Listen to the podcast on cdmCyclist.com, and stop riding like a 6-year old.
Roadies, cruisers, small wheels, and 'bents. This class has something for every cyclists-- guaranteed.
April 21, 23 – Orange- This popular classroom session will be offered at the Orange County Transportation Authority offices on Main St., with the on-road portion Saturday morning.
“I’ve been riding for 12 years and I couldn’t believe how valuable this class turned out to be.” Because of comments like that we offer it with a money back guarantee.
Orange County’s most renown bicycle tourist, Rob Templin, inspires people to expand their horizons. We invite you be inspired, 6:PM, Thursday, Aug. 26, as Rob shares how anyone, young or old, can roll into their own personal adventure.
Maui tradewinds
Dazzling views, the sounds and smells of nature surround you as your bike rounds bend after bend along a country road. But choosing the right road, selecting the perfect daily destination is key to a memorable tour.
Planning your own trip or joining one of Rob’s Second Summer groups, we’ll share the delights which only travel by bicycle can reveal. Along the way he’ll share insights into the bicycle cultures of the countries he visits, where bicycles are a more accepted mode of travel.
The evening is FREE, but seating is limited, so please RSVP, 949 492 5737, or e-mail us.
http://tinyurl.com/sart2010 Video of problems on this vital bicycle transportation link: a car show staged on a weekend with pedestrians– and cars– blocking the trail. Bollards, limited openings of the route which by law must be available 24/7.
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
Advocacy, education, refreshments– find ‘em in North Beach.
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.
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.
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
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