Allan is organizing another night ride through the ports—this one starting Thursday evening, May 5th, and riding into Friday morning, with enough time for you to show up for work by sunrise.
The timing for this cycling adventure is perfect because workers at both the Ports of Long Beach and L.A. will not be working that night… also, the weather this time of year is very pleasant… with lows in the mid-50s… a good layer of clothing will keep you comfy… and earlier this week the country’s Number One Terrorist was slain.
As we don’t have to fight Osama bin Laden anymore, Allan urges us to now spread the joy of riding bicycles. “The ports are ours this Thursday!!!” If you haven’t been on a night ride yet, consider cycling this one.
The ride starts at 9:00 pm Thursday evening at the Hub on Long Beach Blvd (immediately east of the PCH Metro Blue Line station). Around 3:00 am the group will cycle to an “ultra-cool” trucker café for some grub, with plenty of time to catch the first Metro train out of downtown Long Beach, which departs at 5:07 am. For more information, contact Allan at allanalessio@yahoo.com.
MichaelB, May 3rd 2011 |
Tags: Allan, night, Port of Long Beach, ride
Posted in ride
Our Travis is super friendly, a cyclist, a great bike mechanic, and a handsome guy with a lonnnnnnng beard. Saturday morning, 8 am, October 2nd, you can cycle with Travis to the Port Fest. The staging area for all interested people to cycle to the port is the downtown Promenade (Ocean Blvd. near Pine Avenue). Folks on bikes can enjoy a special cycling tour of interesting areas of the Port of Long Beach not usually seen by outsiders—that ride takes place at 8:00 am. People on bicycle who arrive at the Promenade later can nonetheless participate in escorted cycle rides to the Port Fest itself. Long Beach Cyclists will run a table at the Promenade Saturday morning, and will provide free bike valet at Port Fest (south of Queensway Bridge) all day long.
MichaelB, October 1st 2010 |
Tags: annual event, bike tours, bike valet, fun, Green Port Festival, Port of Long Beach, ride, routes
Posted in ride
Brian Ulaszewski reports from LBPOST in favor of linking non motorists to San Pedro Basin from Long Beach
Please join Long Beach Cyclists for the public meeting at City Hall September 28, 2010 at 3:30pm.
READ THE STORY HERE
bmckeever, September 21st 2010 |
Tags: advocacy, commuting, Gerald Desmond Bridge, Port of Long Beach, roads, routes, San Pedro, Terminal Island, traffic
Posted in Education, advocacy, meeting
Over the weekend Long Beach Cyclists gathered for a day of Bike Tours in and out of the Harbor and hosted Bike Valet!
Green Port Festival is a giant outdoor event that attracts about 10,000 people! The purpose is an all free open house of the Port. This year they invited us to go green with them and involve bikes. What better way to be green!
Two months prior to GPF we worked closely with the port team brainstorming, organizing and implementing the bike plan. Led by Matt Goldman and Ryan Gregnano (POLB’s Bike Guys) we pulled it off! We transited over 100 people to the GPF via six tours through out the day from The Promenade at Ocean and First St. over the Queensway bridge and into the Port where we than parked bikes in the Bike Valet area of Harbor Way (a total of 160 bikes were parked!)
While in the port, we led bike tours out to pier “J” via the route along the water’s edge and around the Queen Mary. Great views and warm weather greeted us while we toured the proposed Inner Harbor Bike Trail that could be implemented soon with the help of the POLB commissioners and City of Long Beach’s Transportation Department. If you feel inclined (and we hope you do) write some letters to these VIP’s encouraging them to get the ball rollin’! The route would complement well the already scenic and most always empty bike path that exists there, taking the cyclists around the Spruce Goose dome and all the way out to Pier ‘J’.
This was an incredible success for LB Cyclists! Thank you to all my lovely hardworking volunteers: Shawn, Josh, Stacie, Travis, Nate, Jenny, Michael, Donald, Tom and Cindy.
bmckeever, October 5th 2009 |
Tags: annual event, bike tours, bike valet, Port of Long Beach
Posted in Featured, event
