Latest Posts From Ridge Meadows
It’s time to ride!!
If you have not yet hit the roadways and pathways of the regions on your bike, here are a few photos to get you in the mood. All were taken in Vancouver over the gloriously sunny last weekend.If you don’t know it already, Vancouver enjoys a wonderful network of traffic-calmed residential streets and dedicated pathways […]
A great day for a ride around Barnston Island!
A lovely little ferry ride over to the island. A few other cyclists had the same idea to tour the island. A 9.8 kilometer circle of virtually carless, pastoral bliss. Take the whole lane… both of them! Along the route… reminds us of a Saltspring Island scene.
VACC is now ‘HUB: Your Cycling Connection’!
Despite a few raindrops we had a great time riding the Central Valley Greenway to yesterday’s Year of the Bike Party in Vancouver. Met up with some other people on bikes and got to enjoy some of the cherry blossoms along the way (yesterday was also the day of the annual “Bike the Blossoms”). The VACC decided […]
Earth Day 2012 Maple Ridge, April 21
What a gorgeous day we had for this fantastic event! Over the last few months Ridge Meadows Recycling Depot helped us collect 16 bikes that were in good enough shape for our bike-give-away. In the morning Jim Coulter, publisher of The News, drew the names of the lucky new owners, and in the afternoon MLA […]
Birth of world-class cycling infastructure
Latest cycling column in the Maple Ridge News: Published: April 13, 2012 9:00 AM During an unexpected two-week visit to my birth country, the Netherlands, in March, I was once again drooling over the fantastic cycling infrastructure in my parents’ home town, Lelystad. Read more… And here are some pictures: bike/pedestrian bridge in Lelystad Bike path […]
Earth Day Maple Ridge April 21: photos bikes for the give-away!
As promised, here are some pictures of the bikes we’ll be giving away on Saturday. This is so exciting!! Thank you to Ridge Meadows Recycling Society for helping us to save these bikes, and also thank you to any generous donors! If you’re interested in winning one of these bikes, drop by for the draws […]
Earth Day 2012 celebrations in Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge
We’ve been awfully quiet lately. First it was cold and rainy, so I thought I’d take a break, and then we got some great sunny biking weather, so guess what I was doing!? Anyway, I’m happy to tell you that we’ll be once again involved with the Earth Day events in both Pitt Meadows and […]
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact, reports Andy Clarke, president of the league of American Bicyclists: “When all these factors are added together the net social gain is DKK 1.22 per cycled kilometer. For purposes of comparison there is a net social […]
Investing in the benefits of cycling
Latest article in The News: Published: March 16, 2012 Much continues to be written about the obesity epidemic that’s plaguing the western world. According to the Maple Ridge Healthier Community Action Plan report by Fraser Health, presented to council in 2011, Maple Ridge scores worse than average in B.C., as well as the Fraser Health area, […]
What does bike helmet law really do?
The latest article by VACC Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows on helmetsPublished: February 10, 2012Having lived for a quarter of a century in the Netherlands – where nobody had ever told me I should wear a helmet when riding my bike – I have an opinion on this, and I’m quite happy to share it with you.Like […]