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This is a great story about a Temple alumna making big waves in the community using bicycles! Read on below...

Kristin Gavin, an adjunct professor and alumna founded “Gearing Up,” a program in the Interim House that encourages recovery through cycling.

Some choose to write poetry, others knit and still others may listen to music to escape from the stress they encounter day-to-day. But for others, these stationary activities can be replaced with a helmet and a bike.

Experiencing my first bike wipeout (no worries, it was very minor) and just being plum out of luck with no bandages in my bag, I decided it might be a good idea to post on the Bike Temple website some suggestions about what to carry in your biking bag, in case of emergency. The article below, written by Jane at Cycling Sisters gives a great list of items you may want to think about carrying with you on a ride.

When interviewing Temple medical residency candidates, one of the first questions that Deputy Program Director Sue Gersh asks is, "Are you a cyclist?"

The way they answer doesn’t sway her decision, but the question does offer future internal medicine doctors insight into the culture of the Temple department. More than half the doctors in the General Internal Medicine division are cyclists; those who don't bike are avid exercisers.

If you travel along Spruce and Pine East of Broad St you may have seen some new signs: We wrote about the Green Wave for bicycles back in January. The term 'Green Wave' applies to any road where signals are synchronized for traffic to flow during the green phase at a set speed.