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Bicycle-Related Groups in Dane County
Atkins Citizen Racing Club
A group of citizen bicycle racers in the greater Madison area, sponsoring
the Blue Mounds Classic and weekly training
rides and social events. Their motto is "Bicycle racers with normal lives,"
but a normal life is not really a requirement. Most of the rides they
participate in are in the WISport Series.
It costs $25 to join, which gets you the newsletter, discounts on bike
stuff at sponsoring shop Atkins Bicycle Shoppe
in Verona, and so forth.
If you are interested in joining the Atkins Citizen Racing Club, contact Dan Atkins at the Atkins Bicycle Shoppe, 517 Half Mile Road, Verona, WI. (608) 845-6644 or the team membership director at members@atkinscrc.com.
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The Bicycle Coalition is a loose collection of representatives from various groups, shops, and clubs that puts up a table each week at the Dane County Farmers' Market, which runs from late April through early November each year. The table is staffed by volunteers from the represented groups on a rotating basis, who are there to answer questions and hand out the copious literature that is at the table-- all of which is free. Contact the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin to participate |
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Bicycle Transportation Alliance of Dane County
Biking Vikings
Blackhawk Ski Club
Bombay Bicycle Club
This is the big touring club in town, active since 1974 and boasting 350 members, and even more participants, given that the ride schedule is widely available in local bike shops-- such as Williamson Street and Yellow Jersey, both of which help fund it-- and that membership is not a prerequisite to participation in the rides-- except for special events.
There are three or four rides a week in the heart of the season: a Tuesday evening ride, a Thursday evening ride, usually a Saturday "leisure" ride, and a big three-distance-option Sunday morning ride. Most rides start in town. There are two annual meetings, and a five-times annually newsletter, Extra Ordinary Reflections.
Pick up a bright yellow membership form and schedule at Yellow Jersey. Or just send $15 to:
WWW: Bombay Bicycle Club
Box 45685
Madison WI 53744
Brazen Dropouts
A road racing team sponsored by Cronometro. The team is primarily
Master's USCF racers with a few other levels of riders.
They have a racing calendar!
Info: Colin O'Brien, 243-7760
Capital Community Citizens
"Founded in 1964, the Capital Community Citizens is the only organization dedicated to protecting and enhancing the quality of life in our Dane County Commuity... dedicated to helping our community protect our environment and community in the face of rapid population growth." These are the folks who sponsor the famed Orchids and Onions awards each year, and who cosponsored the Nolen in the '90s conference in June 1995 that brought such notable urban designers as Andres Duany to town to focus on our land use problems.
Capital Community Citizens
222 South Hamilton Street, Suite 100
Madison WI 53703
608-256-0565
I beleive that successful resolution of our land use issues during this period of extreme growth is crucial to the preservation of Dane County as a decent place to ride a bicycle.
Capitol Velo Club
Capitol Velo Club is the largest, all female, USCF road racing team in the Midwest. Their web site includes race schedules, results, team roster and other helpful racing information.
Contact:
info@capitolveloclub.org
Citizens for a Better Environment
Okay, so it's a stretch to claim the CBE has anything more to do with bicycling than a kind of warm, fuzzy affinity to bicycling advocacy. CBE is an environmental advocacy group with offices in various Midwestern states, including a quite active one in Milwaukee. They are also a sponsor of the NTA. They can be reached at 608-251-2804.
Coalition for a Safe Highway 12 Now!
Coalition for a Safe Highway 12 Now!
122 State Street, #200
Madison WI 53703
608-251-7020
Capital Off-Road Pathfinders
This is the chapter of WORBA that serves the Dane County area, carefully named not to exclude members that aren't precisely in Dane County. Planned activities include fun planned rides, building/upkeeping trails at CamRock County Park, Blue Mounds State Park and other local sites, and year-round meetings, both social and business.
Dane County Bicycle Association
I'll probably get this all wrong, but my understanding of this group is that it manages an endowment that is used to fund small grants to bicycling-related projects in Dane County. Examples of projects funded in previous years are the 1994 BTA Bike To Work Day and John Stockham's book of recreational rides in Dane County. Here's the part that I'm particularly shaky on: the endowment was created when Yellow Jersey went from being a co-op to a private business some years ago. I'd love to hear corrections to or verification of my version of this story.
Dane Alliance for Rail Transit
D.A.R.T.
advocates for rail transit in Dane County. Like the
BTA, they are a spin-off of the NTA.
Monthly meetings will start "soon."
