Traffic Skills 101—the short-duration course that helps you develop skills to cycle Long Beach streets more safely—is taught by instructors (LCI’s) who are certified by the League of American Bicyclists. The course at CSULB Pyramid Annex is free, but advance registration is required. Click EDUCATION at the top of the longbeachcyclsts.com page for more information and to link to the CSULB web site to register.
This will be will be the last opportunity to take Traffic Skills 101 in Long Beach this summer.
By the way, the photograph was lifted from the cover of the Smart Cycling pamphlet of the League of American Bicyclists. Given that the League is based in Washington, D.C., can you identify which building we see in the background? And… can you identify who is the LCI in the photo? Hint, he is well known in the Long Beach cycling community.
MichaelB, July 12th 2010 |
Tags: advocacy, bike lane, bike to work, children, commuting, CSULB, CVC 21200 21202, cycling, economy, fun, goals, health, laws, legal, police, public transit, responsibility, rights, roads, routes, safety, traffic, women
Posted in Education
A morning of red white and blue flags, costumes and decorated bikes. If you want to accompany your young children out on their bikes or in the stroller or wagon and if you love the sight of hundreds of fluttering U.S. flags, scroll down the page a few posts to read the previously posted blurb about the Kid’s Bike Parade and go to bikeparade.com.
And another option, because it’s fun to be two places at once:
Each first Sunday of the month, friends riding vintage bikes and other bikes with character meet up at Portfolio Coffeehouse (Junipero at Fourth). At 10:30 a.m., the HUGE Cyclone Coaster group will depart from Portfolio for an easy-paced local ride, all wearing Cyclone Coaster t-shirts.
Click www.cyclonecoaster.com for more information, including details about the July 4th Cyclone Coaster BBQ at Bixby Park.
MichaelB, July 4th 2010 |
Tags: annual event, children, Cyclone Coaster, family, fun, ride, vintage
Posted in event, ride
Fun, free, and lots of red white and blue! If you have young children, if you want them out on their bikes or in the stroller or wagon, and if you love the sight of hundreds of fluttering U.S. flags, this may be the ride for you.
On the morning of the 4th, meet in Belmont Shore along Ocean Blvd. at the corner of Granada Avenue (close to the Long Beach Dog Zone and not far from the peninsula). Registration begins at 9:15 am. It’s free. You will be asked to sign a liability waiver form. The bike parade begins at 10:00 am. Two miles (total) of easy riding, as well as a ‘patriotic costume’ contest and free face painting.
Children are required to wear helmets, and must be escorted by a parent or guardian during the bike ride (along the beach bike path and up and down Bay Shore Avenue south of Second Street).
This event is sponsored by Justin Rudd, Community Action Team (CAT) and Gazette Newspapers. Special parade guests will include Long Beach City Manager Pat West, as well as Councilmembers Suja Lowenthal and Gary DeLong. Long Beach Bicycle Ambassador Tony Cruz will be there, too. For more information, including car parking information, go to www.bikeparade.com.
MichaelB, June 27th 2010 |
Tags: annual event, children, family, fun, ride
Posted in event, ride
Traffic Skills 101—the short-duration course that helps you develop skills to cycle Long Beach streets more safely—is offered only a handful of times each year. The course at CSULB Pyramid Annex is free, but advance registration is required. Click EDUCATION at the top of the longbeachcyclsts.com page for more information and to link to the CSULB web site to register.
The last opportunity to take Traffic Skills 101 this summer will be in July.
MichaelB, June 13th 2010 |
Tags: advocacy, bike lane, bike to work, children, commuting, CSULB, cycling, economy, fun, goals, health, laws, legal, police, public transit, responsibility, rights, roads, routes, safety, traffic, women
Posted in Education
The H.U.B.—the bicycle repair cooperative—is now ready to receive and recycle donated old bicycles in any condition.
That’s what ’ReCYCLE Your BiCYCLE’ is all about. Friends at Pedal Movement / H.U.B. bike cooperative are working with City of Long Beach Waste Management and with Parks and Recreation to receive donated bikes.
