Category: Events

Making cycling and walking safe, convenient and fun in Delaware

The sharrows have landed! (On Main Street in Newark.)

Newark: May 9, 2013 After a long wait, sharrows have finally landed on Main Street in Newark! Wilmington installed the first sharrows in Delaware on its Market Street downtown in 2010 and Lewes installed some on Bay Avenue last summer. City of Newark Principal Planner (and chair of the Newark Bicycle Committee) Mike Fortner fought hard…
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May 10, 2013 8

Bike to the Bitter End, then hang out at the beach on September 14

Saturday, September 14:  3RD ANNUAL – BIKE TO THE BITTER END Join the Camp Arrowhead Alumni association for ride loops of 5, 20 and 35  riding through the countryside between Angola and Milton.  Registration fees are $35 for riders 18 and up, and $20 for riders 7-17years.  Fees include a post ride lunch and the afternoon…
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May 8, 2013 2

“Wheels of Caring” Ride/Race: June 1 in Clayton

Help Ewell’s-St. Paul United Methodist in Clayton stock their local food pantry and “Personal  Items Closet” the best way—on a bike! Fun for road cyclists,  mountain bikers, BMX bikers, and families on  cruisers. Prizes for Top 2 finishers in each distance. More details below. You can download the 1-page PDF HERE.


May 7, 2013 0

Representative Hudson Welcoming the Summit

Representative Deborah Hudson, the prime sponsor in the Delaware House of Representatives of Walkable Bikeable Delaware in 2011, welcomes folks to the Walkable Bikeable Delaware Summit on Wednesday.


May 3, 2013 0

Senator Venables Welcoming the Summit

Senator Robert Venables, the author of Walkable Bikeable Delaware in 2011, welcomes folks to the Walkable Bikeable Delaware 2013 Summit on Wednesday.


May 3, 2013 0

Bhatt and O’Mara Announcing New Bicycle Friendly State Ranking

DelDOT Secretary Shailen Bhatt and DNREC Secretary Collin O’Mara preparing to announce Delaware’s new Bicycle Friendly State ranking on Wednesday at the Walkable Bikeable Delaware 2013 Summit.


May 3, 2013 0

News Journal: Delaware seen as a better place for bicycling

by Kelly April Tyrrell and Melissa Nann Burke The News Journal May 2, 2013 DOVER — People sporting spandex and brightly colored jerseys gathered on the lawn of the Biggs Museum on Wednesday for the Walkable, Bikeable Delaware Summit and to mark the state’s being honored as the most bike-friendly east of the Mississippi River…
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May 2, 2013 0

Today: Capital City Trail Groundbreaking in Dover at 1:30PM

TODAY: Join DelDOT Secretary Shailen Bhatt, DNREC Secretary Collin O’Mara, as well as other officials and dignitaries, for the 1:30PM groundbreaking for the construction of the Capital City Trail. In the north, the Capital City Trail will connect to the Silver Lake Park Trail and Silver Lake Park. Silver Lake is the source of the…
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April 26, 2013 3

When cyclists need help, Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales are there for us

WALKABLE BIKEABLE DELAWARE 2013 SUMMIT Active Transportation, Healthy Families May 1 | Dover, Delaware REGISTER HERE  SUMMIT PROGRAM The Walkable Bikeable Delaware 2013 Summit will be chock full of awesome elected officials, engineers and public health professionals charting a course for making Delaware the most walkable and bikeable state in America. But it doesn’t matter how…
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April 19, 2013 2

Delaware Bicycle Council

LEGISLATORS RIDE ORGANIZED BY DELAWARE BICYCLE COUNCIL May 1 | To Dover, Delaware REGISTER HERE FOR LEGISLATORS RIDE The Delaware Bicycle Council is a sponsor of the 2013 Walkable Bikeable Delaware Summit and is organizing the Legislators Ride that takes places the same day. What is the Delaware Bicycle Council? The Council is a commission of state…
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April 18, 2013 1