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Comment on Cycle-Camp SLO to Santa Barbara—April 23-25 by Cheri

Cheri — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:19:50 +0000

Wow this seems like a great trip to take! I’m not nearly as close to being prepared to handle such a trip but hopefully one day I will be! The countryside would be a beautiful sight to see, especially from a bike. Santa Barbara and SLO are both cute towns with a lot of fun things to do! Jealous! I love traveling to both-fulfilling in every way. You should check out a great and affordable hotel I recently discovered-the Sandman Inn (www.thesandmaninn.com). Inexpensive and well placed.

Comment on Mark Bixby—Friend of Long Beach cycling community by Michael Bauch

Michael Bauch — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:04:17 +0000

I only knew Mark for about a year and a half before he passed away, but he was a big influence on my life and helped tremendously with the making of my cycling movie, Riding Bikes with the Dutch.
He was a real team player and wasn’t afraid to share his knowledge, connections, and passion to help make big things happen in Long Beach and beyond.
He will be greatly missed!
Mike Bauch

Comment on Mark Bixby—Friend of Long Beach cycling community by Donald

Donald — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:15:45 +0000

Goodby Mark, we will miss you.
My condolences to the Bixby family and all of Mark’s friends and loved ones.
Sincerely,
Don Moore

Comment on Mark Bixby—Friend of Long Beach cycling community by Summer Reese

Summer Reese — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:49:05 +0000

My condolences go out to Mark Bixby’s family, the cycling community, and the greater Long Beach community of which he was a part. I am a Bixby descendent as well, and extend my heart-felt sympathies and prayers to all affected by this terribly sad event.

Sincerely,

Summer Reese

Comment on LB Bicycle Registration Update by Greg Mency

Greg Mency — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 07:45:53 +0000

thanks for the update. look fwd to more

Comment on Request for input to Bicycle Master Plan update by Allan

Allan — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:24:57 +0000

Awesome! The public has a one day heads up that this is going on. Nice!

Comment on Licenses, loopholes and legality by Allan

Allan — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:53:10 +0000

ddougherty, I read your post earlier on BikingInLA. I thought I’d do this for myself and help support your argument regarding how bad the LB licensing program is. The only thing is, I happen to be in their system and they found me! Let me explain what I did. After reading your post I thought I’d test this our for myself. So I got a real crappy bike and registered it at the local fire station. Then I proceeded to get it stolen. So after about a month from when I registered the bike, I called up Youth Services at 570-1447. I’m not sure if they experienced a name change from “Child Protective Services” or if it’s two different departments. But yeah, I even talked to Dorothy Nulk at one point. I was transferred to her when I guess I was asking too many questions about their system. Regardless, I was in their database with this bike.

Now this isn’t an argument for keeping this system. I’m just stating my experience. I truly did want to have an experience like you did, but it didn’t happen. Personally if they just get rid of the system, it’d make me quite happy. At the very least make it optional. As was stated above, it’s a money losing system. And going through the system, I wholeheartedly agree.

Comment on Licenses, loopholes and legality by Allan

Allan — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:13:15 +0000

The thing is the police force doesn’t know the CVC regarding bike licensing either. Take for example Sergeant Zapalski statement in the local paper.

Sergeant Dina Zapalski of the Long Beach Police Department – Zapalski explained that it is the law to have your bicycle registered with the City of Long Beach if you are riding within city limits.

She needed to include that “resident” part of CVC 39002(a) to make her quote valid.

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Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:33:57 +0000

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Comment on Bill and Jim trike the Pacific coast by bernadette

bernadette — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:11:14 +0000

Great story Bill! Thanks for sharing your adventure with us! Hey, any issues on ferries, trains and other transit with bringing on the recumbents?

-Bernadette