If you haven't noticed, there is a bicycle renaissance happening around the world....
The Downtown Lakeland Partnership celebrated Bike Night this past Friday. You know I was there…and so were a great deal of other bikers. What a great turnout. In the spirit of the event....
Tonight is the June edition of First Friday, the monthly Downtown Lakeland Partnership event designed to remind Lakelanders where to find Downtown. The theme this month is bikes - the pedal kind, not your Harley....
In addition to riding my cruiser in style and participating road bike races, I also enjoy getting off road and bonding with nature on my mountain bike. Since I’ve moved to Lakeland....
All the news around the Deepwater Horizon oil leak has me data hunting these days. ....
Over Easter weekend, I went out on a second Cycle Chic run. This time, I biked over to Red Door in Dixieland to get wine for the Easter feast I was planning....
This weekend, I took the cruiser out for its first Cycle Chic run. Cycle Chic is a movement out of Copenhagen that is becoming quite popular across the globe. People everywhere are hopping on vintage bikes and riding around cities in stylish outfits. The goal is to promote the slow movement cycling by choosing style over speed. There is even a Cycle Chic manifesto and I am embracing it.
One of the things I first noticed about Lake Hollingsworth was the bike lane. There is something about bike lanes that seems so European to me. I’ve been using the lane quite a bit lately for my road bike training. Recently, I learned that this bike lane around Lake Hollingsworth is part of the Lake-to-Lake bike trail .....
Today marks the debut of a new column on bicycling in Lakeland. Author Tammy Wright starts with a little background… I grew up in the Seventies on the outskirts of a very small North Carolina town. Living in a neighborhood without sidewalks meant bike riding was limited to the back yard and a small quiet [...]
In case you haven’t been inside Bent’s Cycling and Fitness in a couple of weeks, the owner took advantage of being closed during the recent Fourth of July holiday to do some sprucing up in the store. The discolored plexiglass windows in front were replaced, which makes a huge difference as you drive by. Inside, [...]
I don’t consider myself a klutz by nature, but I have my moments. And when I do, well, let me just tell you: they are LEGENDARY. And VIEWED BY MANY. While riding bikes with my husband Saturday afternoon, I had one of my moments. At Lake Hollingsworth. Where, like, 75,368 people walk, jog, skate, drive, [...]
So I think I might be developing a problem. There were several days in early 2007 where it seemed like everywhere I went, I found money on the ground. I decided to keep track of my findings, just as a curiosity thing. When 2008 rolled around, it only made sense to start a new list [...]
I stumbled upon some interesting information today. Mid-Florida Federal Credit Union now offers “Bike-Thru Banking.” In a nutshell, you can ride your bike through the drive-thru now, instead of parking and walking inside. This is an amazing victory for me, even though I doubt that I had anything to do with the addition of this [...]
Bio: Virgina born, Carolina raised, I'm a small town Southern girl with a case of wanderlust. Current obsessions include triathlon training, world travel, cooking, street style fashion blogs, and keeping up with my yellow lab, Buck. By day, I am a chemical engineer turned traveling sales rep for a large corporation. My job has taken me to many parts of the world and brought me to Florida in 2007. I decided to settle into Lakeland in 2008 and I've been in love with this city ever since then. I also write at Lakeland Cycle Chic, a photoblog promoting stylish and fun cycling on the streets of Lakeland, Florida.
