The LBCyclists want to thank Bikecommuters.com and KHS for helping out our event this year! By all accounts it was a resounding success. I’ve attended a few BTWD events in Long Beach and this had the most traffic of all of them. Granted, it doesn’t hurt it was right smack on a beach bike path
We brought most of the event materials by bike! Bottles of water, giveaways, muffins and even a table!
We spoke to many community members and beach path users about the joys of bicycling.
We also had great volunteers helping us all day.
We also want to thank PlanetBike for donating Superflash/Blaze combos and Walzcaps for donating a cool assortment of caps to the event! Everyone was really excited about the killer blinky combos and styling cycling caps.
Besides reliability, comfort rates high on my scale of *must have* on a bike. Since I ride 20 miles round trip, there are areas of my body that do get sore. My biggest grief with road bikes is how uncomfortable riding on the hoods is. So when I saw that G-form offers Gel Brake Hood overs, we quickly got a kit to test.
The entire kit consists of:
The Brake Hood Over grips. Retail: $12.99
The Saddle Kit. Retail: $24.95
and the shoes inserts. Retail: $9.95
Entire Kit, Retail $47.85 Free Shipping!
Installing the hood grips and the saddle kit was very easy. The shoes inserts took a little time to properly stick them on the right place.
I will be riding with this setup tomorrow, National Bike to Work day. I will post my first impressions on the afternoon.
Just came back from Long Beach. I was there with the fellows from Bikestation and LBCyclists.org to celebrate Bike to Work Day and to encourage people to ride to work.
Turn out was very good; we had all sorts of riders stop by. We were giving away all sorts of schwag and of course, we were raffling a bicycle provided by KHS Bicycles. Riders were greeted by smiling faces and were treated to coffee, muffins, water and Bumble Bars.
There was the occasional passerby the didn’t know that it was Bike to Work Day — most of these onlookers were surprised to see how many people ride their bikes to work and we were commended on ‘trying to make a difference’.
I had a great time with Russ, Dominic, Jaymee and Laura, thank you all for putting this thing together and hope to see you next year!
May 15th, 2008 by Jack "Ghost Rider" Sweeney · 1 Comment
As with the rest of the country, there’s been a slew of media attention on this year’s National Bike to Work Week here in the Tampa Bay area.
Normally, I tend to hog the spotlight around here because there are so few regular commuters (or they’re much better at hiding than I am). However, this week two of our other Tampa-based pals made it onto television!
First, we have Jonathan Scott, an engineer with the City of Tampa…he made it onto the news not once but TWICE this week, and did an excellent job on-camera. Check out his first article and video, and also today’s video.
(image by Rick and Lisa Hickman)
The second “local celebrity” is roadie/commuter and all-around good guy Mike Limerick, co-founder of the Seminole Heights Bicycle Club. Mike’s other claim to fame is his amazing cycling jersey collection. Here is today’s article and accompanying video. Look for a cameo appearance by local cycling advocate and longtime friend of Bikecommuters.com Julie Bond (photos lost to last year’s hacker).
It is good to see the local media outlets focusing on bicycle commuting…I only wish there was this much attention year-round rather than only during Bike to Work Week. Well, the message is getting out, regardless. Bravo to Jonathan, Mike and Julie for braving the news cameras!!!
It’s actually a great honor to be featured on the late Sheldon Brown’s site. It’s always a compliment to see your work on other websites and blogs. I knew it was my video since it had our logo on it for MtnBikeRiders.com. I shot it at the 2007 Sea Otter Classic.
First of all, I’m no environmentalist by any means, I believe that helping the environment is a ’side effect’ of bike commuting. But lately I’ve been posing this question to myself and others: “What do you think about the environment and does it concern you?” The answer I get is: “Well, I recycle” but there’s not much of a concern.
We also get bombarded with “Green” products from all kinds of companies, in fact, there is a term for it: ‘green washing’. We can also assume that we may not see the full blown effects of global warming in our life times, so there’s no sense of urgency.
So I guess the questions are, should we be concerned? should we do more to help the environment?
BikeCommuters.com will initiate a “Deal Day” once a week. Basically this is a day when we post all the deals that we can find online and through a LBS. So with that in mind, we want to know what it is you, the bike commuter are usually shopping for when it comes to bike commuting related items?
I go through lube and tubes like no one’s business. I also like to swap out parts on my bikes, so once cables have been used, I usually end up getting new ones.
But what about you? What kind of bike commuting items do you buy all the time that you would like to save money on?
I want to thank you all for your support in voting for me for the LACBC board of director. I apologize for not reporting sooner, but things have been very busy since the election… Here is a quick recap of what happened since the election: I was elected as the Treasure of the LACBC (will be working on a budget soon), appointed to be the chair of the Finance Committee, and volunteered to be on the Education Committees; Tabled at 2 events; Participated in the 1.5 day board retreat; and Presented on how to bicycle commute at Sony Studios (today). Phew. However tiring it has been, I still wanted to thank you all for the opportunity to serve the bicycle community in the Los Angeles County.
Now I have 3 small favors to ask of each of you:
1) If you have a website or blog, please add a link to LACBC on your page. LACBC recently lost its web address to a cyber squatter. To recover, we got a new address, but searches via search engine still turn up the old address. So every new link will help the cause: http://www.la-bike.org
2) If you plan on joining LACBC, really BIG THANK YOU! Please make sure to mention my name so your membership will help me fulfill my fundraising base of $1000/year.
3) If you shop at Ralphs grocery store, register your club card so that Ralphs will donate a small percentage of their proceeds to LACBC. It cost you nothing extra, but the community benefits! Just follow the Ralphs link on the webpage: http://www.la-bike.org
Vince Rodarte, Inside Sales Manager of KHS Bicycles and yours truly are in a battle of the bulge! We’re both trying to lose some of this fat that’s around our bellies. What started off as interesting wager - the person that loses the least amount of weight wears a dress on a group ride - ended up becoming a fund raiser for the City of Hope.
We have people from Specialized Bicycles and other bicycle-related companies pledging to donate either a flat rate or a sum for the combined per poundage lost. Makes sense right?
So what I’d like to ask is for our readers to not only check out MtnBikeRiders.com to learn more about this, but also to support us by helping us raise some money while we lose some weight. You don’t have to give much, it could be $5 or $500, but whatever it is, it’s going towards a great organization that is helping people in need.
