Resources

Resources on the BFBC Web Site

• Recent meeting minutes of the City's Bicycle Subcommittee
• How to report road problems and bicycle hazards.
• The BFBC bike safety pages.
• Interviews with 2004 candidates for city office.
• Article: the San Francisco Bay Trail.
• Article: Bike Facilities in Boulder, Colorado.

Off-site resources.
The remainder of this resources page contains links to other web sites of interest. Suggestions and (especially) contributions are welcome.

Note: off-site links may change without our knowledge. If you discover any broken links on this page, please notify the webmaster.

Bike Commuting

• The Berkeley Bikestation provides secure valet bike parking in downtown Berkeley.
  • The Fruitvale Bikestation does the same, at Fruitvale Bart.
• Electronic bike lockers are now available at El Cerrito Bart.
• LAB Better Bicycling Fact Sheets, under Beginning Cycling and Commuting. Especially:
  • How to Commute by Bicycle
  • Overcoming Bike Commuting Excuses
• Paul Dorn's Bike Commuting Pages
• BART: Bike overview (including Bikestation info) | Bike rules | Home page
• City of Berkeley: Bike tips & resources (see also below)
• Cal Trans District 4:
  Bicycle page | Home page
• Rides, Inc:
  Bike Resource Guide |
  Home page
• SF Bay Area Transit Info (511.org): Bike page |
  Bikes on transit | Home page
• Will it rain today? Tomorrow? In the next hour?
  • National Weather Service forecast for SF Bay Shoreline Area | NWS Bay Area forecast zone map.
  • NWSBay Area short-range radar image | How to understand it

Bike Ownership & Repair

• Missing Link Bike Cooperative:
  • Free classes | Free loaner tools
  • Bike locking (and other down-to-earth advice) | Helmet fit
• Sheldon Brown's wealth of articles, mainly on bicycle repair and maintenance. Same, but titles only.
• Park Tools repair and maintenance pages. It is in this company's best interest to teach you how to do your own bike work!
• Tinker's Workshop, 1336 Channing Way, Berkeley, (510)644-2577, holds bicycle repair clinics.
• Cycles of Change holds bicycle repair clinics. See below for more contact info.
• Shop-In-Berkeleylist of bike shops in Berkeley
• See also our list of bike shops with discounts to BFBC members.

Vehicular Bicycling Skills

• LAB Better Bicycling Fact Sheets. Especially under Riding on the Road.
• John S. Allen's Street Smarts. See the full text on-line.
• John Forester essays (very pithy): | Effective Cycling Training.
• LAB Road 1 class (9 hours of instruction).
• Road 1 class schedule for the Bay Area.
• Michael Bluejay's Bicycle Safe website - a somewhat different perspective.
• Urban Cycling's index of resources on urban cycling.

General Resource Sites

• Bicycling Life. Dozens of useful articles. How-to's, practical cycling, safety skills, much more.
• Bikelane.com. Dozens of links to other bicycle sites.
• Ken Kifer's Bike Pages. Dozens of useful articles.
• ProBicycle. Advocacy with an attitude (devil's advocacy too). Dozens of useful articles.
• Rec.bicycles FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions from the Usenet group.

City of Berkeley

• City main page | City Council (includes agendas and minutes)
• Office of Transportation (OOT) | Traffic calming | Traffic engineering | TDM study
• OOT bike pages: Main bike page | Bike Blvds | Bike Plan | Bike resources, tips, etc | Bike route map (PDF, 1.7MB)
• General Plan | Transportation Element
• Health Dept:
  Bicycle education
• Planning Dept:Map room
• Public Works Dept:Street maintenance and repair | Current construction schedule
• Transportation Commission: includes agendas, minutes, and old Bicycle Subcommittee matters. (Current Bicycle Subcommittee minutes are posted here on the BFBC web site.)

