Member Services
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The Bike Coalition of New Mexico is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving biking in New Mexico, and encouraging more people to ride. We hope you find this website informative as we post news about legislation, road construction, and events that affect cyclists.
(5/15/06) - It can take several years, and participation in a lot of public meetings, but improvements CAN be made! This example shows the addition of a shoulder that was included as part of the Old Pecos Trail rehab project near San Mateo/Lejo in Santa Fe.
Click to see larger images...
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the New Mexico Bicyclist online... Check out the electronic version of our new monthly Newspaper! It will have news on bike advocacy issues, training classes, meetings, events, and tons of items of interest.
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General Announcements:
1/2010 update: Bike Coalition request for Gov. Richardson to issue Executive Order to
stop Partial Width Paving:
The Board of BCNM drafted a letter in June, 2009 requesting Gov. Richardson instruct NMDOT to revise re-surfacing guidelines and disallow the practice of partial width top-coats as a cost-saving measure. This is part of our effort to push the concept of 'Complete Streets' at the State, County, and City level. Six monthes later, after meetings with the Gov, Staff, and NMDOT we are still attempting negotiations... but with no apparent progress as Sec. Giron and Cheif Engineer Max Valerio are still attempting to build in loopholes to allow them to continue status quo sub-standard paving and design practices. To read more, or comment, please [click] to visit the latest news on this topic as posted in our Interactive Forum.
NCSL Publication:
Encouraging Bicycling and Walking, The State Legislative Role
A very informational piece designed to present benefits of encouraging Bicycling and Walking from Health and Economic development perspectives, how to plug into Federal Funding, and best practice standards when designing facilities. This is an 86 page document that has lots of nice pictures, and is a 2 MB file so you'll need a high-speed connection to download it.
Excellent Video on basic Urban biking skills
We have starting creating a collection of links to online training videos in the forum for Bike Riding skills, techniques, consideration... check out
[this one]
Local Event/Meeting Listings - We have local event and meeting listings available by city to allow local Chapter Moderators to upload information for their own areas. Rather than here on the homepage, look on the "Events" page. If your city is not listed in the dropdown menu of "Local Information", let me know, and I will work with you to see if there is an active group in your area that would like to become a BCNM affiliate and have a local Moderator.
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