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Serving Santa Barbara County We’re a countywide advocacy and resource organization that promotes bicycling for safe transportation and recreation.

How to reach us Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition PO Box 92047 Santa Barbara CA 93190-2047 phone 568-3046 email info@sbbike.org web www.sbbike.org

August 5th meeting Join us on Tuesday, August 5th for our monthly meeting. Help us celebrate and improve bicycling: Tuesday, 12:00 noon County Public Works Conference Room, 1st Floor 123 East Anapamu Street Santa Barbara, California

Coalition pursues Ellwood bikepaths If you haven’t been to the Ellwood-Devereux area, go! It’s a superb 665-acre open space between Sandpiper Golf Course and Isla Vista, with over two miles of beaches. For ten years, people have been fighting proposed homes on those oceanfront acres, and a recent goal to purchase and protect the land was met.

Planning for the space is moving ahead. A Joint Proposal for the Ellwood-Devereux Coast by the County and UCSB was published in early 2002. Recently, the City of Goleta became a new partner in the process. The study details current use, sensitive habitats, regional impacts, and proposed amenities such as trails. A 42-hour survey of users found that 13% of the people visited the area on bicycles.

The Ellwood-Devereux area is currently a very popular place to appreciate nature on foot and bicycle.

Online email list We sponsor an online email forum where you can post and read messages that pertain to regional bicycling issues. It’s easy and free. To subscribe to our general forum, just send an email message to: sbbike-subscribe@topica.com

Leave the subject line and body of the message blank. That’s all!

Join the Coalition You can help improve bicycling safety and conditions in Santa Barbara County by joining others in our own regional Bicycle Coalition advocacy group.

Together we will continue to make a real difference. See page 6 for details.

For sale: video & flag We’re pleased to offer our own video “Decide to Ride.” It’s about a young woman who learns to bike commute to work. It’s only $18 (tax and US shipping included) from us, address above.

Plus, we’re selling Bike Week flags, 4’x6’ heavy nylon, terra cotta and white. They’re $33 plus tax. Look at this PDF file: www.sbbike.org/art-home/ flag.pdf

August 2003

This map shows the proposed Joint Proposal bikepaths within the Ellwood-Devereux area.

A well-attended public workshop was held on June 25. Many people, including Bicycle Coalition members, spoke in favor of bicycle/pedestrian paths and trails. Vie Obern noted that since 1966, people have been trying to create a California Coastal Trail, and this is the perfect opportunity to forge a link through the area. Ralph Fertig spoke for including a path that will give Ellwood Elementary School children a safe means to walk and bike to school. Robert Bernstein hoped that various trail proposals will be combined into one that is part of the de Anza National Historic Trail.

The subject of bicyclist access to the EllwoodDevereux area was discussed at our July 1st meeting.

It was agreed that we write a letter from the Bicycle Coalition expressing the need for bicyclist access.

The resultant July 10 letter, from Coalition president Wilson Hubbell, stressed two aspects: • All-Weather Commuter Trails. One part would connect bikelanes on west end of Phelps Road with the Ellwood community to provide access to UCSB. The other would connect Ellwood residents with

Hollister bikelanes and Ellwood Elementary School • Unpaved Recreational Trails. Noting that the Ellwood Mesa is a favorite destination for recreational cyclists seeking a quiet and relaxing ride away from traffic, unpaved trails should be planned as long as they stay away from environmentally-sensitive areas. A decomposed granite surface or similar naturally-colored pathway could be installed to focus biking activity.

In addition to the Bicycle Coalition’s letter, member Michael Kwan wrote separately to advocate saving a place away from traffic for kids to develop their bike-handling skills. He cited current dirt-trail use in the Elwood-Devereux area by both Boy Scouts and Santa Barbara Middle School students. With access to South County mountain trails threatened, it’s more important to save trails in the Elwood-Devereux area.

What’s next? A Preliminary Plan will be released in October 2003, followed by another public workshop.

Then a Draft Plan will be released in January 2004, followed by a final public workshop and comment period. Then, the Final Plan should be finished by early summer 2004. We’ll be watching.

Member Appreciation Barbecue on August 10 It’s coming. Mark your calendars for Sunday, August 10th, 1:00-4:00 PM. Last year 70 Bicycle Coalition members showed up for an afternoon of eating and fun and meeting one another. It was so good that we decided to repeat it. Watch for an invitation with details coming soon to your mailbox. We’ll be returning to Goleta Beach County Park, same Area D as last year. Look for the big blue bike flag. See you there!

