Cycling Resources
Cycling is supposed to be fun! While searching for information may not be quite as exciting, hopefully, we’ve made it as easy as possible to find what you need. Get it quickly and get back out there! Whether it’s quick tips to get started on two wheels, a specialized advocacy organization from around the country, infrastructure best practices, or urban planning groups to network with – this list should have it all!
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Cycling Basics & Safety Resources
Quick Tips and Tricks Articles
- The A-B-C Pre-Ride Bike Check
- Steps to Fitting Your Bike Helmet
- Cycling Savvy
- Know the Rules of the Road Before You Jump on Your Bike
Tools for Schools and Parents
- iBikeSafe – free state-approved curriculum
- National Center for Safe Routes to School – Children deserve safe places to walk and bike — starting with the trip to school.
- Safe Routes Partnership – working to advance safe walking and rolling to and from schools and in everyday life, improving the health and well-being of people of all races, income levels, and abilities, and building healthy, thriving communities for everyone.
- Walk Bike to School Day – The movement behind the annual “National Bike & Roll to School Day” in May and “Walk & Roll to School Day” in October. Bookmark the BWCF Calendar or Subscribe to keep up to date!
Cycling Safe
- Alert Today Alive Tomorrow, FDOT – Florida’s Pedestrian & Bicycle Focused Initiative.
- Florida’s Pedestrian & Bicycling Safety Resource Center – Promotes safe pedestrian and bicycling activities for citizens and visitors, young and old, by providing educational materials and information to advocate groups in the state. Funded by FDOT.
Cycling Encouragement and Advocacy
Central Florida Organizations
- Bike/Walk Central Florida – (Hey! That’s Us!) We educate and advocate to make communities more walkable, bikeable, and rollable. We strive towards a connected and equitable transportation system that is safe and comfortable for all.
- Orlando Bike Coalition – Advocating for the development of world-class bicycling infrastructure in Orlando, Florida.
- SORBA Orlando – Promoting, building, and maintaining mountain biking trails in Central Florida in and around Orlando and its suburbs.
Statewide Organizations
Making Florida better for people who want to bicycle and for people who need to bicycle. For health, local economies, equity, and the environment.
Helping Florida communities improve their economic health, bicycle infrastructure, and safety through bicycle tourism and safe cycling education.
Keep you updated on most of the Florida trails, clubs, MTB tips & tricks, and events happening in the Florida mountain biking community.
National Organizations
Cycling Specific Organizations
Adventure Cycling Association – Inspires, empowers, and connects a growing community of bicycle travelers.
American Bicycling Education Association – provides programs and resources for bicyclists, engineers, planners, law enforcement, educators, and the general public.
International Mountain Bicycling Association – Creates, enhances, and protects great places to ride mountain bikes.
League of American Bicyclists – Building a Bicycle Friendly America for everyone!
National Center for Safe Routes to School – Children deserve safe places to walk and bike — starting with the trip to school.
People for Bikes – Making bikes better for everyone.
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy – We reimagine public spaces to create safe ways for everyone to walk, bike and be active outdoors. Building a nation connected by trails.
Safe Routes Partnership – working to advance safe walking and rolling to and from schools and in everyday life, improving the health and well-being of people of all races, income levels, and abilities, and building healthy, thriving communities for everyone.
Safe Streets: Policies, Practices, & Programs
Central Florida
- Metro Plan Orlando Complete Streets Policy – The regional transportation planning partnership for Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties with a goal to create livable communities that provide safe, convenient transportation such as walking, bicycling, and public transit.
- Orange County’s Walk-Ride-Thrive – a coordinated, comprehensive and consistent response to Orange County’s pedestrian and bicycle safety issues.
- City of Orlando Vision Zero – Aiming to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries within the city by 2040.
- City of Longwood’s Complete Streets – An effort to integrate people and place in the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of transportation networks.
- Complete Street Resolutions & Policies
- City of Casselberry | 2019
- City of Longwood | 2015
- City of Orlando | 2015
- City Winter Park | 2011
Statewide
- Complete Streets – FDOT – A comprehensive, 360° approach to transportation planning, design, construction, and operations focuses on identifying the right solutions for communities based on the needs and desires of all roadway users who live there.
- Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) – Internationally recognized transportation research, education, and technology, with a focus on producing products and people based out of the University of South Florida.
- FDOT Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety – Priorities, Plans, Coalitions, and Contacts
Nation Wide
- Families for Safe Streets – Confronts the epidemic of traffic violence by advocating for life-saving changes and providing support to those who have been impacted by crashes.
- NACTO – National Association of City Transportation Officials – Builds cities as places for people, with safe, sustainable, accessible, and equitable transportation choices that support a strong economy and vibrant quality of life and publishers of the Urban Street Design Guide.
- NHTSA Bicycle Safety – The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is responsible for keeping people safe on America’s roadways.
- U.S. DOT FHA Complete Streets – Focused on supporting transportation agencies to plan, develop, and operate equitable streets and networks that prioritize safety, comfort, and connectivity to destinations for all people who use the street network.
- U.S. DOT FHA Vision Zero – offers technical resources to assist local communities with reaching their goal of zero traffic fatalities through the adoption and implementation of Vision Zero.
- Vision Zero Network – a collaborative campaign to help communities reach their goals of Vision Zero — eliminating all traffic fatalities and severe injuries — while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all.
Urban Planning & Community Organizations
Central Florida Organizations
- APA Florida – Orlando Metro Section – The local organization of the American Planning Association.
- CFL4 Transit – Central Floridians for Public Transit.
- CNU Orlando – The local organization of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Building Places People Love.
- Orlando YIMBY – Yes to People. Yes, to Housing. Yes, in my Backyard.
- UCF Urban Knights – The University of Central Florida Student Planning Association.
- The Urbanauts Book Club – Monthly book club covers books about all things urbanism – 1st Saturdays at 11 am.
- YPT Orlando – Young Professionals in Transportation: Planners, Engineers, and all others.
Statewide Organizations
- 1000 Friends of Florida | Transportation – works with citizens to help build better communities and save special places.
- APA Florida – The local chapter of the American Planning Association .
- CNU Florida – Congress for the New Urbanism Chapter, Building Places People Love
National & International Organizations
- 8 80 Cities – Believes that if everything we do in our cities is great for an 8-year-old and an 80-year-old, it will be great for all people.
- American Planning Association – Creating Great Communities for All
- CNU – Congress for the New Urbanism – Building Places People Love
- Smart Growth America – Envisions a country where no matter where you live, or who you are, you can enjoy living in a place that is healthy, prosperous, and resilient.