BIKABOUT

20/03/2025

Top 5 favorite places in Paris to eat by bike...

Paris is known for its food and the best part of sightseeing by bike is that you are always hungry.

We didn't find a classic French restaurant that catered to our dietary restrictions, but had some of the most memorable meals and snacks of our travels.

Visit www.bikabout.com/paris for our Paris by bike guide which includes a Google map 🗺️

1. Copains Gluten Free Bakery - As someone who travels and tries every single gluten bakery along the way, Copains is one of the best. It is pricey but worth it.

2. Breizh Cafe - I can't tell you how good this meal is. Each dish lasted about 3 minutes on the table - our families' forks were a-flying.

3. Tasca - Our wide eyes say it all. Holy cow was this one of the best dedicated gluten free italian restaurants we have dined in. We started the day with a walk up the Eiffel Tower and came to Tasca for lunch. Be sure to get a reservation!

4. Cafe des deux Moulins - Right before our trip to Paris, we watched Amelie with our daughter and it had a huge effect on her. Her eyes brightened as we discovered all the movie landmarks in Montmarte, especially this cafe.

5. Wild and the Moon - For anyone needing a gut reset on your travels, Wild & the Moon has plenty to offer and its location in a quiet courtyard makes for a great place to reset the senses.

Happy eating by bike!

Paris

18/03/2025

"Nice Idols reference"

Bill Nesper, we're friends now. Thanks to the for the Educator of the Year award and to Bill for getting my music reference in my speech, "Joy as an act of resistance"

14/03/2025

🏆 Gail and Jim Spann Educator of the Year 

This award recognizes a person who has worked to elevate bike education in their state/community. We’re looking for educators who are current League Cycling Instructors, active in teaching classes in the past year, serve diverse communities, and have shown innovation in their education work

What do you hope the future holds for the bike movement?

I hope that in the future when families watch  E.T., Goonies or Stranger Things, those scenes of children riding bikes to solve problems, find friends or get to school, are mirrored out their front window. For this to happen, leaders need to champion childhood joy and independence through active transportation and funnel the money and vision to the engineers so they center children in the design of our streets.

The indicator of success is when it’s normal to see our streets full of free-range kids or moms riding side-by-side with their little ones.

How should advocates seize this moment to shape the future?

Get the kids in the street! Don’t think about it or ask permission, just do it. We advocates have all the reasons to act -“Anxious generation”, climate change and a health crisis. We have new tools like the Bike Bus and E-cargobikes and traditional tools like biking in PE class or after school clubs. Use these tools to get kids in the street. They will feel the joy and community and become your biggest cheerleaders. Consequently, your Principal or Mayor will be uplifted when the kids say things like “Viva la America” or sing and once in their bikes to Taylor Swift. This is subversive advocacy because it’s contagious and leads to action.

What was a recent moment of bike joy in your work?

As an educator who plays with kids using bikes, there are 1000s of joyful moments, especially when I teach older kids how to ride or play their favorite song for a bike ride.

As an advocate, I am addicted to winning grants, accruing almost $10 million in the few years that I have had this job. Two of these grants were synergistic for Odell a 3000-person...

🔗 to all the Bike League's awards https://bikeleague.org/congratulations-to-our-2025-advocacy-and-education-award-winners/

14/03/2025

Republicans and Secretary Duffy are signaling that transportation projects with "bike lanes" that have already been awarded funding, may be rescinded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-R0zzVsLFU

Sign this petition to oppose a freeze on bike lane funding.
https://bikeleague.org/take-action/action-center/?vvsrc=/Petitions/5746/Respond

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is ordering a review of grants made during the Biden administration related to bike lanes and other green infrastructure.

10/03/2025

🚲 🚌 ✈️ to the National Bike Summit to accept the award for Educator of the year.

I am decked out in schwag because they power my work and the lives of so many.

Support independent 🎶 and donate to them this week!

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28/02/2025

Few places on earth have the raw charm that Paris has. And if you want to see all the little hidden places, the sidewalk cafes and tucked-away shops, there’s no better way to see it than by bike. We’re happy to report that thanks to the hard work of visionary mayor Anne Hidalgo, biking in Paris is now easier than it has ever been. Mayor Hidalgo has rapidly transformed the streets, the air, and even the water of the Siene River itself into something that would’ve been unrecognizable 30 years ago. Enjoy car-free sections of Paris the first Sunday of each month, climb the Eiffel Tower, get lost in the Louvre, and find countless other unforgettable destinations by connecting the dots across the most romantic city in the world.