Taking it with you Word from the President Messenger bags and backpacks are a common way to carry a load on a bicycle, but long distance tourists (and old-time paperboys) know that Wilson Hubbell, President. the best place to carry weight is on your bike and not your back. It’s too bad that many contemporary bicycles have little or no provision for mounting a rear rack to carry the load, and so bikies choose messenger bags and backpacks because they see no alternatives.

The good news is that some newer model racks can be easily mounted on bikes without conventional mounting eyelets. For example: Old Man Mountain Works is local manufacturer of high quality bicycle racks. Their Sherpa model is made in Goleta and can even be mounted on the back of Lance Armstrong’s Trek to carry a static load of 40 pounds! Do you want a rack on your bike and see no way of mounting one? Go to www.oldmanmountain.com and you’ll likely find the solution.

There is also an excellent way of carrying weight on a bike with no rack at all: The British have long been known for old-school leather and black canvas saddlebags that mount to the back of a saddle. The Carradice Company of Nelson, England still makes these beauties in a number of different sizes (including a really big one called the Camper), and all of them need no frame-mounted rack.

I use a model called the Nelson Longflap (is that British or what!) to carry work clothes for the commute to and from the office. It works sweet and the price is not bad either. You won’t find these at your local bike shop so go to www.peterwhitecycles.com or www.wallbike.com for a look-see. I’ve dealt with both these guys and they’re prompt, honest and priced right.

Bicycle transportation for the people

by Jamey Wagner balanced view and acknowlHarry Nelson lives in West edges that not all trips can Campus Housing and rides his be made by bicycle. For exinternal-hub beach cruiser ample he totes his two chiloutfitted with a HUGE front dren around by car when basket the mile and a half to bike or bus will not fit the his job as a physics professor bill. at UCSB. He reports that it Harry wants bike infradid not take long for him to structure upgrades linked to figure out that he could get upgrades for cars. For excloser to his building, faster, ample he lobbied for planHarry Nelson at work. Photo by when he bikes to work. He ning on Highway 217 that Lillian Kuroaka, UCSB. noted that “It would be emincluded alternative transbarrassing if I did not bike to work. If I do not portation such as bike, bus and carpool opbike to work, I feel strange.” Even though tions. Unfortunately his lone voice on this bike commuting may be obvious to Harry, he topic never gained traction with the planners. reports that only about a third of the residents Harry commented that Isla Vista (IV) reof West Campus Housing bike to campus. sembles Amsterdam in terms of how the roads Harry started biking and walking more dur- in IV are not primarily for cars. Today the ing the Arab Oil Embargo in 1973. In the US, prevalence of folks getting around on bikes the car serves as an extension of our living and skateboards intimidates cars in IV. He has rooms where people do everything from eat to researched early (1970s) IV planning efforts make love. Here cars are primarily for transand even then, plans were laid to accommoportation and bikes are too frequently consid- date bikes as the primary transportation ered kids’ toys used for leisure or for sporting mode. Picasso and Pardall were both identified events rather than transportation. early on as bicycle corridors. Harry now enviHe has traveled extensively and noted how sions bicycle/car separation measures on he tends to evaluate each countries use of bi- Camino Pescadero linked with a bicycle-undercycles. He lived for a time in Europe and pass at El Colegio to accommodate the 10,000 noted that Europeans tend to view bikes and bicycle commuters living in IV. cars differently than we do. Cars are for sportCloser to his own home, Harry would like to ing (like on the autobahn) in Europe and help create a Class I bikepath linking the bikes are often used for short trips and shop- beauty of Ellwood Mesa to UCSB and Isla Vista. ping. Harry would like to see the US become Perhaps low impact lighting or water-permemore European with regard to land use planable glow-in-the-dark paving could be used to ning and infrastructure that encourages bireduce light pollution in this open space. cycle and transit use.

“There would be an incentive to ride this path Our “petroleum economy” has a stranglebecause it would be so beautiful,” comments hold on us, lamented Harry. He does have a Harry.

Semana Nautica bike events attract hundreds

A crash is not an accident Words can mislead people when talking about bicyclist crashes. We should not call them “accidents” because it implies that they’re unpreventable. It suggests that these events are outside human influence or control, and nobody is responsible for them.

