Davis Bicycles! Projects

• Fifth Street redesign
  This proposal would add bike lanes, provide smoother, calmer traffic flow, and improve safety along the main east-west throughfare in downtown Davis. Similar changes made to over 100 streets all across the US have been successful.


• Bike To Schools project
  DB! is working with local schools to encourage more bicycling to school and to address infrastructure needs, such as bike parking at schools.


• Enterprise Bike Column
  Davis Bicycles! now has a biweekly column in the Davis Enterprise. We welcome volunteers willing to write, proof and encourage columns. Submissions can focus on any topic relating to biking in Davis: history, humor, encouragement, personal observations, tips on riding, storage, safety, health and environmental benefits, infrastructure ideas, etc. Our goal is to increase bike awareness in Davis. The see past columns or learn more go to the Bike Column page. Or, get in on the ground floor of this project by contacting Joe Krovoza.


• Film Festival 2009
  Mark your calendars: 7:00 pm, Saturday, October 24, 2009 @ DHS Brunelle/IPAB Theater! Davis Bicycles! will continue the tradition started last year by holding our second annual DB! Film Festival, or DB!FF. Plan to attend this fun, informative and, we hope, provocative family-friendly evening. Spread the word. The deadline for submissions will be Tuesday, October 6. For information on submission rules or to volunteer to help DB!FF II to great heights of bike culture, awareness and advocacy, write to Joe Krovoza.

Past projects

• First Annual Bike Film Festival
  The first annual festival on Oct. 3, 2008 featured the world premier of Zen and the Art of Bicycle Commuting, a short film produced by Davisites in 2008. We re-screened other specially-selected fun, funny, serious and informative short films from portions of Portland Filmed By Bike festivals in 2007 and 2008, Streetfilms, and videos from other sources.


• "Zen and the Art of Bicycle Commuting: How to Commute from Davis to Sacramento by Bicycle"
  is a 28 minute instructional video produced and directed by Ken Celli. This video describes bike commute routes from Davis to downtown Sacramento, and details some logistical issues involved in bike commuting, including what to bring and how to bring it. It gives viewers a clear picture of the true time commitment involved, in relation to distance travelled. It documents the Davis to Sacramento bike commuter culture and how these bike commuters are part of broader positive change. The video concludes with a discussion of the need for a connection between the Old Route 40 Bike Path and the Pelz Overcrossing in order to increase the number of new bike commuters from Davis. The proposed connector ramp would separate cyclists from the increased traffic due to freeway metering lights and the new Target store. The video is narrated by Davis radio host Allison Keenan and tells the story through interviews with Davis bicycle commuters. The video project was a collaboration of the UC Davis Education for Sustainable Living Program, Davis Media Access and Davis Bicycles!


• Bike Plan for the City of Davis
  In the Summer of 2007, DB! took charge of the stalled process to write the Bike Plan for the city. (See the information page that we set up during that time on writing the Bike Plan.)


• "100 Things to Fix"
  In 2007 DB! worked with the City of Davis to identify needs and facilitate solutions. This "To Do" list for the City, where citizens can make suggestions and follow progress on things that are in the public works queue, has evolved into the Bicycle Hazards page on DavisWiki.org