Sometimes supplementary to area bike maps, these guidebooks instruct riders on how to cycle appropriately.
Table of Contents
General Guides
Bike Belles
Research has shown that women are less likely than men to cycle. To help combat this issue, Sustrans has created a web page that includes several guides, information packets, and mapping tools to help women get started cycling. The Bike Belles Guide, released in February 2010, is packed full of ideas, tips and advice to help women enjoy riding their bikes.
The Bike Belles Guide (PDF, 1.8 MB)
"Drive Less, Live More" Booklet (Ozark Greenways Inc)
To get more residents bicycling in Springfield, Missouri, advocates at Ozark Greenways produced this 12-page booklet, which gives the beginning rider everything he or she needs to know to get started.
Drive Less, Live More (PDF)
Bicycle Lifestyle Guide
Designed by Cyclists Inciting Change through Live Exchange (CICLE), this 2009 booklet provides many interesting tips and ideas on choosing a cycling lifestyle. The format and presentation of this booklet could be effective in drawing in people who wouldn't likely be reached by more 'conventional' cycling advocacy/advertising.
Bicycle Lifestyle Guide (URL)
Bicycling Street Smarts: Riding Confidently, Legally, and Safely
This compact tutorial, available as a 46-page booklet and this online version, will increase your safety and confidence while bicycling on any road, whether you are a beginner or an expert. Published by Rubel BikeMaps.
Bicycling Street Smarts: Riding Confidently, Legally, and Safely (URL)
Bike Commuting 101
Bike PGH has produced a graphic novel-based approach to bike education in its "Bike Commuting 101" publication. The commuter guide provides information on choosing a bike, getting fitted on the bike, how to ride safe, useful accessories, and more.
Bike Commuting 101 (PDF, 12.1 MB)
Bike Commuting 101 Website (URL)
Go By Bike Brochure
A "Guide to Commuting On a Bicycle" is brochure from MassBike with information on bicycle commuting and safety.
Go By Bike Brochure (PDF, 226 KB)
Iowa Goes By Bicycle Guide
June 8, 2011. With the Iowa Goes By Bicycle Challenge, which runs from May 2 through October, the Iowa Bicycle Coalition challenges its residents to leave their cars at home and go by bike. This publication covers all the facts of the challenge, in addition to providing important resources for the cycling newbie, including rules, routes, bicycles and gear, nutrition, and much more.
Iowa Goes By Bicycle Guide (URL)
Metro Vancouver Cyclists Handbook
In 2011, HUB (formerly Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition) released their Cyclists Handbook and made it available in five languages: Punjabi, Korean, Tagalog, Chinese and English. The guide shares tips for safe and comfortable riding, outlines applicable laws and helps bicyclists choose good routes.
Handbook in Punjabi (PDF)
Handbook in Korean (PDF)
Handbook in Tagalog (PDF)
Handbook in Chinese (PDF)
Handbook in English (PDF)
Pedestrian safety: a road safety manual for decision-makers and practitioners (WHO)
This guide, developed by the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration, informs the reader of the magnitude of pedestrian death and injury; key risk factors; how to assess the pedestrian safety situation in a country or area and prepare an action plan; and how to select, design, implement and evaluate effective interventions.
Pedestrian Safety Manual (PDF, 5.4 MB)
Family Biking Guides
Family Biking Guide
This guide from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition offers advice and support to parents who want to incorporate biking into their family's lifestyle. According to the authors, the guide "is meant to help answer many of the questions you may have, provide resources, and hopefully give you encouragement along the way!" (URL)
Family Biking Guide
For Kids and Parents
This handbook by Active Living Resources includes common myths, common crash types, and important skills necessary to ensure safety.
Bicycle Safety: What Every Parent Should Know (PDF, 697 KB)
For Kids - Flyers
These flyers from the Bicycle Coalition of Maine teaches kids four ways to be a safe biker and walker. The back sides contain messages for parents on how to improve safety for their kids:
Be a Safe Bike Driver: Handout for Kids (PDF, 425 KB)
Be A Safe Walker: Handout for Kids (PDF, 562 KB)