Instead of “accident” use terms like “crash,” “collision” and “incident.” And be careful not to have any.

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Semana Nautica in Santa Barbara included two bike events this year: the Semana Nautica Criterium on June 28th and the Super D Races on July 12th. They were organized by Mike Hecker and Ed Cox, respectively. The Criterium took place on City streets and attracted over 200 racers. It included a Kid’s Race (right photo) that brought out families and pretty excited young riders.

The Super D races (left photo) were at Elings Park and attracted lots of enthusiastic racers.

House committee cuts $600 million projects On July 24, the House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee cut $600 million in “Transportation Enhancements” like bicycling projects from the 2004 budget. Instead of bike, walking, landscaping, historic preservation and other projects that enrich our lives and help make alternatives to the car feasible, they voted to use the money for more roads and bridges. This is not final, the entire House has to vote on it and the Senate has its say too, but it is a scary precedent at this time because the reauthorization of the entire 6-year transportation act to replace “TEA-21” is being considered this year.

In Santa Barbara County, we have received $12.5 million over the past 11 years from Transportation Enhancement funds. Losing funds for 2004 means over a million dollars to us. Our bikeway TE projects—those finished and those currently being planned—include: • California Coastal Trail, Carpinteria • SB City College Pathways, Santa Barbara • UNOCAL Pipeline Bikepath, Santa Maria • California Coastal Bicycle Route, SB County • Santa Ynez River Bridge Bikeway, Lompoc • Santa Maria/Guadalupe Bikeway, Santa Maria • El Capitan Ranch Bikeway, SB County • Santa Maria Valley RR Bikeway, Santa Maria • Los Carneros Road Bikepath, SB County • California Coastal Trail, SB County • Los Carneros Road Bikelanes, SB County • Ellwood Bike/Ped Overcrossing, SB County • Shoreline Drive Park Expansion, Santa Barbara • Riverbend Park Bikeway, Lompoc.

Many other Enhancement projects have been funded locally, such as the Carpinteria Salt Marsh restoration, Buellton Pedestrian Gateway, Santa Maria Union Valley Parkway landscaping, Los Carneros Road landscaping, and land acquisition for the Wilcox Property, Carpinteria Bluffs, and El Capitan Ranch.

What can we do? Contact your Representative and tell them that we want the $600 million Transportation Enhancements restored to the TEA-21 budget. The House will consider this bill in September, so act this month: Lois Capps, Representative, 730-1710 1216 State Street, Suite 403 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Elton Gallegly, Representative, 485-2300 2829 Townsgate Road, Suite 315 Westlake Village, CA 91361 “Transportation Enhancements account for less than 2¢ of every Federal surface transportation dollar,” says Keith Laughlin, president of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. “For less than 2¢ per dollar we get a popular program that supports locally-initiated transportation projects in communities across America.”

Highway 101 and bikeways in Carpinteria otherwise. So motorThe City of Carpinteria ized traffic is exand Caltrans are planpected to increase on ning changes for us Via Real when it with two new projects: closes the Linden• Caltrans will replace Bailard gap—making and widen two it less appealing to Highway 101 bridges bicyclists who now at Linden Avenue use the existing and Casitas Pass parts.

Road, and reconfigure their Currently there is access ramps a great bikepath that • Carpinteria will connects Via Real complete Via Real with Carpinteria Avbetween Linden and enue. It crosses This bikepath under Highway 101 gives Via Real Bailard Avenues. residents easy access to school and shopping.

Carpinteria Creek and As bicyclists, our conswoops under 101. cerns are convenience and safety, especially People use it all the time. However, because it for children biking to nearby schools. deters steelhead trout from swimming upPreliminary drawings for the projects were stream to spawn, the old path will be removed available at a public forum on July 8th, atand a new one will be built entirely on the tended by Bicycle Coalition’s VP Ralph Fertig. west side of the creek. The new path entrance The intent of the meeting was to get public will be off the south side of a new segment of comments about alternate ramp locations. It Via Real. That path and Via Real connection was hard, however, to envision how bicycle will enable more employees who work on one crossings and lanes will be marked eventually. side of 101 and live on the other to bike comRob Miller from Caltrans assured us that both mute. new bridges will have sidewalks and bikelanes Via Real will still have a gap between Linon both sides. den and Santa Ynez Avenues, so the projects For Carpinteria’s project on Via Real, one of won’t offer cyclists a faster alternative to the the reasons for connecting it is to reduce traf- popular Carpinteria Avenue bikelanes. fic on 101. Since Via Real is discontinuous What's next? You can make comments on now, people use 101 more than they would this early phase to Caltrans’ Lisa Johnson before July 30— lisa_johnson@dot.ca.gov. Project details will be online in the future as details become available. However you can find out more from Johnson at 805-549-3095. A draft Our July 1st Bicycle Coalition meeting was a Environmental Impact Report will be available successful evening event at Taffy’s Pizza, atfor comment in summer 2004. A final EIR will tracting members who we rarely meet. It inbe out summer 2005. Construction will take cluded these topics: place 2008-2012.

