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Resources
Here are some links to
information that may be of use to you.
Free
publications Get your free copy of Florida Bicycle Street Smarts
before they're all gone. Also available: handbooks and guides from the
Florida Dept. of Transportation and VISIT FLORIDA.
Glossary of Florida Transportation Acronyms (GFTA) Now you can nod
your head and really have a clue when your pals sling acronyms around. Spend
some time on this page and you may even sling a few around yourself.
Contacts Here is a link to FDOT's (see acronym page above) lists of
Florida Bicycle/Pedestrian Coordinators. There's a bunch of them all
throughout the state so there's no excuse for you not to contact those
nearest you for information and assistance. Sometimes it's lonely out there.
They would love to hear from you.
Bikes Fly Free (sometimes) See below.
Bicycle Crashes — Know How to Protect Your
Rights Read this article by Jacksonville attorney Christopher Burns
for insights on how to proceed after you or a friend or loved one is
involved in a bicycle crash.
Crash Recovery A
six part series originally published in the FBA Messenger that recounts one bicyclist's four-year navigation of the
legal process after an injurious encounter with a truck.
Group Riding available for download (pdf).
You also can order the Group Riding DVD, eight public service announcements plus narrative,
for only $5 to cover shipping and handling. Get a bunch and share with your local TV
stations. What a deal! Click HERE to order.
by Dwight Kingsbury
If ET isn't riding in a basket mounted on the
handlebars, there are two ways to fly a bicycle free of charge on an
airline.
- Take a folding bicycle that fits in a
suitcase (http://www.bikefriday.com/
or
http://www.bromptonbike.com/). This technique also works on buslines.
- Bicycles of members of cycling
organizations can fly free.
Adventure Cycling members' bicycles can fly
free on Northwest Airlines. Restrictions apply. See
http://www.adventurecycling.org/special/flyfree.cfm.
League of American Bicyclists members'
bicycles can fly free on US Airways, Northwest, TWA, Frontier, American
Airlines, and America West. Restrictions may apply. See
http://www.bikeleague.org/flyfree.htm.
International Mountain Bicycling Association
members' bicycles can fly free on the same airlines. Restrictions may apply.
See
http://www.imba.com/membership/faq.html.
I've been told that the US Cycling Federation
also has such a program for its members. Its website is at
http://www.usacycling.org/. |