Nearby Local Jurisdictions

• Alameda County | Congestion Management Agency
• Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) | Bay Trail
• Cities of: Albany | El Cerrito | Emeryville | Kensington (not incorporated)
• City of Oakland | Bicycle page
• East Bay Regional Parks District | Maps | Parks
• Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) | MTC transportation headlines
• UC Berkeley | Bicycle page

Laws and Ordinances

• Berkeley Municipal Code (searchable by keyword)
• California State Law (searchable by keyword)
• Oakland Municipal Code (searchable by keyword)

Bay Area Bicycle Advocacy

• Bay Area Bicycle Coalition, BABC (formerly REBAC)
• Bicycle Civil Liberties Union (BCLU)
• BikeAlameda
• Bike the Bridge! Coalition
• East Bay Bicycle Coalition (EBBC)
• LBNL Bicycle Coalition(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
• Marin County Bicycle Coalition (MCBC)
• Peninsula Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition (San Mateo County)
• San Fransisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC)
• Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC)

State and National Bike Advocacy

• California Bicycle Coalition (CBC). State-wide advocacy.
• California Association of Bicycling Organizations (CABO). State-wide advocacy.
• League of American Bicyclists. LAB is the premier national bike organization. Its content-rich website includes excellent advice and a nationwide directory of advocacy groups and bike clubs.
• America Bikes. An umbrella lobbying group.
• Bikes Belong. Bicycle industry plus advocates.
• National Bicycle Greenway. Somewhat narrow focus.
• National Center for Bicycling & Walking
• Thunderhead Alliance. National coalition of state and local bicycle advocacy groups.

International Advocacy

• International Bicycle Fund. Promotes bicycle transportation worldwide.
• World Carfree Network.

Berkeley-Area Bike Clubs

• Berkeley Bicycle Club (BBC). Racing club.
• Berkeley High School Mountain Bike Team.
• Bicycle Trails Council of the East Bay (BTCEB). Off-road and mountain biking.
• Cal Cycling, the UC Berkeley bicycle racing team.
• Grizzly Peak Cyclists (GPC). Recreational and touring bike club.
• Oakland Yellow Jackets (OYJ). Recreational and touring bike club.
• Team Luna Chix (Bay Area). Women's recreational bike club; many rides start in Berkeley or the East Bay.

Social Change via the Bicycle
(and, where to DONATE old bikes and parts)

• Tinker's Workshop Bicycle Program, 1336 Channing Way, Berkeley, (510)644-2577.
• BAATT Cave Bicycle Library (Oakland?) (510)595-1803.
• Cycles of Change. Phone (510)595-4625. Main location is at Roosevelt Middle School, Oakland. Mailing address, for correspondence:
  Cycles of Change,
  c/o East Bay Asian Youth Center,
  2025 E 12th St,
  Oakland, CA 94606.
• Youth Bike Adventures (East Bay).
• The Bike Hut (SF).
• Pedal Power (SF). (better contact info needed)

Other Berkeley Organizations That Might Interest You

• Alliance for AC Transit, a.k.a the Bus Riders Union.
• Berkeley Critical Mass (ok, so it's not an organization).
• Berkeley Ecological and Safe Transportation Coalition (BEST).
• Berkeley Partners for Parks (BPFP).
• Berkeley Path Wanderers Association (BPWA).
• Friends of the Berkeley Ferry. See also Paul Kamen's Berkeley Ferry page.
• KyotoUSA is a Berkeley-based advocacy effort to get US cities and citizens to honor the Kyoto Protocol and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• Livable Berkeley advocates smart growth and sustainable development in Berkeley.
• Pedal Express zero-pollution delivery service.
• Shop In Berkeley directory of Berkeley businesses.

Et Cetera

• Blue bike lanes?
  Pro: Portland | Con: Allen | Retort: Blue bikers
• Cars-Suck.org: Well-expressed critiques of guess what.
• Grist Overdrive: Online environmental magazine. "Gloom and doom with a sense of humor."
• Safety in numbers: (P. L. Jacobsen) More walkers and bikers yields safer walking and biking.
• More on safety in numbers: Article in the UC Traffic Safety Center online newsletter, Spring 2004.
• Bicycle-friendly planning helps reduce obesity (CNN.com).