Meredith Klein, a 12th-grade math teacher at a high school for recent immigrants, brought bike education to her school with the help of Bike New York, Recycle-A-Bicycle and the NYC Department of Transportation. Here’s what she told us about why she did it and what riding bikes means to her students as well as herself.

Neil Bezdek is a champion cyclist, a writer for cycling publications like Bicycling magazine, and a planner for the bike share group at the New York City Department of Transportation. We caught up with him to talk about what got him riding, how he stays warm during the winter, and what competitive cycling means to him as a professional racer and as a New Yorker.

Sharon Pope, Bike New  York’s Outreach Manager—and resident Roosevelt Islander—joined our staff full time in August; we thought it was high time to check in with her about what she’s been up to in the outer boroughs, how Roosevelt Island has changed over the last few decades, and what word she’d use to describe her new coworkers.