Bikes in salvageable condition will be collected at various local parks. Waste Management will truck them to the H.U.B. to be recycled. H.U.B. volunteer mechanics will piece together old bike parts to create recycled bikes. Later, the recycled bikes will be given away to local youth. Old bike parts that cannot be reused will end up as recycled scrap metal.Â
Saturday, June 5th and Saturday June 12th between noon and 4:00 pm, Waste Management vehicles will accept bicycles at donation locations at many Long Beach public parks. El Dorado Park West, Houghton Park, Cesar Chavez Park, McBride Park and Silverado Park. Click on the poster icon on the left for details and park addresses.
MichaelB, June 5th 2010 |
Tags: children, coop, economy, recycle, The H.U.B.
Posted in Bicycle equipment/gear
Imagine the joy of donating an old bike, knowing that it will be recycled and then given to a local youngster.
That’s what ‘ReCYCLE Your BiCYCLE’ is all about. Friends at the H.U.B. bike cooperative (on Long Beach Blvd. one short block south of PCH) love to fix up old bicycles. Now the H.U.B. and Waste Management of the City of Long Beach are working together to recycle old bikes… so that after donated bikes are repaired they can be given away to Long Beach children.
Saturday, May 22nd between noon and 4:00 pm, Waste Management vehicles will accept bicycles in any condition. There will be donation locations at many Long Beach public parks—addresses listed on the poster on the left.
Bikes in salvageable condition will be taken to the H.U.B. to be recycled. H.U.B. volunteer mechanics will piece together old bike parts to create recycled bikes. Later, the recycled bikes will be given away to local children. Old bike parts that cannot be reused will end up as recycled scrap metal.Â
Donate your old bicycle Saturday, May 22nd (or Saturday, May 29th, or Saturday June 12th) at one of several local parks listed in the poster.
MichaelB, May 20th 2010 |
Tags: children, coop, economy, recycle, The H.U.B.
Posted in Bicycle equipment/gear, Current News
Get ready for some cycling fun! Â Join us on another PALBIF ride, this one on Sunday, April 18th. But note: You will NEED a good bike lock.
Sunday morning, prior to 10:00 am, we will meet just south of Joe’s Crab Shack (E. Marina Drive near Second Street). Arrive early if you wish to buy something yummy at the nearby farmers market. At 10:00, we will cycle to the El Dorado Nature Center. There, we will visit the museum and explore nature trails on foot. And then we will enjoy a picnic.
The PALBIF ride. PAL means ‘pack a lunch.’ So… what does BIF mean?
This will be a day for easy cycling—perfect for the entire family, including kids. For more information, go to www.longbeach.gov/naturecenter/.
LBCyclists, April 13th 2010 |
Tags: children, farmers market, fun, health, P.A.L.B.I.F., PALBIF, ride
Posted in ride
Do you have an opinion on cycling you’d like to get out there?
Want everyone to know about the pothole that just keeps getting bigger?
Have a piece of gear that you just love?
Have something to say to the city about bicycling?
Want to share your ride experience?
We are looking for contributor photographers (folks that want to write stuff and take pictures of things)
If you’d like to be able to add your two-cents to this blog, send us an email!
LBCyclists (at) Gmail (dot) com
LBCyclists, September 24th 2008 |
Tags: advocacy, bicycle, children, commuting, cycling, death to cars, fun, history, responsibility, ride, routes, safety, vintage, women
Posted in Current News, Featured, advocacy
The Independence Day Kids Bike Parade 2008 is this coming Friday, July 4 at 10 a.m.
It starts and ends at 1 Granada Ave. in Belmont Shore and lasts about 30 minutes.
It’s a slow-moving two-mile out-and-back ride on the beach bike path and down Bay Shore Ave. (closed to autos for the day). We are looking for teens and adults to ride decorated bikes at the back of the parade (kids will ride at the front of the parade) to show their support of the kids and for patriotism.
All ages are welcome – kids, teens and adults.
There are about 200 kids each year, but we want this to be a huge 5th Anniversary parade.
For more info: http://www.bikeparade.com
LBCyclists, June 28th 2008 |
Tags: children
Posted in Past News, event
