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Coalition filled Bike Week with events WOW! What a great week of activities we had. In addition to traditional Bike to Work Day, Bike to School Day, our Bike Week Celebration, and the Children’s Festival, we added several new events: a Bike Film Festival, two extra Willie Weir presentations, a weekend bike tour, a Ride of Silence, and bike touring presentations. Here are comments about the major events that we enjoyed:
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Annual Bike Week Celebration. Attendance jumped up by 40% this year, and included Mayor Marty Blum and her husband. Willie Weir entertained us with tales and photos of biking in Cuba. We enjoyed a dinner by Country Catering, and honored Pedro Nava and Vie Obern with awards for their work that improves our bicycling.
June 5th meeting Join us on the first Tuesday of the month for our general meeting: Tuesday, June 5th Santa Barbara Bank & Trust Conference Room 1021 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara 12:00 noon
A local version of the national Ride of Silence was held to commemorate bicyclists killed or injured by motorists.
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Bike to School Day, sponsored by COAST and the City of Solvang. Events were arranged at individual schools. Debbie Castanha and John Padfield organized the events for hundreds of kids.
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Join our Coalition Willie Weir talked to 200 students at Hollister Elementary School about bicycling fun, travel, and safety.
Willie Weir at Hollister School. Arranged by parent Lori Cooper and principal Ryan Sparre, Willie entertained elementary school students with tales of his “magic carpet” bicycle trips, wrapped around admonishments to wear a helmet and to bike safely. Bike to Work Day. Morning events at UCSB and Santa Barbara attracted hundreds for free food, drinks, prizes. In Santa Barbara, Mayor Blum was joined by Councilmembers Williams, Schneider, and Barnwell. Ride of Silence. This ride memorialized those lost or injured in bicycling crashes in our area. The ride has grown to 272 locations worldwide. Jake Boysel’s parents and brother joined a dozen others on a solemn ride led by Drew Hunter.
Our CycleSmart program The Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition’s CycleSmart bicyclist education program offers bicycling skills classes for school children and adults. Look for details of upcoming classes inside Quick Release, or contact our Co-coordinators Dru van Hengel and Erika Lindemann by email CycleSmart@sbbike.org .
Bicycle Repair Workshop, sponsored by Santa Barbara BiciCentro. This is the third month of community biker get together for bike repair, skill sharing, construction, and great company at La Casa de la Raza. Bike Film Festival I & II, two evenings of bike films sponsored by HopeDance, UCSB’s AS BIKES committee, and our Bicycle Coalition. There were lots of shorts, including Dorothy Littlejohn’s new film about Santa Barbara High’s Don Riders showing off their chromed low-rider cruisers, and Jess Reigel’s newest unicycle film.
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June 2007
Willie Weir Bikes around South Africa. We were fortunate to have Willie offer another presentation to 50 of us about his 5-month bike trek in South Africa. We are appreciative of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s providing us with Farrand Hall. Mayor Marty Blum (left) and Councilmember Helene Schneider addressed Bike to Work Day bicyclists in downtown Santa Barbara.
How to Plan a Cycling Adventure. Mark Sapp and Wilson Hubbell described how to select and load your bike, and plan a bike trip. It attracted about 25 people, whether they see Bike Week on page 2