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Bike Fun @bikefun.bsky.social · 4h

More effective: Drive like we're gonna put speed cushions in on your street ^kj

Bike Fun @bikefun.bsky.social · 4d

Next up - All Ages Learn to Ride with Walk Bike Nashville on 10/26! See our website www.nashvillebikefun.org for info, registration.

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Bike Fun @bikefun.bsky.social · 4d

Thoroughly surprised & thankful for the recognition!!!

Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 4d

"Haven’t been on a bike for 30 years? Have a kid who hasn’t ever ridden without training wheels? There’s no judgment." Read more about Bike Fun, our Writer's Choice for Best Way to Learn to Ride a Bike, and check out the rest of our 2025 Health, Beauty and Fitness Best of Nashville winners.

Best Way to Learn to Ride a Bike

I tried to teach my child to ride a bike, I swear. I really tried. But my patience was wearing thin and my legs were tired. Enter Bike Fun, which

www.nashvillescene.com

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 7d

If your school zone infrastructure doesn't look like this, maybe it's time to start asking why not.

radrevolte @radrevolte.bsky.social · 7d

Fahrradfahren verlernt man nicht. Und in den Niederlanden gibt man den Menschen erst gar keine Gründe, damit aufzuhören
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Ein Herr auf einem Fahrrad auf rot asphaltierter Radinfrastruktur, auf der das niederländische Wort für Schule steht

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Bike Fun @bikefun.bsky.social · 11d

October e-newsletter just dropped 🗞️
Join us for fun in October! us3.campaign-archive.com?u=6efb3d3664...

October is here with spooky fun for all ages

Halloween rides, Pedal the Park excursions, and small group classes. Confident bicycle riding at any age. Bike Fun creates more joyful riders in Middle Tennessee through classes, workshops, rides, & e...

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Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 11d

Come finish the week out strong and learn how to make every week #WeekWithoutDriving!

A flyer for the cargo bike show and tell on October 5th

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ScaryMM @marymm.bsky.social · 12d

Ok this is brilliant. Nearly every transportation planning decision prioritizes the car, but cars aren't available or desired by everyone and that's gotta change. Bravo @nrdc.org

Who Doesn’t Have a Car?

A new NRDC map shows car-free living and the factors affecting car usage in United States.

www.nrdc.org

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Bike Fun @bikefun.bsky.social · 13d

& yes any decent shop will offer mechanical services on a complete e-bike system. If they don't, walk away. ^kj

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Bike Fun @bikefun.bsky.social · 13d

If it's a Bosch system & they are a Bosch dealer you should be able to use them (as part of their agreement as a vendor). I think most shops that qualify as dealers for e-systems specifically have that in their contract language; whether they'll do it is another matter. ^kj

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Bike Fun @bikefun.bsky.social · 13d

Servicing or providing warranty coverage? ^kj

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Streetsblog USA @usa.streetsblog.org · 13d

America's deadliest city for car crashes is finally getting a transportation advocacy organization dedicated to bringing deaths down and making transportation more affordable and equitable — by unapologetically focusing on making its neighborhoods less dependent cars.

Advocates In America's Deadliest Car Crash City Are Forming a Powerful Coalition — Streetsblog USA

A group of Memphis advocates are uniting to challenge car dependency and unravel its devastating impacts on residents

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Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 16d

One week from today! 🙌

A flyer for a cargo bike show and tell on October 5th from 10am - 12pm at Shelby Community Center

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Action Committee for Transit @actfortransit.bsky.social · 17d

Talked to a traffic engineer once who said: We can design the roads to be safe, but you can't fix people, people are going to do stupid things. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

IF YOU'RE NOT DESIGNING THE ROADS TO BE SAFE WHEN PEOPLE DO STUPID THINGS, THEN YOU'RE NOT DESIGNING THE ROADS TO BE SAFE.

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Mwa-ha-ha-oxieOnWheels @moxieonwheels.bsky.social · 19d

Narrowing the entrance so bikes fit through but cars don’t would solve a lot of Nashville’s problems (and real, concrete protections)

Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 19d

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 21d

We treat the time of people in motor vehicles as a precious commodity that must be conserved at all costs, while the time of people outside of motor vehicles is infinitely expendable.

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Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 22d

Incredible animation. No notes.

[from Reddit]

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 22d

We made a comic about wheels.

1 Me: This has one wheel. A unicycle.
Alien: Okay.
2 Me: Two wheels, bicycle.
Alien: Makes sense.
3 Me: If it has three wheels it's a tricycle.
Alien: Got it.
4 Alien: So this is a quadcycle.
Me: CAR

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Bike Fun @bikefun.bsky.social · 24d

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Bike Fun @bikefun.bsky.social · 24d

Bike related? Acceptable. ^kj

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 26d

Families don't need a house with a big yard when their city is their kid's playground.

Nanda Sluijsmans @nandasluijsmans.bsky.social · 26d

Verliefd🥰 op dit soort straatjes in #Amsterdam!

#Tuinstraten

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Bike Fun @bikefun.bsky.social · 27d

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aaronjolly.bsky.social @aaronjolly.bsky.social · Sep 15

@nashvilledot.bsky.social y’all got any more of them giant concrete balls? Demonbruen hill could use them so that drivers won’t drive through the bike lane or over the concrete, damaging it, in order to park for free along the curb.

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Bike Fun @bikefun.bsky.social · 27d

Hell, car drivers are even going over the low concrete buffer on Demonbreun ^kj

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 27d

On the unmet need for safe bike storage:

"Results suggest a relative undersupply of bicycle parking at destinations compared with free car parking [and] an increasing need for bicycle parking for costlier e-bikes."

findingspress.org/article/1442...

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brooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social · 28d

I just wish all the people who oppose traffic calming could understand how much joy and confidence children can get when they are able to safely walk and bike places.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 29d

In 1991, computer consultant Steve Roberts built a 580-lb (263 kg), 105-gear recumbent bicycle decked out with all the gear he'd need for a rolling home office.

He called it the BEHEMOTH (Big Electronic Human Energized Machine, Only Too Heavy), & rode it 17,000 mi around the US.

Photo of a man riding a recumbent bicycle with trailer, both of which are loaded with stuff. Here's a list of some of the stuff:
Satellite station for email and SOS.
Ham radio bay.
Trailer frame made out of steel. Fibreglas-covered cardboard over computer. 2/3 of the space for camping equipment
Battery bay with 30 amp hours of batteries (15 amp-hours more at the Console)
Satellite station mainframe
Solar panels (72 watts)
Antennae for ham radio, mobile phone and pager
Removable briefcase with 10-watt solar panel lid & laptop computer inside
Safety flasher
Security motion sensor
Stereo system, CD player & 150 CDs
Refrigerator
Computer with a 207MB HDD, CD-ROM & modem
Brain Interface Unit (helmet)
Dual waterproof speakers
Map case
Handlebar keyboard built into the grips using binary code
105-speed drivetrain
Steering link
Phone
Console: Mac computer with 40mb HDD (graphics). IBM computer with 40mb HDD (CAD, mapping, satellite tracking). Toshiba laptop for typing while riding. GPS chip. Speech synthesis & recognition. 30-watt beam headlight. Fax machine & modem boards.

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