Comments on: May is National Bike Month

By: Suza

Suza — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:55:45 +0000

And thank you Camille and Millennium for all you are doing to increase bicycle awareness in our beautiful valley.
Someday I will post the story of how I stopped riding my bike after I discovered a black widow living under my black bike seat. I’m back on my bicycle again but for awhile the thought that I was riding around with Mrs. Widow so close to my bum gave me the weebie geebies. (I cannot leave my bicycle outdoors in the summer. My extra bikes that I used to keep outside also had blackwidows living under the seat and in the side bike bags!)
I will post the flyer for the Ride of Silence, Wednesday May 21st, very soon.
I might not be able to join this ride because my daughter is driving to Berkeley for a friend’s graduation on the 21st and I’m catching a ride with her to visit my son (who happens to be a bicycle racing champion:
http://www.pbase.com/bohebe/wvrr20070421 )

By: Millennium

Millennium — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:39:51 +0000

thanks Camille!
and thanks to Kelly Pasco, and Suza.
I think after the Ride Of Silence, we are planning this summer’s first Full Moon Bicycle Ride … we confirmed with David Klein and Soriya Blalock yesterday.
assuming the Ride of Silence is finished by 7 pm or so, the Full Moon Ride will do a loop perhaps from the West Campus aka Honor Farm (where the new Bicycle Recyclery is planned), along the Bicycle Trail to the Libby Park Fountain, and from there around Ojai and back to Meiners Oaks.
full schedule and routes should be determined this weekend.

By: Camille Carlson

Camille Carlson — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:37:52 +0000

Hey Suza,
Thanks so much for helping out by posting this, I’ve already had someone e-mail me.
I have all of the definite information on the ride of silence (when, where, etc.) now which might be more pertinent or informative to post. I will attach a flier.
I think we’re going to have a really successful event and hope it only grows in the future.
Hopefully the message of the ROS will become even stronger as more and more cyclists are about on the road. Thanks for being an inspiring bicycle activist as well. Really, if it wasn’t for activists like you, I may have never been riding in the first place.
Thanks again Suza.
Sincerely,
Camille
Ride of Silence
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Meet 5:30 pm @ Coffee Connection- 311 E. El
Roblar
Gather to share personal experiences and hear a
speech by local cyclist Kelly Pasco
Ride begins at 6:00pm
Come one, come all!
Please join in for Ojai’s 1st Ride of Silence, a nation-wide event of solidarity and remembrance for cyclists who have been fatally injured, hit, or harassed while riding on the road.
Together we ride 8 miles in silence at a slow and steady pace.
Helmets are required.
For more information please contact (805) 797-6582
Visit http://www.bikeleague.org and http://www.rideofsilence.org for more information on cycling education and awareness.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:39:35 +0000

TORA LE!
Who will lead Ride o’ Silence?
I vote for Suza!!

By: Suza

Suza — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:54:00 +0000

Thank you Sally!
That is such a great article! I sent a copy to Kenley Neufeld who is head of the Ojai Valley Green Coalition Transportation Committee.
(See Comment #1)
PS Sally’s last name really is “Carless”

By: Sally Carless

Sally Carless — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:41:57 +0000

Hi Suza,
I thought of you when I read this
Sally
Pedaling Toward Cleaner Cities – Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20080513/wl_oneworld/45361605341210700161

By: Suza

Suza — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:33:04 +0000

Thank you Millennium. That sounds good!

By: Millennium

Millennium — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:25:05 +0000

we are setting up a new Bicycle Recyclery in the Valley — CycliciTree — this one at the West Campus of HELP Of Ojai. might be a 2nd recylcery, or else a moving of the old one from Oak Grove School … end of this month. maybe we can do something special on 21 May.
also I will ask David and Soriya if the FullMoon bicycle ride is back on for the summer … and if they want to coordinate with you, Camille, re the Ride of Silence.

By: Mario Gonzales

Mario Gonzales — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:30:14 +0000

HORA LE!!!

By: Suza

Suza — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:28:17 +0000

Kenley Neufeld is head of the Ojai Valley Green Coalition Transportation Committee. Here is a link to the OVGC transportation page.
http://www.ojaivalleygreencoalition.org/action-committees/transportation/
And a recent article by Kenley:
http://www.ojaivalleygreencoalition.org/2008/01/do_you_stay_inside_all_the_tim.shtml