Riding a bike is a fun way to get exercise and to spend time with family and friends. Children tend to ride their bicycles a lot, particularly during the warmer months. It's very important that all children are aware of different safety rules to ride by, so they can avoid injuries. By following some simple practices, you can have fun on your bike and still be safe.

America Bikes is a coalition of individuals, businesses and organizations working to include good bicycle provisions in the 2003 federal transportation funding legislation. Our grassroots muscle comes from millions like you who care about bicycling, whether it’s commuting, riding recreationally or competitively, or simply wishing that more children could bike to school. We need your help!

The Federal Highway Administration's Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Office is responsible for promoting bicycle and pedestrian transportation accessibility, use, and safety.

How to Not Get Hit by Cars: Important lessons on Bicycle Safety

(from the site) This page shows you real ways you can get hit and real ways to avoid them. This is a far cry from normal bicycle safety guides, which usually tell you little more than to wear your helmet and to follow the law. But consider this for a moment: Wearing a helmet will do absolutely nothing to prevent you from getting hit by a car! Sure, helmets might help you if you get hit, and it's a good idea to wear one, but your #1 goal should be to avoid getting hit in the first place. Plenty of cyclists are killed by cars even though they were wearing helmets. Ironically, if they had ridden without helmets, yet followed the guidelines listed below, they might still be alive today. Don't confuse wearing a helmet with biking safely. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It's better to not get hit. That's what real bicycle safety is about.

The Brain Injury Association of Iowa's mission is to create a better future through prevention, education, advocacy, and support.

Commute Solutions provides encouragement and information to commuters on the alternatives to driving alone. These alternatives include carpooling, vanpooling, bicycling, walking, taking public transit, and telecommuting. Commute Solutions serves commuters traveling within, into, or out of Santa Cruz County.

A guide to bicycle advocacy in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) published by Bikes Belong Coalition. I would also like to recpmend a link to the Bikes Belong Coalition web site.http://bikesbelong.org/site/intro.cfm

The Iowa Bicycle Coalition promotes Iowa cycling as safe and enjoyable transportation and recreation.

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is a rising international effort to increase safety and promote walking and bicycling to school through the “5 Es”: engineering, education, enforcement, encouragement, and evaluation. The 2005 SAFETEA-LU federal transportation bill included a new SRTS federal funding source of $612 million over five years for both infrastructure and noninfrastructure reimbursement grants.

This site tells you how to help create neighbor-hoods and communities where people walk and bicycle. This doesn't just mean sidewalks, bikelanes and trails, though these will certainly be elements of an overall plan.

The NW 26th Street project/MLK Extension is a proposed north/south traffic corridor. Proponents of the project, including some Polk County Supervisors, city officials, and developers, want a four-lane extension of MLK, Jr. Parkway from Euclid Avenue in Des Moines north to Interstate 35/80, and interchange, and a widened NW 26th Street leading to IA 415 in the Ankeny area.

Welcome to the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center. The PBIC is a clearinghouse for information about health and safety, engineering, advocacy, education, enforcement and access and mobility. The PBIC serves anyone interested in pedestrian and bicycle issues, including planners, engineers, private citizens, advocates, educators, police enforcement and the health community.

Peopleforbikes.org is dedicated to channeling that passion to improve the future of bicycling. Our goal is to gather a million names of support, to speak with one, powerful voice?to make bicycling safer, more convenient and appealing for everyone.

A state by state listing of laws concerning bicycles

The goal of The Surface Transportation Policy Project is to ensure that transportation policy and investments help conserve energy, protect environmental and aesthetic quality, strengthen the economy, promote social equity, and make communities more livable. We emphasize the needs of people, rather than vehicles, in assuring access to jobs, services, and recreational opportunities.

Advocates for cyclist, walking and environmentally sensible transportation.