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BIKE CLUB: HOW THE HUMBLE BICYCLE SHINES IN TULSA

There's something incredible happening for kids in Tulsa Public Schools (TPS), and bikes are a notable part of the story. Bike Club is an after-school program that, as of this school year, is active in 34 Tulsa schools and has a waitlist for students eager to join.

Bike Club expands to three Tulsa elementary schools, volunteers needed

The start of the 2023-2024 school year is just a few weeks away, and some Tulsa Public Schools will have something new to look forward to.Bike Club, a kid-centered program, is expanding this school year.

Bike Club Cleans Up Storm Debris at Tulsa Parks Trails

Bike Club Tulsa is doing what it can to help clean up at several parks with trails. At Bales Park, there are snapped and uprooted trees visible from the parking lot. While the city will take care of that mess, Bike Club is focused on the trails.

Tulsa: A Bike Friendly Community

Now in its ninth year, Bike Club has expanded from one elementary school to 31 schools and approximately 400 kids, targeting mostly fourth and fifth graders.

BIKE CLUB HOSTS END-OF-YEAR RALLY AT USA BMX IN TULSA

The End-of-Year rally comes after months of weekly after-school bike rides. Four hundred students rode from USA BMX Headquarters to Gathering Place for four miles after a year of developing skills and training.

More land, trails coming to River Parks

Bike Club Tulsa and Rogue Trails, an Arkansas-based trail design and construction firm, have worked together to build nearly 9 miles of hiking and biking trails within the Bales and Lubell parks and between them through Mooser Creek Greenway.

Building Inclusive Bicycling at School and Beyond

In Oklahoma, Bike Club Tulsa is creating a bicycle ecosystem, complete with adaptive cycling, educational opportunities, community repairs, and safer places to ride.

DONATION FROM COMMUNITY PARTNERS HELPS BUILD TRAIL SYSTEM AT TULSA PARK

More than three miles of hiking and biking trails are being built at Bales Park, thanks to a $190,000 donation from several community partners.

Bike Club Tulsa builds bikes for annual giveaway

Professional bike builders are assembling nearly 400 bikes for students across Tulsa this week. It's part of Bike Club Tulsa's Giveaway.

New trail system in Bales Park to eventually connect with other nearby trails

City breaks ground on 3.4-miles of trail at Bales Park.

West Tulsa mountain bike trails now open near 53rd St. and 33rd West Ave.

Converting this underutilized Tulsa Park into a mountain biker's paradise has been a project in the making for the last five years for Tulsa's Bike Club.

Students pedaling toward a solid future

Project Bike Tech is an accredited high-school entrepreneurial class that teaches bicycle mechanics, critical thinking, problem solving and business skills to prepare students for college or career.

Helmets and hand signals: Bike Club visits Owasso to teach kids bike skills, safety

A small group of local children got an opportunity to take part in Bike Club's Skills Camp at the Owasso Family YMCA.

Tulsa Public Schools Gives Several Clubs Bikes

When schools cancelled in person classes because of the pandemic, the Bike Clubs in Tulsa Public Schools ended their training rides too. The students' final ride was off and the free bikes at the end of the year seemed unlikely, but organizers didn't give up.

Jason Whorton, The Humble Son

In 2014, a friend connected me with a guy by the name of Mike Wozniak. Mike had an idea to build a bike course on some vacant land just north of downtown Tulsa. He wanted to repurpose this under-utilized space as a venue for the community to ride bikes. Mike spoke to Gary Percefull, a member of the Tulsa Public Schools Board, about his idea. Gary wasn't so sure about a bike course, but knew the principal of nearby Emerson Elementary and suggested they partner to start a Bike Club instead.

'Ready to shift gears': After 16 years, Gary Percefull is trading school board seat for bike seat

Gary Percefull, often found with a helmet strapped to his head and a crew of kids riding behind him, has no regrets about trading in his school board seat for a bike seat.

Sertoma Club meeting focuses on new Bike Club

Former Tulsa Parks Director Lucy Dolman spoke about her work to grow a Bike Club for Sand Springs students at a local Sertoma Club meeting this week.

John Klein: Bringing Tulsa to kids through Bike Club

Bike Club, an after-school program to teach and then ride bikes with fifth-graders at Tulsa Public Schools, has grown at an amazing rate from one school (17 kids) to 19 schools (more than 350 kids) in just five years.

Bike Clubs Combine Fun, Education and Exercise

Bike Club serves over a dozen primary schools as well as Webster Middle School and Hale High School.

Beautiful ride

Since starting at Emerson Elementary in 2014, the afterschool program called Bike Club has grown to serve 15 Tulsa Public Schools.

TPS Bike Club participants rally for end-of-year celebration

Nearly 200 kids dressed in uniform yellow reflective vests and helmets trekked two miles on bikes to the University of Tulsa campus Tuesday to cap off their year with Tulsa Bike Club.

Workers carving out trail for hikers, mountain bikes in west Tulsa park

Hikers and novice mountain bikers will soon be able to explore the wooded hills and curves of a new trail at a park nestled between a neighborhood and elementary school in west Tulsa.

After-School Bike Club Gets Kids Pedalling

Stick a kid in a car, and it’s not long before you’ll hear the universal cry of confined youth: “Are we there yet? When are we going to get there?” Stick a kid in a room full of bikes, however, and you’ll hear a different query: “When do we get to ride?”

Scores of volunteers build bicycles for after-school Bike Club program

Building 240 bicycles before school starts in three weeks was a daunting task. But the Bike Club got the job done in 95-degree heat at a stuffy downtown warehouse in a mere eight hours on Thursday.

School Bike Clubs Get Kids Rolling

Emerson Elementary School sixth-grader Isaic Ford skids to a stop, the back wheel of his bike sliding out from under him. He dramatically falls to the Emerson gym floor, looks up and smiles a big, toothy grin. His bike helmet lies at a slant on his head and his glasses rest on the end of his nose. Emerson Bike Club volunteer Wendy Frankenburger extends a hand to help him up. She laughs and pats him on the back.

Young students help prove that bike lanes work along Tulsa's 11th Street

With orange cones blocking the outer lanes of East 11th Street this week to create temporary bike lanes, the Tulsa's Young Professionals group hopes to prove that permanent lanes would be a viable option along historic Route 66 and other major thoroughfares across the city.

But the lanes prove nothing by themselves. They need cyclists.

Tulsa's after-school bicycle program is a big hit and a perfect model for other cities to emulate

The Tulsa Public School system in Oklahoma, along with the help of dozens of volunteers from some bike teams and bike clubs, and a handful of local area businesses, is blazing a trail with an after-school bicycle program that has been viewed, by many, as being incredibly successful in so many different and wonderful ways.

Bike clubs give elementary students a unique learning opportunity

An after-school bike club that started out as a pilot program at one elementary last year has now spread to six sites at Tulsa Public Schools.

On one afternoon last week, about 20 fifth-graders at Robertson Elementary gathered in the hall next to their lined-up bicycles, put on their helmets - labeled with their names - and set off on their first "field trip" on the bikes. It was the first time...

Soul cyclists

For most generations, there are few childhood memories that conjure our collective nostalgia more vividly than that first exhilarating ride on a bicycle.

Generous Tulsans, Bicycles Help Tulsa Students

One evening during an Indian Nations Council of Governments (INCOG) Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee, Mike Wozniak shared a dream. Wozniak, a BPAC member and Soundpony Lounge co-owner, introduced his vision for a bike park near Emerson Elementary. From there Jane Ziegler, BPAC chairperson, brought Woznaik and Gary Percefull, a member of BPAC and Tulsa School Board, together.