The last day of May is Bike Month.
SABA staff “occupied” several parking spaces along R Street (across from Shady Lady) ALL day with parked vehicles paying City parking fees until about 3:30 when those spaces were transformed into pop-up tents with activities
and spaces to sit and visit to celebrate the end of the 2024 challenge.
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.
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.
Marni Sanders from Blue Zones received a proclamation for May is Bike Month from the Sutter County Board of Supervisors. I went to represent Love to Ride.
We should have had our tables outside in front of the Department of Public Health .. except it was VERY windy so we set up in the lobby during the most active two hours around lunchtime.
CDPH has a fleet of bicycles which can be checked out.
Oh yum. This event ended at 1:30 and Zocalo was just a block away, so I picked up lunch to go afterwards.
Sunday April 28. Brenda, Lennore, Lori, and Laurie + 2 people who showed up at the starting point who saw the event on the May is Bike Month calendar of events.
Sigh, my knee was not healed enough to go on this ride.
Early Thursday morning at Sac State.
Our tabling location on campus.
The City of Sacramento Transportation Planning Department had a table. Lee and I were promoting May is Bike Month and encouraging people to sign up. Also promoting MiBM was UTAPS – University Transportation and Parking Services.
A good place for a field trip group photo:
John F Kennedy High School Wellness Fair on Monday morning. Many tents set up on the track.
Pierson and I were promoting May is Bike Month. 1700 students in two one-hour batches. We actually got a lot of people to sign up. Pierson is an excellent “barker”.
The only downside was being located right in front of the – loud – DJ.
I’m trying to woo businesses in Yuba and Sutter Counties to participate in May is Bike Month .. so I left home really early (for a retired person who likes to sleep in) to drive to Marysville to attend the Rise & Shine get-together in Marysville. This month, it was located at the CASA office – Court Appointed Special Advocates. A CASA volunteer advocates for the well-being of a child in foster care.
A few words from the host, explaining what CASA does in the Yuba Sutter area.
A raffle at the end. Winners: a bunny for the man in the blue shirt, a candle to the man in the black hat.
Then it was a drive back to Sacramento for a 10 am staff meeting.
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