Contact:
DART
Box 1166
Madison WI 53701
Email: webmaster@danerail.org
Voice: 251-6126
Contact:
4518 Schneider Drive, Oregon, WI 53575
Phone: (608) 835-3488
Email: whiteea@inxpress.net
Contact person: Eleanor White
Different Spokes
This is Madison's only recreational cycling group for gay and lesbian cyclists and their friends, since 1993. They do a couple of rides a month during the season, starting mostly in Madison. The rides printed in the annual schedule are listed in the touring calendar, but you may wish to check for last minute updates in the Isthmus. Info:
Different Spokes
c/o The United
14 W. Mifflin Street, #103
Madison WI 53701
Info: Dave, 241-8184 davedean@execpc.com, or Osh 280-9792 bjander2@students.wisc.edu.
WWW: http://personalpages.tds.net/~rherbst/
Energy and Environmental Professionals
A Madison professional organization that's been sponsoring great panel discussions lately. They say "our professional focus is on energy use and its environmental consequences." Membership would seem to cost $15, but the meetings are open to the public. Contact Scott Olsen at 251-5435 for more information.
Great Dane Velo Club
Email: Nathan Troia
Ice
Age Park and Trail Foundation, Dane County Chapter
This is the Dane County Chapter of the Ice Age Park and Trail Foundation, which supports the creation of a 1,000 mile trail entirely within the state of Wisconsin. The chapter has workdays, hikes, and staffs a table at the Dane County Farmers' Market. Info: Don Ferber.
Mad Trail FORCs
"The Mad Trail Female Off-
Road Cyclists
(pronounced forks not forces!) is open to women of all mountain biking levels
- beginners to experts - with the emphasis on having fun.
Slow or fast, a desire to learn more about and enjoy the sport
of mountain biking is all that's required!
Events include Thursday evening rides.
Info: Renee
Callaway, 255-8494
MadCity Cycling
MadCity Cycling is a group of USCF and NORBA licensed racers, all ages and abilities, membership is open to anyone, citizen racers welcome.
Natural Heritage Land Trust
"The Natural Heritage Land Trust is your local land trust. We are a private, community-based, nonprofit organization working to ensure a high quality of life in our area by protecting valuable resources and habitat.
303 S. Paterson Street, Ste. 6
Madison, Wisconsin, USA 53703
admin@nhlt.org
608-258-9797
New Transportation Alliance of Dane County
This is a transportation advocacy group-- a chapter of the statewide NTA-- that works to reduce the automobile centricity of Wisconsin, Madison, and Dane County public policy. The Bicycle Transportation Alliance of Dane County is a spin-off thereof. They have published a number of excellent working papers-- written by NTA activist Mike Wyatt-- available here:
NTA
122 State St., Ste 200
Madison WI 53703
Voice: 251-7020
Fax: 251-1655
Nine Springs Network
"The Nine Springs Network is a group of individuals and organizations whose purpose is to insure that the Nine Springs E-Way is recognized as a valuable natural and environmental asset to all the governmental units along its boundary and to the citizens of Dane County. The Network works toward raising awareness of all people and, especially, governmental officials on the environmental and recreational significance of the E-Way through advocacy and education. The result of these efforts will ensure that elected and appointed decision-makers learn of the environmental impact of potential development along the E-Way corridor so that they will make informed decisions to preserve and protect this irreplaceable resource."
The Nine Springs E-Way is an area south of the Beltline and roughly between Fish Hatchery Road and US 14.
Nine Springs Network
c/o Scott Sauer
4302 Clover Ct.
Madison, WI 53711
(608) 273-0904
sauers@dnr.state.wi.us
http://www.vicsite.com/Eway/home.htm
Parents
Encouraging Driving Safely
PEDS was established in 1989 in response to a series of accidents involving pedestrian children on the north side. They
If you've had an injury or close call as a pedestrian, PEDs would like to hear your story. They're collecting information on the most ped-unfriendly sections of our city.
Info:
PEDS, Inc.
4406 White Aspen Road
Madison WI 53704
Voice: 608-249-4171, 608-244-6109
Progressive Dane
This political group has established The Fair Share Transportation Initiatives as one of their agenda items, which are supported by such other organizations as the Bicycle Transportation Alliance of Dane County (of which this Bicycling Community Page is a project), the New Transportation Alliance, the Teamsters Local 695, and Wisconsin's Environmental Decade. Here's what they have to say for themselves:
Progressive Dane seeks to ally progressive voters and activists and community organizations to form a powerful, unified and independent force in electoral politics and non=electoral struggles.Our strategies are simple. Recruit and support candidates responsive to our communities' needs and committed to progressive change. Build a democratically-run, grassroots political organization to assure our elected officials will be accountable to the people who voted for them.
Our goal is to develop a vibrant, progressive alternative to the Democrats and Republicans."
