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Rebecca Waid Michael Wassermann Valerie Watt Betsy Weber Rachel Weber Michelle Wehmer Paul Wellman Paul Wendt Mary Wessely Meg West Courtney Wilkinson Elyse Williams Lynneal Williams Quentin Williams Tyler Williams Larry Williamson Chris Winig Barbara Wishingrad Mary Wittmer Jason Wojciechowski Burkhardt Wolf Diane Wondolowski Alex Wong Julie Wood Bart Woolery Sigrid Wright Angela Wurtzel Bonnie Zappacosta Bob Zaratzian Dovas SANTA BARBARA BICYCLE COALITION Zaunius Drew Zecher Kirsten Zecher Rachel Zemanek R.W. Ziegler Bob Zimels Katleen Zisser Dale Zurawski

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Our Vision The Santa Barbara Bike Coalition (SBBIKE) vision is that Santa Barbara will be a leader in creating a bicycle-friendly community and transportation system. Extensive on-road and separated bikeways, a coordinated transit system, parking, and amenities allow us to enjoy a culture where the majority of daily trips include a bicycle. As a result, our community is healthier and encourages balanced living within our resources. Universal cycling education for all ages supports the development of safe and respectful road behaviors from both motorists and cyclists. Widespread community and political support for bicycling is in place. By 2040, because it is a cycling-centered county,

Michael Chiacos, President Courtney Dietz, Vice President David Bourgeois, Treasurer David Hodges, Secretary Byron Beck Robert Caiza Hector Gonzalez John Hygelund Mike Vergeer Sue Carmody

Santa Barbara is both a great place to live and work and a nationally acclaimed cycling

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destination, boasting a year-round calendar of successful, fun, and inclusive events.

Ed France, Executive Director Ed@sbbike.org

Letter from the Editor “It takes a village.” I know, the saying ends in “to raise a child.” Still, as we were putting together this issue, those four words kept coming to my mind. So many individuals and organizations; so many acts of kindness, donations, and contributions; so much elbow grease and collaboration power the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition that we couldn’t possibly list them all, even if we quadrupled the QR’s pages.

This is a little of how planning meetings for this thank you issue sounded: “Oh and we can’t forget …” “And remember when …” “And then there was …” Each was followed by the story of a donation that came at just the right time, an individual who is always there so willingly giving of his or her time, an organization that offered the perfect space for a class, or a partnership that made possible a program that benefited so many.

SBBIKE was born twenty-three years ago. Just as difficult as compiling a complete list of all we are grateful for was delineating the accomplishments of the coalition over the past two decades and listing the individuals who made them possible. So we give you a taste.

Here too we honor a man whose dedication to this community, to bicycling was unmatched. Aside from his advocacy work, Ralph Fertig started this publication in 1991, and he published an issue a month

Christine Bourgeois, Education Director edu@sbbike.org Shawn Von Biela, Shop Manager shop@bicicentro.org Howard Booth, Membership Coordinator howard@sbbike.org Joey Juhasz-Lukomski, Volunteer Coordinator Joey@sbbike.org Sam Franklin, Avocacy sam@sbbike.org

GOVT. LIAISONS & ADVISORS Matt Dobberteen, Advisor County of Santa Barbara mattdobberteen@gmail.com Kent Epperson, Advisor Traffic Solutions kepperson@sbcag.org Teresa Lopes, Advisor City of Goleta tlopes@cityofGoleta.org Ralph Fertig, President Emeritus (deceased)

for twenty years! For this, our community is deeply grateful.

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Joy, it is said, is the simplest form of gratitude. At SBBIKE and here in this

Cynthia Stahl, info@cynstahl.com

issue of the QR, you’ll find an abundance of joy. Here, too, you’ll find yourself. For each of you comprise our village—the village in which Santa Barbara’s cycling community and coalition is being raised by us all.

It’s a great village to be part of.

EDITOR Holly Starley, editor@sbbike.org

CONTACT US 506 E. Haley St. Santa Barbara, CA 93103 PO Box 92047 Santa Barbara, CA 93190

Holly Starley, QR editor

COVER PHOTO: Background: The 675 members of SBBIKE, as of this printing.

Thank you for being the soul of our cycling community. Center: “We did it!”

Drawing by ALLI RICKARDS – inspired by building donor Matt Dobberteen’s joy at the celebration of the building closing captured in a photo by Paul Wellman.

