www.sbbike.org 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 962-1479 email info@sbbike.org web www.sbbike.org
May 6th meeting Join us on the first Tuesday of the month for our general meeting: Tuesday, May 6th 12:00 noon Santa Barbara Bank & Trust Community Room 1021 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara
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Bike Week 2008 is sprinting our way! In these times of rising gas and energy costs, declining fitness, and global climate change, the humble bicycle provides the solution to all our challenges while providing responsible mobility. Bike Week 2008 will parade the benefits of bicycling before our community. Here is a brief listing of major events. Go online for details about them all at www.sbbike.org/BW/bw.html. The following events are sponsored by our Bicycle Coalition unless otherwise noted:
May 15 & 17, Street Skills for Cyclists class.
May 16-23, Bike Week Flags.
May 16-18, Santa Ynez Valley National, sponsored by RideSB.
May 17, Children’s Festival, sponsored by COAST and our Bicycle Coalition.
May 17, Bike Art Project.
May 17, Fifth Annual Bike Week Celebration. See details on page 2.
May 18, Willie Weir Bikes around India.
May 20, Bike to School Day, sponsored by COAST.
May 21, Bike to Work Day, sponsored by UCSB and the City of Santa Barbara.
Join our Coalition You can help improve bicycling safety and conditions in Santa Barbara County by joining others in our regional bicycling advocacy group. Together we’ll continue to make a real difference. See page 6 for info.
May 21, Ride of Silence, unsponsored.
Touring cycling and entertainer Willie Weir will return to Santa Barbara for our annual Bike Week Celebration evening.
May 21, Use Your Bike for Transportation.
May 22, Bikestation Anniversary Celebration, sponsored by the Bikestation Santa Barbara and our Bicycle Coalition.
May 22 and May 24, Bici Centro Repair Workshops, sponsored by Bici Centro.
May 24, Bike to the Merc, sponsored by Bici Centro
May 24, Bike Film Night, sponsored by our Bicycle Coalition and HopeDance.
May 25, Bike Clinic, sponsored by Open Air Bicycles.
Barry Siegel Bikepath dedicated in Montecito
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 . Quick Release is published monthly by the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition, PO Box 92047, Santa Barbara, CA 93190. Subscribe for $25 per year. Issue # 199.
May 2008
Supervisor Salud Carbajal and Martha Siegel hold up one of the six upcoming Barry Siegel signs.
On April 16, the “Barry Siegel Bike Path” was dedicated on North Jameson Lane in Montecito. Barry Siegel, a community transportation activist after he moved here from Los Angeles with his wife Martha Siegel in 1993, passed away last September. Siegel had been involved with Santa Barbara’s Transportation and Circulation Committee, the Montecito Association Board of Directors, and the Coalition for Sustainable Transportation. With his engineer’s rigor, he would devour complex and intimidating government transportation documents and ask astute, pointed questions at meetings. After SBCAG meetings in particular, he emailed meeting reports that were widely read not only by those missing the meetings, but also by those who attended them. Although Siegel didn’t bicycle, he loved walking along North Jameson to Summerland. Because of his efforts, we now enjoy pedaling—or walking—on the bikelanes there.