Bike to Work Day - Participant guide
Up one levelLet Detroit Bikes! help you get ready for cycling in the Motor City. Follow our tips, weblinks, and suggestions to get you ready for bike to work day with Detroit Synergy, or as an everyday traveler on the road alone.
-
Liability Waiver
- Download Liability Waiver. Print. Sign Name and Signature. Scan and send to detroitbikes@detroitsynergy.org to pre-register for event.
-
Road Rules for Detroit Bikes! events
- Download Road Rules. Read and understand the importance of following these rules for any Detroit Bikes! event. Be aware and ready to use these skills on bike to work day.
-
Participant Checklist.pdf
- whether you bike with Detroit Bikes! and Detroit Synergy along Michigan or Woodward Avenue, or if you ride with ease alone to work outside of Downtown Detroit, then consider these helpful tips.
-
Paul Dorn's Bike Commuting Tips
- BIKE COMMUTING: A BETTER WAY TO TRAVEL - extremely helpful guide for the urban cyclist or the beginner.
-
Buying a new bike - How to Fit a Bicycle
- Bicycle fitting is a subject most people find quite mysterious. Fitting systems with charts and graphs, computer software, measuring devices and "rules of thumb" make for a lot of confusion. But I believe it's really quite simple. Bicycle fit involves compromises. Compromises between comfort and performance, quick acceleration and handling stability, top speed and "taking in the scenery".
-
biketowork.com
-
League of American Bicyclists
- May is National Bike Month The League of American Bicyclists is promoting Bike-to-Work Week from May 14-18 and Bike-to-Work Day on Friday, May 18. Need some ideas? Here are 50 ways (large PDF) to celebrate Bike Month. Help us Count Cyclists In this May, and every month! This is the official site for National Bike Month. Check the events section often to see what bike month and bike to work week events are going on in your community. If you would like to submit your event information to be posted on this site, email it to communication@bikeleague.org. Please make sure you write, "Bike Month Event" in the subject line of the email.
-
What Every Michigan Bicyclist Must Know - The League of Michigan Bicyclists
- What Every Michigan Bicyclist Must Know is designed to help you safely and enjoyably share the public roads and trails of Michigan with other users. Although this publication includes information about many Michigan traffic laws, it is not meant to be a legal document or a substitute for the Michigan Vehicle Code. Remember that you are ultimately responsible for your own safety. Keep yourself and your bicycle in good condition and ride within your own limits.
Saturday: Shop Detroit Midtown!
