The basics:

Get out in nature with your kids (age 13-18) and hand them the camera!  For a great location in Long Beach, I would highly recommend a family bike ride down to El Dorado Park Nature Center (find the “Friends of El Dorado Nature Center” on Facebook) Let us know if you need a route- we’ll help get you there!

Contest started January 18, 2012 and ends March 14, 2012.  Please take the time to look at their informative website for rules and PRIZE information!

Thanks for supporting a creative activity aimed at environmental sustainability!

Bernadette

Long Beach will inaugurate two separated bikeways—one along Broadway, the other along 3rd Street—designed to provide a pleasant, new way for the entire family to cycle when in downtown Long Beach.

The official ceremony will be held at noon.

Click to enlarge the map. Click to enlarge the Grand Opening poster for more details.

Who wants to start [the most recent] dialog?

Anxieties? positive outlooks? how does it work? Is it safe? …

“Last night, the City Council unanimously supported my proposal for a new and accessible bike registration program that eliminates the mandatory registration system and moves to an online national bike registry. This new and free registration system is fair, voluntary, and will partner with local bike retailers and repair shops. We have eliminated an extra level of bureaucracy for residents and visitors. Additionally, a vast majority of Long Beach residents and families who did not have their bikes registered with the city, will no longer be subject to expensive fines and bike impounds.

“As we move forward, we will ensure that we partner with our local schools and police department to ensure safe streets for cyclists, pedestrians and motorists. These bike law reforms bring us one step closer to becoming America’s Most Bike Friendly City.”

you can read more of Councilman Garcia’s words on his webpage.

at the time of receipt of this information there was no mention of where to find the free online national bike registry, though he may be referring to this National Bike Registry (which isn’t free). this plan must be in the works and will be available sometime in the near future.

Long Beach City Council votes on the currently mandatory bike registration, on whether or not to continue it’s mandatoriness, make it optional or outright abolish it.

let’s all hope—and keep our fingers crossed—City Council makes a sensible decision and moves for outright abolishment.

to quell the cyclist visitors of Long Beach:
if you are not a resident of Long Beach, you need NOT license your bike. want to be sure? here’s a link to CA Vehicle Code 39002 (http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d16_7/vc39002.htm). if you need to find that later, CVC 39002 is in division 16.7 (all the way at the bottom—http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/vc/vctoc.htm).

i would also like to take a moment to point out CVC 39011 (http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d16_7/vc39011.htm). for those of us LB residents ticketed for not having a licensed bike in Long Beach and were fined an inappropriately large amount, CVC 39011 says, “…no fine [...] shall exceed ten dollars ($10).”

“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.” – Helen Keller

and so it goes…

The LBC general meeting will be canceled this month due to a restructuring process of the organization. We are working hard on a new format for LBC, one that will allow us to get back into the community in education, advocacy and cycling fun! Thank you for your patience during this difficult transition. Soon, we will be proposing a new referendum, and we will be asking our members to participate.

Ride Safe LBC!

- Long Beach Cyclists Board of Directors

Your support is needed! As some may be familiar, the Port of Long Beach is reconstructing the Gerald Desmond Bridge. The GDb is one of the two bridges between Long Beach and San Pedro, and is the one which connects Long Beach with Terminal Island.

A Class 1 (separated) bike path and pedestrian access on this bridge to Terminal Island would be beneficial to many: for work, for play, for tourists, for et cetera.

Come to BIKESTATION in downtown LB (222 e. broadway, 90802) and sign the petition to the CA Coastal Commission to make them aware of this community’s desire for the Class 1 bike path & pedestrian access. Also find in Bikestation some literature for precise information about the petition and CA law and Policy requirements and et cetera.

New bicycle advocates join the club! Congrats Jim Powers for putting another great team in action!

http://www.hubbabikenews.blogspot.com/

Saturday, November 27th @12.30p is the date/time for a grand opening party of a new BMX shop here in long beach. there’ll be eats. there’ll be drinks. there’ll be music (by the Deadly Fins).

here’s the address: 2319 e. 7th st., Long Beach, CA 90804

here’s the flyer (click to enlarge):