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Dear CEO, Here's How Cycling Helps Your Company

Dear CEO, Here’s How Cycling Helps Your Company

I could tell it was a little awkward for you, running into me like that in the elevator the other day. You were in your power suit and I was in clad in my cycling clothes and caked in mud. Sorry about that. It was raining. To reiterate, no, I’m not training for a triathlon, and yes, you pay me more than enough. In fact, you’re very generous. Thank you…and yes, I can afford a car. It’s just that,…

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#corporate bikes #corporate cycling #performance

Childhood Obesity, Fiscal Madness and Bicycles

I recently had a professional colleague ask me about my obsession with bicycles and why I don’t just play golf like everyone else. My answer was perhaps a little trite, but I told him that golf doesn’t solve pressing problems. Bicycles do.

Two really big problems facing America are the childhood obesity epidemic and our unwillingness to fund maintenance of the roads and bridges we build to…

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#active transportation #childhood obesity #gas tax #safe routes to school #transportation budget

Why Your Next Hire Should Be a Cyclist

Why Your Next Hire Should Be a Vehicular Cyclist

As a recruiter and talent aquisition specialist, I think your next hire should be a cyclist. I’m not talking about the occassional rider who hits the bike trails on the first nice spring weekend. No, I’m referring to a vehicular cyclist…somebody who uses his or her bicycle for transportation all year round, regardless of what Mother Nature delivers.

Bicycle commuters, Austin Texas. Photo-People…

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Italy's Selle Royal to Open In Ogden

Italy’s Selle Royal to Open In Ogden

Utah Business is reporting this morning that Italy’s Selle Royal, owner of the popular Crank Brothers brand, plans to open a new facility in Ogden that will generate 65 new jobs over the next seven years.

According to the company’s website, Selle Royal has been a world-leading bicycle saddle brand manufacturer for over 50 years. The company prides itself on an innovative spirit. Selle Royal does…

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#Ogden #Selle Royal

Vehicular Cycling

I want to spend a few paragraphs on the topic of vehicular cycling. Many people I cross paths with aren’t familiar with the term. Basically, it means using a bicycle as a vehicle, for transportation purposes, instead of as a toy for fun or a piece of exercise equipment for a workout.

Vehicular cyclists are of a different mind when it comes to saddling up and riding. We’re on the bike every…

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#active transportation #LCI #vehicular cycling

Featured Company: Rocky Mountain Power

Rocky Mountain Power is an electric utility and wholly owned subsidiary of PacifiCorp and Berkshire Hathaway Energy. They provide electric power service across Utah, Wyoming and southeast Idaho. They are committed to renewables and provide customers with a renewable-only option. In addition, they have opened a number of their land holdings for local residents to use for recreation.

Rocky…

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#Rocky Mountain Power #Salt Lake City #transportation choice

The Copenhagenization of America

Google wants to Copenhagenize Silicon Valley. PedalFree wants to Copenhagenize the Wasatch Front. What a coincidence, eh? That’s the way I’m spinning it anyway.

What does it mean to Copenhagenize a place? Well, that depends on who you’re speaking with, but when it comes right down to it, Copenhagenization is all about people.

At Google, it’s about building a new and innovative transportation…

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#Copenhagenize #SIlicon Valley #Wasatch Front

DaVita to Construct Second LoDo Building in Denver

Kidney care firm DaVita has announced plans to construct a new building in Denver’s LoDo neighborhood and, in the process, reaffirmed its commitment to the Mile High City. The new building will house 800 new employees with average salaries approaching $90,000 annually according to a weekend story in the Denver Post.

DENVER, CO – OCTOBER 09: DaVita plans to double its workforce and soon construct…

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#active transportation #DaVita #Denver #light rail

How PedalFree Creates Value for Talent and Companies I thought it would be worthwhile to articulate my mission here. Please let me know what you think.

#active transportation #Careers #health/wellness #outdoor recreation

Call for Resumes

If you’re interested in working in bicycling or active transportation, whether in government or the private sector, I’m interested in speaking with you. I’ve been floating my recruiting idea by a number of people in both the private and public sectors and both have told me the same thing…we need talent.

Salt Lake City’s transit hub is truly intermodal and provides active transportation elements…

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#active transportation #bicycling #resumes #transportation choice

Why Bicycle Parking Matters

Most cyclists don’t spend a whole lot of time worrying about bicycle parking, but if you’re going to use your bike for transportation it’s essential that you have a safe and secure place to leave it when you arrive at your destination. If you don’t, you’re probably not going to use your bicycle to get you where you need to go.

This rack at the Plainfield IN doesn’t property secure the bike and…

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#bicycle parking solutions #bike parking

Active Transportation and Top Tier Talent

When eBay opened their new customer service center in Draper Utah in 2013, the building won rave reviews from both the building and trades industries as well as the business community. The campus is LEED-certified and state of the art. It makes collaboration among employees easy and that, in turn, should lead to higher employee productivity.

EBay, Draper UT – photo by Dana Sohm, Sohm Photogrfx

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#active transportation #Draper UT #eBay #Jordan River Greenway

Recruiting a Bike Friendly World

The invitations I get to connect on LinkedIn are increasingly coming from bicyclists and other people with a passion for active transportation and the self-propelledmovement. It isn’t always apparent at first. Many of these folks are doing work that has nothing to do with their passion but they see that I have made the leap and so they reach out. I always accept their invitations, reply and…

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#active transportation #recruiting #self-propelled

Three Easy Ways to Have More Fun Cycling As a League of American Bicyclists Certified Instructor (LCI #4661), I teach people how to ride in traffic.

Wanted: The Perfect $500 Commuter Bicycle

As some of you know already, PedalFree LLC has decided not to represent Yuba Bicycles after the end of August. Although we love Yuba’s bikes, they don’t really fit for our mission. For one thing, the iconic Mundo won’t work with transit racks and transit is becoming an increasingly important thing for bicycle commuters. For another, I just don’t feel right about selling $5,000 eBikes. I don’t…

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#breezer #colnago #commuter bicycle #moots

eBikes, eWheels Will Revolutionize Cycling

When I first started representing Yuba Bicycles earlier this year, I didn’t think much of eBikes. That’s changed, mostly because I’ve come to realize that without an electric assist large numbers of people will never substitute a bicycle for a car. Since the object of the game is for me to get you to choose cycling, I needed to broaden my perspective and I have.

That said, the road to eBike…

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#Copenhagen Wheel #Evelo #Omni Wheel #Superpedestrian

Open Streets Movement Continues to Grow

A few weeks ago, my Wednesday evening bike ride was interrupted by hordes of people. I knew something was up when I arrived at the little section of trail I traverse to pass under a busy highway. The gate was open when it is usually closed. In a matter of minutes, I was surrounded by hundreds of walkers, bikers, bladers and others…people out for a good time…without motors.

CicLAvia takes over…

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#open streets

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