Everybody Bike: Winter Cyclists Love Your Ride Celebration Feb 12
Are you a winter cyclist? EverybodyBIKE would like to say thank you, at their “Love Your Ride” celebration of winter cycling, Sunday Feb 12 at The Old Foundry 1110 Cornwall Ave.
• 4:00 all ages bike ride
• 5:00 Reception and Bike Film Shorts
• 6:00 Fashion Show
• 7:00 Lighted Bike Parade
• 8:00 After-party square dance hosted by Wild Buffalo
Pacific Northwest Eclipse Times, Dec 10
My sister passes along the OMSI planetarium manager’s useful local timeline:
“For the Pacific Northwest viewers, the penumbral eclipse begins at 3:33 a.m. PST and the umbral shadow takes a small, dark bite out of the left edge of the moon starts at 4:45 a.m. PST. For 66 minutes of the partial phase, the darkness engulfs more of the moon’s disk as it slides into the shadow. The partial eclipse ends and totality begins at 6:06 a.m. PST and the point of the greatest eclipse occurs at 6:31 a.m. PST. The eclipse’s total phase will lasts for 51 minutes. The moon will be only 6.5 degrees above the north western horizon at the instant of the greatest eclipse.”
So setup your camera tonight!
Cancelled. Kids Bike Picnic 11/12, From Farmers Market to Marine Point
Updated 2011-11-09: cancelled due to back injury.
We will be heading to Marine Point after stocking up at the Farmers Market. BYOL. You could meet us at our house, the f/m, or at the park. Prepare for possible low tide, magnifiers or collecting buckets and wellies might be a good idea.
Kids Bike Picnic 11/5
Saturday morning. BYOL. Contact me if interested. Location dependent upon age of participants.
Walk + Bike to School Day
Like every day should be, of course.
A Bicycle Lifestylist Day
It was a very bicycle-lifestyle day today. Family ride to early breakfast in Fairhaven. Biked in the Moving Planet procession to the Library. Bought some used bike parts. Cuddled Jesse when he fell off his run bike. Cheered the riders as they rolled off to Cherry Point. Picked up groceries by bike and swung by bike shop. Put different fat grips on bikes. Allowed an aquaintence to test out my recumbent and discussed ergonomics for his wrists. (Ever considered stacking bar-ends?) Adding Tuffies to my tires and doing brakes on my gray bike, adding lights for the winter and adjusting the handlebars and adding a new bike lock.
I would have liked to have spent more than a few minutes at the Bellingham Bike Plan table with these nice huge city maps that charted the bike lanes. I had to orbit the kids for the most part, and they wanted library time. I heard a fraction of Mayor Pike’s speach.
The number of people that showed up for the Bike Bellingham rally was better than none, but still really … not like a crowd the size of the Farmers Market. Really, the in-bike crowd seemed to show up. It would have been great to have held this gathering right in Railroad Ave between Market Depot and Boundary Bay Brewery, and block vehicle traffic. Mayor Pike and the other presenters would have been heard much broadly. And the bike master plan idea would have been circulated much more broadly as well.
I’m Half Crazy All for the Love of You
History of Daisy Bell. And lyrics, too!
Moving Planet – Bike Bellingham – Sat Sep 24
Who wants to join us at Columbia School?
[Copied from ride event http://facebook.com/350bellinghamRide Event Page ]
11am – Ten city bike rides from 10 schools in Bellingham, to converge downtown at City Hall and Library. Meet in front of: Happy Valley, Sunnyland, Kulshan, Shuksan, Fairhaven, Columbia, Larrabee, Silver Beach, WCC (meet in front of Laidlaw Building), WWU (meet in Red Square)
*Join your nearest listed school location, dressed up with decorated bikes,
helmets required, parents must accompany kids
12-2pm – CLIMATE RALLY and INFO FAIR
– Bike Skills Course for Kids with everybody BIKE from 12-1pm
– Guest Speakers beginning at 1:15, including Mayor Dan Pike
– 350.org group photo just before 2pm.
2 pm – Advanced Ride to Cherry Point, with a send off from everyone else.
**Looking for volunteers AT event (setup, take down, bike skills course, resource collection), Please contact Jill at 360-201-3093 if interested (text ok) or email jillmwitt@hotmail.com.
***Thank you to the following sponsors: Sierra Club, Climate Solutions, Surfrider Foundation, RE Sources, Transition Whatcom, Cascade Community Wind, Forest Ethics, Adventures NW Magazine, SSC, Fairhaven Bike, Earls Bike Shop, Mount Bakery, Community Food Coop, The Bagelry, Jacks Bicycle Shop, Fanatik Bike Co, Kulshan Cycles and Hammerhead Coffee
keep updated at facebook.com/350bellingham and ‘like’ or moving-planet.org!
…pssst…pass this on and invite/add your Bellingham friends to this event!
September Resumes Bike Picnics
Please chime in on Saturdays starting on Sep the 17th that you would
be interested in going on a bike picnic. Let n me know your preferred distance, dates and/or locations. I think we can get away withmparks lacking shelters for the next few weeks. I’d like to organize picnics more around availability of riders and their capabilities than location, for example, if you’re interested in a kindergartener level ride, lets see if we can get a few together for Cornwall Park; if you’re interested in a third grade level ride, i’d also like to get a
group to go as far as Whatcom Falls, Lake Padden, or Hovander Homestead. Feel free to see by blog for previous ride ideas.
Also, Chuckanut Century is Sep 18, Liam and I will be participating in the 25mi ride.
Weekend of Bellingham Bike Fun
http://www.everybodybike.com/calendar.aspx
- Friday: ice cream ride
- Sat: Pickford Bike-in Movie
- Sun: Easy and 60mi Coffee hunt
I’m looking forward to Sat. On Sun, I will be taking a ride to Lummi Isl.
Eccentricity + Random Chance = Eccendipity?
Cmdln has a recent monolog up that will delight the philospher in you, exploring the notion of serendipty, and his compliment to it–the exploration of those ideas perpendicular to your interests, or even opposite them to find those intersections of wisdom or delight that help us relate to those parties normally “across the isle.”
We had a good ride on Burke Gilman (but I didn’t nap)
And Liam is getting used to his new bike, too.
Goofy Scottish Warriors
Last weekend was a great ride to the Scottish games with Liam and Cody on their own bikes and Roz towing Elzy. Jesse and I were on the Xtra of course.
the boys loved the information booth
Let’s do Tour de Whatcom with the Kids
I’d like to invite Liam’s and Jesse’s buddies (and parents) to do TdW with us this year. If you did a ride to fairhaven park with us, doing the 24mi circuit won’t be much harder, there’s really only one hill, and that’s the overpass over the train tracks. Good cause, good picnic opportunity, and lots of participants so you won’t feel like a car target. And – it’s not a race.
Lemme know if you’d like to come and we can travel as a pack.
Ride maps: http://www.tourdewhatcom.com/tourMap.html
biking + bottom line
Nice little post describes benefits his company receives from encouraging bike commuting. Love the idea of no-interest bike loan.
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/otherviews/123276188.html
Coal trains won’t bring in 1bn to Bham
Coal doesn’t help the tourist and bike economy.
http://www.grist.org/biking/2011-06-06-the-grand-tour-how-bike-tourism-helps-local-economies
Jesse at Deception Pass
Jesse at Deception Pass