• Erika Lindemann reported on Bike to Work Day events that have drawn steady numbers for 3 years. The possibility of charging for Tshirts was considered.

• Mike Hecker reported that his new Semana Nautica Criterium attracted 205 racers.

• Goleta City Council voted to halt consideration of changing Los Carneros bridge at Highway 101.

• Our Member Appreciation Barbecue is set for August 10, Ralph Fertig and Erika Lindemann will work on details.

• There was no report from our Nominating Committee.

• The Coalition voted to support trails for transportation and recreation in the Ellwood-Devereux area; a letter will be written by Wilson Hubbell.

• Ralph Fertig reported that SB City bicyclist counts declined for 2003, but were apparently influenced by our poor weather.

July meeting topics

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Carpinteria pioneers stabilized DG paths

Upcoming bike meetings & events

A new trail approach has come to our area. The City of Carpinteria has installed paths around its 52-acre Carpinteria Bluffs preserve, just dedicated on July 3rd. According to Parks and Recreation’s Matt Roberts, what’s new is that they’re made with decomposed granite—think very coarse sand—bound with a polymer.

August 5, General Meeting. Meeting at noon, first Tuesday of the month, County Public Works conference room, 123 East Anapamu Street, First Floor, Santa Barbara. Phone president Wilson Hubbell, 568-3046 or email him at hubbell@co.santa-barbara.ca.us.

The Carpinteria DG trails are edged with either concrete, extruded plastic edging, or stones.

The result is a hard but natural-looking surface that meets ADA standards for wheelchair use. The polymer is made by Soil Stabilization Products and was used extensively for paths around the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It can be strewn with loose decomposed granite, but then it becomes too slippery for inline skaters—and speeding cyclists.

FREE BIKE MAP!

August 5, 12, 19, 26, Santa Barbara Summer Nitecross Mountain Bike Twilight Dirt Criterium Series, sponsored by Bermant Development Company and RideSB.com. This is a new 5-week NORBA-sanctioned training series of Tuesday evening races. You can register for any race or the entrie series. Races will be on a different course each week, starting at 5:00 PM. Location is on private land on Via Giatero near Highway 154, northwest of Santa Barbara. Dinner included. Details at www.bikesb.com.

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Take a spin on the new bikepath just west of the Biltmore Hotel in Montecito.

At $500,000, the Channel Drive bikepath is undoubtedly the most expensive—and maybe the most beautiful—one in our County. Paid totally by adjacent resident Ty Warner, it is now lower, extensively landscaped, repaved, and sports a wood rail fence. In addition, sevAugust 10, Member Appreciation Barbecue. Back by popular demand, our second an- eral trees that constantly grew into the path have been removed. The ocean views are sunual member party will take place at Goleta Beach County Park at 1:00 PM. It’s a pot-luck, perb now that they are no longer interrupted by a chain-link fence. Our thanks to Warner open to members, family and friends. Mark your calendars and watch your mail for details for his generous contribution, and to Wilson Hubbell who insisted on an adjacent Fairway as this great gathering is put together.

Road bike detour rather than a distant one August 23-24, Santa Barbara Triathlon, through Montecito’s busy Coast Village Road. sponsored by Adventours Outdoor Excursions.

