Sunday morning, Kimberly, Lennore and I met Brenda and Galib at Peregrine Park and rode to Treehouse Cafe in W Sacramento.
Pierson did a great job of leading the ride.
There’s a new bridge over I-80 which connects to the Sycamore Trail. Amazing – there were 50+ people on this ride.
Up on the levee for the last part of the ride.
29 miles by the time I got home. The weather has been great for riding.
Laurie, Lori and I rode to La Costa Cafe this morning. A very cute coffee and breakfast place at 19th and G Streets.
Pierson led the ride north on the Sacramento Northern Bike Trail.
An informal last-minute get-together at a popular local establishment on Elvas Ave:
Outdoor beer garden with fire pits and heat lamps. You use your phone to order from a (QR code) menu at your table, various restaurants are available, you can pick and choose items from any of them. Fairly quickly, your food is delivered to you by a server, they know where you are sitting.
Dan, Deb, Sue, Jeremiah:
Fun evening.
SABA organized the second-annual Supermarket Sweep and Jibe joined in to support two teams of three bike-riders by donating $250. Lorge, Stacey, Brenda, Sheila, Lori and I met on the patio at Bella Bru at 10:15. We opened the envelope with instructions, planned our strategy, and left at 10:50.
The first four stores we shopped at were smaller mom-and-pop types – three Indian and one Carribbean Jamaican. Nice for our local merchants but expensive.
Sheila:
Our final stop was at a lower-priced large grocery in S Natomas.
I was happy to stay with the bikes while everyone else did the shopping. All our bikes were about to be loaded to the max with Lorge carrying the most – he bicycle tours and has large panniers on the rear and smaller panniers on the front plus his handlebar bag.
Then we rode about 12 miles to the meeting point at Two Rivers Cider Co.
We checked in and had our donation weighed: 101 pounds.
Time to use our drink tickets.
3:00 – the last team arrived.
Cheers!
3:30 – time for us to ride back to N Natomas. This event collected 700+ pounds to donate to River City Food Bank. The N Natomas team rode a total of 35 miles. A long fun day.
Jibe hosted an end-of-season get-together for everyone in the bike programs at Drake’s the Barn in W Sacramento. This included all the Bike Docs and LCIs who teach Project Ride Smart, the bike tech class at Inderkum HS, and various other bike education programs in N Natomas.
Deb presented Bill Leddy with his Good Wheel award.
Sue Teranishi invited me to this annual event which took place at Camp Pollock. ECOS = Environmental Council of Sacramento.
Four awards were given, but we were most excited about the Transportation Award which was given to Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates. Sue, Deb, Jennifer Finton/Executive Director, Breathe California:
Deb Banks, Executive Director, SABA:
Wearing my Love to Ride “hat”, I went to a closed-street festival in Rancho Cordova to promote Biketober.
Surprise! Kathy, a close friend of cousin Phyliss who now lives in Montana, stopped by after a Bike Hikers ride:
By the end of the 4-hour festival, I signed up 24 people for Biketober. Success.
Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates – SABA – held its almost-annual Velo Ball tonight. I was gifted a couple of free tickets and – yay – BarbaraL and Laurie came along.
Bike valet:
Jeremiah, Julie, and Fayzah welcomed everyone.
Deb Banks, Executive Director of SABA:
I received the Good Wheel Award. I was truly shocked.
Great event. So much fun!
Brenda, Laurie, and I left early in the morning to meet at 8:30 at The Mill near CSUS for this month’s SABA Social Ride.
Our arborist/cyclist and ride leader Pierson.
American River Bike Trail:
We stopped several times to learn more about the trees along the trail.
Great ride Pierson. 39+ miles for Laurie, Brenda and me.
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.
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