to new riders
🚲 Help continue to host the free Nashville Bicycle Festival
Visit nashvillebikefun.org & click on SUPPORT OUR GIVING TUESDAY CAMPAIGN.
🚲 Help create more confident riders
🚲 Help refurbish used bikes & get them to new riders
🚲 Help continue to host the free Nashville Bicycle Festival
Visit nashvillebikefun.org & click on SUPPORT OUR GIVING TUESDAY CAMPAIGN.
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
When you contribute to Bike Fun for Giving Tuesday, you
🚲 Help create more confident riders
🚲 Help refurbish used bikes & get them to new riders
🚲 Help continue to host the free Nashville Bicycle Festival
Visit nashvillebikefun.org & click on SUPPORT OUR GIVING TUESDAY CAMPAIGN.
🚲 Help create more confident riders
🚲 Help refurbish used bikes & get them to new riders
🚲 Help continue to host the free Nashville Bicycle Festival
Visit nashvillebikefun.org & click on SUPPORT OUR GIVING TUESDAY CAMPAIGN.
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We’re working on orders today.
You have until December 16th at 5pm Central to make sure your orders get to you before the holidays. www.bikelaneuprising.com/shop
You have until December 16th at 5pm Central to make sure your orders get to you before the holidays. www.bikelaneuprising.com/shop
November 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
We’re working on orders today.
You have until December 16th at 5pm Central to make sure your orders get to you before the holidays. www.bikelaneuprising.com/shop
You have until December 16th at 5pm Central to make sure your orders get to you before the holidays. www.bikelaneuprising.com/shop
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The assumption that people only use transit to get to and from work in downtowns has been detrimental to transit ridership.
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The assumption that people only use transit to get to and from work in downtowns has been detrimental to transit ridership.
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Step 1 in the radicalization of a safe streets advocate:
Heretofore regular person: I just want a stop sign [or marked crosswalk or speed humps or some other small thing] in this dangerous spot.
DOT: No, that would cause vehicle delay, which is a safety hazard.
Heretofore regular person: I just want a stop sign [or marked crosswalk or speed humps or some other small thing] in this dangerous spot.
DOT: No, that would cause vehicle delay, which is a safety hazard.
Because congestion is literally a fate worse than death
#WindshieldBias
#WindshieldBias
A priority among local transportation agencies remains avoiding traffic jams rather than responding to concerns of pedestrians in the most danger, who are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods and wield less political influence #iTeachMath wapo.st/4polhCJ
November 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Step 1 in the radicalization of a safe streets advocate:
Heretofore regular person: I just want a stop sign [or marked crosswalk or speed humps or some other small thing] in this dangerous spot.
DOT: No, that would cause vehicle delay, which is a safety hazard.
Heretofore regular person: I just want a stop sign [or marked crosswalk or speed humps or some other small thing] in this dangerous spot.
DOT: No, that would cause vehicle delay, which is a safety hazard.
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Traffic deaths are policy choices.
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Traffic deaths are policy choices.
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Athena Macke - Berlin-University of Applied Sciences.
In her final thesis, she focused on fashionable and performative forms of expression in forward-looking urban design and the move away from cars.
The cycle path and the car dress as well as the frustration boxer were also part of her project.
In her final thesis, she focused on fashionable and performative forms of expression in forward-looking urban design and the move away from cars.
The cycle path and the car dress as well as the frustration boxer were also part of her project.
November 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Athena Macke - Berlin-University of Applied Sciences.
In her final thesis, she focused on fashionable and performative forms of expression in forward-looking urban design and the move away from cars.
The cycle path and the car dress as well as the frustration boxer were also part of her project.
In her final thesis, she focused on fashionable and performative forms of expression in forward-looking urban design and the move away from cars.
The cycle path and the car dress as well as the frustration boxer were also part of her project.
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It's no accident we see "carrots", such as nudges or behaviour change programmes, overrepresented in policy tools used to effect modal change.
We need a “new normal” with regard to mobility, which sees sustainable travel as default not an alternative and which actively disrupts current patterns.
We need a “new normal” with regard to mobility, which sees sustainable travel as default not an alternative and which actively disrupts current patterns.
The implication is that there has to be action to disrupt, or add friction to, existing car journeys if we want to unlock the benefits of providing alternatives - the conclusion also reached by Xiao et al. recently www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Shifting towards healthier transport: carrots or sticks? Systematic review and meta-analysis of population-level interventions
This Article found that, although transport interventions with only positive strategies
are more commonly evaluated, interventions that combine both positive and negative
strategies might be more effe...
www.thelancet.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
It's no accident we see "carrots", such as nudges or behaviour change programmes, overrepresented in policy tools used to effect modal change.
We need a “new normal” with regard to mobility, which sees sustainable travel as default not an alternative and which actively disrupts current patterns.
We need a “new normal” with regard to mobility, which sees sustainable travel as default not an alternative and which actively disrupts current patterns.
Today!
Join Nashville Connector & Bike Fun at Cumberland Transit Sat 11/15 for a Winter Riding clinic! 9:30AM, 2807 West End Ave. Attendees will get a gift card to CT! Registration, more info www.eventbrite.com/e/winter-bik...
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Today!
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Bench building party today!
November 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Bench building party today!
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Re-upping for any Nashville bike people... you can get a CT gift card 😀
(I'm not affiliated but I really love to see more of these events!)
(I'm not affiliated but I really love to see more of these events!)
Join Nashville Connector & Bike Fun at Cumberland Transit Sat 11/15 for a Winter Riding clinic! 9:30AM, 2807 West End Ave. Attendees will get a gift card to CT! Registration, more info www.eventbrite.com/e/winter-bik...
November 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Re-upping for any Nashville bike people... you can get a CT gift card 😀
(I'm not affiliated but I really love to see more of these events!)
(I'm not affiliated but I really love to see more of these events!)