BACK IMAGE. The celebration on the day SBBIKE closed on its Haley Street building and community center this July. By PAUL WELLMAN

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CONTRIBUTE Your time: www.bicicentro.org/volunteer In-kind: www.bicicentro.org/wishlist Financially: www.bicicentro.org/donate

Thank you, Business Members

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GOLD & C ARBON FI BE R ME MBE R S Marcia Burtt Gallery

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Santa Barbara Cruisers S I LV E R & ALUM I NUM ME MBE R S A view from inside our cycling community center’s office. Photo by HECTOR GONZALES

Bronze and Steel Members Pacific Pedalers/ Santa Barbara Pedicab Hoffman Architecture Mesa Business Association Service Objects Horny Toad Pedal Born Pictures Mesa Architects REI Isla Vista Food Coop We Bike Electric

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Tailwinds Bicycle Club of Santa Maria Revolution Coaching LLC Ebike Santa Barbara The Dirt Club Jones Precision Wheels Kendrick Consulting HelloHarvest Pedal Power Bicycles Race Corps SB Turtle Riders

Want to read more and participate in the discussion?

Visit sbbikelab.org.

Chatenever Ceramics Rincon Cycle CapCranks

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THANK YOU, RALPH

REMEMBERING DOGGED, PREPARED, PASSIONATE, RALPH REASONABLE ACTIVISM

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n July 18, 2014, the day the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition closed

on its building, Ralph Fertig passed away.

A founding member of the coalition, the father of the Quick Release, and a tireless advocator, Ralph will forever remain at the heart of SB’s cycling community. The QR asked a few folks to share memories of Ralph. Here are highlights of the heartfelt outpouring of responses.

“Ralph was dedicated to the safety, security, and joy of any person, of any age who chooses to enjoy bicycling or walking,” says Don Lubach, assistant dean of students and director at UCSB. Those who knew Fertig describe a man whose efforts to that end spanned twenty plus years (the fruits of which are so abundant they’d be nearly impossible to list). “If any kind of bike-related issue was at stake,” remembers Kent Epperson of Traffic Solutions, “Ralph was there.”

Ralph Fertig. Photo by PAUL WELLMAN

All mentioned Fertig’s articulate, fact-based presentations. He was known for the graphs and tables he created for the QR. Lubach and Dru van Hengel, formerly SB City’s Mobility Coordinator, worked with Fertig in the coalition’s early days. “Ralph constantly surprised me with his calm approach to those who don’t understand cyclists,” says Lubach. He recalls times the bike community felt attacked. “Ralph would quietly remind us to imagine why a project, opponent, or angry letter writer was so passionate.”

Van Hengel remembers Fertig as, “Tireless. Passionate. Optimistic.

And a little pesky too.” He didn’t let an issue go. “Yet on the other hand,” she recalls, “he was reasonable—so reasonable policy makers would ask, ‘What is Ralph’s position on this?’”

Why cycling?

Fertig’s friends wished they knew more about what inspired his passion for two wheels. “It all came down to his fundamental joy in riding on such a marvelous invention,” Lubach concludes. Fertig, he says, wanted everyone to safely share that joy. Adds Michael Chiacos, SBBIKE board president, “I think Ralph, as many of us do, believed the bicycle was a simple and logical way to solve so many of modern society’s problems.”

Fertig’s passion and dedication extended to traveling, his garden, and his cats. Lubach recalls a tour of Ralph’s hillside garden. “We felt like we were on a climbing adventure with a brilliant park ranger.” Coalition meetings at 4

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Fertig’s house are a part of his legacy. Van Hengel enjoyed Fertig’s inclusion of her young son, who accompanied her to noontime meetings. “He was sweet and considerate of my blossoming bike advocate,” she says.

Ralph’s vision Limitless, says van Hengel. He wanted to improve bicycle access, add facilities and programs, and increase the number of riders of all ages and abilities. Noting Fertig’s world travels, Lubach says, “I believe his vision was constructed as sort of an urban planner’s plate of Dim Sum—one of these, a couple of those … He wanted to bring civility and wonder to Santa Barbara.”

All agree Fertig led by example. “Ralph transitioned this organization from an idea into an entity,” says SBBIKE executive director Ed France. “He had the best manners of any man in town,” adds Lubach.

“And when he rode his bicycle, he set an example as a refined gentleman riding one of the most civilized forms of transport.”

