Tag Archives: SABA

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MiBM Kickoff

May is Bike Month is here! Ten of us met Pierson at the bike/ped bridge near Peregrine Park at 10:30 am. Yes, there were 10 of us: Agueda is in the background calling out to Minerva to hurry up.

SABA and Breathe California had a kickoff event at River Park in West Sacramento .. which is directly across the river from Old Sacramento. The brown lumps at the end of the dock are two local sea lions.

Stowing our bikes at Bike Valet:

Gina, today a vendor – Gadget Girl Goods – was the instructor for Jibe’s Earn-a-Bike which is how BarbaraL met her.

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SABA Social Ride

Brenda, BarbaraL and I rode in from N Natomas. Because Discovery Park was closed due to flooding, our safest choice to get across the river was Highway 160. We used the on ramp from Northgate Blvd, took the lane while 45 mph-traffic moved left to go around us. Being Sunday morning, there wasn’t a lot of traffic. Just after crossing the river, we were able to move right onto a Class IV cycle track onto 12th St. We met at Drip Espresso at 24th & J Streets.

At 10:30, the ride began: a tour of murals created by and featuring women.

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Ride Ready Repair

at John Cabrillo Elementary, sponsored by SABA. A school fair with booths,

entertainment,

Wide Open Walls in action, and

free bike repair.

Happy customer:

Plus a free tickets for a raffle to give away several kids bikes.

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Ride Ready Repair

Saturday afternoon at Hiram Johnson High School. A big school- and community-wide event.

I was so grateful Elaine and Terri volunteered to help out. It was quite busy at times. We took in about 30 bikes for repair and handed out free raffle tickets.

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Ride Ready at Mather Veteran’s Village

Yesterday morning, I went to the SABA staff meeting and learned a receptionist was needed today for a bike repair clinic at Mather Veteran’s Village.

Mather Veteran’s Village provides critically needed veteran housing with supportive services located on the former Mather Air Force base in Rancho Cordova. It provides 50 permanent supportive homes for formerly homeless and disabled veterans plus transitional housing for many more.  SABA brought 15 rehabilitated bicycles to give away.

My station:

Many happy customers.

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Bike Doc

This morning, I worked as the receptionist at Bike Doc at the North Natomas Farmer’s Market. We took in 51 bikes which were serviced by about 8 mechanics FREE of charge.

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LCI Spotlight

I was chosen for the League of American Bicyclists League Cycling Instructor spotlight for their March 21 e-newsletter. Thank you so much, Deb Banks, for nominating me! Working with SABA and Jibe for the past 8 years has been so personally rewarding and just plain fun. Great organizations and great people to work with.

If you’d like to read the article, copy and paste this link into your browser:

https://bikeleague.org/content/lci-spotlight-arlete-hodel