longbeachcyclists.com » Port of Long Beach http://longbeachcyclists.com Tue, 01 May 2012 00:40:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Port ride at night, May 5-6 http://longbeachcyclists.com/2011/05/port-ride-at-night-may-5-6/ http://longbeachcyclists.com/2011/05/port-ride-at-night-may-5-6/#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 18:51:08 +0000 MichaelB http://longbeachcyclists.com/?p=6462 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.

]]> http://longbeachcyclists.com/2011/05/port-ride-at-night-may-5-6/feed/ 0 Cycle from the Promenade with Travis—8am Oct 2 http://longbeachcyclists.com/2010/10/cycle-from-the-promenade-with-travis-8am-oct-2/ http://longbeachcyclists.com/2010/10/cycle-from-the-promenade-with-travis-8am-oct-2/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:19:51 +0000 MichaelB http://longbeachcyclists.com/?p=5852 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.

]]> http://longbeachcyclists.com/2010/10/cycle-from-the-promenade-with-travis-8am-oct-2/feed/ 2 Will the Gerald Desmond Bridge Be a Gateway for Bicyclists and Peds? http://longbeachcyclists.com/2010/09/will-the-gerald-desmond-bridge-be-a-gateway-for-bicyclists-and-peds/ http://longbeachcyclists.com/2010/09/will-the-gerald-desmond-bridge-be-a-gateway-for-bicyclists-and-peds/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:48:01 +0000 bmckeever http://longbeachcyclists.com/?p=5758 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

]]> http://longbeachcyclists.com/2010/09/will-the-gerald-desmond-bridge-be-a-gateway-for-bicyclists-and-peds/feed/ 2 Green Port Festival and LB Cyclists—a successful relationship! http://longbeachcyclists.com/2009/10/successful-bike-extravaganza-for-the-port-of-long-beach/ http://longbeachcyclists.com/2009/10/successful-bike-extravaganza-for-the-port-of-long-beach/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:17:03 +0000 bmckeever http://longbeachcyclists.com/?p=734 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. lbcyclists-2 lbcyclists-3 lbcyclists-4 lbcyclists-1 lbcyclists

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