THANK YOU, VOLUNTEERS Last year, 300 plus volunteers dedicated 4,552 hours to Bici Centro’s shop, education programs, and bike valet. Add to that board and committee meetings and event volunteering, and 2014 six-month data shows 5,690 volunteered hours will power SBBIKE this year. Given donations of parts and equipment through the first half of the year ($31,000), the shop is projected to receive over $60,000 in in-kind donations in 2014.

Sergio Jiminez, one of Bici Centro’s regular volunteer mechanics.

Donated parts at the shop.

Photos by HECTOR GONZALES

HONORING RALPH The QR wanted to know: If Ralph could ask everyone who’s

delivered a well-prepared, passionate talk. Pretty

pro-cycling to commit to doing something, what would that be?

soon, I saw that big, wonderful smile.” (Lubach)

“Be positive, persistent, productive, and patient.” (van Hengel)

“I think he’d want us to participate in the process.

He saw the value of being part of the system—not

“Ralph was very worried about a bike community that valued

fighting it. He’d want people—from families to seniors

celebration over substance. For a time, he worried there

to kids—attending meetings, speaking to elected

wouldn’t be advocates who were willing to sit in long hearings

officials, voicing their opinions. He saw the power of

or at city and county meetings to advocate for cyclists … I could

one person. [He’d say] show up prepared, with good,

see his concerns melting away as the much younger Ed France

well thought-out solutions and reasoning.” (Epperson)

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THANK YOU, FOUNDERS

The Birth and Early Stages of the Bicycle Coalition: A Highlight Reel

The Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition will soon have twenty-five years unde and look back at a few of its accomplishments as we plan for the next twe who helped craft improvements for bicyclists, and all road users in Santa B

SBBIKE began as an idea over lunch in late 1990. Trisha Davis, then in the R office (now SBCAG Traffic Solutions), and Jamie Newett from SB County sa for bicyclists to present an organized voice in the community and wanted cyclists about what the county should apply for from California’s Propositio

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Bike lockers are installed around town (w/city and county) SBBIKE secures 501(c)3 nonprofit status Launches website, hosted by RAIN

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Proposes lanes widening at Mission/Hwy 101 Helps Bicycle Ride Against Drinking Drivers

Bike racks install three MTD bus r (thanks to advoc started in ’94) SBBIKE designs S Coast bikeway s Launches first “E a Bike” program with Girls Inc. Advocates bike p along 101 corrid

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For Bike to School Day, SBBIKE partners w/COAST, and 1,350 kids ride Bike racks for 12 installed at Santa Barbara Airport Successful fight keeps cyclist access to San Antonio Creek Rd. near Tuckers Grove Atascadero path renamed “The Obern Trail” in honor of members George and Vie Obern, who were responsible for creating the bike path SBBIKE proposes safer bikeway facilities on El Colegio and Devereaux Area Advocates extensive bike trails on Cachuma Lake’s north shore Persuades SB to create path along Shoreline Drive above Leadbetter

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“Street Skills” bike commuter classes are born SBBIKE distributes lights to kids who bike to school (w/ Goleta Valley Cycling Club) Asks for safer conditions for Mixtec farmworkers in the Santa Maria Valley Urges Goleta to put bike lanes on Cathedral Oaks/Hwy 101 crossing Supports bike friendly parts of Isla Vista Redevelopment and Master Plan

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288 flashing lights go to low-income residents who bike to jobs (w/GVCC) SBBIKE lobbies and Amtrak puts racks on all Surfliner trains!

SBBIKE coordinates bike tour for “Parade of Green Buildings” (Sustainability Project) Advocates that SY River Trail area stay within Santa Ynez Valley Community Plan

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Commemorative bike ride follows death of Jake Boysel, hit while biking to school Bilingual bike safety brochures given, w/lights, to low-income workers SBBIKE, w/UCSB’s BIKES committee, fills in missing link, “Broida Expressway,” on campus bike path network Advocates for 7-block section of lanes on Chapala and return of lanes to Anapamu

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formation of a coalition through ovement of bicycle lanes and paths.”

The coalition—a group of individual bicyclists (initially all county employees)—formed as a direct result. Their first accomplishment was an application for Prop 116 funding that succeeded splendidly.

The $462,000 award funded lights and resurfacing of the Atascadero bike path, bike-sensitive loops, bicycle lockers, and new storm drains at various locations throughout the county.

None of the highlights in this reel would have been possible without the support of organizations like SBCAG Traffic Solutions, City of Santa Barbara, and County of Santa Barbara. Among the individuals whose contributions were paramount in the early years are Ralph Fertig, Wilson Hubbel, Bob Burgess, Robert Bernstein, Sandra Wintermoss, Gary Weissman, Dru van Hengel, Mike Hecker, Judy Keim, Don Lubach, and Erika Lindemann and many more over the years.

