Posts related to education on bicycling
On Sunday October 23, volunteers from LVBC, Lebanon Bicycle Recycle, and students from the Cedar Crest High School Key Club participated in the Bikes for the World event. A special thanks to LVBC members Scott and Barbara Shreve for coordinating this event. We prepared 102 bicycles for shipment to Costa Rica where they will serve …
The Lebanon Valley Bicycle Coalition is collecting repairable bikes (and sewing machines) to support www.bikesfortheworld.org. Drop off at St. James Lutheran Church, 53 Chestnut Street, Lebanon, Noon to 3pm, Oct 23rd . Tax deductable donation of $10 to assist with shipping is requested. If you need pickup, call Scott at 717-273-1571.
LVBC participated in the Summerfest festival at Fairlane Park in Myerstown on Sunday June 5. This festival highlighted health and fitness. Lebanon Bicycle Recycle was also at the festival and we had a bicycle rodeo course set up in which kids and some adults tested their bicycle handling skills.
LVBC took its educational safe bicycling display and the always popular bicycle safety wheel game to the Lebanon YMCA on Friday June 3 for the Healthy Kids Day event. Both children and adults were tested in their knowledge of bicycle safety and how to safely share the roads with motor vehicles. Lebanon Bicycle Recycle was …
There are countless articles and research studies that promote and show evidence that bicycling is an important way to maintain and improve a person’s health and fitness. Click one of the links below to access an article.. If you have your own personal story to share with others on this website about how bicycling is …
Whether a pedestrian or bicyclist, being “visible” to motorists can be life saving. A crash between a bicyclist and pedestrian on a wide shoulder of Hersheypark Drive offers another lesson about visibility. Read the following account. “This crash took place on Monday the 27th of January at approximately 0620 hours on Hersheypark Drive between the Giant Center …
Fred Richter provided a link to an article about the increasing number of pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities. Click here to see the article . Pat Krebs found it troubling in the late 1990s when a high school constituent contacted her when she was a legislator about the design of SUVs and how this can affect their …
THE INCREASED DANGERS FOR PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS Read More »
This is an Earn A Bike program, not a “give a bike” program. The men and women have to volunteer to earn their bikes and everyone has to buy a lock at cost, $5. Earn a Bike was started in 2015 by LVBC member Scott Shreve. Volunteers work out of donated warehouse space thanks to …
EARN A BIKE – AN LVBC SPONSORED PROJECT LED BY SCOTT SHREVE Read More »
Steve Weaber has been using the Cycliq brand cameras/lights since their release a few years ago. He recommends that you shouldn’t be without them or something comparable. Why? Because he has been successful in more than one instance when motorists, whether irate or just driving unsafely, have buzzed or confronted him. Either way, these motorists …
Two bicyclists were enjoying a bike ride in rural Jackson Township and observed four black pick up trucks being driven out of a parking lot. They didn’t anticipate what would happen next. Each driver accelerated and spewed black soot over them. The bicyclists were aware of what “rolling coal” is and that bicyclists faced this …
Four Diesel Truck Drivers Spew Exhaust on Bicyclists in Rural Jackson Township Read More »