The Saturday races will have a field of 600 competitors in the Long Course (bike leg is 34 miles) and 330 in the Sprint Course (with a 6mile bike leg). The new Women Only Sprint Georgia Case from the Bikestation Coalition Course on Sunday is limited to 330. Details at visited Santa Barbara on July 24 and outlined www.adventours-inc.com/common/sbct2003.htm. a cooperative process with the Bicycle Coali-

Bikestation update

tion. Speaking before the City’s Transportation and Circulation Committee, Case described various services that other bikestations here and overseas offer, like self-serve bike lockers, A new walking and bicycling conference will memberships, electric vehicle rentals, bike be held October 15-18 in Oakland, California. rentals, bike repair, and equipment sales. In Sponsored by the California Bicycle Coalition order to assess local possibilities, the Bicycle and the City of Oakland, the conference will Coalition will co-host a workshop, probably in feature speakers and presenters that include October, to gather public comments. nationally-recognized experts, state legislaThe Santa Barbara Bikestation is to be part tors, local, regional and state agency repreof the Granada Garage parking structure on sentatives, planners and engineers, public Anacapa behind the Granada Theater. That health promoters, plus pedestrian and bicyproject was delayed when bids for construcclist advocates. tion came in over expectations, but the differThe conference will highlight walking-andences are being resolved, and the Bikestation bicycling’s ability to relieve congestion, stimuwill remain part of the project. late economic activity, increase safety, and forge healthier communities throughout California and the Western US. Ads in Quick Release Register by August 15th for $199 before Quick Release accepts advertisements. Circulation is the price increases. Presentation proposals are over 400 people. Ads are business card size, 3.5” wide being accepted through August 8th. You’ll x 2.0” high. Cost per ad is $18 each, or 12 consecutive find conference details and online registration ads for $180. Details and an order form are available on PDF format online at: www.sbbike.org/QR/ad.pdf . at www.walkbikecalifornia.net. Or phone Chris Morfas at 916-446-7558.

Walk/Bike California

For Santa Barbara County Bike Maps, info on ridesharing and van pools, just call: 963-SAVE.

Bikepath reopens

Implementation Plan

Bicyclist count shows that weather matters

While some think that the issue of whether or not to widen Highway 101 between Santa Barbara and Carpinteria has nothing to do with people on bicycles, they should consider the proposed Highway 101 Implementation Plan.

These are times of limited funding and the “IP” will consider costs and all options to contend with single-occupant-vehicle congestion through the entire South Coast, not just on one road. If hundreds of millions of our transportation dollars are concentrated on one mode of travel, then we’ll have no choice.

The IP offers a process to explore ways to facilitate the movement of people and goods, with the goal of an informed consensus on a mix of projects that will most efficiently serve us. The 2-year process will involve an extensive public outreach effort and, according to Caltrans District Director Gregg Albright, will speed up widening if that’s the best choice.

The South Coast Sub-Regional Committee has been considering the IP, but has been unable to agree on recommendations to send to the whole SBCAG Board for vote. They will meet again on August 6th, 3:00-5:00 PM at the MTD conference room, 550 Olive Street, Santa Barbara. You might consider attending.

Thanks to Bicycle Coalition members and other volunteers, we helped the City of Santa Barbara and ourselves with data on bicyclist numbers and behavior. This is the seventh year in a row that we have done the six-day June count.

What are the results? We counted 3145 bicyclists at 25 intersections—that’s over a bicyclist a minute on the average. The counts were all 4:00-6:00 PM on mid-week days in mid-June. Because the intersections that we count vary slightly from one year to another, for overall trends we examine 13 intersections that have been counted each year.

The year-to-year results for those 13 intersections show a 10% decrease in 2003 over the average of 1997-2002, as seen in the above graph.

Are bicyclist numbers really declining? Perhaps. However, a look at the 2003 weather suggests otherwise. Counts were made over six mid-week days between June 10-19. On June 10th, we had light rain/drizzle through the morning. On June 17th, it was sunny, warm and beautiful all day. On the other four days, it was cloudy and cool until late afternoon.

If the 2003 data are separated into those three weather categories, a distinct pattern emerges as shown at the left. It seems very clear that weather conditions—especially light rain—effect the number of people who choose to bicycle on a given day. And if the days had all been sunny, the total counts would have matched the 1997-2002 average.

From other data collected, 22% of bicyclists wore helmets, 18% rode on sidewalks, and 4% rode the wrong way on the street. These numbers are all within one percent of prior averages.

Out special thanks to all volunteer counters: Bob Burgess, Eileen Daley, Pierre Delong, Ralph Fertig, Tricia Guifoyle, Ken Hughes, Drew Hunter, Eva Inbar, Ann Lawler, Jim Marshall, Owen Patmor, Doris Phinney, Dru van Hengel, and Gary Wissman.