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Fertig and Burgess are recognized as “Local Heroes” by the Independent SBBIKE founds coalition at UCSB Hosts national Pro Bike/ Pro Walk conference – 520 attendees Supports adoption of City of SB Bicycle Master Plan update Launches annual allvolunteer Bike Count (15 years and counting) Advocates wide shoulders/bike lanes on Hwy 246 between Solvang/Buellton

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SBBIKE advocates SB’s Ortega bike/pedestrian bridge rebuild Asks MTD to put bike racks on all large buses Holds “Why I Love to Bike Commute” contest Wins $25,000 for Kids on Bikes program Helps SB City appraise bike projects

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Street Skills classes expand to Spanish thanks to Robert Caiza GVCC grant buys Bici tools/ additional lights for giveaway SBBIKE partners to help craft and pass bikefavorable Measure A Supports California adoption of “Complete Streets” requirements Helps Santa Maria craft an updated Bikeway Master Plan

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Note: The Spring QR 2014 included a timeline summary of Bici Centro history from 2007 to 2010 when it merged with SBBIKE and of SBBIKE/Bici from then to 2014. This reel includes only a few of SBBIKE’s many successes during its first eighteen years. Thank you, Dru van Hengel, Erika Lindemann, and Howard Booth, for compiling this reel. The photos here are from QR issues the late Ralph Fertig faithfully (and almost singlehandedly) published for more than twenty years.

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Cycle MAYnia, an SBBIKE and Traffic Solutions partnership, is launched SBBIKE partners with SB Bowl for bike valet parking at all concerts Asks Caltrans to fund Goleta slough bridge resurfacing, new racks for UCSB Works w/Team Tailwinds, Cycle Star, and Main Street Cycles to buy “Share the Road— Save a Life” stickers for North County distribution

• 1. The original QR logo, Nov ‘91 2. Earth Day, April ‘97 3. Two examples of Ralph Fertig’s info graphics, a pie chart from May ‘94 and a graph from ‘97 4. Bike to Work day June ‘95 (JAY HILLJE) 5. SBBIKE’s Board (minus Ralph) in 2000 6. Vie and George Obern, Sept ‘03 7.

Cycling classes and lights distribution, July ‘06

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THANK YOU, EDUCATORS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Community partners CalTrans Carpinteria School District City of Carpinteria City of Goleta City of Santa Barbara COAST County of Santa Barbara Food Bank Franklin Center Gildea Foundation Girls Inc. Goleta School District Hutton Parker Foundation McCune Foundation MTD Santa Barbara School District Santa Maria-Bonita School District SB Century SB Open Streets SBCAG Measure A and Traffic Solutions The Community Environmental Council The Environmental Defense Center Westside Boys & Girls Club

TOP: LCI Mike Vergeer teaches a 2014 summer camp participant how to fix a flat. Photo

by DANIEL GIRARD. BOTTOM: LCI Hector Gonzales teaches six-year-old Melissa how to ride for the first time at Bici Family on September 13. Photo by JOHN ROUSSEAU.

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OCTOBER 18 100 miles 9000’ also 63 and 34 mile routes One of the most difficult century rides with a chip-timed 7 mile climb (age group and team awards). www.santabarbaracentury.org for full details.

THANK YOU, BUILDING CONTRIBUTORS

AN ARTFUL, ECOLOGIC COMMUNITY CENTER IN THE MAKING These conceptual renderings show a vision of the transformations coming to SBBIKE community center’s. By ADAM GROSSHANS

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n mid-July, SBBIKE closed on its building, securing the Haley and Olive Street bicycling community center and, with it, a vision that extends far into the future.

Read about the generosity that made the purchase possible on page 10.

Says Ed France, SBBIKE executive director, “By purchasing our own facility, it makes financial sense for us to invest in improvements for the building in both minor and substantive ways that will help transform this facility into a vivid, artful, and ecologic community center.”

First on the agenda will be improvements to the Olive street entrance. As a result of the sale, the coalition learned it owns the Olive Street address—its shop entrance—in addition to the Haley Street address, home of its education and outreach offices.

Up next? Solar panels, increased lighting, natural air ventilation, the creation of an outdoor meeting space, a green roof, and more.

“We have a transformative vision for this space as a community center,” concludes France, “and once that’s ready, we’ll be going out to the community and asking for support to make it happen.”

