Bike Fun
@bikefun.bsky.social
Bike Fun creates joyful bicycle riders in Middle Tennessee through classes, workshops, events, & one-on-one lessons. Find us at nashvillebikefun.org.
🚨 URGENT BULLETIN TO ALL NASHVILLE SICKOS 🚨 If you see a painted bike box at any intersection, that intersection needs to have a No Right on Red sign to prevent cars from pulling through the bike box. If there is not a NROR sign, Hub it and Metro will fix it quickly!
Sidewalks that dump pedestrians into the street for the benefit of turning cars is hostile design. It shouldn't be allowed design in any proper city. 90° corners direct behavior and force motorists to slow their speed and pay attention. This is how you create safe streets.
#bikehfx my preschooler, seeing road rage: they should not drive and be angry, they should ride a bike and be happy
Capable humans needed to help clean bikes, make assessments, & do repairs on bikes of all types! Snacks & coffee will be on hand. 📍 Bike Fun Bike Lab, 2621 Nolensville Pike 37211 📆 Saturday, October 10th 🕙 10AM-1PM (maybe a little later, but drop in by 12PM) 🦾 Cleaning bikes, assessing, & repairs
My former mayor once told me: “people hate all the problems in this town. The only thing they hate more are the solutions to those problems.”
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
First I'm hearing of this. 🚨
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · 2w ago#Recall: Gazelle USA Recalls Urban Arrow Cargo Electric Bikes; The front bolt in the seat post clamping mechanism can break, causing the seat to become loose, posing a fall hazard. Get repair. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2027...
Bikes move people. Personal vehicles create congestion. This image is a perfect demonstration of that.
Tom Flood@tomflood.bsky.social · 2w agoYou take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram
Bike Fun is thankful to be an REI Cooperative Action Fund grant recipient for 2026-2027! We recently wrapped up our mid-grant reporting, and wanted to share some of our report with you.
Right to repair is an important subject to me. I believe that simple and serviceable designs are a valuable ebike ownership trait. Motors like the BBSHD require few specialized tools and most you probably already have in your tool box. Transportation independence starts on the work bench.
Need to see magic happen on Sunday? Don't watch the 🏈 game, come help us create new 🚲 riders instead! 📍Antioch Middle School (10AM-1PM) 📋Shifts available for setup, cheerleading, teardown 🌐Visit signup.com/go/hPAbrGH to sign up BONUS if you can help safety check bikes, fit helmets
Hi, do you bike with kids on a cargo/family bike in the winter? I’d love to update my winter bike clothing guide to mention this but don’t have kids, so I’m soliciting help! Please let me know if you’d be willing to provide some perspective/experience and I’m happy to credit you on the guide.
7 & 8 year old Learn to Ride class still has spaces for THIS Sat 9/19! Registration closes THURS PM. 📍 Bike Fun Bike Lab, 2621 Nolensville Pike 37211 🌐 Visit events.humanitix.com/7-and-8-year... for more info & registration 💲 Sliding scale registration fee 🚲 Bikes & helmets can be provided
Paging anyone in Nashville who has the capacity to influence this!!
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 4w agoElectric bike share is the future of urban mobility.
"What if people had to pay more if their car was bigger" "How about we give people money if they take transit instead of drive" "Can we make some bike highways and some bike hotels so people can stay over if they want to do a long trip by bike instead of driving" YES little buddy
Hosseini, Sevtsuk, Miranda, Cesar, and Silva: “Not only is comparable data describing pedestrian throughput on sidewalks typically unknown, the locations and types of sidewalks are also rarely mapped, contributing to systemic underinvestment in the pedestrian realm.”
LAST WEEK to register for All Ages Learn to Ride - sign up by Thurs 9/17 7PM for class on Sun 9/20. events.humanitix.com/all-ages-lea...