Active members Please thank and support the following businesses that are Bicycle Coalition members: • King Cycle Group, Shasta Lake • MarBorg Industries, Santa Barbara • Nett & Champion Insurance, Santa Barbara • Rincon Cycles, Carpinteria • Tri Paradise Sports, Santa Barbara • Lightning Cycle Dynamics, Lompoc We’re very grateful to the following who renewed their memberships: Ann & Mike Lawler, Robert Young, Neal Turner, Glenn Reinhart, Annemarie Horner, David Madajian, Al Leydecker, Ann Paff and Bill Powell.

IV plan advances On July 22, the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to move the Isla Vista Master Plan into its next phase. The Plan has been developed over the past several years through meetings and community changes urged by consultant Opticos Design. The current draft plan will now enter an environmental review process. It will then go to the Planning Commission in the spring 2004, back to the Board for final approval in fall 2004, and to the Coastal Commission in spring 2005. You can read the plan at www.islavistaplan.org or get details from Heather Baker at 568-2000.

Pardall Road in IV may get roundabouts and new buildings that combine shops with apartments.

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Mail to Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition, PO Box 92047, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-2047

Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition President, Wilson Hubbell, 568-3046 hubbell@co.santa-barbara.ca.us

Vice President, Ralph Fertig, 962-1479 sb-ralph@cox.net

Secretary, position open Treasurer, Gary Wissman, 964-4607 gary@gwissman.com

Director, Chuck Anderson, 893-4616 mtbchuck@cox.net

Director, Mike Hecker, 966-1807 hecktone@cox.net

Director, Drew Hunter, 542-5112 watair1@earthlink.net

Director, Erika Lindemann, 961-8919 elindemann@sbcag.org

Director, Dru van Hengel, 564-5544 dvanhengel@ci.santa-barbara.ca.us

Regional bicycle clubs & groups Bicycle Touring Club of Solvang Dan Henry, 688-3330

Chaingang

Cyclone Racing Beth Wallace, 753-6673 xyzbethie@aol.com

Echelon Santa Barbara James Morgan, 692-2766 sblivin@earthlink.net

Goleta Valley Cycling Club Kathleen Boehm, 687-6218 kboehm@silcom.com

Lompoc Valley Bicycle Club Ray Harris, 736-5454

SB Mountain Bike Trail Volunteers Chuck Anderson, 565-7511 sbmtv@cox.net

Santa Barbara Bicycle Club Mike Hecker, 966-1807 hecktone@cox.net Santa Barbara BMX, Dale Bowers LBowers508@aol.com

Tailwinds Bicycle Club Carl Beerup, 474-9099 beerup@charter.net

UCSB Cycling Club Philip Chang, 968-4082 pchang@physics.ucsb.edu

Gary Minar, 688-7957 gminar@syv.com

Road repair contacts Caltrans Pat Mickelson, 968-5779 pat_mickelson@dot.ca.gov

Members of the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition are offered discounts at local bike shops. It’s another reason to join our advocacy group. To get your discount, take your copy of Quick Release to the shop & show them your address label that says “MEMBER” on it. Or cut out the label box and take it.

Discount details are posted on our web site at www.sbbike.org/SBBC/ who.html. Please patronize the following shops: Bicycle Bob’s 250 Storke Road #A, Goleta 15 Hitchcock Way, Santa Barbara

Carpinteria Rick Fulmer, 684-5405 x402 rickfulmer@hotmail.com

Goleta Steve Wagner, 961-7511 swagner@cityofgoleta.org

Lompoc

Bicycle Connection 223 W. Ocean Avenue, Lompoc

Big Gear Bike Gear 324 State Street #A, Santa Barbara

Cycles 4 Rent 101 State Street, Santa Barbara 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd, Santa Barbara 1111 E. Cabrillo Blvd, Santa Barbara

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Santa Barbara County Wilson Hubbell, 568-3046 hubbell@co.santa-barbara.ca.us

Santa Maria Rick Sweet, 925-0951 x227 71064.3132@compuserve.com

Solvang Tom Rowe, 688-5575 tomr@cityofsolvang.com

UCSB

Hazard’s Cyclesport 735 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara

Mad Mike's Bikes 1110 E. Clark Avenue #G, Santa Maria

Open Air Bicycles 224 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara

Pedal Power Bicycles 1740 Broadway, Santa Maria

VeloPro Cyclery

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