If you ride a bike to any restaurant any Saturday in May and spend $10, you will receive a $15 gift card from Jibe to a local popular grocery store. Today, five of us rode 14 miles, stopped at Starbucks for breakfast, then 6 miles back to the start. Standing: me, Lennore, BarbaraB. Seated: Skye, BarbaraL.
Tuesday May 21. Kathy and Dani:
Wednesday May 22. Lori and Brenda:
Thursday May 23. Dani and Kathy:
Saturday May 25. Jane, Cheryl, and BarbaraB
Dani, Kathy, and Stacey:
In Marysville. Blue Zones Project Yuba Sutter organized a May is Bike Month event on Thursday. Partners and vendors arrived at about 3:15 to set up. This was a first-ever event so everyone was hoping this street would be filled with people from 4-7.
Blue Zones Project was the primary organizer of this event.
Ready to encourage people to sign up for May is Bike Month.
Rob and Hillary from SABA were there to promote a mode shift to e-bikes. They brought 4 different types of e-bikes and helmets. After signing a waiver, individuals could go for a ride around the block.
Lap It Up was a 20-minute event that turned out to be quite popular. Three laps equaled one mile.
About 40 people met in front of City Hall at 5:00.
SABA friends – Tyler, Pierson, Rob, Deb:
Thank you Brenda for coming with me. We drove to the end point, then rode to City Hall.
Known by everyone as JDW – Jennifer Donlon Wyant, Active Transportation Specialist for the Department of Public Works, City of Sacramento – got the event rolling.
We stopped periodically to see improvements being made by the City to make bicycling safer.
A quick-build project at Broadway & Martin Luther King Blvd. Vertical delineators to channel traffic, slow things down, and make the crossing safer for pedestrians and bicyclists.
The end point, Oak Park Brewing Co:
We met at the bike/ped bridge over I-80 near Peregrine Park – Lennore, Brenda, Cheryl, Millan, me:
and rode to Bike Dog Brewing in W Sacramento to celebrate Velorama. REI gave members, and those who became members, a free drink ticket. Bici Perro – a very good Mexican lager.
Alternate choice, wine from (Dusty) Baker Family Wines:
Lunch, shopping, and visiting before heading back.
The River Park Trail in W Sacramento, the Tower Bridge in the distance.
Monday May 13. Brenda and Lori:
Thursday May 16. Brenda and Lori.
Brenda and Laurie:
Friday May 17. Dani and Kathy:
Saturday May 18. Dani and Sheila:
Laurie, Lennore, Brenda, Lori:
I led a Jibe-organized ride to Bike Fest at William Pond Park on the American River Bike Trail. There were 16 of us.
Kathy was our mechanic, Laurie rode sweep. We left from Peregrine Park and rode mostly trails. We stopped periodically to regroup, time to visit and hydrate. Almost to the Guy West Bridge at Sac State:
The check-in station to get wrist band, raffle and food tickets:
Bruce, on Jibe Board of Directors, with Buddy:
Maria, Lori, Brenda, and Lorge enjoying lunch:
One of our favorite vendors, friend, and fellow LCI, Gina:
Wednesday, day 2 of street rides. Becky reviewing hand signals while Gina gets the jerseys ready.
Thank you to all volunteers: a parent of a 5th grader, Paul, and Laura.
I rode in the park with the first Red group while Becky worked one-on-one with a student.
For the next group of students, Becky went for a ride in the park with a group of students while I stayed on campus and … hurray … got Ramon riding independently. When Becky got back, and came around the corner, Ramon set off from the opposite corner of the blacktop. Such a sweet boy, his classmates cheered him on, so did Becky. Ramon was so happy and proud.
Thursday, day 3 of street rides. Today’s team: Laura/volunteer sweep, LCIs Gina, Deanna, Pierson:
I rode with the Pierson’s red group.
A great picture to demonstrate the importance of having a sweep. This wobbly rider was far behind the rest of the red group.
Level 3. The students who came to tonight’s class needed to have basic bike handling skills. We reviewed past learning and taught scanning, and the multi-step left turn. We had 3 students 2 LCIs, and 2 volunteers. Kathy and Lennore took the group out for a ride:
In the front row, tonight’s students. Back row: Lennore, Jeff, me, Kathy.
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