There are many ways cycling can be a family activity with kids of all ages! Grab your helmets and cycle on one of the many Blue Route Trails! Avoid cycling on roads with children or inexperienced cyclers. It’s safer to cycle away from vehicles, especially when building up skills. Choose a route that isn’t too long or advanced for your most inexperienced cycler. Want to refresh your cycling safety knowledge? Check out this post about cycling safety, hand signals, and helmets.
To cycle with young children, trailers and child seats can be installed onto regular bikes or special front-bucket cargo bikes can be purchased. Tag-a-long bikes can be installed onto the back of regular bikes to build confidence for young ...
The Town of New Glasgow and Cycling Nova Scotia are proud to announce the project's completion.
The Blue Route is a province-wide project to create a continuous cycling network across Nova Scotia. The Blue Route Hubs Project (now known as the Core AT Networks Project) aims to help communities along the Blue Route evaluate their potential to develop AT routes. Whether you drive, walk, roll, or ride, active transportation infrastructure is for you.
Cycling Nova Scotia’s Active Transportation Planner/Designer worked with staff, community, and stakeholders to identify three potential route options to link New Glasgow residents to key destinations and connect the Blue Route into downtown. A series of focus groups, interviews, surveys, pop-up engagement and community bike rides were used ...
Do you know how to be safe while cycling? This post is all about cycling safety, signals, and bike helmets. Keeping yourself safe is one of the most important aspects of cycling. Being safe while riding minimizes the risk of injuries, collisions, and damages. In this post, we have grouped together 3 areas of safety. Keep reading for information about general cycling safety, signals, and helmets.
SEE, BE SEEN, AND BE PREDICTABLE
Three things to keep in mind when cycling are: see, be seen, and be predictable. Here’s how these keep you safe.
SEE
Make sure you’re able to see your surroundings. Good visibility is important to ensure you can recognize and avoid safety hazards. Wear sunglasses on bright sunny days. Turn on ...
Welcome to Cycling Nova Scotia, Delphi Le Blanc & Luna Pryor!
Delphi Le Blanc (she/her) is a 4th year Dalhousie student majoring in German and Environment, Sustainability, and Society (ESS). She is thrilled to be interning at Cycling Nova Scotia for the summer and feels particularly lucky to be working in Active Transportation (AT). Delphi is passionate about combining sustainability with community. Connecting people together is one of her main interests. Delphi is excited to learn more about AT in Nova Scotia and to connect with change makers. She hopes to gain more experience with AT and how to implement positive change. Delphi plans on continuing her studies post-grad to look deeper at fostering communities to build resilience against the ...
Burgher Hill Jump Line project supported by CCTH
Kentville, NS has become a Mecca for mountain biking in recent years. With the ever-expanding trail systems in the Gorge and Bird Sanctuary to the rails to trails which connect them, the valley has become synonymous with Cycling. Now, in 2023, with the Canadian Mountain Bike Nationals coming to town in July, Kentville has upped the game once again.
The development of Burgher Hill, with the support of the Province’s Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage division and Cycling NS, have created a place for mountain bikers to practice and refine their jumping skills, a necessary tool for today’s mountain bike competitor or enthusiast.
CCHT has invested 2 million dollars from the Province will help ...
Gravel racing is all the rage. Come out and see why everyone is talking about how much fun a gravel race can be. Set in beautiful Wentworth Valley, the Big Dirty Gravel Ride is going to be an amazing day of biking all for a great cause. Sign up today on Zone 4! ...