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THE STARS OF GENEROSITY ALIGN

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BBIKE relies on donations and volunteers to run its programs and campaigns. The

story of the building purchase—the coalition’s community center on Haley and Olive Streets— this July exemplifies the thriving spirit of contribution within SB’s cycling community.

“The stars of generosity aligned,” says Ed France, SBBIKE’s executive director. He’s talking about the outpouring of support that made the purchase possible—“from private financing to tens of thousands of dollars in donated professional services [legal and brokerage] to the unbelievable support we received for our down payment.” (The coalition received $310,000 from individual contributors.) “Astounding,” says France.

It all happened quickly, when just months earlier the coalition learned of the opportunity to purchase or risk rent hikes, if not moving, and the short deadline in which to decide. SBBIKE and its education, advocacy, and outreach programs had been gaining momentum rapidly since the coalition moved into the building last year, and the decision seemed obvious, if daunting.

So the coalition embarked on a fundraising campaign, different from others in one primary way. “It’s not like other efforts where the money is banked slowly,” France explains. Instead, “here it comes; there it goes.”

Asked why support was so swift and generous, France reflects. “I think donors to the building project have faith in our ability to make change,” he says, “and they share our vision of a bicycle movement for a healthier, more vibrant Santa Barbara.”

Does he feel pressure now? “We’ve got to deliver,” he says. But his confidence is clear as he adds, “We’re very fortunate to have an organization with staff, board members, and volunteers who are committed. “We are delivering every day. From

Financial contributors Building purchase donors and investors Pro bono legal and brokerage counselors Connecting Our Community campaign contributors Event co-sponsors Donors of bicycles new and used Donors of parts and equipment Countless other in-kind donators Bike mechanics Bici Centro shop volunteers Bike builders for Pedal Power and youth giveaways Bike valeters Event tablers Advocacy campaigners League of American Bicyclists Certified Instructors Volunteer educators Committee members Board members Graphic designers Photographers Writers Artists Visionary thinkers Historians Beer pourers BBQ chefs Computer techs Contractors Sweepers and cleaners Food and beverage providers Providers of spaces for meetings and classrooms Gracious givers of the most precious of commodities—time

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teaching kids to ride for the first time to helping retirees get around town, we’re making it happen.

And the building is at the center of it all.”

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You are the vibrant cycling community of Santa Barbara!

OUR PROMISE

With gratitude “I promise to support the vibrant community of supporters, from volunteers to members to

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staff, educators, and patrons. Together, we will

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do great things for the greater SB Community. I promise to give my best as a part of this critical effort to make bicycling safe and accessible for all who choose here in our county.”

—Ed France, executive director

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within the Bici Centro community.”

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space for bicycle mechanics’ education

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community rides. I would love to do that.”

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through programs like Bici Familia and fun

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Santa Barbara residents of all ages on bikes

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more people in the bicycle movement.”

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our mission forward and engage more and

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growth, so that we can effectively move

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“I promise to continue to lead SBBIKE’s strategic

November 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 The Spanish Language Outreach (SLOC) Committee of the Santa Barbara Bicycle coalition is leading their fourth annual light give away to help low-income cyclists become more visible. JOIN US! Register to Volunteer at http://bicicentro.org/mobile Adult Bike Education is supported by Measure A, County of Santa Barbara, City of Santa Barbara, City of Goleta and City of Carpinteria.

—Shawn von Biela, Bici Centro shop manager “I promise to engage our community and representatives to build support for the bicycle friendly transformation of Santa Barbara which will be beneficial to everybody, cyclists and non-cyclists alike.”

—Sam Franklin, Advocacy campaign leader “We promise our members and volunteers will be part of a community of cyclists who are working hard to provide resources for cyclists of all ages and having fun together.”

—Howard Booth, membership coordinator, and Joey Juhasz-Likomski, volunteer coordinator “I promise to seek the best ways to communicate

Join Now! Why should you register or renew as a member of the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition?

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It helps us assert our collective rights as road users.

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Power in numbers helps us influence local government for better bikeways.

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SBBIKE’s vision and share its successes with an ever-broadening audience and to help

bicycling-related events.

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the many voices and media talents in the cycling community be heard and shared.”

—Holly Starley, communications coordinator The Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition

We help you stay in the loop of local We offer discounts with our local bike shops, as well as for our classes and events.

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Membership enables you to volunteer at premium opportunities like bike valet at the SB Bowl.

Register online today at www.sbbike.org/join.

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

T hank You