Info:
Progressive Dane
Box 1222
Madison, WI 53701
Phone: 608-257-4985
Email: prodane@newparty.org
Red Bikes Project
"Better red than driving!" is the motto of this "share-a-bike" program, which has distributed bright red-painted bicycles liberally throughout particularly busy pedestrian areas in Madison (for example, State Street). The bikes belong to the community and are there for anybody who can use them at the moment. They are maintained by at-risk youth, who are paid a salary and trained for their efforts. (For similar programs , see the listings at IBike. )
Now with their own web page!
Here is an article from the May 1996 issue of Spoke 'N Word, newsletter of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance of Dane County. Here is one from the Winter 1995 issue of Wisconsin Bicyclist, newsletter of the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin, and an update from the Spring 1996 issue.
Info:
Red Bikes Project
For more information: 608-251-8413
To report a damaged bike: 608-225-9111
WWW: http://wwww.danenet.org/bcp/redbikes/
Right to Ride Coalition
A new group that is fighting the multi-pronged assault on Madison Metro and MetroPlus services: cuts in federal funding, cuts in state funding, and cuts in service levels and dramatic fare increases at the local level. Madison alders Barbara Vedder, Judy Olson, Merrill Miller, and Jean McCubbin are active, as are New Transportation Alliance leaders Mike Wyatt and Rob Kennedy, and a host of clients of Madison Metro. Info: 845-2366.
Sports Active Seniors
Sponsors various athletic activities-- including bike rides-- for the single, over-55 set. They publish a monthly newsletter, sponsor one or two rides a week during "biking season"-- often on rails-to-trails-- and do an occasional out-of-town trip. They ride at a leasurely pace and sweep the rides. Contact Bob Craig at 273-4361 or George Zimmerman at 244-8472 for information on biking. Betty Marsh, 833-5315, is the membership chair.
Sierra Club, Four Lakes/John Muir Chapter
The Four Lakes local group of the John Muir Chapter of the Sierra Club-- the Dane County group-- is in the forefront of most any environmental and land-use issue that arises at the local or state level. Their Hamilton Street office serves as a sort of central hub of information and services for many of the smaller groups in town that don't have paid staff or office space.
Sierra Club, John Muir Chapter
222 S. Hamilton St. #1
Madison WI 53703-3201
Hot line: 608-829-1502
Voice: 608-256-0565
Fax: 608-256-4562
Email: john.muir.chapter@sierraclub.org, 4lakes@itis.com
WWW: http://www.4lakes.org/
Stoton Velo Club
Contact Phil Caravello at 608.874.1134
or philbike@merr.com
Team Firstar
Two-Tyred Wheelmen
A road-racing team formed in 1971 and sponsored by Yellow Jersey. They do informal training rides and members race at a variety of levels. New members are welcomed. General meetings are the first Monday of the month, TITU at the Union South. During the season, they sponsor time trials on Tuesday nights, long Wednesday night rides, and weekend rides. Info: Craig Heywood, 256-1357.
UW-Madison
Cycling Club/Team
A recreational club and race team for any University of Wisconsin-Madison student, faculty, staff, alumnus, or alumna. They do road and mountain bike racing.
jmfryda@students.wisc.edu Jason Fryda, President
Wednesday Night Bike Rides
This is an informal group of riders that meet in a variety of mostly rural locations after work on Wednesday nights between April and November. They've been doing it for as long as anybody can remember. Printed cue sheets are provided at each ride, and an annual schedule is printed and distributed each Spring. Believe it or not, this Bicycling Community Page was started for the purpose of putting the schedule of rides online, after which the scope rather widened. For more information, contact Jim Henkel at 273-1344.
Wheels for Winners: The Earn-a-Bike Program
"Wheels for Winners is a non-profit organization designed to provide at-risk and underprivileged youth the opportunity to earn bicycles while becoming responsible and active members of their communities.
Childhood isn't the same without a bicycle. Wheels for Winners is designed to provide a bike to any needy child willing ot earn it. Each child is able to earn a bicycle through task-oriented activities tailored to individual capabilities and needs."
This service organization needs help collecting, repairing, and storing bicycles, seeks donations of bicycles and money, and needs volunteers to work with the kids, too.
Here is a very nice article by columnist George Hesselberg from the Wisconsin State Journal about WfW. And here is their newsletter.
The coordinator is Will Janz.
Wheels for Winners: The Earn-a-Bike Program
2310 Pennsylvania Ave.
Madison WI 53704-0165
Phone: 608-249-2418
WWW: http://www.danenet.org/bcp/wfw/
Women's Wheels
Wingra, Heron, Hops, and Derailleur Society
Damon Bourne Damon.Bourne@esker.com
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