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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Regular bike commuters and their doctors already know this, but for those of you still not sure if bike commuting is worth it, there’s headlines going around the world about a new study of 4,297 commuters that concludes that long commutes may be bad for your health.
From an excerpt:
“This study yields new [...]
Skimming recent news items from 2011, we spotted this NHTSA update to a 2009 study regarding hybrid vs “normal” car / bike and pedestrian collisions. from their website.
New terms are defined in the report: HE = Hybrid Electric ICE = Internal Combustion Engine
The 2009 “Incidence of Pedestrian and Bicyclist Crashes by Hybrid Electric [...]
So you’re crusin’ in the bike lane and then REALITY!
Any guesses where in the OC?
Oh, and the CiclOCia survey results are here.
An excellent article from DCStreetsBlog highlights the positive economic impact cyclists provide to communities. Long Beach is mentioned quite a bit in the post as having transformed 4 business districts into cycle friendly areas complete with merchant bike-share programs, discounts to customers arriving by bike, bike valets, and a sea change in business owner’s perceptions [...]
It's not a hard as it looks! Honest.
Gain the confidence you need to venture forth anytime you feel like it. Basic repair skills can be mastered by anyone, and result in a better maintained bike, too. Bring you bike and get ready for free hands on instruction in flat repair, rear wheel removal, [...]
Limited posters available at the event!
…and their contributions help OCBC make Orange County a better place to ride!
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Chasing Legends gives you cycling heroes as you’ve never seen them before, through an intense and personal glimpse inside the most winning professional [...]
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