Businesses are celebrating May is Bike Month by offering incentives if you ride a bike. This morning, SABA offered free Bike Valet service at Bella Bru in North Natomas and gave each bicycle rider a free pastry or espresso drink. I worked with Aaron and Victor.

I volunteered this afternoon for SABA to park bikes for a couple of hours.

Fairly new: rainbow crosswalks for this part of downtown known as Lavender Heights.


I worked at the Bike Valet for SABA with Joe and Rebecca. How many bikes did we park today? Zero!

I volunteered this morning for SABA at the Bike Valet for the annual Shamrock’n 5K. The half-marathon is tomorrow. The start/finish was at Raley Field.
7:30 am start time, cold and windy, and I didn’t dress warmly enough.
We only parked 12 bikes.
The start:
15 minutes later, the first runner turned the final corner for the finish line. At this point I was thinking I wouldn’t be cold that much longer, but it took the slowest in the field well over an hour to complete the 5K. Then there was a half hour break before the kid’s race around the block began.
After helping to dismantle the bike parking apparatus, I got in my car and turned on the heated seat! Ahhhh.

At the Sacramento Convention Center:

I volunteered to do the Bike Valet for SABA (Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates) – free secure bicycle parking inside the Convention Center.

Bicycles were checked in, tagged and set on racks in numerical order.


Over 1000 bicycles were parked over the 3-day show!
As a thank-you for volunteering, after a shift was completed, the volunteer was able to see the show.
Who knew there were so many companies, both large and small, plus many individuals who make bicycles by hand.
Mavic from France, not a bicycle-maker, but a company that specializes in servicing racing teams around the world.
A few of my favorites.
A bicycle-carrying rack for motorcycles:

A wooden bicycle from Germany:

Bicycle for two with sun canopy:


Biwakoguma Bicycles, handmade in Japan. The artist is also the builder:

The paint job was amazing. I hope the gold leaf shows up in the photo.

And finally, a 9.9 pound bicycle. You could have one just like it for a mere $13,000.