Rides & Events
- Bike to Work Day
May 17, 2012 | 2:47 pmTitle: Bike to Work day Description: National Bike to Work day Date: 2012-5-18 Can’t make the Tour and can’t call in? Switch the 4 wheels for 2 or 3! Started in 1956 by the League of American Bicyclists as part of National Bike Month, Bike to Work encourages people to commute on their bikes to [...]
- OC Rides of Silence – Recap+
May 17, 2012 | 11:29 am
The evening of 5/16/2012 marked the 10th annual Ride of Silence (RoS) around the world. Angelique Martinez, 16, of Oxnard organized a RoS in memory of her brother Anthony, 6, who was struck and killed by a pickup truck last Thanksgiving, was selected by the Ride of Silence board of directors as this years’ “champion and hero”. Here [...]
- Rides of Silence in the OC
May 16, 2012 | 9:10 amThe Ride of Silence 2012 Wed May 16, 2012 – Ride of Silence “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” Mahatma Gandhi Download RideofSilenceMemorial – (6M) any corrections? ContactUs – thanks. Short History: On May 4 2003, Larry Schwartz was riding [...]
- SHARE MTB Poker Ride
May 14, 2012 | 12:18 pmTitle: SHARE MTB Poker Ride Location: Santiago Oaks Link out: Click here Description: Fundraising Ride for trail maintenance and wilderness restoration Start Time: 08:00 Date: 2012-05-19 “The SHARE Mountain Bike Poker Ride is a very very fun event that has been run annually for over 15 years. The event has raised critically needed money sponsoring [...]
- Bike to School day
May 8, 2012 | 8:58 amTitle: Bike to School day Description: Bike to School day Date: 2012-05-09 National Bike to School Day is coordinated by the National Center for Safe Routes to School. Details and contact info for California are here. A planning resource is hosted by the same group at a different site which is here. To use our [...]
- OC Parks Tour – 2012
May 4, 2012 | 5:01 amTitle: OC Parks Tour Location: Aliso Woods Wilderness Park TourLink: Click here Description: MTB Race and Expo at Aliso Woods Wilderness Park and Laguna Niguel Regional Park . Start Time: 06:00 Date: 2012-5-5 End Time: 14:00 Presented by The Path, This is the first – ever – MTB Race at Aliso Woods. It is also [...]
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About Us Our mission:
To promote bicycling as an everyday means of transportation and recreation.
The Orange County Bicycle Coalition is a bicycling advocacy organization (501(c)(3) non-profit) for Orange County, California.
Orange County is located between Los Angeles County and San Diego County in Southern California.
HISTORY
Commuting and recreational bicyclists formed the Orange County Bicycle Coalition (OCBC) in 1991 to promote bicycling as an everyday means of transportation and recreation.
OCBC is explicitly authorized to represent about 2000 Orange County bicyclists who are members of member clubs. Beyond that, we speak for all bicyclists, including the poor, the elderly, and children, and for the bicycle industry.
In 1994, OCBC obtained tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue code, and has retained that status ever since.
Executive Emeritus:
Don Harvey, JD, PhD
(949) 759-0219
Email:
harveydonw@juno.com |
Executive Director:
Pete van Nuys
(949) 492-5737
Email:
petevannuys@cox.net |
| Secretary: Jim Freibert |
Treasurer: Michelle Vester |
| Director, South County:
Brian DeSousa |
Director, North County:
Vince Buck |
| Director, Legal Affairs:
Rock Kendall |
At Large:
Bill Sellin |
Advocacy, education, refreshments–
find ‘em in North Beach, San Clemente
 1900 N. El Camino Real, in North Beach San Clemente is the new "clubhouse" for OCBC. “Free Air, Free Water, Clean Restrooms.”
For 16 years, long before he became Executive Director of Orange County Bicycle Coalition, Pete van Nuys would look at the unused Metrolink building at the north end of town and wonder, “When is someone going to put a bicycle rental business in there?” Last December he posed that question to the San Clemente City Manger, who passed it on to the Community Development Director, who sent him a key, and what would become a loooong list of things to do and people to see, not to mention contracts to sign. And in May he got the nod. Every flavor of Gatorade this is. Many coats of paint later this building is welcoming cyclists with cold drinks, energy snacks and, oh yes, ice cream.
