Tucson Velo

This weekend was a huge weekend for riding bikes in the Tucson Velo family. As you can see from the video, my three-and-a-half-year-0ld daughter is riding her own pedal bike. She still has a hard time with the starting at stopping, but she’s nailing everything between. I’ve been thinking a lot about how I learned [...]

Depending on where you look, we may have hit the century mark yesterday and not in miles, but degrees fahrenheit. Whether it did or didn’t isn’t all that important. We know the sauna is upon us and we’ll we “enjoying” it until September. Just because it’s getting hot, doesn’t mean you have to stop riding, [...]

View Proposed route highland path addition in a larger map In the future cyclists riding north or south through the University of Arizona campus may have a new alternative. David Heineking told the Tucson-Pima County Bicycle Advisory Committee last week that the University will be adding a bike path between the Highland Avenue Garage and a [...]

We are smack dab in the middle of National Bike Month and this week is Bike to Work Week. It’s also the prime time for releasing lists of the top bike cities. On Monday, The League of American Bicyclists released their updated list of bike friendly communities. There were no changes for any Arizona cities. [...]

  Dozens of people turned out  to the Tucson Pima County Bicycle Advisory Committee  to, mostly, voice their concern about a potential shared-use path through Tucson Mountain Park. Read yesterday’s post for background on the issue. Assistant County Administrator Nanette Slusser said the proposed paths through the park were just two of the many options [...]

Editor’s note: See the most recent post about the issue here.  If a county proposal goes forward, the Starr Pass trail in the photo above could be paved with a shared use path. The county is proposing paving one of two routes through Tucson Mountain park to connect to the the Loop on the west [...]

In case you were convinced the tacks that appeared in the shoulder on Mt Lemmon Highway two weeks ago, were deliberately placed there, more piles were discovered on Thursday and Friday. This was the message on Sabino Cycle’s page on Friday: There’s been more tacks put out on Catalina highway. Friends found three separate piles [...]

Arizona jumped four spots to become the 10th friendliest state for bicyclists according to the League of American Bicyclists’ newest rankings, released earlier this week. The ranking returns Arizona to the top 10 after falling to number 16 in 2011. The last time Arizona cracked the top to was in 2009, which was before many [...]

Pima County Sheriffs Deputies stopped the Tuesday Morning Ride this week after seeing the group ride four abreast and cross the center line. The Pima County Sheriffs department became involved when a motorist sent photos of the riders riding four and five abreast earlier this month. Here’s an email from Ryan Roher who is the [...]

When the dust from the streetcar construction settles and the Warren Avenue underpass on the University of Arizona campus is reopened, bicyclists will no longer be allowed to ride through it. Two weeks ago, the decision was made by the University of Arizona and the modern streetcar team to make a the Warren Avenue underpass [...]

More than 15,000 people participated in Sunday’s Cyclovia Tucson (more photos) making it the highest attended Cyclovia ever. The total marks a 50 percent increase from the 10,000 people who attended the first event earlier this month. Kylie Walzak, the event’s organizer, said the new route likely played a part in the increase. “It seemed [...]

  The second Cyclovia Tucson of 2013 had a lot of firsts. It was the first time the organizers have pulled off two events in one year and the first time the event has ventured north of Grant Road. The out-and-back route was also a first for the organizers and received mostly positive reviews from riders. Over [...]