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Caltech Bicycle Program

Caltech invites you to be part of our annual Bike to Work Day Fair May 17, 2012

Bike Fair: 11:30 am- 1:00 pm (Sustainability Park)

Folding Bike Relay Race with your friends

Bike Scavenger Hunt finish the hunt and be entered to win a chance to win a prize.

Got a bike?! Then, you're ready for an action-packed week of events - the 6th Annual Bike Week Pasadena, May 14th-19th, 2012. C.I.C.L.E., the L.A. based bike advocacy non-profit, and the City of Pasadena present a week-long showcase for most skill levels and age groups to promote bicycling as a safe and sustainable mode of transportation.

All Bike Week Pasadena activities are free and open to the public. Here are this year's highlights:

Want more bike action? Sign up for the Kaiser Permanente Pasadena Marathon Bike Tour or attend Metro's Bike Week L.A.!

Riding Bikes with the Dutch - Movie Trailer 5

Bike Metro Pledge to ride see link below

Metro Bike to Work Details

Caltech Encourages bicycling for transportation and recreational purposes. Facilities for bicycle storage are located in various parts of the vampus. Showers and lockers are available at the Braun Athletic Center for Caltech faculty, students and staff. A Caltech identification card is required for use of the facility.

Registered members of the Bicycle Program receive 3 free daily parking permits each month to use in case they need to bring a vehicle onto Campus.

Bicycle Registration Form

Incentive Programs

Caltech Bike Shop Location and Link

Biking Directions on Google Map

Metro Bike Map

Bike to Work Calculator

Bike News!!!

Caltech's Folding Bike Program

Need a bike for a day, or for a trip, meeting, or just need to run some errands at lunch? Come by the Parking Office located at 515 S. Wilson Blvd 2nd floor to sign up to be part of the Caltech Folding Bike Program. Easy as 1,2,3...

1. Fill out program registration form, provide a $20.00 refundable deposit. (must be cash or check)

2. Pick up a Helmet and Bike lock

3. Unfold and RIDE!!!

Folding Bike Video Instructions

Caltech Bike Loaner Registration Form

Announcing Caltech Secured Bikecages are available!

Caltech is pleased to announce the Holliston secure bike storage unit is ready for use. It has camera coverage and swipe card access with 16 designated bike parking spaces. If you would like to become a user please contact Kristina Valenzuela Kristina.Valenzuela@caltech.edu in the transportation office ext 4729, to get signed up, collect the annual fee $50.00, and add the access to your ID card. Since we are guaranteeing an secured bike parking space users are limited.

Caltech Bike To Work Fair 2010

Caltech will be having our annual Bike to Work Fair on Thursday, May 20th from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at San Pasqual Walk.

Folding Bike Relay Race, sign up for Bike Workshop coming in June, Snacks,Drinks, visit with Bike related Vendors, and Sign up to get details on upcoming Folding Bike Loaner Program.

Celebrate Bike Week LA 2010 and ride your bike all week long. We expect a record number of participants to enjoy a relaxing, healthy and green bike ride to work, to school, or anywhere.

Be part of the solution! Check out the local events happening near you.

Bicycling and the law

If the white line at a stop sign doesn't extend all the way across the right side of the lane where I ride, do I still have to stop?

What the law says: California Vehicle Code Section 22450(a) requires a vehicle in an intersection marked by a stop sign to stop either at the white line crossing the lane - known as the "limit line" - or at the crosswalk at the near edge of the intersection. If there is no limit line or crosswalk, the vehicle must stop at the entrance to the intersection.

The rest of the story: Under California law, bicycles have the same responsibilities and rights as motor vehicles, including the responsibility to obey the laws that govern when and where vehicles must stop.

It appears to be something of an urban myth that bicycles don't have to stop at intersections where the limit line doesn't completely cross the lane. It's the stop sign, not the line on the pavement, that ultimately controls when and where a motor vehicle or bicycle must stop.

Bicyclists who fail to make a full stop at an intersection marked by a stop sign can be cited for doing so. Rolling past a stop sign can also be risky for the bicyclist and anyone else in the intersection, especially where cross traffic doesn't have a stop sign.

The takeaway: Where an intersection has a stop sign in the bicyclist's direction, the bicyclist must make a full stop.

Do you have a legal question you'd like to see answered in the CalBike Report? Contact us!

Many thanks to CBC board member and bicycle attorney Gary Brustin for reviewing this article.

Bike Links

Caltech Bike Lab http://caltechbikelab.blogspot.com/

Bike Repair Tool online http://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help

Bike Racks on Campus: http://sustainability.caltech.edu/uploads/image/new.bike.pdf

Bicycle Helmets for the 2009 Season:

http://www.helmets.org/helmet09.htm

Local bike commuting resources are:

Caltech Velo mailing list:

https://utils.its.caltech.edu/mailman/listinfo/cyclists