Also tubes, tires, tools, mirrors, seat packs, locks…. the stuff you need but sometimes forget on your way down to Las Pulgas.
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Hello, I am a graduate student for Brandman University part of Chapman University. Currently, I work as a bicycle technician and as of a few weeks ago I am taking a course in local government. I have been avidly searching for any known bicycle trail, law, or any issue regarding Yorba Linda. If anyone could help me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.
Sept 7th I was hit from behind by a car. 10 days in a coma, 4 weeks in a hospital. many weeks of recovery and therapy. Hope to ride next year. I used to know Pete in the early days of Chino Hills State Park.
First, please attend Ride of Silence, this Wednesday evening, 6PM at Irvine City Hall.
It’s the annual ride in Honor of those cyclists killed by motorists, a community of those who believe they must not have died in vain.
Hi, my friend recently passed away while riding his bike home when he was struck by a car that then fled the scene. That issue aside, my friends and I would like to organize a bike ride to pay tribute to my friend who passed away and others who were injured or passed away while riding their bikes. We want other families and friends of victims to join. I wasn’t sure where to start and was wondering if you would like to participate, help, or anything would help. If you could please e-mail me as soon as you get the chance, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks.
Patricia Izquieta has a plea deal with OC Distric Attorney that will probably send her to jail for 3 years for the hit and run death of Donald Murphy a year ago, December. She’ll be sentenced March 11, in Santa Ana.
How much is a bicyclist’s life worth? It’s priceless, and cannot be paid for with 360 days or 3-times 360 days. But at least these people are being publicly sentenced now. Motorists– at least in Orange County– can no longer skate by saying “I didn’t see him.”
And just today, an as yet unnamed cyclist was killed by a lady DUI on San Miquel. Again in Newport Beach…
Maybe it’s time there is a mass VOCAL effort to value & treat cyclist lives better than what exist now.
An Anaheim man who illegally turned left in front of a group of bicyclists in Newport Beach last year, causing one rider to fatally slam into the side of his truck, was convicted of vehicular manslaughter.
Jose Luis Huerta Mundo, 38, pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence, meaning he didn’t know his action could kill someone, and was sentenced to 360 days in jail Monday.
Mundo was driving his landscaping truck on Spyglass Hill Road in Corona del Mar on July 15 when he made an illegal left turn onto Harbor Ridge Drive. Meanwhile, a group of morning cyclists were speeding down the hill toward Harbor Ridge, which is just after a blind right curve.
Mundo’s truck was blocking the right lanes where the cyclists were riding and Michael Nine, 43, of Santa Ana, slammed head-first into the right rear side of the vehicle. He died from his injuries.
Charles, hi.
1.) OCBC is monitoring the on-going Newport Beach Police investigation. The driver appears to have been backing up, over the centerline, around a blind curve, on a steep grade. He was trusting, apparently, to blind luck that no one would be approaching from the rear. His record speaks for itself– the man has little concern for the law or traffic safety.
2.) Poor accommodation for bicycles through construction zones has been addressed on the state level. New standards of signage, provision for bicycle detours, and position of construction equipment has been adopted by the Uniform Traffic Control Devices committee, but are not yet published. On our To Do list is a “preview” publishing of these standards on our own, and to take them around to the 20+ city engineers, by way of introducing ourselves and explaining what we expect from them.
We don’t always get what we want, but we never do if we don’t ask.
http://www.dailypilot.com/news/tn-dpt-0717-nine-20100716,0,5162106.story
Hope you guys are on this. Particularly, noting that a task force created subsequent to an earlier death might be spurred to action.
While I’m here, north bound Moulton El Toro to Ridge Line, pot holes, tough in the dark on morning commute , thought I had them mapped, ride there with caution, but hit one on Thursday.
Major construction, yes but interestingly on the way up to Gate 12 intersection the holes are patched but on the descent to Ridge Line there are open craters.
Thanks, CP