Because so many of us, both within the disability community and outside of it, are impacted by barriers created by car dependency, #WeekWithoutDriving offers us a chance to build relationships and power, all while amplifying our demand for more accessible communities. @disabilitylab.bsky.social
Week Without Driving is About Access: How the Nondriver Movement is Building Disability Power — Disability Culture Lab
People with disabilities are one and a half times less likely to drive than nondisabled people, and two to three times more likely to live in a zero-vehicle household. We use transit and paratransit f...
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All Ages Learn to Ride rolls down to Antioch! We'll be offering this FREE class for ages 7 & up. Spanish, Kurdish, & Arabic language support available on site. events.humanitix.com/all-ages-lea... 📆 Sunday, September 20th 🕘 10AM-1PM 📍 Antioch Middle School, 37013 💲 FREE & open to the public
Excited to support this event on Sept 15th & to get wheel-riders of all stripes together! We will be hosting a repair table for mobility devices & for basic safety checks on bikes - wanna help? signup.com/go/mxszWDj - setup, repair, & teardown shifts of a few hours each.
LOOK AT WHAT DEDICATED BUS LANES CAN DO
David Watkins@djw172.bsky.social · last mo.I was never more than an occasional 8 rider but watching this still fills me with cathartic joy. Wilson deserves lots of credit, but it's also a testament to the car-brained cowardice of the last several mayors who refused to pick this juicy, ripe fruit hanging six inches off the ground.
1. Tell Congress to block this 2. Elect an actual opposition party that will redirect highway funds to build protected bike lanes on every foot of the National Highway System that isn't currently controlled access
Bikepedantic@pedantic.bike · last mo.Guys, this is for real. Senate GOP and the administration want to pass a law that outlaws bikelanes on the 160K mile National Highway System. Imagine if adding protected bikelanes to many arterials would suddenly be against the law. Let’s not allow this.
Our CDOT study showed that bike lanes didn’t affect business outcomes but they did take the streets safer for everyone including drivers
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2mo agoNever forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Our Adult Learn to Ride class is for students who have NEVER ridden a bicycle, or for whom riding was never comfortable as a kid! 💲 Sliding scale registration w/scholarships available 🚲 Bikes & helmets provided if you need them 📅 Sunday, August 30th 4-6p 📍 Bellevue UMC, 7501 Old Harding Pike, 37221
We need FOUR more students to run this class! Registration will be extended to Friday 5PM!
Bike Fun@bikefun.bsky.social · 2mo agoGet your 9 or 10 year old rolling towards bicycle joy at the Bike Fun 9 & 10 year old Learn to Ride class. Bike, helmet can be provided as needed. Sliding scale fee. See link in comments for registration & details. 📆 Saturday, August 29th 📍 Bike Fun Bike Lab, 2621 Nolensville Pike 37211 🕙 9-11AM
Get your 9 or 10 year old rolling towards bicycle joy at the Bike Fun 9 & 10 year old Learn to Ride class. Bike, helmet can be provided as needed. Sliding scale fee. See link in comments for registration & details. 📆 Saturday, August 29th 📍 Bike Fun Bike Lab, 2621 Nolensville Pike 37211 🕙 9-11AM
![POLICE CHIEF: Bad news. The results of the public safety survey are in and "traffic safety" was the number 1 concern
COPS: "Gasp" "What"
CHIEF: It's the first time property crime and police capacity failed to make the top 2
OFFICER 1: They're more afraid of cars than crime! What's the plan, chief?
CHIEF: Well, I guess we'll just have to shift our focus to traffic enforcement and pedestrian safety
OFFICERS: [blinking]
CHIEF: Hah, I'm just messin with yall! Now let's get out there and bust some illegal fruit vendors!
OFFICERS: "Haha whew" "You had me for a second"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:carj4mhaflwfubqzioy5wxl3/bafkreibxb5hkigstlnq5tfodhoq3jfycfhlijlcjmpv7tgmyil4v6ex6ei)