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State of the City: Bike Share W-S

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State of the City: Bike Share W-S

Didn’t your parents teach you to share? Sharing is a good thing… especially when it involves bikes! Of course BeersNGears wants more people to ride bikes and bike share is a great way to make that happen! “Bike sharing” is an innovative transportation program, ideal for short distance point-to-point trips providing users the ability to pick up a bicycle at any self-serve bike-station and return it to any other bike station located within the system’s service area. Winston-S

Group Ride: Discover Your City

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Group Ride: Discover Your City

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.” – Ernest Hemingway At BeersNGears, we have taken what Ernest Hemingway once said, and created a no-drop, group bike ride from it. It’s called “Discover Your City” and the point of these rides is to discover the city we live in atop our favorite bike. We ride our bikes to local businesses to learn about the owner’s, their story and what they sell

Be A Bicycle Benefits Business: What’d You Say?

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Be A Bicycle Benefits Business: What’d You Say?

You may remember a survey that we sent out towards the end of last year with questions like, “would you be more likely to ride to a business that offered ‘perks’ to riders?” and, “where do you ride your bike?”. Our goal for the survey was to learn more about the riding habits of people in Winston-Salem to help us be more effective in getting businesses to sign up to be a Bicycle Benefits business and we also learned a few other cool bits of information. I was surprised to fin

Eat. Drink. Think.

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Eat. Drink. Think.

“Eat. Drink. Think.” is the theme for the eleventh annual Earth Day Fair put on by the Piedmont Environmental Alliance and the goal is to educate the public on sustainability. It’s a free event with workshops and demonstrations, live music, and vendors selling creative and sustainable products. So bikes are an obvious shoe-in. We were stylin’ at last years Earth Day Fair with bike valet and the coolest Spirograph ever made, but this year we wanted to turn it up a bit. View th

Bicycles, TIGERs, and Beers — Oh My!

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Bicycles, TIGERs, and Beers — Oh My!

Not too long ago, I wrote about a big project the city was working on which needed our support. You guys came through in a big way and more than 70 people showed up to one of these meetings and now, figuratively, we will have a Multi-Use Path in our city that will connect Baptist Hospital on Hawthorne Rd. to the Strollway, Wake Forest Innovation Quarter and Salem Creek Greenway. I say “figuratively” because the next step is to find a way to pay for the completion of the Multi

Bike-In Movie 2015

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Bike-In Movie 2015

Day 1 – Oct. 29 The bike-in movie last year was fantastic! We rode from Reynolda Village to Hoots Roller Bar where we watched Army of Darkness, ate locally-made Brats, and drank great beers in Hoots’ green-space. We have SECCA to thank for the use of their parking lot as a meeting place! We will meet in the parking lot at 7 and roll out to a/perture at 7:15. Don’t forget lights for your bike and come early, admission to SECCA is free! After the movie, we will return to SECCA

Road Diet Killer Removed From House Bill 44

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Road Diet Killer Removed From House Bill 44

If you remember a few months ago, I wrote a piece on Section 7 of House Bill 44 called Direct Hit Against Bike Lanes. Well, we (the NC cycling community) were successful in getting that language removed from the bill! Section 7 of the HB 44 would have restricted counties and municipalities from implementing road diets on any road with more than 20k commuters daily and it would have conflicted with our state’s Complete Streets program — an effort by the NCDOT to incorporate cy

July Is National Picnic Month

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July Is National Picnic Month

It’s National Picnic Month which obviously means a bike ride! As if I needed another reason to go for a ride, now I have one and I want to share some tips on making your picnic a success. Just go already! Don’t over think this. The goal of a picnic is to have fun, so have fun! It can be as simple as a putting some crackers, jam, cheese, and a knife in a backpack or you can go all out with recipes and stuff. Whatever suits your fancy. You could even do like we did and stop by