Tucson Velo

View Three most bikeable neighborhoods in a larger map Are you in the market for a new house? Want a bikeable neighborhood? You might consider moving to the Pie Allen, Iron Horse or Armory Park neighborhoods. The three neighborhoods ranked among the top 25 most bikeable neighborhoods in the county according an Atlantic analysis of [...]

A new supplemental Tucson bike map released yesterday aims to highlight city bike routes that have lower volumes of cars and are more comfortable for cyclists. The map, which has been in the works for months (read the October story here), highlights six different categories of bike infrastructure including; Shared-use paths, bike boulevards, enhanced bike routes [...]

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-old daughter is riding her own pedal bike. She still has a hard time with the starting and stopping, but she’s nailing everything  in between. I’ve been thinking a lot about how I [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]

I am fairly confident my bike was going to be stolen last night if I hadn’t moved it. I was heading to the University of Arizona to take a final exam in my MBA program. I was a few minutes early and decided to park my bike on the south side of  McClelland Hall next [...]

The National Ride of Silence is scheduled for Wednesday, May 15 and Southern Arizona Cyclists have two options for participating. The Ride of Silence started in Dallas Texas to honor a cyclist who was killed in 2003. It was going to be a one time event, but word got out and it spread across the [...]

Yesterday was a big day for the TucsonVelo family. Luci took her first ride on our trail-a-bike, which isn’t actually a bike because I’ve been banned from buying anymore bikes. Instead it’s a bicycle accessory. At least that is my story and I am sticking with it. Luci’s legs are a little too short for [...]

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 [...]

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More than 250 people participated in the 10th El Grupo Scavenger Hunt on Sunday afternoon. The event is El Grupo’s largest fundraisers. Check out photos from the ride.