This bike guide for Paris is 2 years in the making. We share...

🍴 5 eats
🍺 ☕ 3 drinks
🌉 5 sights
👗 2 shops
🚲 routes, rentals and tours
🛏️ hotel

🔗 www.bikabout.com/paris

We hope the guide inspires you to take a 2-wheeled wander of the city of lights.

19/02/2025

Every city and town needs a Cycling Without Age chapter.

Thanks to John Simmerman for sharing this awesome story.

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18/02/2025

After 4 winters of skiing to the Rendezvous Huts, we finally gave fat biking a go.

This was a LONG time dream of Megan's...a fatbike has been on her bike bucket list forever.

We packed lightly in hiking packs, borrowed 2 e-fatties from our dear friends, The Melkonians, and a demo Otso fatbike from Methow Cycle and Sport.

The riding was chill and meditative, exactly how we prefer mountain biking and it was SO cushy!

Expect a new guide on the Methow region to come soon! We have amassed so many experiences in summer and winter that we can't wait to share.

02/02/2025

The Camp David Peace talks with Israel and Palestine with Carter on his generator hub bike is iconic.

Kyle is getting teary eyed over "Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President" on our flight. The juxtaposition between our only 100 year old President and the one who took office a few weeks after his funeral, is stark.

January 29th marked the end of the National Mourning Period, but it goes on for us.

23/01/2025

Who wouldn't want to bike around London with their dog!? Especially with one as cute as this.

20/01/2025

How it started....how it's going.

8 years ago vs now. Apparently we are drawn to on inauguration days when we need to feel the love and community.

17/01/2025

As huge fans of the new Bob Dylan film and Timothee, this absolutely tickled us.

Timothée Chalamet, who plays Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown, rode a rental Lime bike to the film's London premiere at BFI Southbank. After making...

29/12/2024

Good night to our favorite.

May your sweet soul be reunited with Rosalynn's.

24/12/2024

"we need ingredients to make Christmas 🎄 cookies"

15 year old girls making the grocery store run, listening to music and living their best lives with our Urban Arrow.

Make class 1 E-bikes legal for all ages in Oregon.

15/12/2024

Tree 🎄 by bike 🚲 going strong for 13 years.

12/12/2024

10 years ago, we launched a bike travel guide for Vancouver. Our daughter, Annika, was 5 and never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be returning to see our first Taylor Swift show on the final weekend of The Eras Tour.

Back in July 2023, I was really mad at Taylor. Annika was crying because I wouldn't spend $$$ for Seattle tickets. How was I the bad guy?

I promised her we would see the film when it came out, which ended up being at Nitehawk Cinemas in Brooklyn, right after I spoke at the Vision Zero conference. Walking into the theater with her, I was like "what's the big deal?" 1 minute into the film, I was crying...WTF IS WRONG WITH ME. It was the crowd reactions that got me.

Fast forward to April 2024, I told her if she raised $4000, we would go to the Vancouver show in December. She got her first job as a 14 year old at Fat Tire Farm in Hood River and did some babysitting and cat sitting and little by little, she did it!

We took Amtrak with our bikes to Vancouver and took it ALL in. There were tears, fights over beads, loud singing, lots of walking and biking and amazing food.

Thank you, Taylor Swift and Vancouver, for the mother-daughter memories to last a lifetime.

Special nod to Tanner at and the staff at and for some of the best GF meals ever.

Hats off ! Keep installing those protected bikewaya and create more people centric streets!

19/11/2024

We are blessed to watch bike tourism history unfold in our backyard, the Columbia Gorge, for the past 8 years and for the next 5 years.

This was from Saturday's Mitchell Tunnel dedication by Oregon Department of Transportation, a critical link in reconnecting the Historic Columbia River Highway, 75 miles, between The Dalles to Troutdale, an exurb of Portland.

One step closer to realizing our dream of hosting bike tourists at Roll On Inn.

AMAZING photo by AJ Zeleda.