Long Beach Bike Fest

By Damien Newton
Apr 26, 2014

BikeFest continues Long Beach’s strategy to utilize fun, family-friendly bike related events and bike rides to help encourage local residents and visitors alike to have a healthy active lifestyle and enjoy how beautiful Long Beach is by bike. Bikefest also includes: Beachwood BBQ & Friends Craft Beer Garden, favorite foods from Downtown Long Beach restaurants, a bike
shop vendor village, free bike valet, children activities and live entertainment. For more information Email: info@dlba.org

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Another Wonderful Long Beach First: Protected Bike Lanes

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The city of Long Beach is Southern California’s undisputed leader in innovative infrastructure for safe and convenient bicycling. They’re at it again this Saturday, April 23rd 2011, when they unveil the first genuine protected bike lanes west of New York City. Opening festivities are from 11am to 2pm at the The Promenade – one block east of Pine Avenue. […]

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By Damien Newton | Sep 12, 2012

Bike Nation, the bike share company that has struck deals to bring bike sharing to Anaheim, Long Beach and Los Angeles, unveiled a new bicycle design today at the Pro Walk Pro Bike conference in Long Beach. The “Gen 2 Made in the U.S.A. Bicycles,” (G2) will be used in Long Beach and Los Angeles, […]

Bike Nation Asks Long Beachers to Suggest Location for Its 250 Proposed Bike-Share Kiosks

By Brian Addison | May 14, 2013

(Want to celebrate Bike Week but can’t make an event? You can help out Bikeside with their L.A. Bike Survey or Bike Nation Long Beach as outlined below. – DN) After the announcement in August of last year that Bike Nation will create one of its largest bike-sharing programs ever–250 kiosks throughout the city–all was quiet […]

Long Beach: Bike Nation Brings 10 Year, $12 Million Investment

By Brian Addison | Aug 27, 2012

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Send Us Your Bike Week Media

By Damien Newton | May 15, 2013

(Want to celebrate Bike Week but can’t make an event? You can help out Bikeside with their L.A. Bike Survey or Bike Nation Long Beach right from your desk. – DN) Last week, Streetsblog asked you to send us your Bike to School Day media for a short video we’re working on celebrating Bike Week in Los […]

Long Beach: Good for Bikes, Good for Business

By Damien Newton | Aug 17, 2011

Bicycle advocates from Copenhagen to Bogota to Northeast Los Angeles have all made the case that what’s good for bicycles is good for business. Nowhere in America is that statement being put to the test more than in Long Beach. During my two bike tours of Long Beach, I talked with business owners along the […]