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Cyclists from all communities are invited to participate in our group rides. Please submit your favorite photos related to biking in Edina.
You can send them to Kirk
Johnson. Group rides are led in conjunction with the
Hiawatha Bicycling Club
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Cyclists from all communities are invited to participate in our group rides. Please submit your favorite photos related to biking in Edina.
You can send them to Kirk
Johnson.
Photos courtesy of Dwaine Lindberg.
Below are photos, compliments of CDG.
Below are some photos from Edina's first annual Bike Rodeo, organized by Catherine Elliott for her Gold Award project. Penn Cycle, Hoigaard's, Edina Bike & Sport, the Bike Edina Task Force, and dozens of volunteers joined together to make the event possible.
More than 100 visitors attended, and of them about 70 children participated in the main events: Activities included a sign-in with pre-test, mechanical inspection, helmet check and fitting, bike safety instruction, and bike course skills evaluation.
Rounding out the activities included additional information gathering for the Bike Edina Task Force's work on the 10-year comprehensive bike planning, test rides of interesting commuting bikes, and participation on an Edina bike art mosaic project.
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otherwise noted) to share the experience traveling and attending the
event.
Below: Parents Ellen and Ted D. accompany their children from the Highlands neighborhood to the Rodeo at Concord elementary. We join with other neighborhood children and parents as part of an HBC group ride led by Kirk Johnson.
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Below: We find Catherine Elliott, Girl Scout and event organizer (entering 12th grade fall of 2007), amidst full bike racks at the event. A steady flow of about 70 young riders participated in the 4-hour event on Saturday, June 16th.
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Below: During the check-in, children take a brief pre-test on biking safety.
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Below: Next stop: Bike inspection! Volunteer mechanics offer the ABCs of biking: Air, brakes, chain (and more!).
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Below: Helmet check. Carl G. from Edina Bike & Sport offers custom helmet fitting and great prices on helmets. Toddlers to adults get inspected and fitted. Carl is checking and explaining helmet fit for Eliza's parents while her sisters look on.
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| Below: Emergency stop skills practice (left biker) and slalom course (right biker)
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| Below: Safety and skills session: Volunteer Pat
Foley (left, white shirt) offers instruction for various traffic scenarios
that bicyclists encounter. On the right, a Three Rivers Park District
volunteer demonstrates right-hand turn signaling.
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| Below: Simulated road course for skills demonstration.
Young riders practice on a simulated course with ride marshalls to praise
the riders and to offer tips.
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| Below: Mosaics for bike art. Maria from Mosaic
on a Stick shares her exuberance for mosaic, community, and people
with two young riders. "I like how she is always saying we're doing
an awesome job," says Alex J. of Edina, age 12 (pictured in
yellow).
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| Below: Community Design Group's
director Antonio Rosell talks with a resident about bike improvement ideas
for Edina. The Bike Edina Task Force, chaired by Steve Rusk, is working
with this group and community residents to prepare recommendations for the
Edina Comprehensive Bike Plan for City review in the fall of 2007.
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Thank you to the community of Edina, to Catherine Elliott who organized this, the Bike Edina Task Force, all the vendors, Three Rivers Park District, 494 Commuter Services, all the volunteers, participants, all those not specifically mentioned here :-) and especially, the young riders who made the event meaningful...
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| Below: Matty, Antonio, Sishir, Barry, Pat: Some
members of the Bike Edina Task Force and CDG for a group ride before a
meeting that included Mayor Hovland to discuss the Edina Comprehensive
Bike Plan.
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| Below: Kids learning to measure the road width on Vernon
Avenue in Edina. Cars need 10 feet for their lane. Fortunately, in some
areas Vernon
Avenue is 22 feet wide in one lane (direction), which can easily
accommodate a car lane for 10 feet and an ample Bike Lane. We have
proposed to the Bike Edina Task Force that Vernon would be one of many
bikeways in Edina that should be striped and marked for a Bike Lane going
both directions.
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Below: Alex Johnson measures the 22-foot wide Vernon Avenue
lane.
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| Below: Vernon Avenue is an important road for bikers but
with the fog lines that disappear and reappear frequently, this can be
dangerous for bikers not highly skilled for urban road riding. The
recommendation is to add Bike Lanes in both directions.
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Below: Biking on Vernon when the fog line disappears and the road becomes two lanes.
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Below is Chris, an HBC guest on an MS 150 training ride on April 24th, 2007. Snirt is SNow plus dIRT (Snirt). Way to go, Chris!
Here are a few photos from our February 24th ride, compliments of Hans G.
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This was a memorable bike trek. We had fun trying out the ice at Lake Harriet. A strong eastward wind gusted to about 30 mph or more. That made staying upright more difficult than the slippery ice. Hans had no problems braving the frozen surface. We had an engaging ride on the Linden Hills neighborhood streets which were pretty much devoid of cars and coated with a few inches of frosty snow. |
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This was the first community group ride of the year, open to all Edina cyclists and friends.
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Ride leaders
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Ready to roll
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On the road
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Pictured by Edina City Hall
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