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A group of bikers participates in the the annual "Ride Your Bike to Work Day" in downtown Ogden in May 2010. A survey, available through October 2012, aims to help its sponsoring agencies — the Wasatch Front Regional Council, Mountainland Association of Governments, Utah Department of Transportation, and Utah Transit Authority — better understand specific hindrances to walking and biking along the Wasatch Front. (Standard-Examiner file photo)

Walk, bike to work? Survey focuses on smoothing the way

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - 7:44pm

SALT LAKE CITY — If your commute to work involves using your own two legs, now is the time for your voice to be heard.

Through the rest of October, Utah residents have the opportunity to participate in a statewide walk/bike barriers survey.

The survey aims to help its sponsoring agencies — the Wasatch Front Regional Council, Mountainland Association of Governments, Utah Department of Transportation, and Utah Transit Authority — better understand specific hindrances to walking and biking along the Wasatch Front.

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I rode my bicycle to work the day I wrote this column

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, October 6, 2012 - 11:42pm

As I write this, Ogden Mayor Mike Caldwell and the city’s resident bicycle expert, Josh Jones, are in Minneapolis seeing how a city with worse winters than Utah’s embraces bicycles as transportation.

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Man attacks driver after truck drags bicycle trailer carrying child

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, October 5, 2012 - 11:05pm

ROY — A 2-year-old escaped with minor abrasions after the baby trailer he was riding in was dragged about 15 feet and ended up under a pickup truck following a traffic accident Friday evening.

Bystanders and a Roy police officer who witnessed the accident lifted the truck so the baby trailer could be pulled out.

The child had minor scrapes to his face and injuries to his right hand, said Police Sgt. Curtis Gibson. “I’m amazed he wasn’t severely injured.”

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Retired dentist injured in LOTOJA race out of intensive care in Ogden

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 8:25pm

OGDEN — A bicycle racer is out of the intensive care unit after suffering injuries during the LOTOJA race on Saturday.

Retired dentist Douglas Cottle, 62, fractured his face and the tip of a finger during the race from Logan to Jackson Hole, Wyo.

He is recuperating at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden.

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Man plans 8,500-mile bike ride to ’fattest’ cities

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, September 3, 2012 - 5:50pm

LANSING, Mich. — A central Michigan man who shed about 130 pounds over the past year by riding a bike is gearing up for an 8,500-mile ride to visit U.S. cities that are battling obesity problems.

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Clint Thomas (left) and Mike Cohen from Northrup Grumman put together a bicycle at Hill Air Force Base on Saturday. The company’s Utah employees and college interns raised funds, bought the bikes and put them together for children of parents at Hill. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

HELP ON WHEELS: Kids with parents at Hill enjoy donated bikes

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, August 13, 2012 - 10:17am

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Staff Sgt. Andrew Mowry had been on the lookout for an affordable bicycle for stepson Kaleb.

“He outgrew his old bike,” said Mowry, an engine maintenance instructor at Hill Air Force Base. “We had been looking, but everything was too pricey.”

Kaleb Bruessel, 6, was one of 74 children in 52 families selected to get shiny new bicycles on Saturday courtesy of the local employees and interns of Northrop Grumman, a military security contractor with its Utah offices at Hill.

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Tour of Utah: Stage 1

Erin Hooley, Nick Short, Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 6:11pm

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The Exergy team is introduced during the opening ceremonies for the Tour of Utah on Monday at the Ogden Amphitheater.

Bike enthusiasts gather for Tour of Utah kickoff

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 7:00am

OGDEN — Monday was a great day to be a bike “geek” in Ogden, according to Ogden Mayor Mike Caldwell.

He was speaking to a full Ogden Amphitheater crowd, there to greet the participants in the 2012 Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah, which gets under way at 10:15 a.m. today in Ogden with a 131-mile road race.

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Salt Lake to launch bike share program

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 6:44am

SALT LAKE CITY — Government and business leaders say they plan to station bicycles at docking stations around Salt Lake City for use by residents.

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BMX track plans Olympic push

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 12:11am

FARMINGTON -- To give the sport of BMX some local exposure before it receives international exposure as part of the 2012 London Olympiad, Rad Canyon Inc. is opening Saturday its dirt tracks in South Jordan and Farmington to riders for free.

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Witnesses: Pickup driver hit boy on bike, drove off

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 12:29am

OGDEN — Police are looking for the driver of a pickup truck that struck a 6-year-old boy Thursday and then fled the scene.

The accident happened in the 2100 block of Adams Avenue about 5 p.m., said Police Lt. Scott Conley.

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Police investigate the scene of a bike car collision on 2900 Harrison Blvd. in Ogden on Friday.

Bicyclist injured when struck by car in Ogden

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 12:01am

OGDEN — A bicyclist was seriously injured after he apparently turned in front of a car Friday evening.

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Austin Hawks, a Clearfield High teacher, explains basic bike maintenance Thursday as part of the Clinton City Community Enhancement Program. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Ready to roll? Clinton class covers prepping bikes, making repairs

Anita Kersey Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, April 27, 2012 - 8:46pm

CLINTON — “Get that dusty old bike down from the hook, dust it off and let’s get it ready to hit the road,” says Austin Hawks, a Clinton resident who teaches Agriculture Education at Clearfield High School and repairs bikes on the side.

At a recent Clinton City Community Enhancement Program class, Hawks demonstrated simple ways to “get your bike ready to roll in no time.”

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Bo Jackson biking to help tornado relief efforts

Jay Reeves The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 23, 2012 - 4:38pm

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Retired two-sport star Bo Jackson hopes to raise $1 million for tornado relief and increase awareness of lingering damage across Alabama with a five-day, 300-mile bicycle ride through the state that begins Tuesday.

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